YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Tony Harrisons Poetry
Essays 451 - 480
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...
celebration of Gods love, as well as a poet that addressed the purity of a love for a woman. In better understanding this we discu...
Strung on slender blades of grass; Or a spiders web...
The bright-eyed Mariner"(Coleridge, 2002). The sailor (or Mariner) says that though they started on calm enough seas, the wind p...
For example, in verse six, Whitman is ". . . Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms/strong and content I tra...
this book. Baca runs the gamut of emotions in this text that is true, but what the reader finds within Healing Earthquakes is onl...
own anguish, illustrating the poets "mastery of weaving spontaneously narrative, meditative, and descriptive elements into a seemi...
shipwreck (Anonymous, 2002; Junaidul, 2000). Wordsworth worked out his grief over this event in several poems, most notably the "E...
a big messy bowl of goop. In the same way, the placement of words, especially in the poem, can be said to be very important. There...
the Duchess to show pleasure. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Wheneer I passed her, but who passed without Much the same smile? Th...
unspoiled by either man or society? In "The Tiger," Blake appears to be pondering the marvels of the world while at the same time...
quite different in their presentation and their material or focus of material. But, at the same time the words of darkness apparen...
Good Play" the poem is far more simplistic in relationship to how children think and play as the poems narrator states, "We built ...
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...
but his folk heritage as well. "Hughes made the spirituals, blues, and jazz the bases of his poetic expression. Hughes wrote, he c...
strife. The folklore of the country became an important vehicle for recording that turmoil and strife and Yeats was a critical pl...
this poem is that of the universal anguish of being bound and imprisoned, no matter what the age. And, in a very real sense he is ...
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...
selected one thing (one person, one book, she is not specific) and close her attention to all others. However, the "Soul" is not...
in tone, but still harbors the undercurrent that there is reason to dread. The poem describes the "soote" (sweet) season of spring...
ethical judgements. While the students perhaps though that these old people are no longer young and can offer nothing of value to ...
we mortals bear perforce, although we suffer; for they are much stronger than we. But now I will teach you clearly, telling you th...
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...
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...
the last line which states the following: "Ah, what sagacity perished here!" (Dickinson 1-3, 11). This is a poem that is obviou...