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talk that he had "hastened his wifes death to write the poem" (Allen 3). There can be little doubt that the poem itself is obvi...

her sister as "buddies in wartime" and the stairwell is described as a "shell hole." Like soldiers, Olds states that she and her ...

has overtaken their owners" (Bartleby.com). In many ways "The poem throws an interesting light on the close nature of the relation...

The reply that "John" gives begin the next stanza, which is "drive, he sd, for/ christs sake, look / out where yr going" (lines 10...

"letter" as an example to the public of the how virtue can be implemented (Scott 2). Ellison is accompanied on his journey by a fo...

the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...

of striving to attain immortality, just as Jesus himself did. Over and over again in our lives we are tested, and each choice we ...

that can control things such a taxes. They are also involved in appointments to economic posts, such as Secretary of the Treasury ...

of the word I is that the decision for anyones life is their own. This decision was not reached by conferring with any other soul ...

September 11, 2001, and rushed headlong into full blown recession with the grounding of the US airline industry. Selected Economic...

have presided over rough economies. The poor economy, in fact, cost Bush Senior the 1992 election. According to experts, Bush Juni...

and was embodied in the character of Francis. However, to view a master of the surprise ending one must look toward Fyodor Dosto...

sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...

finds the novelties of society to hold any importance. She is obviously not pretentious and she is not perhaps wealthy for she doe...

farm listens to him and believes him and looks up to him. "Word had gone round during the day that old Major, the prize Middle Whi...

In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...

be the definitive poetic volumes with Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794). In each work, a poem entitled "Th...

to the reader the non-literal meaning of his poem With figurative language, Frost includes specific characters into this poem. ...

at the same time the calmness of it all makes it quite dramatic. The narrator does not see the action as dramatic, however, and si...

The tone of the poem builds from this beginning: "you should at times walk on,/ away from your friends ways,/ go where the scorned...

also great/ And would suffice" (Frost 6-9). In this we see something we would perhaps normally associate with fire, that being hat...

is further demonstrated when Vivie tries to talk to her mother about her life and how her "way of life" may not suit her mother. V...

the first two lines in each verse rhyme. The mood is one of absolute freedom, which stresses that the things that society values -...

a hook to bait a desired fish. But no competitive fisherman is eager to share his secrets for landing the big one. A poet is no ...

he would not be getting any scholarships for furthering his education, he "joined the Indian Imperial Police Burma" (George Orwell...

contributions that people are better able to understand politics and better able to base future decision. Fortunately, there is a...

noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...

holding a moth that it has caught. The spider holds it up. The flower, the spider, and the moth together represent life and death....

the basis for the stereotype of his day and age. And those who tend to deviate from this norm are assumed to be unmanly. These typ...

of the Muse to introduce its tale: "Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story / of that man skilled in all ways of contendin...