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food as a measuring cup of personality, a leavening for plot, and an ingredient in the theme" (Kellman 435). The contradictions i...

is the title of Russell D. Roberts (2002) book and is subtitled an economic romance, and so it actually is a rather humorous title...

beginning of this stanza creates an image that says to the reader that the nature is hard; it "mows" you down. Society tries to im...

industrial revolution and the transition to a coal-fired economy" (Pan). Roberts points out that the shift from an agrarian econom...

on the bench, he needs a majority vote in the Senate. Therefore, his views are very important. Based on past decisions and stateme...

1). Using this metaphor, he goes on to say that Science "alterest all things with thy peering eyes," which preys upon his poets h...

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...

to believe that his elevated social standing makes him actually superior to anyone else. This perception definitely includes his w...

readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...

until a water snake slithered by. Panicked and briefly forgetting about the traveler on his back, Puff-jaw dove, which threw the ...

on the beauty of the scene. The Romantics tended to be introspective, while also placing emphasis on beauty of everyday life, rath...

on. The illustration serves to emphasize the overall theme of complete joy, which Blake implies is something that can be experienc...

evening. Then there is nighttime. In this poem, the last thing that occurs is that the baby is put into bed with his mother. There...

envision more positive feelings) a human being can better come into contact with their nature, their creative side, their truths w...

has received a considerable amount of attention. Eighteenth century critics argued in favor of viewing the poem as fundamentally p...

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...

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...

scanned text files, featured a scanned version Frank St. Vincents important exposition of the poem that was first published in Exp...

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...

break all the rules and express his artistic vision in his own highly original way. This leads him to fame, fortune and freedom, w...

the deceased woman no longer has voluntary motion or sensory perception, but she is part of nature, which has sweeping grandeur in...

and serious nature - was interpreted as threatening to the Soviets ears and caused an unexpected attitude backlash for Reagans pro...

the point of their clothing which was powerfully restrictive. In this poem the narrator states, "Aunt Jennifers tigers prance ac...

people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...

half=way through the stanza, Angelou prefaces giving her reaction with the line "I say," which is followed by her lyrical descript...

narrator is perhaps confused, perhaps trying to share an image and what that image, or group of images, may mean. The characters w...

monstrous creature Grendel, Grendels mother, and the dragon - it considers the impact of social obligations (loyalty to God and co...

somewhere hes never gone before and that the woman (lets assume for this exercise that the beloved is his wife) is able to enclose...