YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Poem by Frost
Essays 211 - 240
school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...
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...
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...
narrator is perhaps confused, perhaps trying to share an image and what that image, or group of images, may mean. The characters w...
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...
half=way through the stanza, Angelou prefaces giving her reaction with the line "I say," which is followed by her lyrical descript...
To an admiring Bog! (846). The subject matter features a person who feels inwardly lonely who does not wish to advertise h...
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,...
more joyful than creation itself. Then he adds: "Light out of darkness! full of doubt I stand, / Whether I should repent me now of...
poetry is to use an economy of language to express ideas that are more complex than the concrete images and words that convey them...
has received a considerable amount of attention. Eighteenth century critics argued in favor of viewing the poem as fundamentally p...
on the beauty of the scene. The Romantics tended to be introspective, while also placing emphasis on beauty of everyday life, rath...
readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...
narrative voice relates how his mother died when he was quite young and his father sold him before he could cry "weep." In the Nor...
faun, so that he participates in the creation of the work (Betz, 1996). The faun cannot decide if he has been dreaming or not, but...
the point of their clothing which was powerfully restrictive. In this poem the narrator states, "Aunt Jennifers tigers prance ac...
object and made it extraordinary: "the tomato offers/ its gift/ of fiery color/ and cool completeness" (82-85). Ode to a Storm: T...
opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...
1). Using this metaphor, he goes on to say that Science "alterest all things with thy peering eyes," which preys upon his poets h...
to believe that his elevated social standing makes him actually superior to anyone else. This perception definitely includes his w...
at the same time the calmness of it all makes it quite dramatic. The narrator does not see the action as dramatic, however, and si...
God and religion for answers to life struggles in a sense. Bradstreets poem begins as she slowly comes to sink into the fact that ...
Wheatleys poem begins, "Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,/ Taught my benighted soul to understand/ That theres a God, that...
envision more positive feelings) a human being can better come into contact with their nature, their creative side, their truths w...
until a water snake slithered by. Panicked and briefly forgetting about the traveler on his back, Puff-jaw dove, which threw the ...
even to the edge of doom" (Shakespeare 9-12). In the end he claims that if he is wrong then he never wrote and no man ever loved. ...
of mourning and regret, while singing the praises of something wondrous. I Came to buy a smile -- today (223) The first thing...