YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :2 Poems by Langston Hughes
Essays 361 - 390
observing children at their studies. However, the second stanza offers a sharp contrast to this opening, as Yeats states that he d...
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...
this indicates, in this poem, Larkin perfectly catches the nature of a society that has no idea what awaits it. Previous battles w...
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...
yourself with your atom bomb" (line 5). Even though it is easy to agree with Ginsbergs anti-war sentiment -- the consensus even...
Syllable from Sound --" (2509-2510). This poem considers the origin of reality, and true to her Transcendentalist beliefs, spec...
point that poets are generally interested in consciousness and how the natural world might reveal it; personality is not the point...
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...
The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;" (Yeats PG). This describes the inner workings of...
more likely that they will remember and personally value the days of their youth. Byron takes a strong stand in representing thi...
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...
remains rigid. This poem presents us with a rhyme on every line, further adding to the structural content. We note the first fe...
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...
the soul from the confines of the earth and into the far reaches of the heavens. In its spiritual form the soul is no longer conf...
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...
her sister as "buddies in wartime" and the stairwell is described as a "shell hole." Like soldiers, Olds states that she and her ...
sooner will his race be run, / And nearer hes to setting" (lines 7-8). In this manner, Herrick sets up an ever-increasing sense of...
understand our world and as we seek to communicate with that world. As the poem progresses we surely see elements that speak of...
hilltop is now shown as much as it is suggested by two rounded green shapes in the lower half of the painting. The dancers barely ...
An analytic interpretation of this poem is presented in five pages with a discussion of loneliness and home themes that are featur...
serves to draw the readers attention to this word and give it added emphasis. They break up the lines in such a way that mimics th...
(line 5). As this illustrates, the second stanza builds the tension even further as this comment intimates that this death is par...
renewal [is] not exercised" (Harding 42). Blake wrote, "Earth raisd up her head / From the darkness dread and drear. / Her light...
that his novel is not fictitious, but, on the other hand, he also states that everything only happened more or less thus restricti...
he mocks. It is after all a story of a lock of hair stolen while a young woman sleeps. What can be simpler? What can be less impo...
But, Frost never treats it as an overpowering tragedy for the participants, who still live, continue without looking back it seems...
enjoying the fact that many people have bleeding hearts from love. The narrator is clearly an individual who has been harmed by...
noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...