YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :William Blakes Poems
Essays 661 - 690
their ultimate dream. And, the reference to the show indicates an imaginative perspective of life in general. There is an imaginat...
woods, peopled with the wild creatures of the forest, witches and all sort of magical folk, including Satan, himself. Tam stops to...
do with something more important than materiality. The poem goes on to complete the first set of wings as follows: "With Thee O le...
holding a moth that it has caught. The spider holds it up. The flower, the spider, and the moth together represent life and death....
noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...
the "flow " of the work as well as a connecting device.) The third stanza says that they passed a schoolhouse, then fields of "g...
blackboard." The town, then, is basically little more than a school, but a school with grown-ups rather than kid students. ...
Syllable from Sound --" (2509-2510). This poem considers the origin of reality, and true to her Transcendentalist beliefs, spec...
this indicates, in this poem, Larkin perfectly catches the nature of a society that has no idea what awaits it. Previous battles w...
yourself with your atom bomb" (line 5). Even though it is easy to agree with Ginsbergs anti-war sentiment -- the consensus even...
calling him to "say good-bye" (line 10 Acquainted with the Night). The overall effect of the poem is one of stark loneliness and a...
for someone who has received a serious emotional trauma, but also that this poem can be interpreted at in more than one way, at mo...
In other words, to be a woman outside the accepted societal role for women is not to be a woman. As this indicates, any woman wh...
"The rats are underneath the piles," (Eliot 22) in combination with things such as "Money in furs. The boatman smiles" (Eliot 24) ...
observing children at their studies. However, the second stanza offers a sharp contrast to this opening, as Yeats states that he d...
obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...
more likely that they will remember and personally value the days of their youth. Byron takes a strong stand in representing thi...
played slightly louder, i.e. piano. The rhythm of the piece would be uniform 4/4 time, but the overall effect of the rhythm would...
she is dead. This interpretation is substantiated in the next stanza when she describes hearing the mourners lift a box, which c...
fulfills his part of the social bargain, which is to "give to young and old all that God has given him." Grendel who is describ...
"obey God; nor trust in him; nor confess that nothing is our own" (White 218). There is nothing, literally nothing, that the narra...
point that poets are generally interested in consciousness and how the natural world might reveal it; personality is not the point...
remains rigid. This poem presents us with a rhyme on every line, further adding to the structural content. We note the first fe...
is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Frost writes only about things that are close to his hea...
time she was thirty years old. In Victorian England, it was normal for girls to marry young, and Mary Ann was unusual in that she ...
intended and his mother, she bites her hand in frustration in "inexpressible rage and desire" (Jones and Jones, nd, p. 13). During...
theme in that poets verse. Section 1 When Longfellow was born the nation was less than fifty years old. America was in the proce...
Mines of gold/Or the riches that the East doth h old" (Bradstreet 5-6). Similarly, Browning begins her famous sonnet by writing th...
in miracle I, "The Chausuble of Saint Ildephonsus," Berceo, first of all, describes the piety, humility and service of the venerab...
peers by acclamation rather than divine right. The thane is spoke of as a "giver of treasure in gladness" (Beowulf 46). In other w...