YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Misery in Poetry
Essays 421 - 450
4 sonnets by Browning. We discuss them separately and then provide a comparison and contrast of their works. Mariana Tennysons...
in a fight for their own survival and right to exist, and that the simple things in life, those things that really count for more,...
transcribe concerning the inevitable. One author notes that "The central theme arouses from Whitmans pantheistic view of life, fro...
the population in America at the time would have preferred to not know that a black woman was capable of such complex and abstract...
see the secrecy, the sense of spying that is darkness, though not a darkness associated with nature, other than perhaps the nature...
born (The Life of Emily Dickinson). Although her childhood was typical of most, by the time she was a young adult she had retreat...
loss and redemption. If one were to move deeper into the meanings of both poems, or on an emotional, cognitive tour of the poem, ...
argued that poetry is the expression of ones very soul, encompassing many emotions, feelings and desires that can range from one e...
smooth stone/ That overlays the pile; and, from a bag/ All white with flour, the dole of village dames,/ He drew his scraps and fr...
and it was this heart-felt emotion that elevated her works from ordinary to the ranks of extraordinary. Music had long play...
the bird with his crossbow. With this act, which apparently was motivated by pure blood-lust, the Mariner sins not only ag...
school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...
located in West Seattle; his patients are mostly urban and poor ("Peter Pereira"). On the literary front, he has been published...
his force" (Behn 13-14). In her case she is a virgin who has finally, it seems, given in to the man Lisander, and is ready to give...
first case, the uniform will become old and tattered; if its the second meaning, then Shakespeare is commenting on the fact that a...
on the world (Vazsonyi 14). Browsing through Lukacss writing, it is clear that Novalis highly influenced his worldview and manner ...
Death, /Into the mouth of Hell / Rode the six hundred" (Tennyson, 1870). Still another type of poem shows death as sheer horror: ...
Whitmans, just that the ones being examined do not examine that same sort of subject matter. In Whitmans The Ox-Tamer the poet s...
Mines of gold/Or the riches that the East doth h old" (Bradstreet 5-6). Similarly, Browning begins her famous sonnet by writing th...
narrator is perhaps confused, perhaps trying to share an image and what that image, or group of images, may mean. The characters w...
that in the process of dying Dickinson believed there were senses, and perhaps there were senses upon death as well. But that sens...
(Faulkner). In the story of Miss Brill one does not see her as a tradition of the people, a sort of monument to an Old South bec...
the Duchess to show pleasure. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Wheneer I passed her, but who passed without Much the same smile? Th...
try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...
ethical judgements. While the students perhaps though that these old people are no longer young and can offer nothing of value to ...
the "music" of nature and is part of a continuous cycle. This poem concludes "How can we know the dancer from the dance" (line 64)...
unspoiled by either man or society? In "The Tiger," Blake appears to be pondering the marvels of the world while at the same time...
gap through which women continued to receive and even some praise from men in regards to their abilities as writers (Reichhold). ...
soon scaped worlds and fleshs rage" (Jonson 6-7). In this the reader sees a rationalization that almost seems to be envy as the na...
done about those who suffered, those simple cultural people who were victims of the civilized world (Castillo 40-45). This...