George on "The Road Not Taken" by American poet, Robert Frost, is accurate in its capturing of the presence of 3 ages associated with the persona in the poem. A number of contradictions are included in this analysis, pertaining to the poem's time fr Continue Reading...
Lower Eastside Poem" - analysis The poetic turn is largely meant to provide audiences with the feeling that the speaker experiences an inner conflict and wants to project it onto listeners. It is practically as if he or she would want audiences to Continue Reading...
Poem Analysis Essay: “The Ecstasy” by John Donne John Donne is one of the celebrated poets, in the area of love. The poem “The Ecstasy” is one of the most renowned poems written by John Donne, which conveys the author’s Continue Reading...
The last stanza is the protagonist's projection of what he thinks the future will hold. He imagines himself relating this day with a sigh to another, and letting them know that when he came to the fork in the road he took the road less traveled, an Continue Reading...
Crazy Jane Talks to the Bishop" by WB Yeats This is one of the shortest poems by WB Yeats though has a lot of consistency with the other poems that he wrote before and even after this poem. He is known to be preoccupied by the conflicts and the fri Continue Reading...
Noiseless Patient Spider Read "A Noiseless Patient Spider." By Walt Whitman Then list the repeated words from both parts of the poem As indicated by the question, the poem is comprised of two fairly short paragraphs. There are two words that are Continue Reading...
Swammerdam Byatt in the novel Possession succeeds brilliantly in the monumental technical achievement of creating a deeply layered romance in which two twentieth century literary scholars, Roland Michell and Maud Bailey, become themselves romantical Continue Reading...
Love Song" By Joseph Brodsky Losip Aleksandrovich Brodsky, alias Joseph Brodsky, lived between 1940 and 1996. His place of birth was Leningrad, Russia (USSR), and he spent his last moments in the U.S.A. (Brooklyn, New York). He was a poet of Soviet- Continue Reading...
Papa's Waltz" The Play as Literature In an art form which imitates the lives of Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller, the star -- Kitty -- is a needy, insecure, and unstable actress. Putting the entire movie production at risk -- and her own reputatio Continue Reading...
Poetry Analysis of "And the Sun Still Dared to Shine" The Holocaust during World War II is one of the best documented and most horrendous periods of human existence. There have been other times in history where as many were senselessly killed in a s Continue Reading...
Love Poem John Frederick Nims and "Love Poem" John Frederick Nims was a poet who was both prolific (he published eight books of poetry (Famous Poets)) and well-regarded (earned such awards as the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Litera Continue Reading...
Ulysses is a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson that recounts King Ulysses' experiences during his journey back to Ithaca after fighting at Troy. Throughout the poem, Tennyson is able to develop Ulysses' character through a first-person introspective of t Continue Reading...
Proletarian Portrait" is a poem by William Carlos Williams that presents a brief snapshot of a working class woman, a proletarian. She is bogged down by two stigmas: class and gender. Because the reader has no other cues of the woman's identity, it Continue Reading...
And all that would remain would be their brothers to mourn them, inconsolable. The anxiety expressed by this poem is acutely felt and accurately represents the norms of the era. During this era, if someone was killed by someone else, the family of Continue Reading...
Emily Dickinson's poem 632 ("The Brain -- is wider than the sky -- ") is, in its own riddling way, a poem that grapples with the Christian religion, while at the same time being a poem about the poetic imagination itself. Dickinson's religious concer Continue Reading...
Authors Use Similar or Contrasting Elements of Fiction In his autobiographical work, "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow," Richard Wright describes a disturbing violent scene that was very common among Black communities in Southern United States. He cla Continue Reading...
Note in the above two lines the way that the coming "doom" is emphasized by word order and the placement of active verbs at the end of each line. Use is also made telling adjectives such as "lowering sky" to emphasize the apparent awesomeness of the Continue Reading...
Line 12 - Again, he notes that the land and country will change, but it will still remain close to what it is today. Line 13 - This line talks about creation and the birth of Earth, just as the poem celebrates creation and the birth of a building. Continue Reading...
Elizabeth Bishop's poem "One Art" is clearly about loss. She tells the reader that in the first line: "The art of losing isn't hard to master...." She might have called the poem "One Lesson" instead of "One Art," because on the surface she pretends t Continue Reading...
Benediction means Blessing english. The poem found " Les Fleurs du Mal " ( The flower evil ) 19th century french authors Charles Baudelaire. It poem. In analysis lexis choice words author lastly answer question flowers evil poem ?. Charles Baudela Continue Reading...
