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

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...

monstrous creature Grendel, Grendels mother, and the dragon - it considers the impact of social obligations (loyalty to God and co...

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...

people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...

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

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

on the beauty of the scene. The Romantics tended to be introspective, while also placing emphasis on beauty of everyday life, rath...

readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...

until a water snake slithered by. Panicked and briefly forgetting about the traveler on his back, Puff-jaw dove, which threw the ...

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

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

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

envision more positive feelings) a human being can better come into contact with their nature, their creative side, their truths w...

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...

cannot hear the falconer;/ Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" (Yeats 1-3). The narrator then speaks of how anarchy has bee...

poetry is to use an economy of language to express ideas that are more complex than the concrete images and words that convey them...

and be a part of it, she feels her connection with "everything" (line 11), which means she perceives the world in terms of connec...

somewhere hes never gone before and that the woman (lets assume for this exercise that the beloved is his wife) is able to enclose...

kind. It is, or can be, a far more positive thought than the thought which is fear. When reading the poems, however,...

more joyful than creation itself. Then he adds: "Light out of darkness! full of doubt I stand, / Whether I should repent me now of...

mention that the catch, which is that his throat will be so sore that he will want ice cream. The lies are then contrasted against...

or how one human engages another. Frost is merely using nature as a setting, a natural setting, that emphasizes choices that human...

To an admiring Bog! (846). The subject matter features a person who feels inwardly lonely who does not wish to advertise h...

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

school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...

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

was staying in Venice. It was published by Moore in 1830, after Byrons death, in a text he edited, Letters and Journals of Lord By...

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