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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...

be a Bride --/ So late a Dowerless Girl -" (Dickinson 2-3). This indicates that she has nothing to offer, that she is a poor woman...

between what is real and what is a mere reflection is indicated in the line that says, "Under the October twilight the water/Mirro...

world was worth living in. Interestingly enough, one critic indicates that this is where Eliot uses the symbolism of the Holy G...

angry or even vengeful, but sedate and sullen. But, there is also the element of natural violence as well in the symbolic presence...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

prior to Rossettis marriage to Lizzie, however, the poem does not address Lizzie as its subject. Rather, in this poem, Rossetti is...

though they were in a war. Their life is perhaps not threatened, but they must struggle to become more honorable and noble as they...

Chinese poetry is replete with metaphor, simile, comparison, and personification as well with other linguistic contrivances which ...

merely an attendant. Prufrock states, "No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;/Am an attendant loud, one that will do/To ...

of the key phrases in these lines is "Were I with thee," which indicates that the poet is not with her beloved. It is the fact th...

seventeenth century in his impressive text of nearly 800 pages entitled, Religion and the Decline of Magic. Thomas demonstrated h...