YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Poetic Explication of The Paper by Merwin
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reflect an attitude of equality instead of segregation between blacks and whites; however, inasmuch as much as humanity has succes...
the trees brings back an plethora of memories for the poet, images of himself as a "swinger of birches," when life was not so comp...
stresses and also spondaic emphasis on the phrase "this years snow." Still other lines mix and match rhythm patterns so that the o...
pause, heads tilted as if trying to hear someone softly...
sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...
in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...
the simplicity of the life that he foresees for himself, as well as its self-sufficiency. The sense of solitude that Yeats create...
gangrenous toe that her father had to have amputated and which, later, led directly to his death (127). The image of the "Frisco s...
regards to both cherries and grapes. Her lips as "curved" like cherries and "full" like grape bunches, but they are "sweet" like ...
In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...
reiterates the point made in the first line, the destruction of his rainbow, was a significant event. Whatever this setback was, t...
intellect that he exhibits now are a logical fulfillment of his childhood promise. He has grown up to be the man his childhood im...
is connected (18 poems, 1934, 2004). This colored his religious orientation and is evident in the religious symbolism in "Before I...
stand around jostling, jockeying for place, small fights...
nature in which the numbers play a role. She writes, "I thought of dried leaves/drifting spate after spate/out of the forests/th...
gives the poem an intimate feel, as if the narrator is confessing youthful transgressions to a friend. "That summer in Culpepper, ...
womens education and his ultimate hostility towards female intellectualism influenced his daughters choice of secular isolation to...
In four pages this poetic explication focuses on the contrast between Victorian era religious conventions and Dickinson's individu...
gives the words "cultured hell" added significance since, as a poet, McKay has mastered this classical form; yet, it is inherently...
turning, hungry, lone,/I looked in windows for the wealth/I could not hope to own (lines 5-8). Dickinson now clearly classifies he...
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the s...
at the water. Frosts poem builds an elaborate, extended metaphor based on his social phenomena. The people along the sand All tur...
into the woods on such a cold, dark night. Is it merely to look at the scenery, or is there another more profound reason? In the...
condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...
of art that lives forever and offers youth and vitality and passion. One critic indicates that, "This contrasts the sensual world...
In five pages this poem is analyzed in terms of the narrator, symbols, images, figures of speech, and tone. Three other sources a...
derives from the fact that it seems as if it had a familiar or conventional meaning. One might be tempted to try a nonliteral int...
In five pages this paper analyzes war's futility in a comparative poetic analysis of 'Poor Man' and 'WPA.'...
In five pages this paper discusses how birth defects including those involving the cranial neural crest and retinal issues can be ...
This research paper addresses Browning's famous poem, My Last Duchess, as epitomizing poetic monologue structure. While derived fr...