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suggests, there is often a political context to Olds observations. For example, in "The Death of Marilyn Monroe," Olds suggests ...

be a lover and an optimist. But we begin to see images of tension in the fact that he describes the evening sky spread out as "a p...

certain that the reader has not missed the implication. Note that in the lines leading up to the "beauty of dissonance" th...

part of them." The "roasting" of Louie is stated as being symbolic, but Dickson describes a quite vivid scene that leads the read...

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

and bravery and excitement. They beg for it many times as they beg to be spun like an airplane or hung upside down. They trust the...

ceiling of my house where I could walk around in empty rooms all by myself"(Stanton). Everything in this place would be quie...

about having gone out in rain and back again, which represents sorrow and tears. In other words, he has seen many people pass away...

hope. The mothers wise voice could be seen to be the voice of experience, conservative ways, of hope seasoned with hard times. The...

of the word I is that the decision for anyones life is their own. This decision was not reached by conferring with any other soul ...

emphasis on "mind-forged" shows that these are mental attitudes rather than physical chains, but their effect on human freedom is ...

now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...

viewing this painting this particular writer feels and thinks many things. There is a powerful boldness to the strokes, which are ...

Road Not Taken" can be viewed as an evaluation of his decisions that the poet takes at midlife. Frost describes standing in a "ye...

all of the kingdoms riches and power for themselves. The problem is Odysseuss only son, who is the natural successor to the throne...

narrator restores the sight of the Greek love god Cupid, and he subsequently flees (Donaldson 154): "And (withal) I did untie / Ev...

lost" (The Battle of Maldon: Introduction). In this battle, which involved the Vikings and the leader Anlaf tried to land ashore...

the complete submission and obedience of his wife to his will. She should concentrate all of her attention on him, or face dire c...

men would do, Phaethon does not listen. He is a youth and feels that he can take on anything in the world, or the heavens, and com...

in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...

have plans for Enkidu and so a Priestess tames Enkidu and convinces him to go with her to meet Gilgamesh in Uruk. Though Enkidu ha...

as an adventurous and noble man, and offers us the romance of a story. From this simple beginning we can readily assume that Be...

though they were in a war. Their life is perhaps not threatened, but they must struggle to become more honorable and noble as they...

but his folk heritage as well. "Hughes made the spirituals, blues, and jazz the bases of his poetic expression. Hughes wrote, he c...

so based on the dialogue of the narrator that it does not allow the woman a voice, and represents a narrator who is incredibly, an...

vision of the natural world in which Gods presence can be seen as flowing through it like an electric current. This presence can b...

said that, however, this is not a book to simply be shunted off to the used bookstore. For all its problems, Nine Horses is still ...

that is illustrating the power that was possessed by these women, but not the power that the men and women of the time thought the...

and its joys. This quality of Frosts poetry is exemplified by his poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." In this work, Fro...

woman. The narrator states, for example, "If the skies illuminate/ trasluces of paradise,/ islands of color of ed?n,/ it is that i...