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pause, heads tilted as if trying to hear someone softly...

faith primarily in their thane and in "wyrd," which is a pagan reference to fate or destiny, according to Abrams, et al (1968). ...

himself who willed that he should suffer (lines 5-8). In other words, Hardy pictures preferring a world such as the ancient Gre...

question that cannot be logically answered "puzzles scholars," while perfectly ordinary people are able to accept it as it is, as ...

gangrenous toe that her father had to have amputated and which, later, led directly to his death (127). The image of the "Frisco s...

on. The illustration serves to emphasize the overall theme of complete joy, which Blake implies is something that can be experienc...

of balance. The Knight carries the potential for both peace and war. They are intimately bound to one another, it should be said, ...

even to the edge of doom" (Shakespeare 9-12). In the end he claims that if he is wrong then he never wrote and no man ever loved. ...

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

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

To an admiring Bog! (846). The subject matter features a person who feels inwardly lonely who does not wish to advertise h...

poetry is to use an economy of language to express ideas that are more complex than the concrete images and words that convey them...

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...

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

somewhere hes never gone before and that the woman (lets assume for this exercise that the beloved is his wife) is able to enclose...

kind. It is, or can be, a far more positive thought than the thought which is fear. When reading the poems, however,...

cannot hear the falconer;/ Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" (Yeats 1-3). The narrator then speaks of how anarchy has bee...

optimistic poet beyond this interpretation of his most famous work, which causes the work to stand out in a questionable way. Inde...

the very antithesis of natural ("fleshly" or "bodily") love. Similarly, Taylor reframes the natural death of a wasp in the cold as...

In the media today, it is possible to frequently see pundits and politicians bemoaning the state of society in regards to morality...

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Alexie's poem, "At the Trial of Hamlet, Chicago, 1994". Several discussion questions ...

lingers, then erased, Wisdom grasped and then replaced With new wisdoms, no time for decay. Where is permanence? Useless Next to ...

of its first publication in 1845, Edgar Allan Poes poem "The Raven" has been an element in American cultural influencing the publi...

and taken blood from both. He tries to convince her that to give in to him, to give him herself, has been ultimately blessed by th...

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

women voting was by no means in the best interest of the country at large and the family unit in particular. Clearly, at the foun...

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...

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