YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Analyzing Twelve Poems
Essays 121 - 150
is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...
He probably thinks back on the choice fairly often, but theres no anger in the poem, no sense that the choice was a poor one, just...
a considerable bond of love between Bradstreet and her husband. It is because of this bond that when she mentions the possibility...
suggests, there is often a political context to Olds observations. For example, in "The Death of Marilyn Monroe," Olds suggests ...
keeping out all of the world that she does not desire to experience or see or meet. This is further emphasized by the third and fo...
conflicts "as a woman and as a poet" (Barker 3). She manipulates thought patterns through her mastery of poetic structure, such a...
Im flesh" ((Komunyakaa 3-5). These lines illustrate that no matter how much time has passed since the Vietnam War this narrator ca...
soon scaped worlds and fleshs rage" (Jonson 6-7). In this the reader sees a rationalization that almost seems to be envy as the na...
has died. Beginning in the third stanza, the poet discusses the death and again addresses the deceased directly. He says the youn...
a spell to make them balance" (Frost 16-18). In this we again see an imagery that allows us to perhaps comprehend the composition ...
much that is god-like in human beings. It is humanity hes celebrating. Kuebrich believes "that Whitmans work is not only religio...
are happy and playing and skipping and singing, that seems to make sense but is very lilting and nonsensical in many ways. This is...
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...
the viewer. The next stanzas, however, bring the reader and the viewer, a more sobering message. In comparison to the characters ...
part of them." The "roasting" of Louie is stated as being symbolic, but Dickson describes a quite vivid scene that leads the read...
a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...
noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...
The first lines of "The Canonization" read: "For Gods sake hold your tongue and leg me love/ Or chide my palsy, or my gout,/ My fi...
his own set of biases that he probably brought into the telling of the story, and it can be assumed that he did not have as good a...
serves to draw the readers attention to this word and give it added emphasis. They break up the lines in such a way that mimics th...
to extract the universal truth from this poem, it would have to be that human condition which asks mankind to be quite careful wha...
the title. The alliteration between "caffeinated" and "concrete" emphasizes the rolling rhythm of the line. The reference to caffe...
turbulent in respect to British history ("Angelcynn" PG). It was a time when England was first created, and the time of King Arth...
In other words, to be a woman outside the accepted societal role for women is not to be a woman. As this indicates, any woman wh...
"proud of his plunder, sought his dwelling with that store of slaughter" (p. 25). Beowulf is written in Old English and set some...
the perhaps an understanding of fate, on the part of the fish. We are further offered an understanding that the fish is old in the...
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 bird with his crossbow. With this act, which apparently was motivated by pure blood-lust, the Mariner sins not only ag...
to Yvain goes even further than the loan of the invisibility ring. Lunette considers an alliance between her lady and Yvain to be ...
understand our world and as we seek to communicate with that world. As the poem progresses we surely see elements that speak of...