Shadows Black is white and white is black in the me you will never know. Words are mysteries you define. Years mask mistakes like mounds of snow. Up is down and down is up again in my clever game of charades. And with you I can forget ...

In the poem "Swan and Shadow," John Hollander makes use of several visual images in order to emphasize the beauty and meaning of his poem. Some of the phrases seem broken, such as, "No of water Or something across Breaking up No Being regathered," but these phrases seem to imitat...

Only Love In the bleakness of this grief, longer, darker than any night, exhausted by this endless fight and frozen, able only to weep with the inexorable tide of disablement, of anger, pain and fear. Turn now, and look behind for what has been there all the time. Only love can pu...

To Someone Special: I sit thinking of you, as I pen these words. Hoping that I say the right things, at the right times. Don't want I come on too strong, or rush you. Let's take our time, to perfect this ............ ...........Our RELATIONSHIP. Not a day goes by without the u...

The wedding date is set, the values are made, and the rings are picked out, for celebration that will bring two people together for life. It is a step that two people make and could bring years of happiness or years of sadness. "Till death do you part" are the last words that are sa...

This passage from Emma initiates the conclusion to the novel. As the conversation between Mr. Knightly and Emma unfolds both misinterpret the intentions of the other. Mr. Knightly believes that Emma grieves over the loss of Frank Churchill while Emma fears that Mr. Knightly intends to express his...