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is perhaps the first experience they will have when they lose someone very close. The poem goes on: "you feel bad about it/ you fe...
seems to add to the depression, the unhappiness that the narrator is speaking of because there is a sense of futility in trying to...
what might be a darker meaning to the poem. The last two lines are repeated ("And miles to go before I sleep") so that the reader...
They are simply animals doing what they do and creating a balance in the world, another aspect of duality for without opposites th...
also differences in style. Smith, for example, uses less alliteration than Atwood, and his short, clipped lines emphasize and isol...
55). The appeal of this dream attracts the interest of both Crooks and Candy, who would also like to be part of the dream, as it...
poor state of the realm, it is suggested that some deep essential cause rather than mere circumstance is to blame for the decay of...
by comparing his own life to a "twice-written scroll", bearing marks from both a pursuit of intellectual virtues, and a pursuit of...
In a paper of one page, the writer looks at Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey. A brief explanation is given of several themes invoked in ...
action so that the reader can easily imagine its intensity. It is a strikingly vivid image. Likewise, Frost is famous for his im...
In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at found poetry. Rossetti's "Goblin Market" is used to construct a found poem with fem...
turn brown; leaves drop from the trees in late autumn; butterflies soar for a short span of time; predatory animals kill their pre...
likens the process of death to an innocuous fly buzzing. In other words, instead of being a mysterious occurrence, it is a proces...
in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,- The sweeping up the heart, And...
is a pain I mostly hide, but ties of blood, or seed, endure, and even now I feel inside the hunger for his outstretched hand, a ma...
things in daily life that he does. Despite this, he and his classmates have a lot in common: they all need to sleep, drink and e...
rejected this kind of philosophical process. In Chapter 27, Forster wrote: The chief point was that God lives inside the sun,...
and its joys. This quality of Frosts poetry is exemplified by his poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." In this work, Fro...
was a child and I was a child, / In this kingdom by the sea, / But we loved with a love that was more than love-- / I and...
of the monarchy due to his support of the Commonwealth (John Milton). Married three times, he spent his later years dictating to h...
he will gild her horns as part of the sacrifice (Homer). Such sacrifices were meant as "gifts" to the gods, which were designed to...
A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...
but the presence of Winter coming on is clearly a powerful element, or theme, in the poem as the narrator illustrates how he is re...
a fa?ade that represents him at his best. But Mammy Prater apparently did none of this. Instead, "she waited until the technique...
must take a stand against evil and live according to ideals rather than simply from a myopic focus on personal needs. In Canto 2...
When she disappoints her mother by failing one of her tests, she acknowledges her mothers failed hopes, but she also sees her "pro...
blood that is shed on the battlefield. The novel opens when the rumor runs through a Union camp that the army is finally going to ...
beauty of nature and the insights it provides can unite the two. The primary focus of Tintern Abbey is the temporal or physical w...
In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at themes central to both "Mrs. Dalloway" and "The Picture of Dorian Grey". Self-denial ...
This essay cites a specific book, Fundamental Theology by Heinrich Fries. The writer summarizes Chapters 33 and 34. Major themes, ...