YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Explication of My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
Essays 271 - 300
Many disagreed on issues of conversion, or how one becomes a practioner of the Jewish faith. For example, the Orthodox believers p...
the soul from the confines of the earth and into the far reaches of the heavens. In its spiritual form the soul is no longer conf...
alliterative verse in the fourteenth century (Middle English Lyrics). However, beyond technical aspects of English poetry during...
action that the people indulged in completely by their own volition, which puts a new slant on the described behavior; and, also c...
renewal [is] not exercised" (Harding 42). Blake wrote, "Earth raisd up her head / From the darkness dread and drear. / Her light...
few shots of a good looking, blue-eyed young man. There is the glare of the sunlight which is rather obvious. One shot shows this ...
prior to Rossettis marriage to Lizzie, however, the poem does not address Lizzie as its subject. Rather, in this poem, Rossetti is...
gangrenous toe that her father had to have amputated and which, later, led directly to his death (127). The image of the "Frisco s...
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;...
of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...
the simplicity of the life that he foresees for himself, as well as its self-sufficiency. The sense of solitude that Yeats create...
condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...
in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...
is connected (18 poems, 1934, 2004). This colored his religious orientation and is evident in the religious symbolism in "Before I...
in this depression she begins to see things in this wallpaper, a patterned wallpaper, that essentially symbolizes her sense of ent...
In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...
reiterates the point made in the first line, the destruction of his rainbow, was a significant event. Whatever this setback was, t...
that all the pageants play,/Disguysing diversly my troubled wits" (lines 3-4). The poet narrator is the "star" of all the "pageant...
other hand, proposes that time is circular and events are cyclical. The old mystic who dreams is dreaming specifically to create...
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 Body, that is, as the force that gives the Body motion and life. However, Marvell stipulates in parenthesis that "(A fever cou...
regards to both cherries and grapes. Her lips as "curved" like cherries and "full" like grape bunches, but they are "sweet" like ...
gives the words "cultured hell" added significance since, as a poet, McKay has mastered this classical form; yet, it is inherently...
turning, hungry, lone,/I looked in windows for the wealth/I could not hope to own (lines 5-8). Dickinson now clearly classifies he...
gives the poem an intimate feel, as if the narrator is confessing youthful transgressions to a friend. "That summer in Culpepper, ...
womens education and his ultimate hostility towards female intellectualism influenced his daughters choice of secular isolation to...
In four pages this poetic explication focuses on the contrast between Victorian era religious conventions and Dickinson's individu...
stand around jostling, jockeying for place, small fights...
nature in which the numbers play a role. She writes, "I thought of dried leaves/drifting spate after spate/out of the forests/th...
at the water. Frosts poem builds an elaborate, extended metaphor based on his social phenomena. The people along the sand All tur...