YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :5 Poems Interpreted
Essays 781 - 810
A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...
Good Play" the poem is far more simplistic in relationship to how children think and play as the poems narrator states, "We built ...
5-8). This juxtaposition of images connects the fever of illness to the fever of lust, which leads into the third stanza and its s...
its absolutely necessary, but then he wants something in return, because if he does lose her its a matter of honor. Achilles tries...
various admirers which she held in just as much regard as anything she received from him-including the title. Furthermore, she fli...
as if she did not exist. They tune her out, just as they do other unsightly aspects of urban living. No one sees the cigarette but...
and its joys. This quality of Frosts poetry is exemplified by his poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." In this work, Fro...
title, the fact that he notes how the sea is history immediately makes the reader wonder. They may wonder about how the ocean is r...
Strand, a critic by the name of Carl Singleton is not. He characterized Strands poetry as "entirely characteristic of the age in w...
My Dear and Loving Husband" and "In Reference To Her Children 23 June, 1659" as well as Taylors "My Spouse" and "Upon Wedlock, and...
But, the poem examines the life and struggles of a soldier as he lays sleeping, and clearly bloodied and examining his cause. It s...
he will gild her horns as part of the sacrifice (Homer). Such sacrifices were meant as "gifts" to the gods, which were designed to...
when nurses are needed the most, which is when we are ill (line 12). This is when "Nurses come through, with their care and goodwi...
in the way the political world was playing out in the conquest. And clearly he argues that the poetry was never simple. This seems...
was a child and I was a child, / In this kingdom by the sea, / But we loved with a love that was more than love-- / I and...
confuse free verse with sloppiness. The tone of the poem ("tone" can best be understood as the attitude the speaker has toward his...
does not have a job people envision him as a beggar. But, at the same time there is an understanding that he is doing a Holy mans ...
However, the meaning is obscure and the student will have to pursue the tranlsation with more sophisticated tools than are availab...
of the monarchy due to his support of the Commonwealth (John Milton). Married three times, he spent his later years dictating to h...
I think of naming, far less telling, / every feat of that rugged man, Odysseus, / but here is something that he dared to do / at T...
from their own ideas concerning societal norms. Clifton writes, "they had begun to whisper/among themselves hesitant/ to be bran...
condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...
have plans for Enkidu and so a Priestess tames Enkidu and convinces him to go with her to meet Gilgamesh in Uruk. Though Enkidu ha...
as an adventurous and noble man, and offers us the romance of a story. From this simple beginning we can readily assume that Be...
try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...
men would do, Phaethon does not listen. He is a youth and feels that he can take on anything in the world, or the heavens, and com...
of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...
poets position in this family situation -- my mothers hand opens in early grave and i hold it out like a good daughter." This imag...
of vivid imagery and haunting metaphor. There is also no punctuation, by design. According to literary critic Michael Greenstein...
a sufferer from mental illness, which may have been triggered at least in part by her fathers death during her childhood....