YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Poem by Frost
Essays 361 - 390
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...
is left out: herself. "Shine on me, sunshine Rain on me, rain...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
of a child. 1. "I a child and thou a lamb" (Blake 670). B. Dickinsons narrator is a dying woman. 1. "The Eyes around-had wrung the...
love between two ordinary people: "Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it h...
beauty of nature and the insights it provides can unite the two. The primary focus of Tintern Abbey is the temporal or physical w...
human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my ...
This three page original poem is inspired by psalm 73, but takes a present day perspective. No surces are cited....
paganism was not about to go quietly, even though the poet describes the protagonist as a gift that, "God, in His mercy, has sent....
unconquerable by time. Nevertheless, as their love is as fallible and mortal as they are, poem 11 shows the depth of Catullus pa...
being presented. The narrator states how "The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,/ Thousands of little boys and ...
power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...
who has lost her lover in the south. We can assume this came from a lynching (as evidenced by the reference to "Dixie," which lync...
reached/ was you" (Brooks 2-8). In this the reader is subtly illustrating how society, white American society perhaps, has control...
also differences in style. Smith, for example, uses less alliteration than Atwood, and his short, clipped lines emphasize and isol...
of the least attractive aspects of a nations character. However, after a country has been a colony for a time, that state of being...
to the United States when she was seven. Her poetry then is an attempt to reconcile the extremes that come from living in two cult...
has planted a bomb. He sees a woman in a yellow jacket go in, then a man in dark glasses comes out; then two men in jeans talk for...
and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden-paths In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jewelled...
The writer examines the 13th century poem Milagros de Nuestra Senora (Miracles of Our Lady). The writer describes it as a series o...
expression in the sections of the poem where the persona deals with happy memories, and the sharpness and abruptness of those wher...
denying that this characterizes his lexicon and poetic style ("William" 9). Considering this, the first question that the reader...
of sounds within any language, the speakers in a language community all feel that certain sounds either "the same" or "different" ...
says Sandburg, none of that matters; what matters is that the grass will eventually cover up the battlefields, the dead, the blood...
While the couple is not married in the legal sense to each other (their bonds of matrimony are with others), it becomes obvious th...