YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Immortality in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson
Essays 391 - 420
of striving to attain immortality, just as Jesus himself did. Over and over again in our lives we are tested, and each choice we ...
despair associated with poverty, class distinctions, and opportunities for individuals to ever rise above their "place." The Dif...
issues regarding his position as an adult, presenting us with a serious and introspective perspective: "To them I may have owed a...
trade as well (Thomas Hardy). However, Hardy was very much his mothers son, and shared her love of Latin poetry (Thomas Hardy). ...
has written that he remembers his father scraping off or painting over the offending symbols (Parmet 79). Considering this backg...
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....
context changes and it seems more logical given the tone of the rest of the poem. Thus, the word as is reflective of the way that ...
Dancers illustrates throughout the various poems, the Armenian experience of community. This community is not made up of relatives...
particular woman but does not possess her. Another may clearly see that the woman he describes is his. Regardless, however, of whe...
for a spiritual thinker, body and soul. In "The Good Morrow," Donne immediately established what critic Susannah B. Mintz refers ...
this as the focus changes from nature and subtly brings in the narrator: "I am too absent-spirited to count;/ The loneliness inclu...
nonsense poem is to not try to understand it at all. In other words, reading the poem outloud, rather than reading it to oneself, ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
ones own inner feelings. Whitman had been raised by Quaker parents (Hood). His orientation to religion was centered around the i...
Whitmans lyric style -- "A Noiseless Patient Spider." Although the subject of the poem is a lonely spider, the tone is formal, wh...
how the poet views his own culture: eternal, ancient and worthy of great awe, respect and wonder. "As ulu grows branches for lea...
as the vital key, where one sings to their beloved in life and after death, supporting themselves within a delicate and austere sc...
futility and anarchy (of) contemporary history": this is not to say that such a structure need be formal and stylised, only that i...
bottle we buy. All we have to do is look at the contents of most plastic bottles such as for shampoo, lotion, juices, and milk, an...
even to the edge of doom" (Shakespeare 9-12). In the end he claims that if he is wrong then he never wrote and no man ever loved. ...
and regular stress would at first strike his reader with incredulous amazement. But he was hardly prepared for the storm of abuse ...