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as, first of all knows her place, and, secondly was divinely inspired. In the antebellum era, it was illegal for slaves to be tau...
occurs near the end of the conflict. These two warriors fight over who has the greater claim to a captive woman who is also the d...
in psalms (Liu 26). The repetition of the first line, which is subtly varied in the second stanza, is also psalm-like in that Hebr...
the complete submission and obedience of his wife to his will. She should concentrate all of her attention on him, or face dire c...
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...
grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...
Road Not Taken" can be viewed as an evaluation of his decisions that the poet takes at midlife. Frost describes standing in a "ye...
in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt...
described as an "identity crisis" (Mulrooney 227). They are both seeking solitary solace in nature as they grapple with professio...
women should be admired for their inner qualities, rather than their outward beauty. However, it is nevertheless true that Pope im...
the very truth of human nature -- which is why they are often painful to accept. Indeed, his work represents all that is the huma...
all of the kingdoms riches and power for themselves. The problem is Odysseuss only son, who is the natural successor to the throne...
He gains allies and waits for the right opportunity to enact justice. This also allows Homer to thoroughly document the wrongs per...
"Since this Britain was built by this baron great, / Bold boys bred there, in broils delighting, / That did their day many a deed ...
sell / it (lines 6-7). And, indeed, love sells well -- everything from cars to toothpaste -- filling whole magazines -- "you can /...
his mind tends to wander, that he has forgotten that the boy who helped him a few years earlier is off at school. Mary explains ho...
Hobson would never die as long as he was on the move. Until his revolution was at stay, in the sense of a ball which has stopped s...
exploration of human feelings and emotions. In the poem, Inscriptions, to which the first lines are: HOPES what are they?--B...
inner soul of a woman to be appreciated for the ways in which she makes the lives of her family easier and more pleasant. A native...
as a problem (Frost, 1962). However, later philosophers, as they pondered the nature of the universe, began to see the fact of cha...
blank verse" (Traveler With a Trunk of Poetic Devices). It begins with the poem, "The Friend of the Fourth Decade," which is fram...
themes of love, this became the preferred style of World War I poets like Edward Thomas. One of his most poignant verses is "Febr...
speaks of breaking free, not only from oppression and prejudice, but also from those things that bind and keep one from achieving ...
use of cadences, rhythms, repetitions and events or actions that may take place within the poem. Also, it can be said that tone is...
shipwreck (Anonymous, 2002; Junaidul, 2000). Wordsworth worked out his grief over this event in several poems, most notably the "E...
and a London that is perhaps anything but majestic and beautiful. Blake states that "I wander thro each charterd street,/ Near whe...
of sophisticated readers to a gross injustice, which was the short, cruel life of a chimney sweeper. Unlike the modern myth -- a ...
old and his first book at age 13 (Yarborough). In short, he was a prodigy who might have been destined for greater things, had he ...
to extract the universal truth from this poem, it would have to be that human condition which asks mankind to be quite careful wha...
When someone mentions "the road not taken" or "the road less traveled" it is often without any realization of Frosts famous poem, ...