YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Analysis of the Poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Essays 541 - 570
the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...
of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...
has overtaken their owners" (Bartleby.com). In many ways "The poem throws an interesting light on the close nature of the relation...
terrible punishment, as they shall "alwey whirle aboute therthe in peyne" (line 80) and they shall not be forgiven for their wicke...
sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...
certain that the reader has not missed the implication. Note that in the lines leading up to the "beauty of dissonance" th...
be a lover and an optimist. But we begin to see images of tension in the fact that he describes the evening sky spread out as "a p...
the first two lines in each verse rhyme. The mood is one of absolute freedom, which stresses that the things that society values -...
vision of the natural world in which Gods presence can be seen as flowing through it like an electric current. This presence can b...
between what is real and what is a mere reflection is indicated in the line that says, "Under the October twilight the water/Mirro...
world was worth living in. Interestingly enough, one critic indicates that this is where Eliot uses the symbolism of the Holy G...
In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...
The tone of the poem builds from this beginning: "you should at times walk on,/ away from your friends ways,/ go where the scorned...
is self-contradictory" (Davies 86). As envisioned by William Blake, God is not to blame for the good and evil in the world becaus...
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...
curlers, the hands you love to touch" (Piercy 75). a. The poem denotes cultural symbols. b. Symbols include bound feet an...
man knows truth. How can this be? It is through the very essence of man, through the essence of the tree and of flowers and of dog...
he presents. Essentially, he wants his mistress to accept his advances not because she has been mentally or physically bludgeoned ...
woman. The narrator states, for example, "If the skies illuminate/ trasluces of paradise,/ islands of color of ed?n,/ it is that i...
oppression could flourish" (Langston Hughes 1902) - has a hard time realizing how religion serves any other purpose than to latch ...
desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....
be the definitive poetic volumes with Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794). In each work, a poem entitled "Th...
the "music" of nature and is part of a continuous cycle. This poem concludes "How can we know the dancer from the dance" (line 64)...
stories they remember from men who are from an older generation. Barker (1993) highlights the psychological effects of this popul...
clearly seen in the following lines from Donnes poem: "Thy beams, so reverend and strong/ Why shouldst thou think?" (Donne 11-12)....
With the plain-speaking simplicity that was his trademark, Whitman constructed this poem in such a rhythmic way that it could be s...
one true God. As this suggests, biblical allusions are plentiful in the Old English epic, particularly in regards to the Old Test...
was such time as it was appropriate to say goodbye and release them to adult life as defined by that society. In this poem, Sapp...
A relevant phrase in literature that relates to the overall concept of good versus evil in Blakes work is that of the human...
lifted, they decided that it had been the bird that caused the fog and they praised the Mariner for seeing through it all. Then, h...