YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :War Poems of Wilfred Owen
Essays 781 - 810
point that poets are generally interested in consciousness and how the natural world might reveal it; personality is not the point...
/ So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep" (lines 3-4 11290). In the next stanza a small boy is upset because all of his hair h...
time she was thirty years old. In Victorian England, it was normal for girls to marry young, and Mary Ann was unusual in that she ...
The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;" (Yeats PG). This describes the inner workings of...
more likely that they will remember and personally value the days of their youth. Byron takes a strong stand in representing thi...
remains rigid. This poem presents us with a rhyme on every line, further adding to the structural content. We note the first fe...
is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Frost writes only about things that are close to his hea...
"obey God; nor trust in him; nor confess that nothing is our own" (White 218). There is nothing, literally nothing, that the narra...
she is dead. This interpretation is substantiated in the next stanza when she describes hearing the mourners lift a box, which c...
fulfills his part of the social bargain, which is to "give to young and old all that God has given him." Grendel who is describ...
this indicates, in this poem, Larkin perfectly catches the nature of a society that has no idea what awaits it. Previous battles w...
calling him to "say good-bye" (line 10 Acquainted with the Night). The overall effect of the poem is one of stark loneliness and a...
played slightly louder, i.e. piano. The rhythm of the piece would be uniform 4/4 time, but the overall effect of the rhythm would...
observing children at their studies. However, the second stanza offers a sharp contrast to this opening, as Yeats states that he d...
blackboard." The town, then, is basically little more than a school, but a school with grown-ups rather than kid students. ...
the "flow " of the work as well as a connecting device.) The third stanza says that they passed a schoolhouse, then fields of "g...
Syllable from Sound --" (2509-2510). This poem considers the origin of reality, and true to her Transcendentalist beliefs, spec...
for someone who has received a serious emotional trauma, but also that this poem can be interpreted at in more than one way, at mo...
yourself with your atom bomb" (line 5). Even though it is easy to agree with Ginsbergs anti-war sentiment -- the consensus even...
powerful and intense poem, in relationship to the struggles of the African American people, that it has been adapted into song (Af...
my brain. Never show fear (Free verse) Animals and small children know when youre afraid. They growl and bite, or cry and fight ...
human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my ...
love between two ordinary people: "Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it h...
beauty of nature and the insights it provides can unite the two. The primary focus of Tintern Abbey is the temporal or physical w...
are not red as coral; her breasts are not white but dun colored; her hair is coarse and wiry (on her head; Shakespeare being Shake...
First, there is the surface level, that he was walking and had to decide which path to take to get to his destination. But at a mu...
of a child. 1. "I a child and thou a lamb" (Blake 670). B. Dickinsons narrator is a dying woman. 1. "The Eyes around-had wrung the...
likens the process of death to an innocuous fly buzzing. In other words, instead of being a mysterious occurrence, it is a proces...
also differences in style. Smith, for example, uses less alliteration than Atwood, and his short, clipped lines emphasize and isol...
reached/ was you" (Brooks 2-8). In this the reader is subtly illustrating how society, white American society perhaps, has control...