YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Explication of My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
Essays 271 - 300
other hand, proposes that time is circular and events are cyclical. The old mystic who dreams is dreaming specifically to create...
regards to both cherries and grapes. Her lips as "curved" like cherries and "full" like grape bunches, but they are "sweet" like ...
In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...
reiterates the point made in the first line, the destruction of his rainbow, was a significant event. Whatever this setback was, t...
to see, And what I do in anything, To do it as for thee:" (311) In the next stanza, Herbert comments on mans desire for perfectio...
the Body, that is, as the force that gives the Body motion and life. However, Marvell stipulates in parenthesis that "(A fever cou...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Alexie’s “How to Write the Great American Indian Novel”. An explication is carried ...
In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at Great Expectations. Explications of quotes are used to give insights into themes. P...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at Arendt and Foucault. An explication is made which reconciles their basic philosophie...
This essay offers summary and analysis of four poems which begin by offering a comparison of two companion poems from Songs of Inn...
This essay is an explication of "Locked Ward: Newtown, Connecticut" by Rachel Loden. The writer bases this discussion on the assum...
value into ultimately empty goals; this is indicated by the comparison of Gatsbys quest for Daisy with the "American dream" itself...
dew that falls at night as weeping for the demise of day, "For thou must die" (Herbert line 4). The second stanza focuses on the...
the entire monologue with a sense of poetics, inviting one to study the words more deeply in search of a hidden meaning. This idea...
and be a part of it, she feels her connection with "everything" (line 11), which means she perceives the world in terms of connec...
misery" (lines 17-18). By the fourth stanza, the positive attitude of the first lines is completely gone, as the speaker compares ...
alliterative verse in the fourteenth century (Middle English Lyrics). However, beyond technical aspects of English poetry during...
the soul from the confines of the earth and into the far reaches of the heavens. In its spiritual form the soul is no longer conf...
action that the people indulged in completely by their own volition, which puts a new slant on the described behavior; and, also c...
renewal [is] not exercised" (Harding 42). Blake wrote, "Earth raisd up her head / From the darkness dread and drear. / Her light...
inner soul of a woman to be appreciated for the ways in which she makes the lives of her family easier and more pleasant. A native...
formula for success. Eugenes aristocratic name soon opens some doors for him. Madame Beausant is a member of high society and a ...
end up doing the same thing after person A figures out what B is doing. If Person A does not have a dominant strategy, then if B ...
do with something more important than materiality. The poem goes on to complete the first set of wings as follows: "With Thee O le...
few shots of a good looking, blue-eyed young man. There is the glare of the sunlight which is rather obvious. One shot shows this ...
reflect an attitude of equality instead of segregation between blacks and whites; however, inasmuch as much as humanity has succes...
May new buds and flowers shall bring; (I)/ Ah! why has happiness--no second Spring? (I)" (Smith 1-14). As we can note, at least...
"temperate" is not exactly a great complement. Therefore, Shakespeare adds to this in the next line stating that "rough" winds can...
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...
sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...