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past, which is now gone, and his son is the future (the founding of Rome), and he is the transitionary figure destined to bring th...

"sex-obsessed," but Frieda argues that Lawrence was "simply pro-human" and that because D.H. Lawrence wrote what he did, "...the y...

because pity carries with it the connotation that divinely imposed punishment is less than just. He tells Dante to lift his eyes a...

likens the process of death to an innocuous fly buzzing. In other words, instead of being a mysterious occurrence, it is a proces...

love between two ordinary people: "Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it h...

However, the ways in which his thoughts were organized are often ironic, and can generate more than one meaning. For example, is ...

a number of jobs, he worked in a textile mill and on a farm, and taught Latin at his mothers school in Methuen, Massachusetts."5 H...

to the reader the non-literal meaning of his poem With figurative language, Frost includes specific characters into this poem. ...

at the same time the calmness of it all makes it quite dramatic. The narrator does not see the action as dramatic, however, and si...

The tone of the poem builds from this beginning: "you should at times walk on,/ away from your friends ways,/ go where the scorned...

In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...

to see, And what I do in anything, To do it as for thee:" (311) In the next stanza, Herbert comments on mans desire for perfectio...

be the definitive poetic volumes with Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794). In each work, a poem entitled "Th...

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 ...

also great/ And would suffice" (Frost 6-9). In this we see something we would perhaps normally associate with fire, that being hat...

has overtaken their owners" (Bartleby.com). In many ways "The poem throws an interesting light on the close nature of the relation...

of striving to attain immortality, just as Jesus himself did. Over and over again in our lives we are tested, and each choice we ...

the first two lines in each verse rhyme. The mood is one of absolute freedom, which stresses that the things that society values -...

the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...

sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...

The reply that "John" gives begin the next stanza, which is "drive, he sd, for/ christs sake, look / out where yr going" (lines 10...

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 ...

this woman is not pushy, but rather has very definite feelings for this man. She feels a connection with him that his self-possess...

does the reader surmise that the author is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Wordsworth write...

But, Frost never treats it as an overpowering tragedy for the participants, who still live, continue without looking back it seems...

renewal [is] not exercised" (Harding 42). Blake wrote, "Earth raisd up her head / From the darkness dread and drear. / Her light...

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 ...

this as the focus changes from nature and subtly brings in the narrator: "I am too absent-spirited to count;/ The loneliness inclu...

"Mending Wall" we have a very powerful look at what self reliance can do to an individual. It presents us with a picture of what s...