YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :William Blakes Poems
Essays 751 - 780
the preamble to the Constitution even faster than Bailey" (Angelou). In essence, we see Margaret excited and bearing no feelin...
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;...
experience it for himself. As a teenager I would drive Fathers Chevrolet cross-country, given me...
so based on the dialogue of the narrator that it does not allow the woman a voice, and represents a narrator who is incredibly, an...
vision of the natural world in which Gods presence can be seen as flowing through it like an electric current. This presence can b...
journeys, "After leaving his ruined home in a galaxy far, far away, Luke Skywalker began a journey taken by countless other heroes...
of vivid imagery and haunting metaphor. There is also no punctuation, by design. According to literary critic Michael Greenstein...
a sufferer from mental illness, which may have been triggered at least in part by her fathers death during her childhood....
from their own ideas concerning societal norms. Clifton writes, "they had begun to whisper/among themselves hesitant/ to be bran...
condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...
have plans for Enkidu and so a Priestess tames Enkidu and convinces him to go with her to meet Gilgamesh in Uruk. Though Enkidu ha...
as an adventurous and noble man, and offers us the romance of a story. From this simple beginning we can readily assume that Be...
I think of naming, far less telling, / every feat of that rugged man, Odysseus, / but here is something that he dared to do / at T...
try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...
poets position in this family situation -- my mothers hand opens in early grave and i hold it out like a good daughter." This imag...
terrible punishment, as they shall "alwey whirle aboute therthe in peyne" (line 80) and they shall not be forgiven for their wicke...
men would do, Phaethon does not listen. He is a youth and feels that he can take on anything in the world, or the heavens, and com...
of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...
that is illustrating the power that was possessed by these women, but not the power that the men and women of the time thought the...
prior to Rossettis marriage to Lizzie, however, the poem does not address Lizzie as its subject. Rather, in this poem, Rossetti is...
this poem is that of the universal anguish of being bound and imprisoned, no matter what the age. And, in a very real sense he is ...
and lust perhaps. She is an object to be worshipped and talked about, but not a woman who is given a voice. Throughout this poe...
though they were in a war. Their life is perhaps not threatened, but they must struggle to become more honorable and noble as they...
grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...
described as an "identity crisis" (Mulrooney 227). They are both seeking solitary solace in nature as they grapple with professio...
in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt...
women should be admired for their inner qualities, rather than their outward beauty. However, it is nevertheless true that Pope im...
He gains allies and waits for the right opportunity to enact justice. This also allows Homer to thoroughly document the wrongs per...
Road Not Taken" can be viewed as an evaluation of his decisions that the poet takes at midlife. Frost describes standing in a "ye...
"Since this Britain was built by this baron great, / Bold boys bred there, in broils delighting, / That did their day many a deed ...