YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Discussion of the poem Mending Wall by Robert Frost
Essays 211 - 240
certain meanings through word choices. For example, Frost uses the imagery of the forest to illustrate the "snags" we al...
Contrasting the images of fire and ice are repeated to emphasize the duality of human nature. They also reveal how love and hate ...
This essay presents a comprehensive overview of the poem that analyzes its content and draws on scholarly opinion as substantiatio...
at the water. Frosts poem builds an elaborate, extended metaphor based on his social phenomena. The people along the sand All tur...
To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was ...
line assures us that we are in this world" (Ogilvie et al.). There is a very relaxed, yet very introspective, tone to the lines as...
the Duchess to show pleasure. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Wheneer I passed her, but who passed without Much the same smile? Th...
as it relates to obsession and silent women. The poem begins, very pleasantly as the narrator seems to merely be giving the li...
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...
wide" (line 6) is empowering, freeing, and infinitely entertaining. From the time that his first book of verse for children was ...
says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...
confuse free verse with sloppiness. The tone of the poem ("tone" can best be understood as the attitude the speaker has toward his...
Good Play" the poem is far more simplistic in relationship to how children think and play as the poems narrator states, "We built ...
and lonely offices?" (Hayden 13-14). All of this speaks of a childs ignorance and how children are simply children, ignora...
about the circumstances of the household. An atmosphere of bitterness with bouts of anger is described. The recollection suggests ...
is presumably himself, as an adult, looking back at the things his father did for him. These are things that the child clearly nev...
of four lines known as quatrains, and each stanza comprised of alternating iambs or an unstressed syllable immediately followed by...
various admirers which she held in just as much regard as anything she received from him-including the title. Furthermore, she fli...
This essay pertains to Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," published in 1729, and Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess, Ferra...
How the male need to transform women into objects and possessions in order to control them existed in 19th century society is exam...
Dust, in 1940 (Robert Hayden). Accolades and awards followed (including being the first African-American to be named Poet Laureate...
natural sublime."2 As is common in the thematic development of the sublime in Romanticism, the sensation is one of rapture and on...
her own hair so that she will remain his forever, and be forever trapped in that role of loving him completely. It...
began to write what came to be called "confessional poetry," which is defined as "an undisguised exposure of painful personal even...
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...
works together one can see the romantic power of both innocence and experience as Blake addressed a changing world where human per...
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...
The reply that "John" gives begin the next stanza, which is "drive, he sd, for/ christs sake, look / out where yr going" (lines 10...
celebration of Gods love, as well as a poet that addressed the purity of a love for a woman. In better understanding this we discu...