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but his folk heritage as well. "Hughes made the spirituals, blues, and jazz the bases of his poetic expression. Hughes wrote, he c...

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...

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...

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...

and symbolism. As Arnold embraces God along with the seas that the maker has created, he questions things. The church is often the...

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...

poets position in this family situation -- my mothers hand opens in early grave and i hold it out like a good daughter." This imag...

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....

the complete submission and obedience of his wife to his will. She should concentrate all of her attention on him, or face dire c...

In five pages this poem of D.H. Lawrence's is compared with a reader's first reaction as compared to second and third readings tha...

avails not, time nor place - distance avails not, I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations he...

In five pages this research paper examines the Revolutionary War contributions of Paul Revere in a consideration of the inaccuraci...

This five paper examines the various figures of speech used by Wordsworth to portray irony, imagery, and other themes in his poem,...

In five pages the theme, tone, meter, rhythm, form, and imagery of Dickinson's poetry structure in poem 754 are examined. There a...

In five pages Sylvia Plath's poetry is considered in an analysis of reader experiences and how their tragic elements differ from t...

"Heaves of Storms" in the last line of the first stanza is a metaphor that conjures the image of violent storms, but also suggests...

reader that the barrage has lasted all day yesterday and today with "deafening sight." This figurative language mixes sensory in...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

Thomas Eakins: A Friendship of Artistic Gain). In fact, this particular painting is clearly a representation of a scene in Whitman...

the preamble to the Constitution even faster than Bailey" (Angelou). In essence, we see Margaret excited and bearing no feelin...