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Essays 241 - 270
own anguish, illustrating the poets "mastery of weaving spontaneously narrative, meditative, and descriptive elements into a seemi...
Chinese poetry is replete with metaphor, simile, comparison, and personification as well with other linguistic contrivances which ...
merely an attendant. Prufrock states, "No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;/Am an attendant loud, one that will do/To ...
this book. Baca runs the gamut of emotions in this text that is true, but what the reader finds within Healing Earthquakes is onl...
/ And every fair from fair sometimes declines, / By chance, or natures changing course untrimmd; / But thy eternal summer shall no...
important, yet we are not really told who it is. We are puzzled at one point for the narrator uses the word I in such a way that i...
be expected that the earlier writing would be more explicit, because of Augustus reputation for demanding morality. This is not t...
behind. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!--An ecstasy of fumbling Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, But someone still was yelling out...
upon the very nature of man to enjoy learning something about others and in return about him or herself. In this way, he argues, w...
she is dead. This interpretation is substantiated in the next stanza when she describes hearing the mourners lift a box, which c...
understands that youth and life cannot remain, for "nothing gold can stay." Metaphor When we take the poem in its entirety, and...
In five pages this paper presents a poetic explication of the work by Langston Hughes in a discussion of what exactly 'land of the...
"obey God; nor trust in him; nor confess that nothing is our own" (White 218). There is nothing, literally nothing, that the narra...
Friendship, within which the members each assumed classical pseudonyms. Katherine was known as Orinda," and in her "her poetry, sh...
away in the most inaccessible part of the abbeys labyrinthine library, where it remained for decades" (Essay on The Name of the Ro...
while it is possible to sum up each of these poems with a single sentence, to cover even half the book would entail over a hundred...
reflect an attitude of equality instead of segregation between blacks and whites; however, inasmuch as much as humanity has succes...
not apply. First, the tragic hero is supposed to be a combination of good and bad traits. Othello is a Moorish commander who has...
May new buds and flowers shall bring; (I)/ Ah! why has happiness--no second Spring? (I)" (Smith 1-14). As we can note, at least...
the end, ones heart may win over ones intellect. In Diane Ackermans poem, which may very well be a modern retelling of...
The first lines of "The Canonization" read: "For Gods sake hold your tongue and leg me love/ Or chide my palsy, or my gout,/ My fi...
In this we are set up with a very quiet and harmless love that is only waiting for consummation. It is a pleasant little scene tha...
Athens and the Amazon Queen Hippolyta. Although the setting is Athens, Shakespeare originally staged the production at the Globe ...
employs descriptive words to create in the reader an appreciation for the reality of nature. This is not to imply that these poets...
intoxicated on the sound of the bird, the "light-winged Dryad of the trees" (line 7). Nevertheless, it is clear that his mental s...
be born of patriotism and love for their country, as there are few things that would inspire the soldiers to put up with such bad ...
writes in lines 11 through 14: "In Poets as true Genius is but rare, / True Taste as seldom is the Critics share; / Both must alik...
the last line which states the following: "Ah, what sagacity perished here!" (Dickinson 1-3, 11). This is a poem that is obviou...
her sister as "buddies in wartime" and the stairwell is described as a "shell hole." Like soldiers, Olds states that she and her ...
That tumbled in the Godless deep;"(Tennyson 2630). In order to come to his final conclusion he begins to imagine...