YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :William Blakes Poems
Essays 631 - 660
holding a moth that it has caught. The spider holds it up. The flower, the spider, and the moth together represent life and death....
noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...
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...
the "flow " of the work as well as a connecting device.) The third stanza says that they passed a schoolhouse, then fields of "g...
blackboard." The town, then, is basically little more than a school, but a school with grown-ups rather than kid students. ...
"The rats are underneath the piles," (Eliot 22) in combination with things such as "Money in furs. The boatman smiles" (Eliot 24) ...
Syllable from Sound --" (2509-2510). This poem considers the origin of reality, and true to her Transcendentalist beliefs, spec...
yourself with your atom bomb" (line 5). Even though it is easy to agree with Ginsbergs anti-war sentiment -- the consensus even...
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...
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...
observing children at their studies. However, the second stanza offers a sharp contrast to this opening, as Yeats states that he d...
more likely that they will remember and personally value the days of their youth. Byron takes a strong stand in representing thi...
obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...
this indicates, in this poem, Larkin perfectly catches the nature of a society that has no idea what awaits it. Previous battles w...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
point that poets are generally interested in consciousness and how the natural world might reveal it; personality is not the point...
remains rigid. This poem presents us with a rhyme on every line, further adding to the structural content. We note the first fe...
or sex. Thanks to technology, Whitman waxed poetic about an inspirational East-West cultural and intellectual exchange, with both...
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...
In six pages this paper analyzes the classic elements of the poems 'Letter to F...,' 'Lenore,' and 'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe....
wanted the poem to leave a profound impression; for that reason, it is subject to the interpretation of the individual. I...
future in that image of a baby suggests the continuance of generations into the future. These themes are particularly suggested by...
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...
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 ...
conflicts "as a woman and as a poet" (Barker 3). She manipulates thought patterns through her mastery of poetic structure, such a...