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of knight. He was the kings representative in battle, and his role as the protector of freedom was assumed with honor and uncompro...

held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...

narrator is perhaps confused, perhaps trying to share an image and what that image, or group of images, may mean. The characters w...

practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaste...

was assassinated, probably by Stalin himself (Vartavarian). Stalin used the death as a pretext to begin purging those he thought w...

and taken blood from both. He tries to convince her that to give in to him, to give him herself, has been ultimately blessed by th...

in seconds. He continues this catalog of things she is not by comparing the color of her lips to coral (coral is redder); compari...

stations" (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame). He was clearly very influenced by many talented musicians at the time, and in a place th...

in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,- The sweeping up the heart, And...

Strand, a critic by the name of Carl Singleton is not. He characterized Strands poetry as "entirely characteristic of the age in w...

has received a considerable amount of attention. Eighteenth century critics argued in favor of viewing the poem as fundamentally p...

ring, and how he is seemingly unscathed with no broken bones or scars (Karr 20-21). She notes how "Someday soon, the tether/ will ...

opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...

object and made it extraordinary: "the tomato offers/ its gift/ of fiery color/ and cool completeness" (82-85). Ode to a Storm: T...

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...

faun, so that he participates in the creation of the work (Betz, 1996). The faun cannot decide if he has been dreaming or not, but...

a fa?ade that represents him at his best. But Mammy Prater apparently did none of this. Instead, "she waited until the technique...

beauty of nature and the insights it provides can unite the two. The primary focus of Tintern Abbey is the temporal or physical w...

scanned text files, featured a scanned version Frank St. Vincents important exposition of the poem that was first published in Exp...

the point of their clothing which was powerfully restrictive. In this poem the narrator states, "Aunt Jennifers tigers prance ac...

break all the rules and express his artistic vision in his own highly original way. This leads him to fame, fortune and freedom, w...

the deceased woman no longer has voluntary motion or sensory perception, but she is part of nature, which has sweeping grandeur in...

narrative voice relates how his mother died when he was quite young and his father sold him before he could cry "weep." In the Nor...

the "music" of nature and is part of a continuous cycle. This poem concludes "How can we know the dancer from the dance" (line 64)...

God and religion for answers to life struggles in a sense. Bradstreets poem begins as she slowly comes to sink into the fact that ...

stories they remember from men who are from an older generation. Barker (1993) highlights the psychological effects of this popul...

Wheatleys poem begins, "Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,/ Taught my benighted soul to understand/ That theres a God, that...

oppression could flourish" (Langston Hughes 1902) - has a hard time realizing how religion serves any other purpose than to latch ...

to believe that his elevated social standing makes him actually superior to anyone else. This perception definitely includes his w...