YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Explication of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Essays 211 - 240
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the s...
is a wanted man being tracked down by the police, but that his guilt has already been decided. "They say that they want to bring m...
years roaming the hills, tending sheep but was in charge of taking care of the sisters in the convent she lived in (Orr, 2005). It...
a "crowd" and Wordsworth adds that they toss "their heads in a sprightly dance" (line 12). In other words, the poet is pictured as...
that all the pageants play,/Disguysing diversly my troubled wits" (lines 3-4). The poet narrator is the "star" of all the "pageant...
other hand, proposes that time is circular and events are cyclical. The old mystic who dreams is dreaming specifically to create...
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...
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...
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...
the Body, that is, as the force that gives the Body motion and life. However, Marvell stipulates in parenthesis that "(A fever cou...
as it relates to obsession and silent women. The poem begins, very pleasantly as the narrator seems to merely be giving the li...
intellect that he exhibits now are a logical fulfillment of his childhood promise. He has grown up to be the man his childhood im...
gives the poem an intimate feel, as if the narrator is confessing youthful transgressions to a friend. "That summer in Culpepper, ...
turning, hungry, lone,/I looked in windows for the wealth/I could not hope to own (lines 5-8). Dickinson now clearly classifies he...
regards to both cherries and grapes. Her lips as "curved" like cherries and "full" like grape bunches, but they are "sweet" like ...
how the authors use the notion of acting and performance to highlight truths about the demands of society and how such a loss of i...
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...
to see, more objectively, the struggles of her aunt and the sad state of her aunt, thus giving her the ability to be kind and comp...
occurring in this era between slavery and freedom. We learn from both Forten and Schwalm that many African American women were in...
nature in which the numbers play a role. She writes, "I thought of dried leaves/drifting spate after spate/out of the forests/th...
of the aristocrats. Although Cathy took to Heathcliff immediately, her brother Hindley was not nearly so receptive, and had taken...
gangrenous toe that her father had to have amputated and which, later, led directly to his death (127). The image of the "Frisco s...
sway over the human condition. She sees the futility of forging an alliance with Linton, while at the same time knowing that she a...
and lust perhaps. She is an object to be worshipped and talked about, but not a woman who is given a voice. Throughout this poe...
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;...
sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...
she receives by her cousins, John in particular: "John had not much affection for his mother and sisters, and an antipathy to me. ...