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- 4821: Analysis of “The Road Not Taken” By Robert Frost
- ... believe in themselves and stand up for what they believe in. We are all individual and unique in our own special ways, and we all have the power to make good decisions and be in control of our lives and our fate. At the end of the poem, the speaker realizes that at the end of his life, “somewhere ages and ages hence”, he will have regrets about not going back ...
- 4822: The Second Coming: Analysis
- ... by the strong obedience to God. In another interpretation, Yeats may be saying that the falcon represents a war and the falconer represents the military power that has unleashed it to the point where all control is lost and faith in God has been abandoned. The next line of the poem explains this process; “things fall apart” indicates that the runaway war has sparked disorder in the public. “The centre cannot ...
- 4823: Analysis of Plath's "Daddy"
- ... describes her feelings of oppression from her childhood and conjures the struggle many women face in a male-dominated society. The conflict of this poem is male authority versus the right of a female to control her own life and be free of male domination. Plath’s conflicts begin with her father and continue into the relationship between her and her husband. This conflict is examined in lines 71-80 of ...
- 4824: Marking Time Versus Enduring in Gwendolyn Brook's "The Bean Eater's"
- ... living, a refusal to give up and let things go" (80). This dual meaning is at the heart of Brook's poem: the old people live a meager existence, yes, but their will, their self-control, and their connection with another person--their essential humanity--are unharmed. The truly positive nature of the poem is revealed in the last stanza. In Brook's word, the old couple remember with some "twinges ...
- 4825: The Judgments And Moral Lessons Of Robert Browning’s Poetry
- ... as complete opposition to the quality of humility. Instead of thinking as the duke does, one should think of others first and be glad in their own happiness. The desire for worldly possessions should not control one’s life. The distressed Andrea of “Andrea del Sarto” reminds one of many beneficial truths. The love of another person fails to bring fulfillment to a person’s soul, as Andrea does not acknowledge ...
- 4826: The Poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and John Greenleaf Whittier
- ... Smith was most likely feared that his wife and children would be sold and worked incessantly to purchase their freedom and have them live together as a family should. Many slaves did not have any control over their children’s lives: “He is not hers, although her blood is coursing through her veins” (“The Slave Mother”). The pain of separation from a loved one was often too much to bear. Many ...
- 4827: Ode to the West Wind Essay
- ... being able to "suddenly" have an effect on the ocean and seas. He then describes these bodies of water as "growing grey with fear" which shows the destructiveness of the wind and its ability to control its surroundings. He speaks of the bodies of water as being brought to a "tremble" in fear of the winds power. He ends this section of the poem with another apostrophe. He speaks to the ...
- 4828: Perfectly Insane - Gulliver's Travels
- ... result would be someone intelligent in a broad range of fields, not too specialized in any one thing that the rest is overlooked. Someone with love and compassion, and lasting commitment, that is able to control primitive desires. People with rational almost that of the Houyhnhnms, but not as irrational as present day Yahoos. People like this forming a society that rewards for good, and punishes for evil, where there is ...
- 4829: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
- ... concern about it too much. It is real hard. Based on the human nature, feeling sad for the death is so common. The natural affection just appears directly, and it is cruel and impossible to control or to hide the emotions
- 4830: In To Kill A Mockingbird: Scout
- ... street, Atticus kills the dog with one shot. "Jem became vaguely articulate, ‘you see him, Scout? You see him just stand there? All of a sudden he just relaxed all over, it looked like that gun was part of him …and he did it so quick, like…I hafta to aim for ten minutes fore I can hit something,…’"(Lee 97). That is when they realize that their father is a ...
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