YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Analyzing Twelve Poems
Essays 151 - 180
the viewer. The next stanzas, however, bring the reader and the viewer, a more sobering message. In comparison to the characters ...
part of them." The "roasting" of Louie is stated as being symbolic, but Dickson describes a quite vivid scene that leads the read...
(Walcotts brother Roderick is a playwright). While young Derek was growing up and dipping into these books time and again, he foun...
conflicts "as a woman and as a poet" (Barker 3). She manipulates thought patterns through her mastery of poetic structure, such a...
keeping out all of the world that she does not desire to experience or see or meet. This is further emphasized by the third and fo...
suggests, there is often a political context to Olds observations. For example, in "The Death of Marilyn Monroe," Olds suggests ...
soon scaped worlds and fleshs rage" (Jonson 6-7). In this the reader sees a rationalization that almost seems to be envy as the na...
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...
a mystical quality that makes us think about what shes saying. Shes packed a lot of thought into a very few lines. The poem is par...
has died. Beginning in the third stanza, the poet discusses the death and again addresses the deceased directly. He says the youn...
are happy and playing and skipping and singing, that seems to make sense but is very lilting and nonsensical in many ways. This is...
about being killed in war, or losing a friend in the war, but also how one can lose themselves to such a degree that death is the ...
trees will give no shelter and the crickets, no relief" (Wasteland by TS Eliot). When looking at this particular reference one c...
help keep me in New York against coercion/ but now Im happy for a time and interested" (OHara 1-8). This is sort of a free form...
a spell to make them balance" (Frost 16-18). In this we again see an imagery that allows us to perhaps comprehend the composition ...
much that is god-like in human beings. It is humanity hes celebrating. Kuebrich believes "that Whitmans work is not only religio...
to extract the universal truth from this poem, it would have to be that human condition which asks mankind to be quite careful wha...
the title. The alliteration between "caffeinated" and "concrete" emphasizes the rolling rhythm of the line. The reference to caffe...
Robinsons poem, Marie Antoinettes Lamentation, the language and the way in which she uses it conveys more than mere description, i...
seems to be making a statement about independence of spirit, but an involvement with mankind. "I markd where on a little promontor...
In other words, to be a woman outside the accepted societal role for women is not to be a woman. As this indicates, any woman wh...
"proud of his plunder, sought his dwelling with that store of slaughter" (p. 25). Beowulf is written in Old English and set some...
the perhaps an understanding of fate, on the part of the fish. We are further offered an understanding that the fish is old in the...
holding a moth that it has caught. The spider holds it up. The flower, the spider, and the moth together represent life and death....
the bird with his crossbow. With this act, which apparently was motivated by pure blood-lust, the Mariner sins not only ag...
a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...
noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...
The first lines of "The Canonization" read: "For Gods sake hold your tongue and leg me love/ Or chide my palsy, or my gout,/ My fi...
his own set of biases that he probably brought into the telling of the story, and it can be assumed that he did not have as good a...
In five pages a trio of poems by Gwendolyn Brooks including 'Corners on the Curving Sky,' 'When you have forgotten Sunday: The Lov...