Essays 451 - 480
object and made it extraordinary: "the tomato offers/ its gift/ of fiery color/ and cool completeness" (82-85). Ode to a Storm: T...
opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...
in seconds. He continues this catalog of things she is not by comparing the color of her lips to coral (coral is redder); compari...
also great/ And would suffice" (Frost 6-9). In this we see something we would perhaps normally associate with fire, that being hat...
sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...
the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...
The reply that "John" gives begin the next stanza, which is "drive, he sd, for/ christs sake, look / out where yr going" (lines 10...
has overtaken their owners" (Bartleby.com). In many ways "The poem throws an interesting light on the close nature of the relation...
The tone of the poem builds from this beginning: "you should at times walk on,/ away from your friends ways,/ go where the scorned...
her sister as "buddies in wartime" and the stairwell is described as a "shell hole." Like soldiers, Olds states that she and her ...
A relevant phrase in literature that relates to the overall concept of good versus evil in Blakes work is that of the human...
wanted the poem to leave a profound impression; for that reason, it is subject to the interpretation of the individual. I...
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...
point that poets are generally interested in consciousness and how the natural world might reveal it; personality is not the point...
does the reader surmise that the author is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Wordsworth write...
holding a moth that it has caught. The spider holds it up. The flower, the spider, and the moth together represent life and death....
to the reader the non-literal meaning of his poem With figurative language, Frost includes specific characters into this poem. ...
of striving to attain immortality, just as Jesus himself did. Over and over again in our lives we are tested, and each choice we ...
the first two lines in each verse rhyme. The mood is one of absolute freedom, which stresses that the things that society values -...
In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...
to see, And what I do in anything, To do it as for thee:" (311) In the next stanza, Herbert comments on mans desire for perfectio...
a hook to bait a desired fish. But no competitive fisherman is eager to share his secrets for landing the big one. A poet is no ...
of the word I is that the decision for anyones life is their own. This decision was not reached by conferring with any other soul ...
But, Frost never treats it as an overpowering tragedy for the participants, who still live, continue without looking back it seems...
this as the focus changes from nature and subtly brings in the narrator: "I am too absent-spirited to count;/ The loneliness inclu...
talk that he had "hastened his wifes death to write the poem" (Allen 3). There can be little doubt that the poem itself is obvi...
"Mending Wall" we have a very powerful look at what self reliance can do to an individual. It presents us with a picture of what s...
be the definitive poetic volumes with Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794). In each work, a poem entitled "Th...
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...
renewal [is] not exercised" (Harding 42). Blake wrote, "Earth raisd up her head / From the darkness dread and drear. / Her light...