YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Explication of Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays 421 - 450
nature in which the numbers play a role. She writes, "I thought of dried leaves/drifting spate after spate/out of the forests/th...
is connected (18 poems, 1934, 2004). This colored his religious orientation and is evident in the religious symbolism in "Before I...
gives the poem an intimate feel, as if the narrator is confessing youthful transgressions to a friend. "That summer in Culpepper, ...
regards to both cherries and grapes. Her lips as "curved" like cherries and "full" like grape bunches, but they are "sweet" like ...
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...
gives the words "cultured hell" added significance since, as a poet, McKay has mastered this classical form; yet, it is inherently...
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...
turning, hungry, lone,/I looked in windows for the wealth/I could not hope to own (lines 5-8). Dickinson now clearly classifies he...
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the s...
at the water. Frosts poem builds an elaborate, extended metaphor based on his social phenomena. The people along the sand All tur...
why he became an addict; he also express great uncertainty about his life after hes released from prison (Class lecture on "Sonnys...
tells his readers to "undrape," because, to him, no one is guilty of shame or worthy of being discarded (line 145). Everyone and e...
is a wanted man being tracked down by the police, but that his guilt has already been decided. "They say that they want to bring m...
a "crowd" and Wordsworth adds that they toss "their heads in a sprightly dance" (line 12). In other words, the poet is pictured as...
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...
intellect that he exhibits now are a logical fulfillment of his childhood promise. He has grown up to be the man his childhood im...
as it relates to obsession and silent women. The poem begins, very pleasantly as the narrator seems to merely be giving the li...
misery" (lines 17-18). By the fourth stanza, the positive attitude of the first lines is completely gone, as the speaker compares ...
reader feels privy to the inner reflections of the narrative voice, as he engages in the task of "walking the line" (line 13) and ...
and be a part of it, she feels her connection with "everything" (line 11), which means she perceives the world in terms of connec...
the entire monologue with a sense of poetics, inviting one to study the words more deeply in search of a hidden meaning. This idea...
value into ultimately empty goals; this is indicated by the comparison of Gatsbys quest for Daisy with the "American dream" itself...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Alexie’s “How to Write the Great American Indian Novel”. An explication is carried ...
In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at Great Expectations. Explications of quotes are used to give insights into themes. P...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at Arendt and Foucault. An explication is made which reconciles their basic philosophie...