YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Analysis of a Frost Poem
Essays 241 - 270
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...
held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...
the population in America at the time would have preferred to not know that a black woman was capable of such complex and abstract...
the midst of conversation, a factor that appears to be typical of Longfellows verse. The entirety of the poem, while formally stru...
a foot For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breathe or Achoo"(Plath...
in with her family and in order for them not to feel inferior or uncomfortable around her(Mellix 315). However, when Mellix found ...
he mocks. It is after all a story of a lock of hair stolen while a young woman sleeps. What can be simpler? What can be less impo...
the last line which states the following: "Ah, what sagacity perished here!" (Dickinson 1-3, 11). This is a poem that is obviou...
is seeing the eyes in the present, which is "Here in deaths dream kingdom." Again, alliteration, this time with /d/, makes the lin...
terrible punishment, as they shall "alwey whirle aboute therthe in peyne" (line 80) and they shall not be forgiven for their wicke...
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...
condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...
of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...
certain that the reader has not missed the implication. Note that in the lines leading up to the "beauty of dissonance" th...
man knows truth. How can this be? It is through the very essence of man, through the essence of the tree and of flowers and of dog...
so based on the dialogue of the narrator that it does not allow the woman a voice, and represents a narrator who is incredibly, an...
vision of the natural world in which Gods presence can be seen as flowing through it like an electric current. This presence can b...