Essays 121 - 150
Road Not Taken" can be viewed as an evaluation of his decisions that the poet takes at midlife. Frost describes standing in a "ye...
shivering in the gale/ The bark unfurls her snowy sail/ And whistling oer the bending mast/Loud sings n high the freshning blast" ...
as, first of all knows her place, and, secondly was divinely inspired. In the antebellum era, it was illegal for slaves to be tau...
poets position in this family situation -- my mothers hand opens in early grave and i hold it out like a good daughter." This imag...
denying that this characterizes his lexicon and poetic style ("William" 9). Considering this, the first question that the reader...
vision of the natural world in which Gods presence can be seen as flowing through it like an electric current. This presence can b...
condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...
was really blond, white and blue-eyed (Angelou 4). This feeling on Angelous part is highly related to the restrictions on black fr...
As these examples illustrate, there are instances where there are definite Christian allusions in the text. Furthermore, at the be...
he will gild her horns as part of the sacrifice (Homer). Such sacrifices were meant as "gifts" to the gods, which were designed to...
of the monarchy due to his support of the Commonwealth (John Milton). Married three times, he spent his later years dictating to h...
As this suggests, this psychologically complex poem portrays a pivotal exchange between two people who are trying to cope with los...
and she wishes that she were "wife to a better man" (Homer Book VI). Through Helens eyes and, also, through Homers portrayal of He...
regards to both cherries and grapes. Her lips as "curved" like cherries and "full" like grape bunches, but they are "sweet" like ...
how it results in the wasting of the land, which results from the hero failing to ask the right questions (Weston 18). The theme...
a figurative level, the poet is inviting the reader to take his perspective, to figuratively "walk in his shoes" and, thereby, lea...
this became the most well known poem by Hughes and appeared in his first volume of poetry, The Weary Blues, which was published in...
12, Whitman was indoctrinated in the printers trade (AAP). It was at this time that he fell in love with words, and began to read ...
has grown deep like rivers" (line 4). Setting the line off by itself emphasizes its significance, as it ties the narrator directly...
Psalm of Life" and Edgar Allan Poes "Sonnet-To Science" address the way that each poet perceived life and the reality of their era...
In twelve pages this quotation from the Bible is analyzed in terms of its interpretation in a book, essay, and poem. Four sources...
In a paper consisting of 10 pages the aethetic, scientific, and sociopolitical influences on Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is considere...
works together one can see the romantic power of both innocence and experience as Blake addressed a changing world where human per...
This research paper/essay offers a detailed explication of a poem written by Robert Bly in 1981 entitled My Father's Wedding. The ...
a whole" (Yu 380). These natural images are used to open each stanza, as Yu notes that there are "three tetrasyllabic stanzas of f...
Taken" and William Staffords "Traveling Through the Dark" are both poems about lifes journey and the choices that confront each in...
dew that falls at night as weeping for the demise of day, "For thou must die" (Herbert line 4). The second stanza focuses on the...
This research paper/essay discusses parallel themes in three works: Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet' and his poem "The ...
In one page this essay analyzes Dickinson's poem in terms of symbolism, imagery, and theme with an evaluation of her employment of...
the Victorians was their sense of social responsibility. Unfortunately, that sense of responsibility was self-righteous and obsess...