YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :William Blakes Poems
Essays 1081 - 1110
also says that the flea is swollen with their blood (there is a strong suggestion here of the way male and female genitalia swell ...
about being killed in war, or losing a friend in the war, but also how one can lose themselves to such a degree that death is the ...
the person who is coming home from work: Chin then directly enters into the conversation as an outside voice addressing the "Bab...
a mystical quality that makes us think about what shes saying. Shes packed a lot of thought into a very few lines. The poem is par...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti are quite different from one another. Ginsbergs long and sprawling lines certainly look nothing like Snyders...
her, reluctantly, to maintain these values. This argument is grounded in 17th century ideals of chivalry and courtly honor, ideals...
in insular imaginary games the whole way. The narrator suggests that the two of them stop rebuilding the wall and question for onc...
1836 he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year old cousin and went to Philadelphia to edit Burtons Gentlemans Magazine, to which he c...
accompanying poem begins, "Juans ax aches/His tracks lead backwards." The alliteration, assonance and consonance of his word choic...
misery" (lines 17-18). By the fourth stanza, the positive attitude of the first lines is completely gone, as the speaker compares ...
Dust, in 1940 (Robert Hayden). Accolades and awards followed (including being the first African-American to be named Poet Laureate...
reader feels privy to the inner reflections of the narrative voice, as he engages in the task of "walking the line" (line 13) and ...
Song is an aging man who longs for love, particularly courtly love that fits with his expectations of both women and love....
other words, Wordsworth bemoans the materialistic nature of his society, which is a feature of Western society that continues into...
so-called loved ones seem to have gathered expecting to witness something memorably catastrophic, almost as if they seek to be ent...
OUTLINE I. Introduction A. A poem called The New Colossus 1. Written by Emma Lazarus. 2. Written in 1883...
was time to allow Odysseus to return home. Should he be allowed to go back to Ithaka to be reunited with his wife Penelope and hi...
natural sublime."2 As is common in the thematic development of the sublime in Romanticism, the sensation is one of rapture and on...
believes, would seal his everlasting fame (Irving 86). The poem championed Beowulfs desire for fame as a badge of honor: "In all ...
society tells her its wrong; however, she cant resist flirting with her lover or inviting him to kiss her again (though obviously ...
author or both; the last suggested interpretation is that "Ulysses is an Ancient Mariner who has never learned his lesson" (Landow...
levels. First of all, a virginal is an early form of the harpsichord that was a preferred instrument among young ladies during the...
present Beowulf as a young hero, who is called upon by his fathers old friend King Hrothgar of Geatland, to defend his subjects ag...
of four lines known as quatrains, and each stanza comprised of alternating iambs or an unstressed syllable immediately followed by...
is presumably himself, as an adult, looking back at the things his father did for him. These are things that the child clearly nev...
ceinture is a cloth belt), strikes a romantic note, but again, these are what the gowns do not look like. This may indicate the gl...
held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...
practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaste...
20). The lyricism and imagery in this opening section are romantic, seductive and certain to appeal to the ego of any woman. Howev...
consider myself a failed woman and a failed poet, or to try to find some synthesis by which to understand what was happening to me...