YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Female Bonds and the Poetry of Sappho
Essays 331 - 360
he foretold in this little piece written long before his name became a beloved household word"....
then of trust when most intense, hence, amid ills that vex and wrongs that crush our hearts -- if here the words of Holy Writ may ...
particular values, and freedom from persecution by authorities for those views. One could say that the roots, as far as it can b...
afflicted with serious health issues, such as Graves disease and a thyroid disorder among others, and these caused her to become a...
we suppose that the nature of that is reciprocal, despite any lack of evidence (Barash). Furthermore, he argues that not only is ...
Fourth, while previous generations of poets felt that poetry should address noble or epic topics, the Romantics glorified the bea...
romantic poetry it that the emphasis was always on emotions, rather than reason. William Wordsworth, a fellow Romantic, defined "g...
the end, ones heart may win over ones intellect. In Diane Ackermans poem, which may very well be a modern retelling of...
express themselves in ways that the majority could not. The poets role in part appears to be to get one to think outside of the bo...
sun, "a ribbon at a time" (35). By displaying one "ribbon" after another, Dickinson presented not just a story, but a complete cov...
ones own inner feelings. Whitman had been raised by Quaker parents (Hood). His orientation to religion was centered around the i...
that in the summer of 1797, he retired in "ill health" to a "lonely farmhouse between Porlock and Linton" (231). Because of a "sli...
truth that was eventually revealed. While we may argue he could have looked for the truth, rather than running from it, thereby sp...
beyond the confines of her era to see how future generations might view it. Her poetry speaks to many topics such as, love, loss,...
clearly the use of the archaic in the art piece itself, and its history, which presents us with sense of the exotic as well for th...
opens "Marriage" delivers a millenarian prophecy that identifies Christ, revolution and apocalypse and, in so doing, "satanizes" a...
gender. In fact, according to what Ms. Jacobs writes, women were discriminated against by white and black men alike. Here, though...
those around them, as if they were now removed from all responsibility to those around them. She seems to call them dead before th...
despair associated with poverty, class distinctions, and opportunities for individuals to ever rise above their "place." The Dif...
of striving to attain immortality, just as Jesus himself did. Over and over again in our lives we are tested, and each choice we ...
in a manner that was often regarded as blasphemous by her Puritan and Calvinist neighbors. Emily Dickinsons approach to poetry wa...
issues regarding his position as an adult, presenting us with a serious and introspective perspective: "To them I may have owed a...
is, of course, contrary to the view of the Christian belief system. In the Christian system of belief, it is the other way around....
trade as well (Thomas Hardy). However, Hardy was very much his mothers son, and shared her love of Latin poetry (Thomas Hardy). ...
as we do not think--We remain there a long while, and notwithstanding the doors of the second Chamber remain wide open, showing a ...
sense of landscape and, in particular, his sense of certain locales as cherished landmarks ("even sacred places") is inevitably li...
works together one can see the romantic power of both innocence and experience as Blake addressed a changing world where human per...
has written that he remembers his father scraping off or painting over the offending symbols (Parmet 79). Considering this backg...
would end without seeing "half my days thats due" (line 13). This suggests that Bradstreet is giving birth in middle age, which s...
. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has...