YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Underlying Themes of Various Poems
Essays 61 - 90
the first place, and what do his "fond regrets" concern? He does not tell us, but merely goes on describing his walk with...
In four pages the conformity or nonconformity of Coleridge's prose in this poem is compared with the sonnet's and epic poem's trad...
Donne takes a similar view in that he feels the ladys insistence on being concerned about honor is highly illogical, but he goes a...
Walt Whitmans Song of Myself is a poem that is not necessarily about any one particular thing, not possessed of one single theme o...
To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was ...
the perceived flaws in their models and so alters their appearance to fit their ideal image. Rossetti seems to find this appalling...
First and foremost, the Thrush is seen by this Romantic poet in heroic terms, as a male facing the storm of the public world in or...
A 5 page paper which examines one poem from Longfellow, Whitman, and Dickinson. The poems examined are The poets, and their poems,...
This essay pertains to Wilfred Owen's poem, which captures the horror of World War I. Five pages in length, seven sources are cite...
different than the perspectives of the world at the time. Near the beginning of Manriques poem he states, "Let none be self-delud...
his unique nature he was, during his lifetime, "generally dismissed as an eccentric during his lifetime" although "posterity redis...
being a man./ And it happens that I walk into tailorshops and movie/ houses/ dried up, waterproof, like a swan made of felt/ steer...
often simply a reality that was accepted as part of life. It did not necessarily make people angry or bitter or resentful in a con...
A 4 page review and explanation of the poem by Emily Dickinson. 3 sources....
this there are opposites that indicate the narrator is confused and lost and in something of a frenzy to find some balance, and id...
of Spiritus Mundi" (Yeats, 1920). "Spiritus Mundi" can be translated as the "Spirit of the Universe" which Yeats saw as holding i...
1-2). Kiplings expertise with rhythm and word choice within the framework of the poems structure also constitute a feature that ...
except "en-masse" (Morace). Whitman refers to equality again in Section 5 when he says "...all the men ever born are also my brot...
stage for us, with the different levels of meaning of this story at the different times in our lives, when it may have been read t...
his poem and essentially relying on words that are descriptive and are simply part of his experience with nature. In this it is pe...
that may speak of a lack of hope or direction. The reader does not really need to know what the poem is...
and all through the power of words. Eliot doesnt start slowly as his first four lines parody the first four lines of Chaucers fif...
however, and we begin to feel that the poem will clearly focus on some political argument. He then introduces the word "white" ...
It does not love flesh. It leaves a ring of cold in the wound." On the surface of this particular stanza,...
present us with the sheer power of the sea. Now, as mentioned, these lines, filled with imagery, can be seen from many symbolic ...
they are lifting boulders and at others, they only have to worry about shifting small stones (Frost). The main thing is, they are ...
a "reject button" and she is pregnant with a Xerox machine (Piercy). The last lines of the poem give the reader the point: "File m...
But it also tells of the two neighbors who work to repair the wall together: they set a specific day and time to do so (Frost, 200...
the poem involves the power of antiquities, of ancient history and of those relics that are left behind after someones time and er...
the later part of the 19th century, who witnessed much of Chicagos history. He saw it in the early days of the 20th century when w...