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This paper addresses the various roles of fire in three British literary works, Blake's, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Bronte's...

That this was an accepted practice makes it no less a neglectful situation; in fact, it only serves to set up the child in a more ...

In six pages this paper analyzes the ways in which children and parental relationships within the context of death are depicted in...

/ So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep" (lines 3-4 11290). In the next stanza a small boy is upset because all of his hair h...

aspects the sage old advice was right, - at least I like two out of three now. I mention this, because it seems for some, William...

this particular poem the first four lines seem to offer us a great deal of foundation for understanding the symbolic nature of you...

Strung on slender blades of grass; Or a spiders web...

smooth stone/ That overlays the pile; and, from a bag/ All white with flour, the dole of village dames,/ He drew his scraps and fr...

truth that was eventually revealed. While we may argue he could have looked for the truth, rather than running from it, thereby sp...

particular values, and freedom from persecution by authorities for those views. One could say that the roots, as far as it can b...

is important for the student to realize how the inherent fallibility of first-hand testimony has been the focus of myriad debates,...

he falls from grace these divide from him. One of those identities is called Luvah, which was the part responsible for emotion and...

wallpaper. The wallpaper can be said to have a dual symbolism. The wallpaper itself can be said to be representative of her mind....

in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...

opens "Marriage" delivers a millenarian prophecy that identifies Christ, revolution and apocalypse and, in so doing, "satanizes" a...

As Tom was a sleeping he had such a sight!/ That thousands of sweepers Dick, Joe, Ned, & Jack,/ Were all of them lockd up in coffi...

the title is clearly a powerful statement and use of words. Another critic dissects Dickinsons poem and offers the following: "The...

Throughout this we see that she is presenting the reader with a look at nature, as well as manmade structures, clearly indicating ...

we suppose that the nature of that is reciprocal, despite any lack of evidence (Barash). Furthermore, he argues that not only is ...

the feeling that the poet is engaging the reader in a secret and private conversation. One has the feeling that, in the breaks pro...

born (The Life of Emily Dickinson). Although her childhood was typical of most, by the time she was a young adult she had retreat...

stops "At its own stable door" (Dickinson 16). But, when we note that trains were, and still are, often referred to as iron horses...

serves to draw the readers attention to this word and give it added emphasis. They break up the lines in such a way that mimics th...

of mourning and regret, while singing the praises of something wondrous. I Came to buy a smile -- today (223) The first thing...

for someone who has received a serious emotional trauma, but also that this poem can be interpreted at in more than one way, at mo...

and spiritual war is evident in the quote, "Faith is a fine invention for gentlemen who see; But microscopes are prudent in an eme...

to discern the "inexhaustible richness of consciousness itself" (Wacker 16). In other words, the poetry in fascicle 28 presents ...

the "flow " of the work as well as a connecting device.) The third stanza says that they passed a schoolhouse, then fields of "g...

who see; But microscopes are prudent in an emergency!" The poem whose first lines begin, "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers" is a ...

"After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes," "This is My Letter to the World," "I Had Been Hungry," and "They Shut Me Up in Prose,"...