The vivid imagery of the first lines of the verses make almost anything that is not frozen or cold instantly welcome, and the image of "greasy Joan" keeling the pot (that's "cooling" the pot, to modern readers) is definitely amongst these things. Th Continue Reading...
Unfair Robert Francis was an American poet whose work is reminiscent of Robert Francis, his mentor. Francis' writing has often compared to other writers such as Frost, Emily Dickinson, and Henry David Thoreau. Although Francis's work has frequently Continue Reading...
Memory of Elena A Poem to Explain Grief Often a poem's meaning is apparent from only the title. This is not the case with "The Memory of Elena," a poem written by Carolyn Forche in 1981. At first, the title suggests a poetic recollection of Elena, Continue Reading...
This reading is obviously at odds with Poirier's, but cannot necessarily be considered wrong. However, a third reading based on Frost's own assessment of the poem, as given to his poet friend Ezra Pound, may shed some light on another possible inte Continue Reading...
" The stanza discusses how Bill's friends tried to "persuade" both themselves and him that they were not afraid and therefore showed this by comforting him with kisses. However, the following stanza shows how this statement is not entirely true. The Continue Reading...
Leadership, Values, And Beowulf The epic poem of Beowulf is a narrative a famous warrior who eventually becomes a powerful king. The story involves the exploits of a Scandinavian warrior-prince who comes from the land of the Geats, located in what i Continue Reading...
Ride Richard Wilbur's poem, "The Ride" recounts a dream that the narrator once had. In the poem, the narrator describes how he got through a blizzard with the help of a horse, whose existence he begins to question after he has arrived at his destin Continue Reading...
The Monster's suffering was the root of all his murders, and Victor the cause of all his pain. It was at this point that the monstrosity of Victor's character is understood better, making Victor the greater monster in the story. 2.) The poem "Line Continue Reading...
The words "Out "and Over" both convey a sense of loss and leaving, which enhances the meaning and intention of the poem as an exploration of grief. The final lines of the first stanza are very short and concise. They are almost brutal in their fina Continue Reading...
Road Not Taken The Poem "The Road Not Taken" is a first person narrative about an important decision in the life of the protagonists. The central theme that is explored throughout the poem is the question of individualism and the choices that an in Continue Reading...
Divorce Poem Before dawn I called for you, My poem, but you didn't come. I had woken up to the song Of the cardinal perched On the fence. You weren't at my desk in all the words that I wrote down and crossed. You weren't in my shoes nor in the Continue Reading...
Last Duchess' is a poem narrated by a widowed Duke as he looks at a portrait of his first wife. Through the Duke's voice it first appears that he is an evil character and should not marry another woman, less she be treated the same. With a more care Continue Reading...
Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Coleridge "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is much revered in Western poetical tradition, and it has survived despite the fickle reading audience's drastic turn towards the novel a Continue Reading...
Wild Geese Analysis Oliver's "Wild Geese" Mary Oliver is an American poet who explores an individual's relationship with nature through her work. Oliver's poetry has been described as "an excellent antidote for the excesses of civilization for too Continue Reading...
Growing Up A Quest for Knowledge and Answers with Plenty of Lessons Learned The two works of literature to be examined here are the short story "The Stolen Party" by Liliana Heker and the poem "Hanging Fire" by Audre Lorde. These pieces detail the Continue Reading...
Sonnet Analysis The Quality of Beauty, Love, and Sonnets Sir Thomas Wyatt's sonnet "How the Lover Perisheth in His Delight as the Fly in the Fire" describes how love, passion, and/or beauty can be all-consuming and self-destructive. The poet uses a Continue Reading...
It is interesting thus that many of the symbols that usually have a positive meaning in the literary tradition, such as the starts which are shining brightly in the sky or Margaret's golden hair which makes her resemble an angelic figure, have negat Continue Reading...
articles as well as an analysis of the three articles that have been chosen. There will also be a reflection on the connections that these three articles have towards the best practices in the social studies context and field in general. The three a Continue Reading...
Snyder "Lumber Strike" An Analysis of Gary Snyder's "Lumber Strike" Gary Snyder's "The Late Show & Lumber Strike of the Summer of Fifty-Four" is at once both a poem about an historical incident that shutdown production lines in the Northwest Lu Continue Reading...
Keats' to Autumn An Analysis of Keats' "To Autumn" John Keats' "To Autumn" is a kind of "companion piece" to another English poem, "Ode to Evening," by William Collins -- a poem very much in the mind of Keats when he seat to work on "Autumn." Inspi Continue Reading...
