YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :5 Poems Interpreted
Essays 511 - 540
seems to address in her works include that of lost culture and a sense of longing to return to a time which is perceived to be mor...
"The West Country" from an operative structure standpoint, it is perhaps even more useful to analyze this poem from a thematic sta...
like a walk in the park. The poem describes how tired a person can feel while working hard, and laboring at ones love. Though a mu...
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...
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 ...
emphasis on "mind-forged" shows that these are mental attitudes rather than physical chains, but their effect on human freedom is ...
sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...
so strong, that Browning anticipates that it will follow her after death (line 14). Scottish poet Robert Burns also relied...
the title is clearly a powerful statement and use of words. Another critic dissects Dickinsons poem and offers the following: "The...
that Beowulf meets Grendel, but out of family ties and vows of allegiance to the Queen. Even Grendels mother gets into the act. T...
implication is that anything signed by the hand of the king carries the weight of law. Sir Spence has to obey. The letter arrives ...
song of the ocean and the song of the woman. A comparison is offered of the songs, that both make a...
to have a relationship. The narrator tells us that he loves his father, and indicates that he cant handle his alcohol either (hint...
viewing this painting this particular writer feels and thinks many things. There is a powerful boldness to the strokes, which are ...
Im flesh" ((Komunyakaa 3-5). These lines illustrate that no matter how much time has passed since the Vietnam War this narrator ca...
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 ...
gloves" (Auden 8). Tone As one critic states, "The tone of a poem is roughly equivalent to the mood it creates in the reader" ...
the first two lines in each verse rhyme. The mood is one of absolute freedom, which stresses that the things that society values -...
part of them." The "roasting" of Louie is stated as being symbolic, but Dickson describes a quite vivid scene that leads the read...
as opposed to being naturally inherited. This poem typifies the poems that are included in Blakes, Songs of Innocence, in...
said that, however, this is not a book to simply be shunted off to the used bookstore. For all its problems, Nine Horses is still ...
conflicts "as a woman and as a poet" (Barker 3). She manipulates thought patterns through her mastery of poetic structure, such a...
the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...
next lines are an old reference to the celebration of the Annunciation which the Orthodox Catholic Church practiced. For example, ...
of striving to attain immortality, just as Jesus himself did. Over and over again in our lives we are tested, and each choice we ...
has overtaken their owners" (Bartleby.com). In many ways "The poem throws an interesting light on the close nature of the relation...
The reply that "John" gives begin the next stanza, which is "drive, he sd, for/ christs sake, look / out where yr going" (lines 10...
to Literature. 11th ed. Eds. Barnet, Sylvan, et al. New York: Longman, 1997. 723-724. RESEARCH OWNED & PUBLISHED GLOBALLY BY THE P...
In nine pages this paper discusses individual divisiveness as it is featured in 6 of Robert Frost's poems. There are 4 sources ci...