YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Walt Whitmans Song of Myself and Explication
Essays 211 - 240
in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...
than they preserve" (Killam and Rowe). The poem "Homecoming" which is among his collection which show the corruptive greed ...
hope. The mothers wise voice could be seen to be the voice of experience, conservative ways, of hope seasoned with hard times. The...
-- "The Count your Masters known munificence/ Is ample warrant that no just preference/ Of mine for dowry will be disallowed" (lin...
"temperate" is not exactly a great complement. Therefore, Shakespeare adds to this in the next line stating that "rough" winds can...
stresses and also spondaic emphasis on the phrase "this years snow." Still other lines mix and match rhythm patterns so that the o...
A five page fictitious conversation among these three authors is developed and considers the similarities and differences of such ...
May new buds and flowers shall bring; (I)/ Ah! why has happiness--no second Spring? (I)" (Smith 1-14). As we can note, at least...
reflect an attitude of equality instead of segregation between blacks and whites; however, inasmuch as much as humanity has succes...
the trees brings back an plethora of memories for the poet, images of himself as a "swinger of birches," when life was not so comp...
renewal [is] not exercised" (Harding 42). Blake wrote, "Earth raisd up her head / From the darkness dread and drear. / Her light...
few shots of a good looking, blue-eyed young man. There is the glare of the sunlight which is rather obvious. One shot shows this ...
say in their prose pieces. "Of Chambers as the Cedars/Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof/The Gambrels of the S...
of art that lives forever and offers youth and vitality and passion. One critic indicates that, "This contrasts the sensual world...
the soul from the confines of the earth and into the far reaches of the heavens. In its spiritual form the soul is no longer conf...
alliterative verse in the fourteenth century (Middle English Lyrics). However, beyond technical aspects of English poetry during...
action that the people indulged in completely by their own volition, which puts a new slant on the described behavior; and, also c...
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...
latest goldfish gamely swims" (Gwynn). The ink will poison the fish, but the worst part of it is that this is only the "latest" in...
spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next fou...
means, in turn, there "are no Prisons, no Officers to compel Obedience, or inflict Punishment. Hence they generally study Oratory,...
un-natural cause is this new concept of God (Nietzsche). This God is a "God who demands - in place of a God who helps, who devises...
trees carry with them the promise of spring and new growth, new beginnings, which is evocative of the fact that the two children s...
on charming it much as he believes he has charmed most of the towns women, and confining Delia to the home for years is comparable...
This is not to say that the influence of European authors was not discernible in the work of these authors. For example, Melvill...
As this suggests, this psychologically complex poem portrays a pivotal exchange between two people who are trying to cope with los...
is an odd remark. She picks up on it and asks if hes referring to her as being vacuous and he says no, "it is I who am inane" (Eli...
of four lines known as quatrains, and each stanza comprised of alternating iambs or an unstressed syllable immediately followed by...
as being different sides of the authors true character and argues that in "literature as in life, we must choose" (Brans 437). T...
half=way through the stanza, Angelou prefaces giving her reaction with the line "I say," which is followed by her lyrical descript...