YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Examination of Four Love Poems
Essays 541 - 570
is perhaps the first experience they will have when they lose someone very close. The poem goes on: "you feel bad about it/ you fe...
the viewer. The next stanzas, however, bring the reader and the viewer, a more sobering message. In comparison to the characters ...
Im flesh" ((Komunyakaa 3-5). These lines illustrate that no matter how much time has passed since the Vietnam War this narrator ca...
certain that the reader has not missed the implication. Note that in the lines leading up to the "beauty of dissonance" th...
suggests, there is often a political context to Olds observations. For example, in "The Death of Marilyn Monroe," Olds suggests ...
viewing this painting this particular writer feels and thinks many things. There is a powerful boldness to the strokes, which are ...
in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt...
described as an "identity crisis" (Mulrooney 227). They are both seeking solitary solace in nature as they grapple with professio...
notice. That he soared toward the sun on wings made of wax only to have them melt, plummet him into the sea and ultimately drown ...
focus of the poem is on how the anger of the narrator as a corruptive influence that turns him into a murderer. As this illustrate...
help keep me in New York against coercion/ but now Im happy for a time and interested" (OHara 1-8). This is sort of a free form...
a spell to make them balance" (Frost 16-18). In this we again see an imagery that allows us to perhaps comprehend the composition ...
matter? Good-looking, of course, dark hair, rather matted; the reddish beard several shades lighter; with very deep lines round th...
in any real noble cause, he quickly succumbs to the realities that surround him, the bullets and the danger. This man has taken i...
In the first half of the poem, Marvell describes time as he would have it if he could. He states, "Had we but world enough and tim...
his films. In so doing we look at one line from the film and two lines from Eliots poem. Lily states, "I thought that I could ma...
she is seen as pretty and thus she finds "Consummation at last" (Piercy 6). In this poem we see how it is the ideal media image ...
is connected (18 poems, 1934, 2004). This colored his religious orientation and is evident in the religious symbolism in "Before I...
a world of what might have been is not healthy. Therefore, he is suggesting that when one determines a course of action, that one ...
against an actual flower. However, if one will recall, during this time in history in which Frost wrote, the phone had just been i...
12, Whitman was indoctrinated in the printers trade (AAP). It was at this time that he fell in love with words, and began to read ...
now" (Whitman, 2005). Clearly, this illustrates his belief that heaven and hell are right here on earth, which was a very controv...
action so that the reader can easily imagine its intensity. It is a strikingly vivid image. Likewise, Frost is famous for his im...
about 1594 onward it is believed that he played with a group of actors, however: "written records give little indication of the wa...
her part. What she didnt know was that Zeus was responsible for thwarting her attempts at consummating her relationship with Odys...
The tone of the poem builds from this beginning: "you should at times walk on,/ away from your friends ways,/ go where the scorned...
has died. Beginning in the third stanza, the poet discusses the death and again addresses the deceased directly. He says the youn...
educated, and grew up in a house that was essentially filled with political and intellectual stimulation. "All the Dickinson men w...
trees will give no shelter and the crickets, no relief" (Wasteland by TS Eliot). When looking at this particular reference one c...
expression in the sections of the poem where the persona deals with happy memories, and the sharpness and abruptness of those wher...