YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :William Blakes Poems
Essays 541 - 570
woods, peopled with the wild creatures of the forest, witches and all sort of magical folk, including Satan, himself. Tam stops to...
talk that he had "hastened his wifes death to write the poem" (Allen 3). There can be little doubt that the poem itself is obvi...
the title. The alliteration between "caffeinated" and "concrete" emphasizes the rolling rhythm of the line. The reference to caffe...
her sister as "buddies in wartime" and the stairwell is described as a "shell hole." Like soldiers, Olds states that she and her ...
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...
more likely that they will remember and personally value the days of their youth. Byron takes a strong stand in representing thi...
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...
remains rigid. This poem presents us with a rhyme on every line, further adding to the structural content. We note the first fe...
she is dead. This interpretation is substantiated in the next stanza when she describes hearing the mourners lift a box, which c...
point that poets are generally interested in consciousness and how the natural world might reveal it; personality is not the point...
is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Frost writes only about things that are close to his hea...
time she was thirty years old. In Victorian England, it was normal for girls to marry young, and Mary Ann was unusual in that she ...
obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...
this indicates, in this poem, Larkin perfectly catches the nature of a society that has no idea what awaits it. Previous battles w...
observing children at their studies. However, the second stanza offers a sharp contrast to this opening, as Yeats states that he d...
Syllable from Sound --" (2509-2510). This poem considers the origin of reality, and true to her Transcendentalist beliefs, spec...
yourself with your atom bomb" (line 5). Even though it is easy to agree with Ginsbergs anti-war sentiment -- the consensus even...
calling him to "say good-bye" (line 10 Acquainted with the Night). The overall effect of the poem is one of stark loneliness and a...
for someone who has received a serious emotional trauma, but also that this poem can be interpreted at in more than one way, at mo...
the "flow " of the work as well as a connecting device.) The third stanza says that they passed a schoolhouse, then fields of "g...
holding a moth that it has caught. The spider holds it up. The flower, the spider, and the moth together represent life and death....
noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...
do with something more important than materiality. The poem goes on to complete the first set of wings as follows: "With Thee O le...
In other words, to be a woman outside the accepted societal role for women is not to be a woman. As this indicates, any woman wh...
blackboard." The town, then, is basically little more than a school, but a school with grown-ups rather than kid students. ...
"The rats are underneath the piles," (Eliot 22) in combination with things such as "Money in furs. The boatman smiles" (Eliot 24) ...
and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden-paths In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jewelled...
has planted a bomb. He sees a woman in a yellow jacket go in, then a man in dark glasses comes out; then two men in jeans talk for...