YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Poem by Frost
Essays 391 - 420
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 ...
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...
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...
for someone who has received a serious emotional trauma, but also that this poem can be interpreted at in more than one way, at mo...
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...
and perhaps anything else this artistic individual had to offer, was taken and used by others. As a result, this individual decide...
the title. The alliteration between "caffeinated" and "concrete" emphasizes the rolling rhythm of the line. The reference to caffe...
Robinsons poem, Marie Antoinettes Lamentation, the language and the way in which she uses it conveys more than mere description, i...
this woman is not pushy, but rather has very definite feelings for this man. She feels a connection with him that his self-possess...
and his first brush with death came at the age of eight, when his father, a livery-stableman by trade, died of a fractured skull a...
does the reader surmise that the author is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Wordsworth write...
war songs, marriage songs and love songs among many more. Throughout the ages, the poems came to known as not merely an example of...
"The West Country" from an operative structure standpoint, it is perhaps even more useful to analyze this poem from a thematic sta...
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...
enjoying the fact that many people have bleeding hearts from love. The narrator is clearly an individual who has been harmed by...
that his novel is not fictitious, but, on the other hand, he also states that everything only happened more or less thus restricti...
renewal [is] not exercised" (Harding 42). Blake wrote, "Earth raisd up her head / From the darkness dread and drear. / Her light...
emphasis on "mind-forged" shows that these are mental attitudes rather than physical chains, but their effect on human freedom is ...
so strong, that Browning anticipates that it will follow her after death (line 14). Scottish poet Robert Burns also relied...
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...
that Beowulf meets Grendel, but out of family ties and vows of allegiance to the Queen. Even Grendels mother gets into the act. T...
viewing this painting this particular writer feels and thinks many things. There is a powerful boldness to the strokes, which are ...
has overtaken their owners" (Bartleby.com). In many ways "The poem throws an interesting light on the close nature of the relation...