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viewing this painting this particular writer feels and thinks many things. There is a powerful boldness to the strokes, which are ...

He gains allies and waits for the right opportunity to enact justice. This also allows Homer to thoroughly document the wrongs per...

Road Not Taken" can be viewed as an evaluation of his decisions that the poet takes at midlife. Frost describes standing in a "ye...

hope. The mothers wise voice could be seen to be the voice of experience, conservative ways, of hope seasoned with hard times. The...

a whole. According to Hector, Paris has brought ruin on his people and has allowed his lust for women to drive him to insane actio...

role of the bees in Marvells poem "fits in with human experience, the reader most likely being familiar with the sharp pain of a b...

notice. That he soared toward the sun on wings made of wax only to have them melt, plummet him into the sea and ultimately drown ...

from their own ideas concerning societal norms. Clifton writes, "they had begun to whisper/among themselves hesitant/ to be bran...

condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...

have plans for Enkidu and so a Priestess tames Enkidu and convinces him to go with her to meet Gilgamesh in Uruk. Though Enkidu ha...

as an adventurous and noble man, and offers us the romance of a story. From this simple beginning we can readily assume that Be...

though they were in a war. Their life is perhaps not threatened, but they must struggle to become more honorable and noble as they...

I think of naming, far less telling, / every feat of that rugged man, Odysseus, / but here is something that he dared to do / at T...

the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...

of vivid imagery and haunting metaphor. There is also no punctuation, by design. According to literary critic Michael Greenstein...

a sufferer from mental illness, which may have been triggered at least in part by her fathers death during her childhood....

men would do, Phaethon does not listen. He is a youth and feels that he can take on anything in the world, or the heavens, and com...

of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...

poets position in this family situation -- my mothers hand opens in early grave and i hold it out like a good daughter." This imag...

in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...

in psalms (Liu 26). The repetition of the first line, which is subtly varied in the second stanza, is also psalm-like in that Hebr...

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...

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...

occurs near the end of the conflict. These two warriors fight over who has the greater claim to a captive woman who is also the d...

the complete submission and obedience of his wife to his will. She should concentrate all of her attention on him, or face dire c...

but his folk heritage as well. "Hughes made the spirituals, blues, and jazz the bases of his poetic expression. Hughes wrote, he c...

that is illustrating the power that was possessed by these women, but not the power that the men and women of the time thought the...

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 ...

prior to Rossettis marriage to Lizzie, however, the poem does not address Lizzie as its subject. Rather, in this poem, Rossetti is...