1. greeks and their impact on us
When one first reads this stanza, they might think that it's crazy that a "millionaire" can't use "money", "their wife" runs around like a fairy woman from Gaelic mythology, or a "heart" being of "stone". ... And I think of the period I'm going to write about and I try to see which of the incidents in which greed, say it's green, which of these that happened to me during that period will most demonstrate that particular condition(Neubauer). ...
Dickinson often drew on the Bible, classical mythology, and Shakespeare for allusions and references. ... For example, when I read her novel Sula, I had a hard time keeping all the characters straight, especially since it jumped from one time period to the next. ...
However, children`s innocence, adulthood`s corruption and nature`s beauty are also themes, the poets from the Romantic period are interested in. ... In the second stanza of The Tyger we can find a reference to the Greek mythology and more specifically the myth of Prometheus who gave the fair to the people (Moore). ...