The Works Of Edwin Robinson And Paul Simon
.... Simon dealt with subjects that were close to their hearts. What they wrote about were their uncontrollable feelings. For Robinson the feeling was described, in lines 5, 6, 7, and 8, as ,"Minniver loved the days of old when swords were bright and steeds were prancing. The vision of a warrior bold would set him dancing..." Simon expressed his frustration in lines 10, 11, 12, and 13: "...The papers print his picture almost everywhere he goes, Richard Cory at the opera, Richard Cory at the show, And the rumor of his parties, and the orgies on his yacht, Oh, he surely must be happy with everything he's got.."
Although these tw .....
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Analysis Of Stephen Crane's "War Is Kind"
.... these two conflicts that he perhaps drew the conclusion that war was not a glorious thing and only the purveyor of the slaughter of young men.
His graphic description of a soldier shot from his mount in the first stanza shows his contempt for the acts of war.
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind
Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky
And the affrighted steed ran on alone,
Do not weep.
War is kind.
I found it especially disturbing, when the author addresses the grieving mate or lover that will be left behind and alone because of the death of her man. He does depict the typical Hollywood scene of a gallant sold .....
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Dickinson's Because I Could Not Stop For Death
.... none of us really believe we can or that we have the time. Most people die unexpectedly and are not ready to stop everything they have and want to do just to cease living. By riding with death, she fools herself into thinking that she is not dead. She has found immortality by riding along with death. Death does not come quickly. Rather, it arrives with a menacing slowness. She has ridden with him and is now reflecting upon her well-lived years. In this sense, we all ride alongside death as it certainly does follow us everywhere we go. The “horse’s head”(23) refers to the carriage in which they ride, and she now knows that .....
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Ozymandias
.... greatest king on earth.One immediate image is found in the second line, "trunkless legs.". One good comparison may be when the author equates the passions of the statue's frown, sneer, and wrinkled lip to the "lifeless things" remaining in the "desart." Another is when Shelley compares the "Works" of Ozymandias with "Nothing beside remains."
Ozymandias shows the reader that two things will mark the earth forever. First: the awesome power of mother nature is constant, everlasting and subject to no human works. Second: a mans actions are kept in the hearts of those he touches for eternity.
Nature's commanding presence in the po .....
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Critical Analysis Of Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
.... expresses his purpose for stopping. He wants to truly appreciate this moment.
“The darkest evening of the year” (8)
“The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake” (11)
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep” (14)
Most people would find woods that are quiet, dark and deep to be frightening. The positive appreciative attitude of this poem makes the woods “lovely (14)” and peaceful. He enjoys the quietness of “easy wind (11)” and falling snow. He even enjoys the darkness.
The theme of this poem is commonly expressed in the present time by the phrase “stopping to smell the roses” or in other words, noticing .....
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Tempting Fruits: A Comparative Analysis Of Alicante And This Is Just To Say
.... It was not offered to the persona during that time. It was not supposed to be eaten at that instant. The sexual relation in this poem was not obviously stated. It would seem that the poem was just stating a situation in which the persona ate cold, delicious plums placed in an icebox that were not supposed to be eaten because it was probably for breakfast. There was no warmth mentioned in the poem, only the how the plums were so cold.
Going deeper, the two poems are essentially different in the willingness of the woman participating in the sexual act. In Alicante, the woman is a willing participant. She even gave him an or .....
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Tony Harrison's Poetry And His Relationship With His Parents
.... had great love for him, however Harrison resented the way that he put him down, however the father was proud of the son but had no way of conveying this emotion. In later life Harrison did not think of his father as an illiterate wreck, who had no chance of glory. The father could not keep the same social ground as the son and this was what divided them, he could understand the beauty of literature. The fathers emotions on the lose of the mother were great and life could not continue in the Harrison household without her. The mother was in a no mans land when she was alive, she was the one that kept the bond between the poet and f .....
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Marking Time Versus Enduring In Gwendolyn Brook's "The Bean Eater's"
.... But keep on putting on their clothes
And putting things away. (5-8)
Brooks emphasizes how isolated the couple is by repeating "Two who." Then she emphasizes how routine their life is by reating"putting."
A pessimistic reading of this poem seems justified. The critic Harry B. Shaw reads the lines just quoted as perhaps desparing: "they are putting things awau as if winding down an operation and readying for withdrawl form activity" (80). However, Shaw observes, the word but also indicates the couple's determination to go living, a refusal to give up and let things go" (80). This dual meaning is at the heart of .....
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Comparing "We Wear The Mask" By Dunbar And "Richard Cory"
.... fashion. "And he was always quietly arrayed, and he was always human when he talked" (5-6). He was rich and had advantages over others, but he did not conduct himself in a "holier-than-thou" manner. "In fine, we thought that he was everything to make us wish that we were in his place." Everyone not only liked him, but wanted to be him. He was a role model for some, but unbeknownst to all, he had faults or problems just as them. These problems were not discussed in the poem. It doesn’t say anything about a marital spouse. Maybe being lonely and not being able to find anyone depressed him. Then, one night Richard Cory .....
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To Autumn By John Keats
.... lines in the first stanza move heavily and lazily to that most summary of the sounds; the distant buzzing of bees, “later flowers for the bees” (line 9). The low sibilants and thrice repeated the sound of “mm” of the last line bring hearing activity into play, along with the sight, taste and touch are mobilized by the stanza, so that all senses are united in the act of vigorous response. The rhythm mounts slowly through the single sentence of the stanza, accumulated impressions and a sense of energetic and continuing life.
In the second stanza, Keats populates the landscape and finds the character of old Autumn himself embod .....
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Poetry Analysis: “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death”
.... Irish forget the war. They would never be as happy as they were before they fought. Yeats’ then writes “Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds,” which was portraying that the Irish were not forced to fight, but it was a custom for a country to fight for there motherland. The pilot then recognizes that the war was just chaos in the sky, and begins to think about his life. He then realizes that he has not lead a very fulfilling life, and does not have a long future because death is probable.
This poem was a perfect illustration of Yeats’ use of symbolism. He clearly is a visionary poet, who uses .....
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Poetry Analysis Of "No Loser, No Weeper"
.... her "lover-boy." She explains her warning by stating that she hates to lose something "even a dime, I wish I was dead." We gather from that statement that losing something so small and worthless as a dime would make Maya wish she was dead is very serious and very threatening. This remark can be traced back to her background to when the trauma in her life made her think about suicide. Maya Angelo felt that if she did not speak that man who assaulted her would still be alive. She later solved that by not talking to anyone at all. She also explains how she lost a "doll once and cried for a week, the doll could open her eyes .....
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