YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Analysis of a Frost Poem
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the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...
sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...
talk that he had "hastened his wifes death to write the poem" (Allen 3). There can be little doubt that the poem itself is obvi...
her sister as "buddies in wartime" and the stairwell is described as a "shell hole." Like soldiers, Olds states that she and her ...
renewal [is] not exercised" (Harding 42). Blake wrote, "Earth raisd up her head / From the darkness dread and drear. / Her light...
to see, And what I do in anything, To do it as for thee:" (311) In the next stanza, Herbert comments on mans desire for perfectio...
The tone of the poem builds from this beginning: "you should at times walk on,/ away from your friends ways,/ go where the scorned...
the first two lines in each verse rhyme. The mood is one of absolute freedom, which stresses that the things that society values -...
In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...
be the definitive poetic volumes with Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794). In each work, a poem entitled "Th...
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...
"sex-obsessed," but Frieda argues that Lawrence was "simply pro-human" and that because D.H. Lawrence wrote what he did, "...the y...
Strand, a critic by the name of Carl Singleton is not. He characterized Strands poetry as "entirely characteristic of the age in w...
practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaste...
power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...
his disposal beyond his huge physical size. It would seem no human could be safe against this creature that could easily pierce o...
held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...
stations" (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame). He was clearly very influenced by many talented musicians at the time, and in a place th...
the fleetingness of time, but his imagery and argument are more nuanced and complex. He, first of all, advises his mistress that i...
Francis tried to resume his former practices and his old life, and briefly considered a military career, but the call to a religio...
of knight. He was the kings representative in battle, and his role as the protector of freedom was assumed with honor and uncompro...
in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,- The sweeping up the heart, And...
haiku poem Blasts of light, motion, Tortured vision, endless beauty, Lead to new understanding. Vincent van Gogh painted The Sta...
of recurrence and an admonishment not to expect recurrence immediately draws the reader in. The poet them goes on to describe "the...
a whole" (Yu 380). These natural images are used to open each stanza, as Yu notes that there are "three tetrasyllabic stanzas of f...
a figurative level, the poet is inviting the reader to take his perspective, to figuratively "walk in his shoes" and, thereby, lea...
dew that falls at night as weeping for the demise of day, "For thou must die" (Herbert line 4). The second stanza focuses on the...
so-called loved ones seem to have gathered expecting to witness something memorably catastrophic, almost as if they seek to be ent...
each. An allegory, while closely associated with symbols or symbolism, is a unique literary element in that everything within the...
She is dismissive about feeling hurt or jealous that she was little more than another notch on Tims belt. For this young girl, se...