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mere lust, but sacred and precious. Therefore, he constructed a poetic dialogue that would "provide this decisive encounter with ...

looked at the human experience through natures eyes. The landscape was Roethkes own life, and his experiences were the word pictu...

has written that he remembers his father scraping off or painting over the offending symbols (Parmet 79). Considering this backg...

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...

previous era and so many would experiment with free verse and would place special emphasis on the exploration of human feelings an...

honest. He not only explores the evil of the Holocaust from the victims perspective, but also from the viewpoint of the ordinary G...

as perhaps a Jew. This presents us with imagery, symbolic references, to the confused state of Plath in terms of her own identity....

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

cities and the space of the regions in and out" (Spahr 6). The following paper examines how Spahr questions the reader, urging the...

$15 on the sale (Untermeyer). "His mother was proud, but the rest of the family were alarmed" (Untermeyer 4). Their alarm was well...

is the goddess of earthly love; she goes back at least to the Greeks, who called her Aphrodite. In the second poem, the "King" ref...

in the way the political world was playing out in the conquest. And clearly he argues that the poetry was never simple. This seems...

sanctioned as proper for women, Bradstreets work did not go against the norms of Puritan society. However, they do often emphasize...

array of individuals that Whitman clearly associated himself with as perhaps an American. He states, "I am enamourd of growing out...

take on religion and his faith which would later lead to his renouncing the Catholic Church (Jokinen). In many ways Donne ...

went outside to sit under a tree where there was a nightingale, only to write a poem about it (Ode to a Nightingale). In the poem ...

the path of the devotee is said to be "sweetened with the nectar of devotion" (Bailly 12). This example of Utpaladevas verse exemp...

Bloom). He escaped but was arrested and tried, and sentenced to a year and a day (Dyson and Bloom). His attorney got him released ...

and Bloom). He escaped but was arrested and tried, and sentenced to a year and a day (Dyson and Bloom). His attorney got him relea...

held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...

tragedy" (Cai, 1999, p. 317). For Confucius, the focus was much narrower: when he considered poetry, he was thinking of the Book o...

(I i 1-4). In this there are clear, and strong, elements of philosophy as the narrator is clearly inferring the existence of God a...

experienced. In A Divine Image the narrator illustrates aspects of human nature that are very clearly connected to the darkest s...

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

Whether or not Helen was the cause of all the uproar is really unknown, but what seems certain, according to archaeologist Manfred...

until he realized that he wasnt really getting anywhere on his own; he owed all his advancement to affirmative action (Terkel). He...

of the least attractive aspects of a nations character. However, after a country has been a colony for a time, that state of being...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti are quite different from one another. Ginsbergs long and sprawling lines certainly look nothing like Snyders...

Robert Frost is highly regarded as a master poet. His ability to explore complex social and cultural issues by using rural everyda...