YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Analysis of Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
Essays 271 - 300
Symbolism and meaning are considered in this analysis of the poem 'Sailing to Byzantium' by W.B. Yeats in 5 pages. There are no o...
In five pages this paper presents a brief biography of Robert Frost and then presents an analysis of the narrative poem 'Mending W...
The transcendentalism of Walt Whitman is discussed in a paper consisting of seven pages which focuses upon analysis of the poem 'S...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these poems in an analysis of each poet's voice and how it is influenced by imager...
has been to continuously "climb" up the socioeconomic ladder in a culture that is set against her. She advises her son, not to gi...
their ultimate dream. And, the reference to the show indicates an imaginative perspective of life in general. There is an imaginat...
"Since a boy is not armed by nature, society must provide him with man-made weapons" (Hibberd, 1986, p. 143). Furthermore, accordi...
know that William Stafford is a poet from Americas heartland. In fact, he may be, according to Heldrich (2002), "Kansass most famo...
ambitious path than romanticism (Liebman 417). In fact, Frost tries to make every poem a metaphor to show his commitment to thes...
the reader what Esperanza is thinking and feeling at the most important moments in her life, but other than that exact moment, the...
and a London that is perhaps anything but majestic and beautiful. Blake states that "I wander thro each charterd street,/ Near whe...
of sophisticated readers to a gross injustice, which was the short, cruel life of a chimney sweeper. Unlike the modern myth -- a ...
sell / it (lines 6-7). And, indeed, love sells well -- everything from cars to toothpaste -- filling whole magazines -- "you can /...
of the key phrases in these lines is "Were I with thee," which indicates that the poet is not with her beloved. It is the fact th...
Chinese poetry is replete with metaphor, simile, comparison, and personification as well with other linguistic contrivances which ...
a big messy bowl of goop. In the same way, the placement of words, especially in the poem, can be said to be very important. There...
merely an attendant. Prufrock states, "No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;/Am an attendant loud, one that will do/To ...
lifted, they decided that it had been the bird that caused the fog and they praised the Mariner for seeing through it all. Then, h...
clearly seen in the following lines from Donnes poem: "Thy beams, so reverend and strong/ Why shouldst thou think?" (Donne 11-12)....
one true God. As this suggests, biblical allusions are plentiful in the Old English epic, particularly in regards to the Old Test...
was such time as it was appropriate to say goodbye and release them to adult life as defined by that society. In this poem, Sapp...
the natural surroundings, with the death of a powerful man. More often than not we, as human beings, keep memories of such powerfu...
abnegates any evil whatsoever. Blake seems to believe, as one can readily determine from a study of his other works, that evil is...
ask that pauses and changes in tone come into play for it is clearly set out in a very smooth rhythm. In many ways this establishe...
say in their prose pieces. "Of Chambers as the Cedars/Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof/The Gambrels of the S...
is seeing the eyes in the present, which is "Here in deaths dream kingdom." Again, alliteration, this time with /d/, makes the lin...
With the plain-speaking simplicity that was his trademark, Whitman constructed this poem in such a rhythmic way that it could be s...
how the poet views his own culture: eternal, ancient and worthy of great awe, respect and wonder. "As ulu grows branches for lea...
the population in America at the time would have preferred to not know that a black woman was capable of such complex and abstract...
a foot For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breathe or Achoo"(Plath...