YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Various Poets Appealing to the Ear
Essays 451 - 480
the dawns were / young. / I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to / sleep. / I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyram...
5-8). This juxtaposition of images connects the fever of illness to the fever of lust, which leads into the third stanza and its s...
the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...
Latino, classical and contemporary" (Bixby, 2000). His later work reveal a man "who has learned his craft from the European tradit...
of dealing with this new and frightening situation (Modernism, 2002). The modernist poets had a much more disillusioned worldview ...
in American culture, despite her pro-immigration sentiments, which were directly opposed to the anti-immigration public feeling of...
quite different in their presentation and their material or focus of material. But, at the same time the words of darkness apparen...
The writer examines the 13th century poem Milagros de Nuestra Senora (Miracles of Our Lady). The writer describes it as a series o...
gap through which women continued to receive and even some praise from men in regards to their abilities as writers (Reichhold). ...
of vivid imagery and haunting metaphor. There is also no punctuation, by design. According to literary critic Michael Greenstein...
shalt die"(Donne 812). In this poem, then, the literary devices used include personification, sonnet form, and irony. Irony is mo...
that the other poppy "I gave to you" (line 8). In the third stanza, Rosenberg writes that the "sandbags narrowed" (line 9). The t...
in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt...
would end without seeing "half my days thats due" (line 13). This suggests that Bradstreet is giving birth in middle age, which s...
were very interesting, people probably would not like them because they were different. As such Emily decided at that point that s...
those around them, as if they were now removed from all responsibility to those around them. She seems to call them dead before th...
therefore sees the differences between the two as being "artificial" - Dickinson was reclusive, and ridden with doubt, whereas Whi...
opens "Marriage" delivers a millenarian prophecy that identifies Christ, revolution and apocalypse and, in so doing, "satanizes" a...
is, of course, contrary to the view of the Christian belief system. In the Christian system of belief, it is the other way around....
This sentiment is further echoed in London, in which Blake contends that all people have their own sadness and anguish inside, and...
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...
Frost as Terrifying In first examining how and why Frost is considered terrifying we must first understand that Trilling did not...
five senses; "whatever the truth may be" (Ballis). In the "Proverbs from Hell", the Devil speaks wise statements in regards to t...
is mocking our hopes, and at the same time the teasing promise of Spring is false. With the coming of this Spring we can also envi...
Ancient Mariner is perhaps the greatest Romantic statement about the consequences of psychic separation of an isolated individual ...
is left out: herself. "Shine on me, sunshine Rain on me, rain...
was such time as it was appropriate to say goodbye and release them to adult life as defined by that society. In this poem, Sapp...
is in line with Christian ideology. In Dantes interpretation of events, Hell is reserved for the pagans, again a tribute...
savagery which slavery brought with it. Notice in this passage how the belles traits are given, then immediately juxtaposed with t...
and also provided insight into the character when she brazenly broke with firmly held tradition. For example, in Homers Iliad and ...