YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
Essays 241 - 270
In three pages an explication of William Blake's 1789 poem 'The Angel' is presented in three pages. There are no other sources li...
oppression could flourish" (Langston Hughes 1902) - has a hard time realizing how religion serves any other purpose than to latch ...
abnegates any evil whatsoever. Blake seems to believe, as one can readily determine from a study of his other works, that evil is...
the title is clearly a powerful statement and use of words. Another critic dissects Dickinsons poem and offers the following: "The...
shivering in the gale/ The bark unfurls her snowy sail/ And whistling oer the bending mast/Loud sings n high the freshning blast" ...
people pity the dead, not Death itself. In the end Donnes message is that there is little reason to fear death and that in the end...
the very truth of human nature -- which is why they are often painful to accept. Indeed, his work represents all that is the huma...
Company to the top of the Nielsen ratings. Its premise was simple - Jack Tripper needed a cheap place to live while completing hi...
the euphemism waltz to indicate the routine beatings which occurred. Lastly, in Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden, another t...
be a Bride --/ So late a Dowerless Girl -" (Dickinson 2-3). This indicates that she has nothing to offer, that she is a poor woman...
his argument to the priestess who taught him mysteries in his youth, Diotima of Mantinea. Attributing his words to Diotima, Socrat...
is characteristic of Plaths works. "Back of the Connecticut, the river-level Flats of Hadley...
With the plain-speaking simplicity that was his trademark, Whitman constructed this poem in such a rhythmic way that it could be s...
In five pages these 1921 oil paintings are contrasted and compared using such criteria as style and composition as evaluated by th...
democrat and one-time peanut farmer Jimmy Carter became president, there were significant differences in attitudes among the older...
present Beowulf as a young hero, who is called upon by his fathers old friend King Hrothgar of Geatland, to defend his subjects ag...
safe place: the dead are "untouched" beneath their rafters of satin and roofs of stone (Dickinson). They wait motionless for the r...
likens the process of death to an innocuous fly buzzing. In other words, instead of being a mysterious occurrence, it is a proces...
misery" (lines 17-18). By the fourth stanza, the positive attitude of the first lines is completely gone, as the speaker compares ...
other words, Wordsworth bemoans the materialistic nature of his society, which is a feature of Western society that continues into...
Song is an aging man who longs for love, particularly courtly love that fits with his expectations of both women and love....
States when she was seven. Her poetry then is an attempt to reconcile the extremes that come from living in two cultures simultane...
to the United States when she was seven. Her poetry then is an attempt to reconcile the extremes that come from living in two cult...
a figurative level, the poet is inviting the reader to take his perspective, to figuratively "walk in his shoes" and, thereby, lea...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "A Subaltern's Love Song" by Betjeman. Symbols of post-colonial significance are de...
and comments that the young man was "smart" to "slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay" (lines 9-10). Housman the...
A 4 page essay that contrasts and compares these 2 poems. While William Blake, the eighteenth century British poet, and Emily Dick...
"sex-obsessed," but Frieda argues that Lawrence was "simply pro-human" and that because D.H. Lawrence wrote what he did, "...the y...
obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...
In three pages this paper provides a history and general overview of this landmark case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court as prese...