YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :War Poems of Wilfred Owen
Essays 811 - 840
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...
wanted the poem to leave a profound impression; for that reason, it is subject to the interpretation of the individual. I...
In five pages this research paper presents an analysis of several poems found within the Chinese Book of Songs and also includes a...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Bly and Djanikian all wrote famous poems dealing with snow. This analysis looks at Snowflakes by Longf...
one as far as I could / To where it bent in the undergrowth; / Then took the other, as just as fair, / And having perhaps the bett...
or sex. Thanks to technology, Whitman waxed poetic about an inspirational East-West cultural and intellectual exchange, with both...
future in that image of a baby suggests the continuance of generations into the future. These themes are particularly suggested by...
uses is "disturb." the author is clearly shaken by this presence of someone else. This "someone" is likely his sister with whom he...
/ 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 ...
point that poets are generally interested in consciousness and how the natural world might reveal it; personality is not the point...
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...
remains rigid. This poem presents us with a rhyme on every line, further adding to the structural content. We note the first fe...
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...
blackboard." The town, then, is basically little more than a school, but a school with grown-ups rather than kid students. ...
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...
"The rats are underneath the piles," (Eliot 22) in combination with things such as "Money in furs. The boatman smiles" (Eliot 24) ...
do with something more important than materiality. The poem goes on to complete the first set of wings as follows: "With Thee O le...
the "flow " of the work as well as a connecting device.) The third stanza says that they passed a schoolhouse, then fields of "g...
holding a moth that it has caught. The spider holds it up. The flower, the spider, and the moth together represent life and death....
In other words, to be a woman outside the accepted societal role for women is not to be a woman. As this indicates, any woman wh...
noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...
and his first brush with death came at the age of eight, when his father, a livery-stableman by trade, died of a fractured skull a...
and perhaps anything else this artistic individual had to offer, was taken and used by others. As a result, this individual decide...
seems to address in her works include that of lost culture and a sense of longing to return to a time which is perceived to be mor...
does the reader surmise that the author is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Wordsworth write...
Robinsons poem, Marie Antoinettes Lamentation, the language and the way in which she uses it conveys more than mere description, i...
this woman is not pushy, but rather has very definite feelings for this man. She feels a connection with him that his self-possess...
the title. The alliteration between "caffeinated" and "concrete" emphasizes the rolling rhythm of the line. The reference to caffe...