YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Mother To Son By Langston Hughes Explication
Essays 271 - 300
into the woods on such a cold, dark night. Is it merely to look at the scenery, or is there another more profound reason? In the...
in this depression she begins to see things in this wallpaper, a patterned wallpaper, that essentially symbolizes her sense of ent...
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...
of four lines known as quatrains, and each stanza comprised of alternating iambs or an unstressed syllable immediately followed by...
as being different sides of the authors true character and argues that in "literature as in life, we must choose" (Brans 437). T...
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;...
This essay is an explication of "Locked Ward: Newtown, Connecticut" by Rachel Loden. The writer bases this discussion on the assum...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Alexie’s “How to Write the Great American Indian Novel”. An explication is carried ...
In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at Great Expectations. Explications of quotes are used to give insights into themes. P...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at Arendt and Foucault. An explication is made which reconciles their basic philosophie...
This essay offers summary and analysis of four poems which begin by offering a comparison of two companion poems from Songs of Inn...
the entire monologue with a sense of poetics, inviting one to study the words more deeply in search of a hidden meaning. This idea...
value into ultimately empty goals; this is indicated by the comparison of Gatsbys quest for Daisy with the "American dream" itself...
regards to both cherries and grapes. Her lips as "curved" like cherries and "full" like grape bunches, but they are "sweet" like ...
gives the words "cultured hell" added significance since, as a poet, McKay has mastered this classical form; yet, it is inherently...
turning, hungry, lone,/I looked in windows for the wealth/I could not hope to own (lines 5-8). Dickinson now clearly classifies he...
gives the poem an intimate feel, as if the narrator is confessing youthful transgressions to a friend. "That summer in Culpepper, ...
womens education and his ultimate hostility towards female intellectualism influenced his daughters choice of secular isolation to...
In four pages this poetic explication focuses on the contrast between Victorian era religious conventions and Dickinson's individu...
is connected (18 poems, 1934, 2004). This colored his religious orientation and is evident in the religious symbolism in "Before I...
nature in which the numbers play a role. She writes, "I thought of dried leaves/drifting spate after spate/out of the forests/th...
intellect that he exhibits now are a logical fulfillment of his childhood promise. He has grown up to be the man his childhood im...
is a wanted man being tracked down by the police, but that his guilt has already been decided. "They say that they want to bring m...
other hand, proposes that time is circular and events are cyclical. The old mystic who dreams is dreaming specifically to create...
to see, And what I do in anything, To do it as for thee:" (311) In the next stanza, Herbert comments on mans desire for perfectio...
that all the pageants play,/Disguysing diversly my troubled wits" (lines 3-4). The poet narrator is the "star" of all the "pageant...
stand around jostling, jockeying for place, small fights...
In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...
reiterates the point made in the first line, the destruction of his rainbow, was a significant event. Whatever this setback was, t...
the Body, that is, as the force that gives the Body motion and life. However, Marvell stipulates in parenthesis that "(A fever cou...