A Dream Of Equal Rights A Dream of Equal Rights Rachel Speght was a writer near the beginning of the seventeenth century. This excerpt from A Dream holds some very powerful emotion about the role that women played as parts of society. The images in this poem continue to be relevant to the struggles that women face in gaining equal rights. This is why I have chosen to analyze thi

The Red Wheelbarrow Red Wheelbarrow In gazing over Williams Carlos William’s The Red Wheelbarrow I was dumbfounded. The poem lacks in symbolism as well as meaning, yet gives a series of images with no conclusion to its original statement. The Red Wheelbarrow poses a mysterious element to the average, everyday reader. At the end of the poem I was forced to

The Red Wheel Barrow The Weight of Words The first time a person reads “The Red Wheelbarrow” they feel weight behind the words. The poem is only one sentence, but it holds so much meaning that you can feel it in between the lines. It is so dense that reading it just once only begins to open the intricate symbols between the first word and the last. In only four short lines Williams

Analysis Of “To His Coy Mistress” OUTLINE Thesis Statement: Marvell uses three tactics in the three stanzas to convince his mistress to make love to him immediately. I. In the first stanza, the man tires to smooth talk the women. A. The man talks about having all the time in the world to spend together. B. The man talks about that he will love and praise her during this time before

Comfort Comfort Velour balancing on stout wooden legs Adopted from a residence that smelled like cookies Better known to me as Grandma Morton’s house It is superior to me, and huskier around the sides Its legs are built like a gymnasts’, strong and self-righteous Its casing is a sugary worn, weaker, warm, victorian, velour, tell, superior, sugary, strong, smoothne

Marines civilians are "slow" and "messy" Marines are "fast" and "ready" civilians are "me" Marines are "us" who is stranger' me or us' this is the summer before the Marines and I am sitting in my green chair I can smell the Lake; marsh gras rotting and hear the clanking of sailboat masts. pushups and screaming will come later, now I can only see my dogs, basking in

The Poetry Of Linda McCarriston Feeling Poetry Linda McCarriston shapes feelings of anger, rage, contempt and healing in her poetry through narration, metaphors with detailed sensory language as she unfolds the painful story of sexual abuse and family abuse at the hands of her alcoholic father. In an interview with Bill Moyers, Linda McCarriston states that “poetry allows the individ

The Prelude In Wordsworth’s autobiographical poem, The Prelude, the author presents a variety of contradictory emotions. In fact, he goes through a cycle of various moods in response to the different scenes and situations he encounters. Such transition of feeling are transmitted through the use of diction, imagery and tone. Wordsworth uses descriptive words that create different atm

Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe in his poem, ‘Annabelle Lee’ (869) uses various techniques to reveal his theme. It is largely his interest in examining a “spiritual passion that transcends human limits” which inspired Poe to write his poem (Johnson pg. 2). He does this by the use of persona, imagery, settings, rhythm/rhyme and words. In his poem, Poe uses persona to reveal his emotion

Kubla Khan The Search For An Understanding “Kubla Khan,” a poem by the English poet, critic, and philosopher Samuel Coleridge, is thought to be based on an opium-induced dream. Coleridge supposedly awoke from his drug-influenced sleep and began to compose what was to become a well-known piece. He was distracted; however, while jotting down the lines he had in mind by a knock at his d

The Road Is Not Taken Everyone is a traveler, choosing the roads to follow on the map of their continuous journey, life. There is never a straight path that leaves one with but a sole direction in which to head. In most poetry different people can choose certain characteristics that tend to appear in each piece of the Robert Frost’s work that they can relate to. In spite of the origina

The Road Not Taken I have spent the majority of my life in wonderful public schools in Chattanooga, Tennessee, but to my surprise, I am offered the opportunity of a lifetime, which is to attend the private school, Baylor School for grades seventh through twelfth. This is an opportunity that I cannot pass, so I dive into the experience without looking back. In life everyone comes to the

The Road Not Taken “The Road Not Taken” In Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken,” the speaker stands in the woods, considering a split in the road. Both ways are similarly worn, and equally overlaid with un-trodden leaves. The speaker chooses one, telling himself that he will take the other another day. Yet he knows it is unlikely that he will have the chance to do so. And he admits t

The Road Not Taken In Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken there are many things that can be interpreted several ways. This is my interpretation. Frost begins the poem by describing two roads diverging in a yellow wood. The two roads represent a decision. Do you travel one journey or the other' The yellow wood to me means that it is getting towards the autumn of the day. Meaning that th

A Letter 2 Santa A Letter To Santa Snowflakes softly falling Upon your window they play Your blankets snug around you, Into sleep you drift away. I bend to gently kiss you, when I see that on the floor there's a letter, neatly written I wonder who it's for. I quietly unfold it making sure you're still asleep, It's a Christmas list for Santa one my heart will always keep.

