YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Poem by Frost
Essays 181 - 210
"the poem asserts that the only resolution in the modern world is irresolution. Hence, The Triumph of Life becomes a latter-day at...
that everything he says is truth and thus at this point his analyzing is only supporting that truth. He assumes, or infers...
(VII). In this he is telling Beowulf that he had many apparently noble men claiming they would get rid of the beast but they drank...
11). After this section the dinner party clearly moves to the Drawing-Room wherein a woman who sits with fire reflecting her jewel...
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...
except "en-masse" (Morace). Whitman refers to equality again in Section 5 when he says "...all the men ever born are also my brot...
the poem involves the power of antiquities, of ancient history and of those relics that are left behind after someones time and er...
his unique nature he was, during his lifetime, "generally dismissed as an eccentric during his lifetime" although "posterity redis...
different than the perspectives of the world at the time. Near the beginning of Manriques poem he states, "Let none be self-delud...
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...
of Spiritus Mundi" (Yeats, 1920). "Spiritus Mundi" can be translated as the "Spirit of the Universe" which Yeats saw as holding i...
this there are opposites that indicate the narrator is confused and lost and in something of a frenzy to find some balance, and id...
could be brought to an end. Espada is really calling for a revolution: He says that "This is the year that squatters evict landlo...
people have other people that they look up to in an envious manner, believing that someone elses life is far better than their own...
girl, outcast, forlorn/as thrown her life away?"). But the poet is adamant that both parties, the man and the woman involved in th...
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...
that may speak of a lack of hope or direction. The reader does not really need to know what the poem is...
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 second coming, beginning with a sense of hope, but finished with a sense of fear or dread: "The Second Coming! Hardly are tho...
theme in that poets verse. Section 1 When Longfellow was born the nation was less than fifty years old. America was in the proce...
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...
the fleetingness of time, but his imagery and argument are more nuanced and complex. He, first of all, advises his mistress that i...
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 ...
scanned text files, featured a scanned version Frank St. Vincents important exposition of the poem that was first published in Exp...
break all the rules and express his artistic vision in his own highly original way. This leads him to fame, fortune and freedom, w...
the deceased woman no longer has voluntary motion or sensory perception, but she is part of nature, which has sweeping grandeur in...
monstrous creature Grendel, Grendels mother, and the dragon - it considers the impact of social obligations (loyalty to God and co...
was assassinated, probably by Stalin himself (Vartavarian). Stalin used the death as a pretext to begin purging those he thought w...