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on charming it much as he believes he has charmed most of the towns women, and confining Delia to the home for years is comparable...

un-natural cause is this new concept of God (Nietzsche). This God is a "God who demands - in place of a God who helps, who devises...

is an odd remark. She picks up on it and asks if hes referring to her as being vacuous and he says no, "it is I who am inane" (Eli...

as being different sides of the authors true character and argues that in "literature as in life, we must choose" (Brans 437). T...

half=way through the stanza, Angelou prefaces giving her reaction with the line "I say," which is followed by her lyrical descript...

levels. First of all, a virginal is an early form of the harpsichord that was a preferred instrument among young ladies during the...

the entire monologue with a sense of poetics, inviting one to study the words more deeply in search of a hidden meaning. This idea...

value into ultimately empty goals; this is indicated by the comparison of Gatsbys quest for Daisy with the "American dream" itself...

and be a part of it, she feels her connection with "everything" (line 11), which means she perceives the world in terms of connec...

misery" (lines 17-18). By the fourth stanza, the positive attitude of the first lines is completely gone, as the speaker compares ...

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at Great Expectations. Explications of quotes are used to give insights into themes. P...

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at Arendt and Foucault. An explication is made which reconciles their basic philosophie...

This essay offers summary and analysis of four poems which begin by offering a comparison of two companion poems from Songs of Inn...

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Alexie’s “How to Write the Great American Indian Novel”. An explication is carried ...

This essay is an explication of "Locked Ward: Newtown, Connecticut" by Rachel Loden. The writer bases this discussion on the assum...

Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;...

Many disagreed on issues of conversion, or how one becomes a practioner of the Jewish faith. For example, the Orthodox believers p...

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...

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

the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...

hope for ever having his love requited has evaporated, but he persists in his quest regardless because it has become too late to b...

a child and she was a child/In this kingdom by the sea" (lines 7-8). These lines, as do the opening lines of the poem, establish a...

why he became an addict; he also express great uncertainty about his life after hes released from prison (Class lecture on "Sonnys...

tells his readers to "undrape," because, to him, no one is guilty of shame or worthy of being discarded (line 145). Everyone and e...

is a wanted man being tracked down by the police, but that his guilt has already been decided. "They say that they want to bring m...

a "crowd" and Wordsworth adds that they toss "their heads in a sprightly dance" (line 12). In other words, the poet is pictured as...

other hand, proposes that time is circular and events are cyclical. The old mystic who dreams is dreaming specifically to create...

to see, And what I do in anything, To do it as for thee:" (311) In the next stanza, Herbert comments on mans desire for perfectio...

the Body, that is, as the force that gives the Body motion and life. However, Marvell stipulates in parenthesis that "(A fever cou...