YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Holdfast Poem by George Herbert
Essays 181 - 210
object and made it extraordinary: "the tomato offers/ its gift/ of fiery color/ and cool completeness" (82-85). Ode to a Storm: T...
opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...
has received a considerable amount of attention. Eighteenth century critics argued in favor of viewing the poem as fundamentally p...
narrative voice relates how his mother died when he was quite young and his father sold him before he could cry "weep." In the Nor...
faun, so that he participates in the creation of the work (Betz, 1996). The faun cannot decide if he has been dreaming or not, but...
the point of their clothing which was powerfully restrictive. In this poem the narrator states, "Aunt Jennifers tigers prance ac...
and be a part of it, she feels her connection with "everything" (line 11), which means she perceives the world in terms of connec...
somewhere hes never gone before and that the woman (lets assume for this exercise that the beloved is his wife) is able to enclose...
kind. It is, or can be, a far more positive thought than the thought which is fear. When reading the poems, however,...
more joyful than creation itself. Then he adds: "Light out of darkness! full of doubt I stand, / Whether I should repent me now of...
poetry is to use an economy of language to express ideas that are more complex than the concrete images and words that convey them...
cannot hear the falconer;/ Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" (Yeats 1-3). The narrator then speaks of how anarchy has bee...
optimistic poet beyond this interpretation of his most famous work, which causes the work to stand out in a questionable way. Inde...
was assassinated, probably by Stalin himself (Vartavarian). Stalin used the death as a pretext to begin purging those he thought w...
school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...
in seconds. He continues this catalog of things she is not by comparing the color of her lips to coral (coral is redder); compari...
half=way through the stanza, Angelou prefaces giving her reaction with the line "I say," which is followed by her lyrical descript...
narrator is perhaps confused, perhaps trying to share an image and what that image, or group of images, may mean. The characters w...
mention that the catch, which is that his throat will be so sore that he will want ice cream. The lies are then contrasted against...
or how one human engages another. Frost is merely using nature as a setting, a natural setting, that emphasizes choices that human...
To an admiring Bog! (846). The subject matter features a person who feels inwardly lonely who does not wish to advertise h...
lingers, then erased, Wisdom grasped and then replaced With new wisdoms, no time for decay. Where is permanence? Useless Next to ...
the very antithesis of natural ("fleshly" or "bodily") love. Similarly, Taylor reframes the natural death of a wasp in the cold as...
of its first publication in 1845, Edgar Allan Poes poem "The Raven" has been an element in American cultural influencing the publi...
In the media today, it is possible to frequently see pundits and politicians bemoaning the state of society in regards to morality...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Spenser's "Sonnet XXX". A mechanical analysis of the poem's devices is carried out,...
In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Alexie's poem, "At the Trial of Hamlet, Chicago, 1994". Several discussion questions ...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "Of Pruning and Production" by Isabella Southern. The poem's themes are gradually s...
An analysis of stanzas XIV and XV of this anonymous poem are consider in terms of their significance particularly regarding the re...
This essay focuses on the humor and Irony in Robert Frost's poems. The poems discussed are "Mending Wall," "Stopping by Woods on a...