The Starry Night The Starry Night Anne Sexton poem The Starry Night reflects the Vincent von Gogh’s painting The Starry Night very well. If one was to do a little research into the lives of the writer and the artist they would find that they were kind of in the same path in life when they did these two works. Sexton mood in the poem matches the one in the painting. The two works ha

Percy Bysshe Shelley From the early 19th century, Percy Bysshe Shelley is recognized as one of the most influential writers of the Romantic Period whose work is characterized by his use of imagery and symbolism. Such examples can be found in his poems such as “Ode to the West Wind,” “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty,” and “Ozymandias.” In Shelley’s view, “the poet is a dreamer, a visionary”

The Sin Is In Living The Sin is in Living The title of the poem “Living in Sin,” alone makes the mind race. Naturally the thought that comes to mind is the idea of an unmarried person and premarital sex. Most often sin is related to being ungodly. However, the perception that should be gathered after reading this poem is that a title is just that, a title. The speakers wants the re

The Symbolism In “To His Coy Mistress“ The Symbolism in “To His Coy Mistress” We all have the choice either to take advantage of time or allow time to take advantage of us. This choice has been a struggle for everyone in some point in their lifetime. It has also been a topic in many literary pieces, for example this idea is presented in “To His Coy Mistress”, a poem by Andrew Marve

The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” Romanticism supports the idea that feeling and intuition are more valuable than reason. This belief opposed all the main ideas of the thoughts that ruled the literary world for years before. Between 1800 and 1860, Romanticism’s concepts were well shown through the works of authors and poets such as Hawthorne, Poe, and Lo

The Traveler And so the Traveler came to the Inn He had journeyed far Weary from twists and turns A soft sigh of contentment He knew the way The path began wide With many roads to choose A meadow outstretched to the horizon He knew the way Merriment marked carefree days Rhythmic branches sway A lazy brook flows He knew the way Suddenly the path widens Side by si

The World Means Nothing the world is nothing compared to you. you are the world to me. i am thankful for you and all that makes you be . the world is nothing to me. the state world, nothing, loving, thankful, state, sight, out, need, means, makes, make, far, everything, compared, am, alright,

Analysis Of Sharon Olds, “Leningrad Cemetery, Winter Of 1941” Analysis of Sharon Olds, “Leningrad Cemetery, Winter of 1941” In the poem, “Leningrad Cemetery, Winter of 1941,” Sharon Olds describes a cemetery during World War II. The 900-day siege on Leningrad began in September of 1941 and there were countless casualties to be buried during that winter. During the winter the groun

Beyond Oasis BEYOND OASIS I hate you for what you’ve reduced me too I hate you for what you’ve done to me I hate you for the way you make me feel I hate you for making me not feel wanted I hate you for making me feel not good enough I hate you for being all I want I hate you for being all I need I hate you for not being mine I hate you for not caring I hate you for not loving

Langston Hughes Theme for English B “Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes, is a poem about an assignment given to a student by his teacher to write a one-page paper about himself that captures who he is. The student then responds to this assignment by giving a brief biography, such as where he lives and his favorite things to do. The student compares himself with his white teacher, a

Ballad Of Birmingham Dudley Randall’s “Ballad of Birmingham” describes the events of one mother’s tragedy. This poem is a literary ballad. It tells the story of what happened in Birmingham. The “Ballad of Birmingham” refers to the day in 1963 when four black children were killed when the 16th street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed. This poem is a literary ballad. It ha

The Work Of A Great American Poet - Robert Lowell The work of a Great American poet- Robert Lowell Robert Lowell was considered the greatest American poet, because his style created an eminent change in American poetry according to Ernest Hilbert. His poem Lord Weary’s Castle won him his first Pulitzer Prize (Hilbert, 2). When Lowell expressed his opposing moral view on World War 2 in

Fredderick Douglas Frederick Douglas “Frederick Douglas” is a poem of a black American and his perspectives during a time when blacks were slaves and had no civil rights to a time when they had freedom. This poem was written by Robert Hayden. Several different perspectives are used by the author as he writes about a time when Black Americans experienced a change in American Histor

Theme For English B Theme for English B The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you-- Then, it will be true. I wonder if it's that simple' I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem. I went to school there, then Durham, then here to this college on the hill above Harlem. I am the only colored student in my

Theme For English B Theme for English B “Theme for English B” is a poem by Langston Hughes in which a black student in a predominantly white college takes a seemingly simple assignment as an opportunity to inspect the complicated issue of race relations in America. The assignment instructs: Go home and write A page tonight. And let that page come out of you— Then, it will be true