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line assures us that we are in this world" (Ogilvie et al.). There is a very relaxed, yet very introspective, tone to the lines as...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...

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 ...

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 ...

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

object and made it extraordinary: "the tomato offers/ its gift/ of fiery color/ and cool completeness" (82-85). Ode to a Storm: T...

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...

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

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...

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

was assassinated, probably by Stalin himself (Vartavarian). Stalin used the death as a pretext to begin purging those he thought w...

school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...

in seconds. He continues this catalog of things she is not by comparing the color of her lips to coral (coral is redder); compari...

was staying in Venice. It was published by Moore in 1830, after Byrons death, in a text he edited, Letters and Journals of Lord By...

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

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

or how one human engages another. Frost is merely using nature as a setting, a natural setting, that emphasizes choices that human...

mention that the catch, which is that his throat will be so sore that he will want ice cream. The lies are then contrasted against...

more joyful than creation itself. Then he adds: "Light out of darkness! full of doubt I stand, / Whether I should repent me now of...

and be a part of it, she feels her connection with "everything" (line 11), which means she perceives the world in terms of connec...