Essays 811 - 840
desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....
an old man for the life he will soon be leaving and a world filled with evil and corruption. His description of the city is one of...
without specifically worrying about success or failure, "they cannot be stained by action" (Harrison, 1996). Hearing this, Arjuna ...
the Irish countryside. Thoor Ballylee was Yeats famous summer home, and Coole Park refers to the nearby estate of Yeats life-long ...
not change in a factory and the intervals are always the same. With that in mind we look at the first stanza of Frosts poem. In...
He gains allies and waits for the right opportunity to enact justice. This also allows Homer to thoroughly document the wrongs per...
afflicted with serious health issues, such as Graves disease and a thyroid disorder among others, and these caused her to become a...
son Telemakhos, his father Laertes, and even his dog Argos. Throughout his journey in the Odyssey, Odysseus often remarks about t...
a higher understanding of what life could be. In better understanding some of these obvious themes we analyze the poem through ...
sailers would pilfer to sell, give, or exchange with us, for money, sassafras, furs, or love...when they departed, there remained ...
poet of nature. For example, "The instinct of Wordsworth was to interpret all the operations of nature by those of his own strenuo...
now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...
Warren in his famous essay on "Mariner" stated the primary theme is that humanity needs to, somehow, live in harmony with Nature, ...
in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt...
grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...
women should be admired for their inner qualities, rather than their outward beauty. However, it is nevertheless true that Pope im...
the very truth of human nature -- which is why they are often painful to accept. Indeed, his work represents all that is the huma...
of vivid imagery and haunting metaphor. There is also no punctuation, by design. According to literary critic Michael Greenstein...
a sufferer from mental illness, which may have been triggered at least in part by her fathers death during her childhood....
The allusion to Oscar Wildes epigram--What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities--...
and symbolism. As Arnold embraces God along with the seas that the maker has created, he questions things. The church is often the...
described as an "identity crisis" (Mulrooney 227). They are both seeking solitary solace in nature as they grapple with professio...
the complete submission and obedience of his wife to his will. She should concentrate all of her attention on him, or face dire c...
terrible punishment, as they shall "alwey whirle aboute therthe in peyne" (line 80) and they shall not be forgiven for their wicke...
try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...
men would do, Phaethon does not listen. He is a youth and feels that he can take on anything in the world, or the heavens, and com...
of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...
people pity the dead, not Death itself. In the end Donnes message is that there is little reason to fear death and that in the end...
In fifteen pages this paper discusses the two parts of the poem by Parmenides, 'The Way of Truth' and 'The Way of Mortal Opinions'...
about having gone out in rain and back again, which represents sorrow and tears. In other words, he has seen many people pass away...