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'Cinderella' by Anne Sexton

stage for us, with the different levels of meaning of this story at the different times in our lives, when it may have been read t...

"If" by Rudyard Kipling

1-2). Kiplings expertise with rhythm and word choice within the framework of the poems structure also constitute a feature that ...

Richard Cory

people have other people that they look up to in an envious manner, believing that someone elses life is far better than their own...

Martin Espada: Heart of Hunger and Imagine the Angels of Bread

could be brought to an end. Espada is really calling for a revolution: He says that "This is the year that squatters evict landlo...

Piercy: “The Secretary Chant”

a "reject button" and she is pregnant with a Xerox machine (Piercy). The last lines of the poem give the reader the point: "File m...

Yeats’ The Second Coming

that may speak of a lack of hope or direction. The reader does not really need to know what the poem is...

A New England Tradition: Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall”

they are lifting boulders and at others, they only have to worry about shifting small stones (Frost). The main thing is, they are ...

The Second Coming by Yeats

that second coming, beginning with a sense of hope, but finished with a sense of fear or dread: "The Second Coming! Hardly are tho...

Wordsworth’s Nutting

his poem and essentially relying on words that are descriptive and are simply part of his experience with nature. In this it is pe...

Out, Out by Robert Frost

has to be cut for the stove" (Wiles). When someone dies it does not mean they were not loved, and they are not missed, just becaus...

DOUBLE STANDARD BY ELLEN WATKINS HARPER

girl, outcast, forlorn/as thrown her life away?"). But the poet is adamant that both parties, the man and the woman involved in th...

Analysis of 4 poems by Robert Frost

imagery perfectly sums up the pressures modern age, as the narrator is too pressed for time to pause and appreciate nature more th...

Dante’s Inferno & Humanism

must take a stand against evil and live according to ideals rather than simply from a myopic focus on personal needs. In Canto 2...

Perillo/Dangerous Life

beginning of this stanza creates an image that says to the reader that the nature is hard; it "mows" you down. Society tries to im...

Sexual Imagery/Depression in 3 Poems By Robert Frost

what might be causing the narrators shame. Shame is generally associated with sexual urges. During Frosts lifetime, i.e., the fi...

Poems: Dickinson, Donne, Marvell, Parker, and Roethke

and taken blood from both. He tries to convince her that to give in to him, to give him herself, has been ultimately blessed by th...

Analysis of Beowulf

monstrous creature Grendel, Grendels mother, and the dragon - it considers the impact of social obligations (loyalty to God and co...

Maya Angelou/Phenomenal Woman

half=way through the stanza, Angelou prefaces giving her reaction with the line "I say," which is followed by her lyrical descript...

Death/Injury in Poetry

narrator is perhaps confused, perhaps trying to share an image and what that image, or group of images, may mean. The characters w...

‘Requiem’ by Anna Akhmatova

was assassinated, probably by Stalin himself (Vartavarian). Stalin used the death as a pretext to begin purging those he thought w...

Teaching and Learning in Poetry

school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...

The Art of Indirection

in seconds. He continues this catalog of things she is not by comparing the color of her lips to coral (coral is redder); compari...

Lord Byron, We'll Go No More A-Roving

was staying in Venice. It was published by Moore in 1830, after Byrons death, in a text he edited, Letters and Journals of Lord By...

"I'm Nobody! Who Are You?": An Analysis of a Poem by Emily Dickinson

To an admiring Bog! (846). The subject matter features a person who feels inwardly lonely who does not wish to advertise h...

Two Poems by Robert Frost

or how one human engages another. Frost is merely using nature as a setting, a natural setting, that emphasizes choices that human...

Explication of 2 poems by Martin Espada

mention that the catch, which is that his throat will be so sore that he will want ice cream. The lies are then contrasted against...

The Happy Fault in Paradise Lost

more joyful than creation itself. Then he adds: "Light out of darkness! full of doubt I stand, / Whether I should repent me now of...

Analysis of When Death Comes by Mary Oliver

and be a part of it, she feels her connection with "everything" (line 11), which means she perceives the world in terms of connec...

Travelled,gladly beyond by e.e. cummings

somewhere hes never gone before and that the woman (lets assume for this exercise that the beloved is his wife) is able to enclose...

Heaney and Hayden: Views of Isolation and Sacrifice

poetry is to use an economy of language to express ideas that are more complex than the concrete images and words that convey them...