YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Analysis of Three Frost Poems
Essays 361 - 390
dew that falls at night as weeping for the demise of day, "For thou must die" (Herbert line 4). The second stanza focuses on the...
so-called loved ones seem to have gathered expecting to witness something memorably catastrophic, almost as if they seek to be ent...
Strand, a critic by the name of Carl Singleton is not. He characterized Strands poetry as "entirely characteristic of the age in w...
a fa?ade that represents him at his best. But Mammy Prater apparently did none of this. Instead, "she waited until the technique...
ring, and how he is seemingly unscathed with no broken bones or scars (Karr 20-21). She notes how "Someday soon, the tether/ will ...
time" (Alexie 34-36). This is a summation of the conflict of the modern Native, from the eyes of the narrator, today. It speaks of...
(Faulkner). In the story of Miss Brill one does not see her as a tradition of the people, a sort of monument to an Old South bec...
beauty of nature and the insights it provides can unite the two. The primary focus of Tintern Abbey is the temporal or physical w...
clearly seen in the following lines from Donnes poem: "Thy beams, so reverend and strong/ Why shouldst thou think?" (Donne 11-12)....
the last line which states the following: "Ah, what sagacity perished here!" (Dickinson 1-3, 11). This is a poem that is obviou...
and regular stress would at first strike his reader with incredulous amazement. But he was hardly prepared for the storm of abuse ...
Francis tried to resume his former practices and his old life, and briefly considered a military career, but the call to a religio...
say in their prose pieces. "Of Chambers as the Cedars/Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof/The Gambrels of the S...
the natural surroundings, with the death of a powerful man. More often than not we, as human beings, keep memories of such powerfu...
one true God. As this suggests, biblical allusions are plentiful in the Old English epic, particularly in regards to the Old Test...
world was worth living in. Interestingly enough, one critic indicates that this is where Eliot uses the symbolism of the Holy G...
man knows truth. How can this be? It is through the very essence of man, through the essence of the tree and of flowers and of dog...
in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,- The sweeping up the heart, And...
stations" (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame). He was clearly very influenced by many talented musicians at the time, and in a place th...
held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...
terrible punishment, as they shall "alwey whirle aboute therthe in peyne" (line 80) and they shall not be forgiven for their wicke...
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...
of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...
condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...
practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaste...
each. An allegory, while closely associated with symbols or symbolism, is a unique literary element in that everything within the...
his disposal beyond his huge physical size. It would seem no human could be safe against this creature that could easily pierce o...
power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...
She is dismissive about feeling hurt or jealous that she was little more than another notch on Tims belt. For this young girl, se...
of mourning and regret, while singing the praises of something wondrous. I Came to buy a smile -- today (223) The first thing...