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- 8701: An Analysis of Frost's The Road Not Taken
- ... to make a choice, it is new to them, somewhere they have never been and they tend to feel as though no one else had ever been there either. "I kept the first for another day!" The desire to travel down both paths is expressed and is not unusual, but "knowing how way leads on to way", the speaker of this poem realizes that the decision is not just a temporary ...
- 8702: The Poetry of John Keats
- ... to "set budding more", reliably offering it's bounty each successive year. It fills "all fruit with ripeness to the core" and fills the bees "clammy cells" with honey till they're "o'er-brimm'd" (Norton 1869). In this first stanza, the perfection of nature's purposes and the way in which Keats indulges in it's description leaves little doubt as to what he is trying to convey: that ...
- 8703: Analysis of Bryant's "Thanatopsis"
- ... and sleep the reader is left with some very thought provoking questions. The answers to these questions reassure some readers while confusing others. Sleep is a time of rest. It allows preparation for the next day or event, and by relating this definition to death Bryant gives new insight on one's fate after earthly existence. When identifying sleep with death Bryant gives death many characteristics of slumber. People generally wake ...
- 8704: Rich's "Living in Sin": An Analysis
- ... herself. Her constant expenditure of energy with no satisfactory results leads to disappointment. As she feels the "daylight coming " while lying beside her sleeping lover, the woman dreads the life she must face the next day. The coming of the daylight illuminates the harsh reality of her life. Both her surroundings and her lover ultimately fail her. Rather than escape her dismal life, the woman stubbornly continues to bear her burdens ...
- 8705: Poem: I Guess It Was Not In Jane's Mind
- Poem: I Guess It Was Not In Jane's Mind I guess it was not in Jane's mind, To cover her rosy behind. When I came in that day, Her lover ran away. He saw I had an axe to grind. I guess it was not in Jane's mind, To return my favors in kind. When I gave her my ring, She said ...
- 8706: Emily Dickenson And the Theme of Death
- ... he was taking her out on a date. "We paused before a House that seemed A Swelling of the Ground-- The Roof was scarcely visible-- Since then--'Tis Centuries--and yet Feels shorter than the Day I first surmised the Horses Heads Were toward Eternity--" The "House that seemed/ A swelling of the ground--" is obviously a coffin, or some other burial vessel. In the next stanza, the narrator tells us ...
- 8707: Beowulf: The Ultimate Hero
- ... places himself or herself at risk for another by performing great deeds of courage. Often in our society today, athletes are looked up to as heros. Brett Favre is an excellent example of a modern day hero. He is looked up to by many for his strength, leadership, and success. While on the football field, he is willing to risk his "life" by running the ball in when there is no ...
- 8708: A Critical Analysis of Tension's In Memorial A. H. H.
- ... whom Tennyson says, O'erlook'st the tumult for afar (127.19), he knows all is well (127.20). With the epilogue, the private, intellectual wars of In Memoriam conclude peacefully. Tennyson describes the wedding day of his sister and suggests that the child resulting from the union will be yet a closer link / Betwixt us and the crowning race...No longer half-akin to brute (127-28, 133). He reminds ...
- 8709: Frost's Narrow Individualism In Two Tramps In Mud Time
- ... with many others, seems to focus on "me" or "my", indicating the apparrent selfishness and arrogance of the narrator: "The blows that a life of self-control/Spares to strike for the common good/That day, giving a loose to my soul,/I spent on the unimportant wood." The narrator refers to releasing his suppressed anger not upon evils that threaten "the common good", but upon the "unimportant wood". The appparent ...
- 8710: Harry S. Truman
- ... regular school until he was eight, and by then he was wearing thick glasses to correct extreme nearsightedness. His poor eyesight did not interfere with his two interests, music and reading. He got up each day at 5 AM to practice the piano, and until he was 15, he went to the local music teacher twice a week. He read four or five histories or biographies a week and acquired an ...
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