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Analysis of T.S. Eliot's Poem 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'

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

Eliezer Ben Rafael's Jewish Identities

Many disagreed on issues of conversion, or how one becomes a practioner of the Jewish faith. For example, the Orthodox believers p...

Gerard Manley Hopkins' 'God's Grandeur'

Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;...

'Andrea del Sarto; by Robert Browning

and lust perhaps. She is an object to be worshipped and talked about, but not a woman who is given a voice. Throughout this poe...

'Before I Knocked' by Dylan Thomas

is connected (18 poems, 1934, 2004). This colored his religious orientation and is evident in the religious symbolism in "Before I...

Analysis of Sharon Olds' 'Rite of Passage'

stand around jostling, jockeying for place, small fights...

'Early Snow' by Mary Oliver

nature in which the numbers play a role. She writes, "I thought of dried leaves/drifting spate after spate/out of the forests/th...

'Sonnet 54' in Amoretti by Edmund Spenser

that all the pageants play,/Disguysing diversly my troubled wits" (lines 3-4). The poet narrator is the "star" of all the "pageant...

'Black Magic' by Dudley Randall

regards to both cherries and grapes. Her lips as "curved" like cherries and "full" like grape bunches, but they are "sweet" like ...

'Circular Ruins' by Jorge Borges

other hand, proposes that time is circular and events are cyclical. The old mystic who dreams is dreaming specifically to create...

Analysis of the Poem 'The Elixir' by George Herbert

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...

'Nineteen' by Elizabeth Alexander

gives the poem an intimate feel, as if the narrator is confessing youthful transgressions to a friend. "That summer in Culpepper, ...

'Some keep the Sabbath going to church' by Emily Dickinson

In four pages this poetic explication focuses on the contrast between Victorian era religious conventions and Dickinson's individu...

'America' by Claude McKay

gives the words "cultured hell" added significance since, as a poet, McKay has mastered this classical form; yet, it is inherently...

'I HAD been hungry all these years' by Emily Dickinson

turning, hungry, lone,/I looked in windows for the wealth/I could not hope to own (lines 5-8). Dickinson now clearly classifies he...

Emily Dickinson's 'Publication is the Auction'

womens education and his ultimate hostility towards female intellectualism influenced his daughters choice of secular isolation to...

Explication of the Poems 'God's Grandeur' by Gerard Manley Hopkins and 'The World is Too Much With Us' by William Wordsworth

So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the s...

Simple Eloquence of 'I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud' by William Wordsworth

a "crowd" and Wordsworth adds that they toss "their heads in a sprightly dance" (line 12). In other words, the poet is pictured as...

'I Shot the Sheriff' by Bob Marley

is a wanted man being tracked down by the police, but that his guilt has already been decided. "They say that they want to bring m...

'Sonny's Blues' A Short Story by James Baldwin

why he became an addict; he also express great uncertainty about his life after hes released from prison (Class lecture on "Sonnys...

Stanzas Seven through Fourteen of 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman

tells his readers to "undrape," because, to him, no one is guilty of shame or worthy of being discarded (line 145). Everyone and e...

'Out Far Nor in Deep' by Robert Frost

at the water. Frosts poem builds an elaborate, extended metaphor based on his social phenomena. The people along the sand All tur...

'My Heart Leaps Up' by William Wordsworth

intellect that he exhibits now are a logical fulfillment of his childhood promise. He has grown up to be the man his childhood im...

My Last Duchess/Robert Browning

as it relates to obsession and silent women. The poem begins, very pleasantly as the narrator seems to merely be giving the li...

Analysis of the Poem 'The Horse and His Rider' by Joanna Baillie

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

'Bushed' by Earle Birney

reiterates the point made in the first line, the destruction of his rainbow, was a significant event. Whatever this setback was, t...

'Dialogue between the Soul and the Body' by Andrew Marvell

the Body, that is, as the force that gives the Body motion and life. However, Marvell stipulates in parenthesis that "(A fever cou...

'The Performance' by James Dickey

In six pages an explication of this poem by James Dickey is presented including the poet's title selection. Two sources are cited...

Symbolism and Meaning in 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman

Part forty seven is the focus of this poetic explication consisting of six pages in which symbolism uses by the poet are the prima...

Poetic Analysis of 'Hazel Tells LaVerne' by Kathryn Howd Machan

LaVerne," is a monologue of cleaning woman, who tells her friend of a strange encounter she had while performing her nightly toile...