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"The rats are underneath the piles," (Eliot 22) in combination with things such as "Money in furs. The boatman smiles" (Eliot 24) ...
holding a moth that it has caught. The spider holds it up. The flower, the spider, and the moth together represent life and death....
the "flow " of the work as well as a connecting device.) The third stanza says that they passed a schoolhouse, then fields of "g...
noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...
"The West Country" from an operative structure standpoint, it is perhaps even more useful to analyze this poem from a thematic sta...
like a walk in the park. The poem describes how tired a person can feel while working hard, and laboring at ones love. Though a mu...
serves to draw the readers attention to this word and give it added emphasis. They break up the lines in such a way that mimics th...
(line 5). As this illustrates, the second stanza builds the tension even further as this comment intimates that this death is par...
renewal [is] not exercised" (Harding 42). Blake wrote, "Earth raisd up her head / From the darkness dread and drear. / Her light...
An analytic interpretation of this poem is presented in five pages with a discussion of loneliness and home themes that are featur...
that his novel is not fictitious, but, on the other hand, he also states that everything only happened more or less thus restricti...
understand our world and as we seek to communicate with that world. As the poem progresses we surely see elements that speak of...
hilltop is now shown as much as it is suggested by two rounded green shapes in the lower half of the painting. The dancers barely ...
enjoying the fact that many people have bleeding hearts from love. The narrator is clearly an individual who has been harmed by...
he mocks. It is after all a story of a lock of hair stolen while a young woman sleeps. What can be simpler? What can be less impo...
But, Frost never treats it as an overpowering tragedy for the participants, who still live, continue without looking back it seems...
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 ...
a number of jobs, he worked in a textile mill and on a farm, and taught Latin at his mothers school in Methuen, Massachusetts."5 H...
power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...
being presented. The narrator states how "The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,/ Thousands of little boys and ...
who has lost her lover in the south. We can assume this came from a lynching (as evidenced by the reference to "Dixie," which lync...
This three page original poem is inspired by psalm 73, but takes a present day perspective. No surces are cited....
has planted a bomb. He sees a woman in a yellow jacket go in, then a man in dark glasses comes out; then two men in jeans talk for...
to the United States when she was seven. Her poetry then is an attempt to reconcile the extremes that come from living in two cult...
paganism was not about to go quietly, even though the poet describes the protagonist as a gift that, "God, in His mercy, has sent....
and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden-paths In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jewelled...
unconquerable by time. Nevertheless, as their love is as fallible and mortal as they are, poem 11 shows the depth of Catullus pa...
of the least attractive aspects of a nations character. However, after a country has been a colony for a time, that state of being...
also differences in style. Smith, for example, uses less alliteration than Atwood, and his short, clipped lines emphasize and isol...