YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Wordsworth Three Poems
Essays 511 - 540
Thames, in the opening lines which state, "I wander thro each charterd street,/ Near where the charterd Thames does flow,/ And mar...
mans mortality is Death itself. He walks among the graves and notes that the poorer people have flat markers and the more famous h...
include "back-yards graying / with knowledge, embankments blazoned / with pig-face whose hardihood / be theirs, / mantling with pu...
what might be a darker meaning to the poem. The last two lines are repeated ("And miles to go before I sleep") so that the reader...
this particular poem. In many ways it is a poem that illustrates how far she has come in relationship to her self confidence as on...
a leech, which is the "host" (Heyen 24). "They would grow together, if the snapper lived" (Heyen 25). In this one can well argue t...
in relationship to these voices, fear is likely the reason a person does kill a snake. The narrator watches as the snake drinks a...
a poem. It is a series of these paragraphs, each building on the previous one until the reader can form a picture of what has happ...
to an end. Espada is really calling for a revolution: He says that "This is the year that squatters evict landlords"; it is the y...
They are simply animals doing what they do and creating a balance in the world, another aspect of duality for without opposites th...
and its joys. This quality of Frosts poetry is exemplified by his poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." In this work, Fro...
spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next fou...
is a pain I mostly hide, but ties of blood, or seed, endure, and even now I feel inside the hunger for his outstretched hand, a ma...
of knight. He was the kings representative in battle, and his role as the protector of freedom was assumed with honor and uncompro...
ship" (Dylan). Though phrased differently, each poet is illustrating how inspiration can take the artist away to different places...
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...
her, reluctantly, to maintain these values. This argument is grounded in 17th century ideals of chivalry and courtly honor, ideals...
also says that the flea is swollen with their blood (there is a strong suggestion here of the way male and female genitalia swell ...
is an ancient collection of philosophical principles presented in a poetic fashion. It has been maintained and circulated since th...
the Victorians was their sense of social responsibility. Unfortunately, that sense of responsibility was self-righteous and obsess...
also differences in style. Smith, for example, uses less alliteration than Atwood, and his short, clipped lines emphasize and isol...
haiku poem Blasts of light, motion, Tortured vision, endless beauty, Lead to new understanding. Vincent van Gogh painted The Sta...
of recurrence and an admonishment not to expect recurrence immediately draws the reader in. The poet them goes on to describe "the...
how it results in the wasting of the land, which results from the hero failing to ask the right questions (Weston 18). The theme...
by comparing his own life to a "twice-written scroll", bearing marks from both a pursuit of intellectual virtues, and a pursuit of...
too swollen to wear an expensive pair of Italian loafers, he presents them to Birkerts, who, initially, wears them, as they looked...
a whole" (Yu 380). These natural images are used to open each stanza, as Yu notes that there are "three tetrasyllabic stanzas of f...
This essay analyzes Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" and John Donne's "The Flea" and offers the writer's reaction to these a...