YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Mother To Son By Langston Hughes Explication
Essays 301 - 330
the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...
hope for ever having his love requited has evaporated, but he persists in his quest regardless because it has become too late to b...
a child and she was a child/In this kingdom by the sea" (lines 7-8). These lines, as do the opening lines of the poem, establish a...
5-8). This juxtaposition of images connects the fever of illness to the fever of lust, which leads into the third stanza and its s...
spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next fou...
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...
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...
the Body, that is, as the force that gives the Body motion and life. However, Marvell stipulates in parenthesis that "(A fever cou...
as it relates to obsession and silent women. The poem begins, very pleasantly as the narrator seems to merely be giving the li...
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...
In four pages this poetic explication focuses on the contrast between Victorian era religious conventions and Dickinson's individu...
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;...
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...
nature in which the numbers play a role. She writes, "I thought of dried leaves/drifting spate after spate/out of the forests/th...
stand around jostling, jockeying for place, small fights...
is connected (18 poems, 1934, 2004). This colored his religious orientation and is evident in the religious symbolism in "Before I...
action that the people indulged in completely by their own volition, which puts a new slant on the described behavior; and, also c...
say in their prose pieces. "Of Chambers as the Cedars/Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof/The Gambrels of the S...
than they preserve" (Killam and Rowe). The poem "Homecoming" which is among his collection which show the corruptive greed ...
hope. The mothers wise voice could be seen to be the voice of experience, conservative ways, of hope seasoned with hard times. The...
pause, heads tilted as if trying to hear someone softly...
and lust perhaps. She is an object to be worshipped and talked about, but not a woman who is given a voice. Throughout this poe...
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...