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Essays 631 - 660
strife. The folklore of the country became an important vehicle for recording that turmoil and strife and Yeats was a critical pl...
The allusion to Oscar Wildes epigram--What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities--...
and symbolism. As Arnold embraces God along with the seas that the maker has created, he questions things. The church is often the...
try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...
we mortals bear perforce, although we suffer; for they are much stronger than we. But now I will teach you clearly, telling you th...
and many of the traditional roles played by men and women in society and is famous for one of his quotes "Men at most differ as He...
an exploration of what it means to be an American. "A mountain-born, country-bred,homegrown jibara child,up from the shtetl, a Ca...
another meaning. Graham is a poet that inhabits tensions. Most of her work pushes at somehow trying to reconcile the inconsistenc...
done about those who suffered, those simple cultural people who were victims of the civilized world (Castillo 40-45). This...
the "music" of nature and is part of a continuous cycle. This poem concludes "How can we know the dancer from the dance" (line 64)...
gap through which women continued to receive and even some praise from men in regards to their abilities as writers (Reichhold). ...
soon scaped worlds and fleshs rage" (Jonson 6-7). In this the reader sees a rationalization that almost seems to be envy as the na...
unspoiled by either man or society? In "The Tiger," Blake appears to be pondering the marvels of the world while at the same time...
the Duchess to show pleasure. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Wheneer I passed her, but who passed without Much the same smile? Th...
action so that the reader can easily imagine its intensity. It is a strikingly vivid image. Likewise, Frost is famous for his im...
kingdom of heaven is similar to a field in which a man has sown good seed. The "good seed" are righteous people who will come to b...
that in the process of dying Dickinson believed there were senses, and perhaps there were senses upon death as well. But that sens...
(Faulkner). In the story of Miss Brill one does not see her as a tradition of the people, a sort of monument to an Old South bec...
Good Play" the poem is far more simplistic in relationship to how children think and play as the poems narrator states, "We built ...
quite different in their presentation and their material or focus of material. But, at the same time the words of darkness apparen...
Mines of gold/Or the riches that the East doth h old" (Bradstreet 5-6). Similarly, Browning begins her famous sonnet by writing th...
his force" (Behn 13-14). In her case she is a virgin who has finally, it seems, given in to the man Lisander, and is ready to give...
first case, the uniform will become old and tattered; if its the second meaning, then Shakespeare is commenting on the fact that a...
on the world (Vazsonyi 14). Browsing through Lukacss writing, it is clear that Novalis highly influenced his worldview and manner ...
Whitmans, just that the ones being examined do not examine that same sort of subject matter. In Whitmans The Ox-Tamer the poet s...
narrator is perhaps confused, perhaps trying to share an image and what that image, or group of images, may mean. The characters w...
school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...
located in West Seattle; his patients are mostly urban and poor ("Peter Pereira"). On the literary front, he has been published...
is an ancient collection of philosophical principles presented in a poetic fashion. It has been maintained and circulated since th...
for its wealth of atmospheric detail and rich symbolism. This makes them attractive to literary critics because there is a great d...