YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Analysis of the Poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Essays 631 - 660
the first two lines in each verse rhyme. The mood is one of absolute freedom, which stresses that the things that society values -...
certain that the reader has not missed the implication. Note that in the lines leading up to the "beauty of dissonance" th...
be a lover and an optimist. But we begin to see images of tension in the fact that he describes the evening sky spread out as "a p...
between what is real and what is a mere reflection is indicated in the line that says, "Under the October twilight the water/Mirro...
world was worth living in. Interestingly enough, one critic indicates that this is where Eliot uses the symbolism of the Holy G...
vision of the natural world in which Gods presence can be seen as flowing through it like an electric current. This presence can b...
The tone of the poem builds from this beginning: "you should at times walk on,/ away from your friends ways,/ go where the scorned...
is self-contradictory" (Davies 86). As envisioned by William Blake, God is not to blame for the good and evil in the world becaus...
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...
he presents. Essentially, he wants his mistress to accept his advances not because she has been mentally or physically bludgeoned ...
does the reader surmise that the author is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Wordsworth write...
how the poet views his own culture: eternal, ancient and worthy of great awe, respect and wonder. "As ulu grows branches for lea...
renewal [is] not exercised" (Harding 42). Blake wrote, "Earth raisd up her head / From the darkness dread and drear. / Her light...
the population in America at the time would have preferred to not know that a black woman was capable of such complex and abstract...
a foot For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breathe or Achoo"(Plath...
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 midst of conversation, a factor that appears to be typical of Longfellows verse. The entirety of the poem, while formally stru...
in with her family and in order for them not to feel inferior or uncomfortable around her(Mellix 315). However, when Mellix found ...
was such time as it was appropriate to say goodbye and release them to adult life as defined by that society. In this poem, Sapp...
one true God. As this suggests, biblical allusions are plentiful in the Old English epic, particularly in regards to the Old Test...
clearly seen in the following lines from Donnes poem: "Thy beams, so reverend and strong/ Why shouldst thou think?" (Donne 11-12)....
abnegates any evil whatsoever. Blake seems to believe, as one can readily determine from a study of his other works, that evil is...
ask that pauses and changes in tone come into play for it is clearly set out in a very smooth rhythm. In many ways this establishe...
A relevant phrase in literature that relates to the overall concept of good versus evil in Blakes work is that of the human...
lifted, they decided that it had been the bird that caused the fog and they praised the Mariner for seeing through it all. Then, h...
the natural surroundings, with the death of a powerful man. More often than not we, as human beings, keep memories of such powerfu...
With the plain-speaking simplicity that was his trademark, Whitman constructed this poem in such a rhythmic way that it could be s...
is seeing the eyes in the present, which is "Here in deaths dream kingdom." Again, alliteration, this time with /d/, makes the lin...
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 ...