Essays 61 - 90
61). Symbolism is the use of one thing to stand for or suggest another; a falling leaf to symbolize death, for example. And langua...
as we do not think--We remain there a long while, and notwithstanding the doors of the second Chamber remain wide open, showing a ...
sense of landscape and, in particular, his sense of certain locales as cherished landmarks ("even sacred places") is inevitably li...
trade as well (Thomas Hardy). However, Hardy was very much his mothers son, and shared her love of Latin poetry (Thomas Hardy). ...
has written that he remembers his father scraping off or painting over the offending symbols (Parmet 79). Considering this backg...
of striving to attain immortality, just as Jesus himself did. Over and over again in our lives we are tested, and each choice we ...
even to the edge of doom" (Shakespeare 9-12). In the end he claims that if he is wrong then he never wrote and no man ever loved. ...
nonsense poem is to not try to understand it at all. In other words, reading the poem outloud, rather than reading it to oneself, ...
particular woman but does not possess her. Another may clearly see that the woman he describes is his. Regardless, however, of whe...
this as the focus changes from nature and subtly brings in the narrator: "I am too absent-spirited to count;/ The loneliness inclu...
and regular stress would at first strike his reader with incredulous amazement. But he was hardly prepared for the storm of abuse ...
futility and anarchy (of) contemporary history": this is not to say that such a structure need be formal and stylised, only that i...
for a spiritual thinker, body and soul. In "The Good Morrow," Donne immediately established what critic Susannah B. Mintz refers ...
bottle we buy. All we have to do is look at the contents of most plastic bottles such as for shampoo, lotion, juices, and milk, an...
despair associated with poverty, class distinctions, and opportunities for individuals to ever rise above their "place." The Dif...
as perhaps a Jew. This presents us with imagery, symbolic references, to the confused state of Plath in terms of her own identity....
context changes and it seems more logical given the tone of the rest of the poem. Thus, the word as is reflective of the way that ...
Dancers illustrates throughout the various poems, the Armenian experience of community. This community is not made up of relatives...
previous era and so many would experiment with free verse and would place special emphasis on the exploration of human feelings an...
politics of the New Democratic Party of Canada after the Second World War, and she maintained a feminist perspective throughout he...
in a manner that was often regarded as blasphemous by her Puritan and Calvinist neighbors. Emily Dickinsons approach to poetry wa...
issues regarding his position as an adult, presenting us with a serious and introspective perspective: "To them I may have owed a...
much that it has immeasurably been altered. Who was Socrates and why was he so influential? Socrates was a Greek philosopher who ...
of the least attractive aspects of a nations character. However, after a country has been a colony for a time, that state of being...
experienced. In A Divine Image the narrator illustrates aspects of human nature that are very clearly connected to the darkest s...
$15 on the sale (Untermeyer). "His mother was proud, but the rest of the family were alarmed" (Untermeyer 4). Their alarm was well...
Robert Frost is highly regarded as a master poet. His ability to explore complex social and cultural issues by using rural everyda...
of publicly responding to criticisms over his exclusion of Owen that Yeats made the remark in question (Rusche, 2010). His primary...
and white, life and death, happiness and sadness, rich (white majority) and poor (black minority) to express social injustice and ...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti are quite different from one another. Ginsbergs long and sprawling lines certainly look nothing like Snyders...