YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Explication of My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
Essays 271 - 300
condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...
is connected (18 poems, 1934, 2004). This colored his religious orientation and is evident in the religious symbolism in "Before I...
the Body, that is, as the force that gives the Body motion and life. However, Marvell stipulates in parenthesis that "(A fever cou...
that all the pageants play,/Disguysing diversly my troubled wits" (lines 3-4). The poet narrator is the "star" of all the "pageant...
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...
In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...
other hand, proposes that time is circular and events are cyclical. The old mystic who dreams is dreaming specifically to create...
reiterates the point made in the first line, the destruction of his rainbow, was a significant event. Whatever this setback was, t...
in this depression she begins to see things in this wallpaper, a patterned wallpaper, that essentially symbolizes her sense of ent...
turning, hungry, lone,/I looked in windows for the wealth/I could not hope to own (lines 5-8). Dickinson now clearly classifies he...
regards to both cherries and grapes. Her lips as "curved" like cherries and "full" like grape bunches, but they are "sweet" like ...
In four pages this poetic explication focuses on the contrast between Victorian era religious conventions and Dickinson's individu...
gives the words "cultured hell" added significance since, as a poet, McKay has mastered this classical form; yet, it is inherently...
stand around jostling, jockeying for place, small fights...
gives the poem an intimate feel, as if the narrator is confessing youthful transgressions to a friend. "That summer in Culpepper, ...
nature in which the numbers play a role. She writes, "I thought of dried leaves/drifting spate after spate/out of the forests/th...
womens education and his ultimate hostility towards female intellectualism influenced his daughters choice of secular isolation to...
trees carry with them the promise of spring and new growth, new beginnings, which is evocative of the fact that the two children s...
on charming it much as he believes he has charmed most of the towns women, and confining Delia to the home for years is comparable...
actually ever addressed. The author states, for example, towards the beginning of the article, how "No gesture of style so prono...
un-natural cause is this new concept of God (Nietzsche). This God is a "God who demands - in place of a God who helps, who devises...
as being different sides of the authors true character and argues that in "literature as in life, we must choose" (Brans 437). T...
say in their prose pieces. "Of Chambers as the Cedars/Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof/The Gambrels of the S...
than they preserve" (Killam and Rowe). The poem "Homecoming" which is among his collection which show the corruptive greed ...
hope. The mothers wise voice could be seen to be the voice of experience, conservative ways, of hope seasoned with hard times. The...
sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...
pause, heads tilted as if trying to hear someone softly...
Many disagreed on issues of conversion, or how one becomes a practioner of the Jewish faith. For example, the Orthodox believers p...
is an odd remark. She picks up on it and asks if hes referring to her as being vacuous and he says no, "it is I who am inane" (Eli...
is a wanted man being tracked down by the police, but that his guilt has already been decided. "They say that they want to bring m...