307 Results for Symbols and Symbolism

Frost's Symbolism Analyzed As we dig into the brain of one of life's greatest poets, we have to find the symbolism he uses in his stanzas. Frost has written many different symbolistic poems, but we will look at just four: "Nothing Gold Can Stay," "The Oven Bird," &quo...
Faith has always been part of humanity. It has given many people hope, strength and peace to battle the hardships they have endured in their lives. The lyrics, in the ballad Angel, dramatically express how the composer has triumphed over pain and sorrow because of his never-ending faith in God. He e...
"My Last Duchess" One of the greatest Victorian poets and masters of the dramatic monologue, Robert Browning was born in London on the seventh of May in 1812. His father was a clerk at the Bank of England and mostly educated Browning at home. He attended London University in 1828, but withd...
The Garden of Love Falling out of love can be described as one word: depressing. It's not hard coming back to reality after being swept off your feet by the most beautiful girl in the world. William Blake expressed this through his poem. Set in "The Garden of Love" in 1794, yo...
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REDWarm lips are red, blood drops are too, Abe Lincoln was shot, the nation was blue. In the poem" O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman, the color red is used as a symbol for many objects. Red symbolizes blood shed, life, happiness and it also associates with love, life, and vitality. Other thing...
Creating a Tone and Theme in "The Unknown Citizen" In W.H. Auden's "The Unknown Citizen," several key literary elements form the tone of the poem. The entire poem is almost satirical, with a humorous tone throughout. Due to the poet's irony and sarcasm, the humor is ...
Love Poem Analysis "Two souls, one heart" - French saying Love between a man and a woman is intimate and profound. It is sentiments that cannot be easily explain, yet it can be express through a mental and emotional thought such as Sandra Cisneros' poem, "Love Poem #1."...
In the beginning, God created heaven and earth. When He created Adam and Eve they sinned, this began the imperfect world today. This sin altered the world and represents the mutilated state portrayed in Adam Zagajewski's poem, Try to Praise the Mutilated World. One must learn to accept (or prai...
Since everyone knows that William Blake was Virgina Woolf's son, it should come as no suprise that they share a postmodern sensibility. In Blake's poem, "The Sick Rose," the rose is a symbol for a tree. The worm which infects the rose symbolizes a plague of locusts that comes to kill the rose/tree...
Critical/Analytical Response to poem: "Because I could not stop for death-" by Emily Dickinson Poems Theme Emily Dickinson created an unusual theme. The poem portrayed a person transcending with leaving memories behind. The title would suggest that this poem is tragic or grievo...
In order to discover the wonders of the ocean, one must dive deep into the vast, blue waters of the sea. Poet Dreamer urges readers to dive into these water. By combining metaphor, imagery, and symbolism, the poet portrays that like the wondrous ocean, everyone has a secret world inside them. Dreame...
"The Eagle" By: Lord Alfred Tennyson The poem "The Eagle" by Tennyson, is an example of lyric poem. The expressing of celebration addressed to the eagle makes the poem an ode. The stanza patterns in this poem are called a tercet. In the iambic rhythm there are six tetrametric l...
\"The Echoing Green\" by William Blake is taken from the book Songs of Innocence. It is a beautiful poem bringing forth the reality of life. Time goes on and youth grows old. All the events are repeated over and over again. It is life\'s circulation. Ⅰ.The knowledge coming from information In thi...
Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst Massachusetts, in 1830 and died in 1886. A shy, reclusive person, Dickinson has come to be known as one of America's greatest poets. Even though only seven of Dickinson's poems were published in her lifetime, her poetry was published after her death an...
William Blake (1757-1827) William Blake wrote during the Romantic period which was a span between 1785 - 1830. Other great writers during this time were Mary Wollstonecraft, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and others. Some said that the Romantic period was the fairy tale way of writing through s...
Robert Frost writes of ordinary life situations in his work, these basic situations are used in to portray a deeper meaning. The simple or ordinary aspects of life that Frost illustrates in his poetry are associated with the extraordinary features of human life. Frost's poetry makes this connec...
'Eternity' is a term that brings to life the timeless infinity of both marriage and death. Marriage symbolizes the depth of eternal love and death symbolizes the longevity of eternal rest. The union of these two seemingly opposite realities define the poetic climax of Emily Dickinson&apos...
Zemene Seol Unseen, Just Foreseen Word count: 1227 In the three stanzas of Tomorrow, Tomorrow, by the great African-American poet Langston Hughes is portrayed a foreign travel enthusiast's rehearsal of what would be an effective mendacity. A reader in the habi...
ANNE SEXTON Her Kind This is a poem that is filled with imagery that the author uses to identify the reader with what I feel were personal stresses in her own life. In class we talked about Anne as an emotionally challenged women who couldn't cope with every day life. The Title of th...
Rhyme Scheme, Symbolism and Tone in Robert Frost's "Acquainted with the Night"Robert Frost is known as the most famous twentieth-century, New England poet. The sonnet "Acquainted with the Night" has drawn more commentary and analysis than any other poems. The extraordinary rhythmical arrangement a...
Tiger and Lamb We often see many authors that write different poems with similar themes. Believing in something very strongly and passionately, these authors tend reflect this nature in their work. They reflect personal experience, either theirs or others'. In the poems The Lamb and The T...
As \"Dover Beach\" by Matthew Arnold begins, the speaker is standing upon the shore near the white cliffs of Dover, England, while viewing the English Channel and the French shore on the other side. The calm night as described in the first stanza is misleading as what seems to be a peaceful and tra...
Giants in Time" 1.) What is the difference between imaginary and imaginative? In literature, imaginary means unreal and imaginative means what the writer produces. In the later of the reading Frye referred that "what a man really believes is what his actions show that...
The poem I chose was "The Eagle" by Lord Alfred Tennyson. Lord Alfred Tennyson was an English poet, one of the great representative figures of the Victorian Age. Tennyson was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, on August 6, 1809. His writing encompasses many poetic styles and includes some of...
Oh, my love is like a red, red rose. thats newly sprung in june. my love is like a melody thats sweetly played in tune. So far art thou, my bonny lass, so deep in love am I. And I will love thee still, my dear until the sea gangs dry. Till a seas gang dry my dear and the rocks melt with the sun, an...