YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Mother To Son By Langston Hughes Explication
Essays 301 - 330
as being different sides of the authors true character and argues that in "literature as in life, we must choose" (Brans 437). T...
As this suggests, this psychologically complex poem portrays a pivotal exchange between two people who are trying to cope with los...
is an odd remark. She picks up on it and asks if hes referring to her as being vacuous and he says no, "it is I who am inane" (Eli...
half=way through the stanza, Angelou prefaces giving her reaction with the line "I say," which is followed by her lyrical descript...
levels. First of all, a virginal is an early form of the harpsichord that was a preferred instrument among young ladies during the...
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...
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...
in the literature, making it difficult for research to validate the pedagogy" (Barrett). It is her basic purpose in writing this p...
tells his readers to "undrape," because, to him, no one is guilty of shame or worthy of being discarded (line 145). Everyone and e...
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...
the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;...
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...
value into ultimately empty goals; this is indicated by the comparison of Gatsbys quest for Daisy with the "American dream" itself...
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...
nature in which the numbers play a role. She writes, "I thought of dried leaves/drifting spate after spate/out of the forests/th...
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...