YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Underlying Themes of Various Poems
Essays 991 - 1020
blank verse" (Traveler With a Trunk of Poetic Devices). It begins with the poem, "The Friend of the Fourth Decade," which is fram...
the Renaissance was actually a period in which practically every aspect of European life from art to religion would experience a r...
themes of love, this became the preferred style of World War I poets like Edward Thomas. One of his most poignant verses is "Febr...
who see; But microscopes are prudent in an emergency!" The poem whose first lines begin, "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers" is a ...
hobo before he was twenty, and even served a rotation in the Spanish-American War(Academy of Poets). This experience was...
good education, he was dismissed after just one year at the university because of his drinking and gambling (Edgar...Shadow). Back...
observing children at their studies. However, the second stanza offers a sharp contrast to this opening, as Yeats states that he d...
strife. The folklore of the country became an important vehicle for recording that turmoil and strife and Yeats was a critical pl...
to have stood, though free to fall" (Milton Book III). In this we see that Adam had the freedom to make a choice, and in that free...
certain that the reader has not missed the implication. Note that in the lines leading up to the "beauty of dissonance" th...
Im flesh" ((Komunyakaa 3-5). These lines illustrate that no matter how much time has passed since the Vietnam War this narrator ca...
be a lover and an optimist. But we begin to see images of tension in the fact that he describes the evening sky spread out as "a p...
keeping out all of the world that she does not desire to experience or see or meet. This is further emphasized by the third and fo...
the first two lines in each verse rhyme. The mood is one of absolute freedom, which stresses that the things that society values -...
part of them." The "roasting" of Louie is stated as being symbolic, but Dickson describes a quite vivid scene that leads the read...
of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...
refuge in the cafe. In this work the solitude, while sad, is also one of peacefulness. One might also say that it is a juxtaposit...
played slightly louder, i.e. piano. The rhythm of the piece would be uniform 4/4 time, but the overall effect of the rhythm would...
fulfills his part of the social bargain, which is to "give to young and old all that God has given him." Grendel who is describ...
"obey God; nor trust in him; nor confess that nothing is our own" (White 218). There is nothing, literally nothing, that the narra...
indeed, cannot, be overlooked. A rare taste of boundless joy is exemplified in Wild nights, wild nights. Perhaps written o...
since the Middle Ages as the models for literature at its grandest" (McDaniel 1-15pope.htm). It is a general consensus that Popes ...
heroic ideal of the young and noble combatant who appears to be destined to die at an early age on the battlefield. Achilleus is ...
imagery and emotional intensity alone, but by considering the social context that they grew out of and how they address it, a whol...
is connected (18 poems, 1934, 2004). This colored his religious orientation and is evident in the religious symbolism in "Before I...
Indeed, it is these characteristics which may account for Yeats continuing appeal to readers who dont normally pay much attention ...
happening with the sun and waves; a tiny, "bloody" sun arises at noon, and at night the water "burnt green, and blue and white" (C...
but his folk heritage as well. "Hughes made the spirituals, blues, and jazz the bases of his poetic expression. Hughes wrote, he c...
though they were in a war. Their life is perhaps not threatened, but they must struggle to become more honorable and noble as they...
from their own ideas concerning societal norms. Clifton writes, "they had begun to whisper/among themselves hesitant/ to be bran...