YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :History and the Epic Poems of Homer
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calling him to "say good-bye" (line 10 Acquainted with the Night). The overall effect of the poem is one of stark loneliness and a...
this indicates, in this poem, Larkin perfectly catches the nature of a society that has no idea what awaits it. Previous battles w...
obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...
In other words, to be a woman outside the accepted societal role for women is not to be a woman. As this indicates, any woman wh...
blackboard." The town, then, is basically little more than a school, but a school with grown-ups rather than kid students. ...
the "flow " of the work as well as a connecting device.) The third stanza says that they passed a schoolhouse, then fields of "g...
holding a moth that it has caught. The spider holds it up. The flower, the spider, and the moth together represent life and death....
"The rats are underneath the piles," (Eliot 22) in combination with things such as "Money in furs. The boatman smiles" (Eliot 24) ...
for someone who has received a serious emotional trauma, but also that this poem can be interpreted at in more than one way, at mo...
"obey God; nor trust in him; nor confess that nothing is our own" (White 218). There is nothing, literally nothing, that the narra...
The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;" (Yeats PG). This describes the inner workings of...
played slightly louder, i.e. piano. The rhythm of the piece would be uniform 4/4 time, but the overall effect of the rhythm would...
more likely that they will remember and personally value the days of their youth. Byron takes a strong stand in representing thi...
is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Frost writes only about things that are close to his hea...
remains rigid. This poem presents us with a rhyme on every line, further adding to the structural content. We note the first fe...
she is dead. This interpretation is substantiated in the next stanza when she describes hearing the mourners lift a box, which c...
woods, peopled with the wild creatures of the forest, witches and all sort of magical folk, including Satan, himself. Tam stops to...
their ultimate dream. And, the reference to the show indicates an imaginative perspective of life in general. There is an imaginat...
do with something more important than materiality. The poem goes on to complete the first set of wings as follows: "With Thee O le...
Robinsons poem, Marie Antoinettes Lamentation, the language and the way in which she uses it conveys more than mere description, i...
this woman is not pushy, but rather has very definite feelings for this man. She feels a connection with him that his self-possess...
the title. The alliteration between "caffeinated" and "concrete" emphasizes the rolling rhythm of the line. The reference to caffe...
"The West Country" from an operative structure standpoint, it is perhaps even more useful to analyze this poem from a thematic sta...
does the reader surmise that the author is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Wordsworth write...
and perhaps anything else this artistic individual had to offer, was taken and used by others. As a result, this individual decide...
seems to address in her works include that of lost culture and a sense of longing to return to a time which is perceived to be mor...
like a walk in the park. The poem describes how tired a person can feel while working hard, and laboring at ones love. Though a mu...
serves to draw the readers attention to this word and give it added emphasis. They break up the lines in such a way that mimics th...
(line 5). As this illustrates, the second stanza builds the tension even further as this comment intimates that this death is par...
war songs, marriage songs and love songs among many more. Throughout the ages, the poems came to known as not merely an example of...