Many of his poems are a reflection of himself and his childhood. A good example is the poem, "Birches. ... Though he only published a few poems, he made his money teaching in Derry's Pinterton Academy. ... This poem was later included in the book, Mountain Interval. ... I feel there is a lot more heart put into this poem and all the poems written about his childhood. ...
In 1950, the decade in which this poem was written, only ten percent of the British people attended church. ... Larkin's use of language in this poem is particularly significant. ... "This is a poem of desire and commodity, or rather desire as a commodity" - Steve Clark. ... There is an element of the poem representing the falsity of love in the post-war consumerist society. ... Larkin's poems reflect a "never had it so good" era where mass consumerism have become the new religion. ...
"My last Duchess" is only one of many poems, written by Browning that is full of secrets, curiosity, and accusations. ... Young seems to love Browning's work, just not this particular poem. ... He also discusses the history of the poem, just like Lois Marchino. ... Priestly weighs the options of what exactly the poem means very carefully and lets you make your own decision. ... It is unclear whether or not he likes the poem. ...
Browning's Dramatic Monologue Readers favor Robert Browning's story poems in a form he perfected, the dramatic monologue (Kennedy 1169). ... Throughout the poem the Duke repetitively expresses his concern of other men fancying his wife. ... The Duke was especially jealous of Fra Pandolf, the man who painted the picture of the duchess in the poem. ... He directly makes comments to the envoy withdrawing persona from the poem. ... In this particular poem it is after the death of the Duchess. ...
Milton intended Paradise Lost to be an epic poem; this meant the poem had to meet specific requirements. One of these requirements was that there had to be a hero in the poem, following the epic style of Homer and Virgil. ... These examples of Satan's character show that Milton did not intend for Satan to be the hero of the poem. ...
The affirmations of the former poem were not written out of ignorance of human suffering, and the vituperations of the latter poem cannot be understood apart from the contumely which Pope suffered at the hands of his adversaries "Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Lord Hervey, John Dennis, Joseph Addison, and Lewis Theobald, to name a few. ...
Keats genuinely appreciates the story the urn is imparting and though it is silent, he believes its images can tell the tale more effectively than his poem is able to: "who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:" The events occur in a "leaf-fring'd" setting of "deities or men" in "mad pursuit" of reluctant "maidens", a passionate, heated courtship scene, paradoxically portrayed on a cold, motionless urn. ... Eliot refers to these lines as a "serious blemish on beautiful poem; and reason must be either that I fail to understand it, or that it is a statement whic...
Dante the Pilgrim was once a spiritual and holy man, but as of recently he had felt less than holy. Yet, he still wants to remain spiritual. To do this, Dante must recognize the true nature of his sin(s), renounce them, and pay penance for them by travelling though the nine levels of hell. Dante the...
Dante, spokesman in his Christian day, writes a guidebook for Hell and, in doing so, questions his own rocky past and his chances for Hell, for Heaven. Dante, a Christian poet living during a Christian age, sets out to write a poem about his fictionalized version of Hell. I believe Dante...
"Parallels between Kafka's life and "The Metamorphosis"" Many authors reflect an aspect of their life in their novels, poems, or theatre. Such is the case of Franz Kafka who in many of his books, reflects his attitude towards life, his parents and frustrations. These three characteristics may be...
She knocked me out, though she was the only one that I ever showed Allie's baseball mitt to, with all the poems written on it- (p.70) Holden also shows deep, grand love towards his only little sister Phoebe, whom he loves more than anyone. ...
