… Many easily recognize this famous line by Robert Frost as a symbol of journey. "Sometimes when I'm standin' It seems like I walked for miles." Not so easily recognized but just as meaningful, this verse by R. Kelly from the song 'The Storm is Over…

… a Pre-Romantic literary period none         A wise man once said 'Artists are never before their time, they are the time and it is just the others who are behind.' This defines the career of Edgar Allan Poe, one the greatest and yet one…

… to flee from the memory of her brutal father, who died when she was ten years of age. She employs short stanzas that contain powerful imagery to convey to the reader the oppression she received from her father. At the conclusion of the poem, Plath…

… poems are an attempt to pass on a message, to give a moral, or in any case, to communicate in one way or another. An example of a writer doing this in a poem may be seen in An Old Man's Winter Night, by Robert Frost. Robert Frost (1874-1963) wrote…

… and affect reality; therefore the illusion can become the reality that one perceives. This means that, if one keeps on telling oneself, one is "this", eventually, one will become this. There are at least three specific times in Lord of the Flies…

… to flee from the memory of her brutal father, who died when she was ten years of age. She employs short stanzas that contain powerful imagery to convey to the reader the oppression she received from her father. At the conclusion of the poem, Plath…

… forms, he is able to create a mask of beauty and happiness. The pleasant imagery, characteristic of the pastoral, paints a thin layer of life and beauty over what really is a dark and violent poem. Beneath the disguise of beauty, irony creates an aura…

… story. Neddy and Lucinda Merril an older couple spent there warm summer Sunday at the Westerhazys. It is fairly obvious that the community is very wealthy and older. The cry of hangover was a whisper in the community, which can show that the…

… many different stages. The poem "Piano" by D.H. Lawrence is a complicated example of how a poet might think. The speaker in "Piano" is proud to be a full grown man, yet he loves remembering his happy childhood; his nostalgic attitude causes him to…

… is obsessed with death, a prerequisite for life" -Anne Sexton <Tab/>Throughout time artists have always been known as a bit eccentric. Because they are a thinking class, their minds expand…