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'Parliament of Fowles' by Geoffrey Chaucer

not procreate indiscriminately but should rather follow Natures example and wait until circumstances are optimal in order to add t...

'The Telephone' and 'Mending Wall' by Robert Frost

gaps I mean,/ No one has seen them made or heard them made,/ But at spring mending-time we find them there" (Frost 9-11). In th...

Gender and Death in 4 Poems by Anne Sexton

In other words, to be a woman outside the accepted societal role for women is not to be a woman. As this indicates, any woman wh...

Alice Cary's 'The West Country' Poem

"The West Country" from an operative structure standpoint, it is perhaps even more useful to analyze this poem from a thematic sta...

'Harlem' by Langston Hughes

questions rather than declarative sentences. Also Hansen (2002) points out that the tentative "maybe," which is part of this sole...

Mary Robinson's Feminist Poem 'The Lamentation of Marie Antoinette'

Robinsons poem, Marie Antoinettes Lamentation, the language and the way in which she uses it conveys more than mere description, i...

Poetic Spiders

seems to be making a statement about independence of spirit, but an involvement with mankind. "I markd where on a little promontor...

Gwendolyn Brooks - Truth

to extract the universal truth from this poem, it would have to be that human condition which asks mankind to be quite careful wha...

'She Had Some Horses' by Joy Harjo

a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...

Four Poems by Sesshu Foster

the title. The alliteration between "caffeinated" and "concrete" emphasizes the rolling rhythm of the line. The reference to caffe...

Robert Frost's 'Now Close the Windows'

theme (including any symbolism and imagery), and the technical aspects of rhythm, rhyme, and meter. Frost tended to use both categ...

'In An Artist Studio' by Christina Rossetti Explicated

the nude for an artist, or a class of artists, they become very modest when the session is over. Indeed, artist models are often q...

John Donne's Seventeenth Century Love Poetry

in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest ;...

Whitman Poetic Comparison of A Noiseless Patient Spider, Drum Taps, and Song of Myself

for repetition and free flowing verse to express his ideas and was considered not only exceptional because of these elements but a...

4 Poems by Robert Frost

a spell to make them balance" (Frost 16-18). In this we again see an imagery that allows us to perhaps comprehend the composition ...

Poetry of Frank O'Hara

help keep me in New York against coercion/ but now Im happy for a time and interested" (OHara 1-8). This is sort of a free form...

'Childhood' by Maura Stanton

ceiling of my house where I could walk around in empty rooms all by myself"(Stanton). Everything in this place would be quie...

A Poetic Explication of 'Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening' by Robert Frost

into the woods on such a cold, dark night. Is it merely to look at the scenery, or is there another more profound reason? In the...

'Sometimes in Winter' by Linda Pastan and Imagery

632). Thus, it is evident that the use of images is advancing the theme of coping with death. Fragile faces indicates those ...

Mexicans Begin Jogging by Soto

middle of a raid and rather than go through the trouble of proving he is an American chooses to run, and in this "jogging" event h...

To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works by Phillis Wheatley

and how they are seen by Wheatley as almost heavenly. She is clearly amazed at the figures and the power within these figures. Thi...

Analysis of 2 of Elizabeth Daryush's Poems

The tone of the poem builds from this beginning: "you should at times walk on,/ away from your friends ways,/ go where the scorned...

'A Prayer for My Son' by William Butler Yeats

in psalms (Liu 26). The repetition of the first line, which is subtly varied in the second stanza, is also psalm-like in that Hebr...

Death and Poetic Attitudes of Davis, Thomas, and Donne

people pity the dead, not Death itself. In the end Donnes message is that there is little reason to fear death and that in the end...

'Move' by Lucille Clifton

from their own ideas concerning societal norms. Clifton writes, "they had begun to whisper/among themselves hesitant/ to be bran...

'Forgiving My Father' by Lucille Clifton

poets position in this family situation -- my mothers hand opens in early grave and i hold it out like a good daughter." This imag...

'Rhine Boat Trip' by Irving Layton

of vivid imagery and haunting metaphor. There is also no punctuation, by design. According to literary critic Michael Greenstein...

Emily Dickinson's 'The Soul Selects Hew Own Society' and Imagery

keeping out all of the world that she does not desire to experience or see or meet. This is further emphasized by the third and fo...

The Dead and the Living by Sharon Olds

suggests, there is often a political context to Olds observations. For example, in "The Death of Marilyn Monroe," Olds suggests ...

Emily Dickinson's Greatest Poems

conflicts "as a woman and as a poet" (Barker 3). She manipulates thought patterns through her mastery of poetic structure, such a...