YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Time Perceptions in Poetry
Essays 271 - 300
how the poet views his own culture: eternal, ancient and worthy of great awe, respect and wonder. "As ulu grows branches for lea...
express themselves in ways that the majority could not. The poets role in part appears to be to get one to think outside of the bo...
sun, "a ribbon at a time" (35). By displaying one "ribbon" after another, Dickinson presented not just a story, but a complete cov...
ones own inner feelings. Whitman had been raised by Quaker parents (Hood). His orientation to religion was centered around the i...
that in the summer of 1797, he retired in "ill health" to a "lonely farmhouse between Porlock and Linton" (231). Because of a "sli...
as the vital key, where one sings to their beloved in life and after death, supporting themselves within a delicate and austere sc...
truth that was eventually revealed. While we may argue he could have looked for the truth, rather than running from it, thereby sp...
then of trust when most intense, hence, amid ills that vex and wrongs that crush our hearts -- if here the words of Holy Writ may ...
particular values, and freedom from persecution by authorities for those views. One could say that the roots, as far as it can b...
afflicted with serious health issues, such as Graves disease and a thyroid disorder among others, and these caused her to become a...
theme in that poets verse. Section 1 When Longfellow was born the nation was less than fifty years old. America was in the proce...
$15 on the sale (Untermeyer). "His mother was proud, but the rest of the family were alarmed" (Untermeyer 4). Their alarm was well...
cities and the space of the regions in and out" (Spahr 6). The following paper examines how Spahr questions the reader, urging the...
the fleetingness of time, but his imagery and argument are more nuanced and complex. He, first of all, advises his mistress that i...
tragedy" (Cai, 1999, p. 317). For Confucius, the focus was much narrower: when he considered poetry, he was thinking of the Book o...
Bloom). He escaped but was arrested and tried, and sentenced to a year and a day (Dyson and Bloom). His attorney got him released ...
and Bloom). He escaped but was arrested and tried, and sentenced to a year and a day (Dyson and Bloom). His attorney got him relea...
went outside to sit under a tree where there was a nightingale, only to write a poem about it (Ode to a Nightingale). In the poem ...
(I i 1-4). In this there are clear, and strong, elements of philosophy as the narrator is clearly inferring the existence of God a...
array of individuals that Whitman clearly associated himself with as perhaps an American. He states, "I am enamourd of growing out...
and it is something that may be thought peculiar to his Paterson experience, but it is something that many people around the world...
"sex-obsessed," but Frieda argues that Lawrence was "simply pro-human" and that because D.H. Lawrence wrote what he did, "...the y...
the path of the devotee is said to be "sweetened with the nectar of devotion" (Bailly 12). This example of Utpaladevas verse exemp...
examined in several of his later animal poems the themes of survival and the mystery and destructiveness of the cosmos" (Anonymous...
a vase and ask of what the pictures speak: "Thou still unravishd bride of quietness, / Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,...
work, moreover, carries with it an element of purging oneself of the terrible things that must prowl in their memories and refuse ...
is T.S. Eliots The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Through the adroit use of metaphor Eliot invites the reader to undertake a jo...
(Scire et. al., 2002). Ungarettis accomplishments would be numerous. He would start writing after joining the Italian ar...
was someone who, as Derek Walcott classified him, was ". . . the icon of Yankee values, the smell of wood smoke, the sparkle of de...
see how he views war - both admiring the bravery of the soldiers while also acknowledging their certain death. There is evidence ...