YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Walt Whitmans Song of Myself and Explication
Essays 181 - 210
misery" (lines 17-18). By the fourth stanza, the positive attitude of the first lines is completely gone, as the speaker compares ...
reader feels privy to the inner reflections of the narrative voice, as he engages in the task of "walking the line" (line 13) and ...
dew that falls at night as weeping for the demise of day, "For thou must die" (Herbert line 4). The second stanza focuses on the...
is Lou Platt, who was promoted to a position of leadership in 1992, after serving with the company for some 26 years (OToole, 2000...
the entire monologue with a sense of poetics, inviting one to study the words more deeply in search of a hidden meaning. This idea...
This essay discusses HP's new CEO, Meg Whitman. The paper comments on her values and their alignment with corporate values, her pa...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Alexie’s “How to Write the Great American Indian Novel”. An explication is carried ...
This essay is an explication of "Locked Ward: Newtown, Connecticut" by Rachel Loden. The writer bases this discussion on the assum...
value into ultimately empty goals; this is indicated by the comparison of Gatsbys quest for Daisy with the "American dream" itself...
In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at Great Expectations. Explications of quotes are used to give insights into themes. P...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at Arendt and Foucault. An explication is made which reconciles their basic philosophie...
gangrenous toe that her father had to have amputated and which, later, led directly to his death (127). The image of the "Frisco s...
is connected (18 poems, 1934, 2004). This colored his religious orientation and is evident in the religious symbolism in "Before I...
gives the words "cultured hell" added significance since, as a poet, McKay has mastered this classical form; yet, it is inherently...
turning, hungry, lone,/I looked in windows for the wealth/I could not hope to own (lines 5-8). Dickinson now clearly classifies he...
into the woods on such a cold, dark night. Is it merely to look at the scenery, or is there another more profound reason? In the...
gives the poem an intimate feel, as if the narrator is confessing youthful transgressions to a friend. "That summer in Culpepper, ...
stand around jostling, jockeying for place, small fights...
nature in which the numbers play a role. She writes, "I thought of dried leaves/drifting spate after spate/out of the forests/th...
and lust perhaps. She is an object to be worshipped and talked about, but not a woman who is given a voice. Throughout this poe...
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;...
so based on the dialogue of the narrator that it does not allow the woman a voice, and represents a narrator who is incredibly, an...
the simplicity of the life that he foresees for himself, as well as its self-sufficiency. The sense of solitude that Yeats create...
condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...
prior to Rossettis marriage to Lizzie, however, the poem does not address Lizzie as its subject. Rather, in this poem, Rossetti is...
pause, heads tilted as if trying to hear someone softly...
Many disagreed on issues of conversion, or how one becomes a practioner of the Jewish faith. For example, the Orthodox believers p...
sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...
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...