YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Robert Browning and Aphra Behns Poems
Essays 181 - 210
and real images, illustrating his understanding of how poetics could work, how placement of words, creating imagery and also a str...
to the reader the non-literal meaning of his poem With figurative language, Frost includes specific characters into this poem. ...
wide" (line 6) is empowering, freeing, and infinitely entertaining. From the time that his first book of verse for children was ...
a spell to make them balance" (Frost 16-18). In this we again see an imagery that allows us to perhaps comprehend the composition ...
a poem that examines ones past and the choices made, as well as a poem that presents the narrator with two obvious choices. In a l...
The reply that "John" gives begin the next stanza, which is "drive, he sd, for/ christs sake, look / out where yr going" (lines 10...
Road Not Taken" can be viewed as an evaluation of his decisions that the poet takes at midlife. Frost describes standing in a "ye...
a world of what might have been is not healthy. Therefore, he is suggesting that when one determines a course of action, that one ...
a hook to bait a desired fish. But no competitive fisherman is eager to share his secrets for landing the big one. A poet is no ...
against an actual flower. However, if one will recall, during this time in history in which Frost wrote, the phone had just been i...
experience it for himself. As a teenager I would drive Fathers Chevrolet cross-country, given me...
works together one can see the romantic power of both innocence and experience as Blake addressed a changing world where human per...
of the word I is that the decision for anyones life is their own. This decision was not reached by conferring with any other soul ...
of striving to attain immortality, just as Jesus himself did. Over and over again in our lives we are tested, and each choice we ...
natural sublime."2 As is common in the thematic development of the sublime in Romanticism, the sensation is one of rapture and on...
However, the ways in which his thoughts were organized are often ironic, and can generate more than one meaning. For example, is ...
how Frost "speaks of the (metaphoric) wall between his neighbor and himself" which seems to him to be unnecessary. This brings to ...
of four lines known as quatrains, and each stanza comprised of alternating iambs or an unstressed syllable immediately followed by...
and lonely offices?" (Hayden 13-14). All of this speaks of a childs ignorance and how children are simply children, ignora...
As this suggests, this psychologically complex poem portrays a pivotal exchange between two people who are trying to cope with los...
likens the process of death to an innocuous fly buzzing. In other words, instead of being a mysterious occurrence, it is a proces...
about the circumstances of the household. An atmosphere of bitterness with bouts of anger is described. The recollection suggests ...
safe place: the dead are "untouched" beneath their rafters of satin and roofs of stone (Dickinson). They wait motionless for the r...
is presumably himself, as an adult, looking back at the things his father did for him. These are things that the child clearly nev...
Taken" and William Staffords "Traveling Through the Dark" are both poems about lifes journey and the choices that confront each in...
Dust, in 1940 (Robert Hayden). Accolades and awards followed (including being the first African-American to be named Poet Laureate...
reader feels privy to the inner reflections of the narrative voice, as he engages in the task of "walking the line" (line 13) and ...
geographical region to artists works Definition of and importance of voice The paper then presents these four sections: Sec...
imagery perfectly sums up the pressures modern age, as the narrator is too pressed for time to pause and appreciate nature more th...
He probably thinks back on the choice fairly often, but theres no anger in the poem, no sense that the choice was a poor one, just...