YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Poems Hughes and Eliot
Essays 181 - 210
must take a stand against evil and live according to ideals rather than simply from a myopic focus on personal needs. In Canto 2...
beginning of this stanza creates an image that says to the reader that the nature is hard; it "mows" you down. Society tries to im...
sore" (line 4)? The structure of the poem asks a series of questions that, in themselves, suggest the answers, which are all found...
what might be causing the narrators shame. Shame is generally associated with sexual urges. During Frosts lifetime, i.e., the fi...
the fleetingness of time, but his imagery and argument are more nuanced and complex. He, first of all, advises his mistress that i...
a subtle reminder particularly to African-American women of how far they had come as a race and how much further they needed to go...
scanned text files, featured a scanned version Frank St. Vincents important exposition of the poem that was first published in Exp...
people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...
and taken blood from both. He tries to convince her that to give in to him, to give him herself, has been ultimately blessed by th...
what happens when someone has to push aside their dream. Hughes narrator asks, in relationship to a dream that has been set aside,...
monstrous creature Grendel, Grendels mother, and the dragon - it considers the impact of social obligations (loyalty to God and co...
half=way through the stanza, Angelou prefaces giving her reaction with the line "I say," which is followed by her lyrical descript...
narrator is perhaps confused, perhaps trying to share an image and what that image, or group of images, may mean. The characters w...
in seconds. He continues this catalog of things she is not by comparing the color of her lips to coral (coral is redder); compari...
was staying in Venice. It was published by Moore in 1830, after Byrons death, in a text he edited, Letters and Journals of Lord By...
was assassinated, probably by Stalin himself (Vartavarian). Stalin used the death as a pretext to begin purging those he thought w...
regrouping of the movement nine years later, in 1909, when it emerged as a much bigger and much more powerful movement known as th...
To an admiring Bog! (846). The subject matter features a person who feels inwardly lonely who does not wish to advertise h...
who has lost her lover in the south. We can assume this came from a lynching (as evidenced by the reference to "Dixie," which lync...
or how one human engages another. Frost is merely using nature as a setting, a natural setting, that emphasizes choices that human...
mention that the catch, which is that his throat will be so sore that he will want ice cream. The lies are then contrasted against...
golden tones he creates" (Davis 276). This "new Harlem" apparently changes more dramatically than we think; Schatt notes that the ...
more joyful than creation itself. Then he adds: "Light out of darkness! full of doubt I stand, / Whether I should repent me now of...
the best basketball players at Fisk sank his first ball right here at Lafayette County Training School" (Angelou 870). Angelou is ...
and be a part of it, she feels her connection with "everything" (line 11), which means she perceives the world in terms of connec...
somewhere hes never gone before and that the woman (lets assume for this exercise that the beloved is his wife) is able to enclose...
kind. It is, or can be, a far more positive thought than the thought which is fear. When reading the poems, however,...
on the beauty of the scene. The Romantics tended to be introspective, while also placing emphasis on beauty of everyday life, rath...
the dawns were / young. / I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to / sleep. / I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyram...
readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...