Essays 31 - 60
wanted the poem to leave a profound impression; for that reason, it is subject to the interpretation of the individual. I...
In five pages this research paper presents an analysis of several poems found within the Chinese Book of Songs and also includes a...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Bly and Djanikian all wrote famous poems dealing with snow. This analysis looks at Snowflakes by Longf...
future in that image of a baby suggests the continuance of generations into the future. These themes are particularly suggested by...
uses is "disturb." the author is clearly shaken by this presence of someone else. This "someone" is likely his sister with whom he...
apt description of reverie being that which is made up of a few simple things; and if those things are not available, well, reveri...
/ So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep" (lines 3-4 11290). In the next stanza a small boy is upset because all of his hair h...
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 ...
places her love at the basest level of daily life. She needs her love as she needs water to drink or air to breath. The love in fa...
point that poets are generally interested in consciousness and how the natural world might reveal it; personality is not the point...
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...
Her 1999 volume of poetry, "On the Bus with Rosa Parks" exemplifies the ways in which Dove captures a moment, sees it for what it ...
remains rigid. This poem presents us with a rhyme on every line, further adding to the structural content. We note the first fe...
Indeed, it is these characteristics which may account for Yeats continuing appeal to readers who dont normally pay much attention ...
heroic ideal of the young and noble combatant who appears to be destined to die at an early age on the battlefield. Achilleus is ...
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...
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...
of the Muse to introduce its tale: "Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story / of that man skilled in all ways of contendin...
The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;" (Yeats PG). This describes the inner workings of...
San Fransico but he would grow up primarily in Massachusetts where he, his siblings, and his mother would move to after the death ...
more likely that they will remember and personally value the days of their youth. Byron takes a strong stand in representing thi...
the hierarchy, to base matter, at its lowest level, with man and the natural world between the two, and Donnes commentary reflects...
observing children at their studies. However, the second stanza offers a sharp contrast to this opening, as Yeats states that he d...
line and the metaphor in the first, Dickinson employs all of the literary devices available, but, prefers, for the most part, to f...
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...
result is that he was able to craft a poem such as "Assisi" which has a gentle yet pointed grace and, as Brodie points out, a "dec...
Additionally, Dickinson makes creative use of punctuation to create dramatic pauses between lines, as well as within them. The ...