YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Lorna Goodisons Selected Poems
Essays 451 - 480
does the reader surmise that the author is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Wordsworth write...
the title. The alliteration between "caffeinated" and "concrete" emphasizes the rolling rhythm of the line. The reference to caffe...
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...
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...
and his first brush with death came at the age of eight, when his father, a livery-stableman by trade, died of a fractured skull a...
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....
noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...
do with something more important than materiality. The poem goes on to complete the first set of wings as follows: "With Thee O le...
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...
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...
yourself with your atom bomb" (line 5). Even though it is easy to agree with Ginsbergs anti-war sentiment -- the consensus even...
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...
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...
"The rats are underneath the piles," (Eliot 22) in combination with things such as "Money in furs. The boatman smiles" (Eliot 24) ...
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...
a hook to bait a desired fish. But no competitive fisherman is eager to share his secrets for landing the big one. A poet is no ...
gloves" (Auden 8). Tone As one critic states, "The tone of a poem is roughly equivalent to the mood it creates in the reader" ...
also great/ And would suffice" (Frost 6-9). In this we see something we would perhaps normally associate with fire, that being hat...
night returning, anew began ruthless murder; he recked no whit, / firm in his guilt, of the feud and crime" (II 12-22). When Hrot...
the first two lines in each verse rhyme. The mood is one of absolute freedom, which stresses that the things that society values -...
part of them." The "roasting" of Louie is stated as being symbolic, but Dickson describes a quite vivid scene that leads the read...
Im flesh" ((Komunyakaa 3-5). These lines illustrate that no matter how much time has passed since the Vietnam War this narrator ca...
conflicts "as a woman and as a poet" (Barker 3). She manipulates thought patterns through her mastery of poetic structure, such a...
The reply that "John" gives begin the next stanza, which is "drive, he sd, for/ christs sake, look / out where yr going" (lines 10...
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 ...
next lines are an old reference to the celebration of the Annunciation which the Orthodox Catholic Church practiced. For example, ...