.... unusual and courageous method of killing Grendel demonstrates his bravery and physical strength. Before, Unferth had taunted Beowulf about his foolish bravery but when he and all the rest of the Geats saw that Beowulf's strength and power were worth boasting about, they were humbled. To prove Beowulf was powerful, he hung Grendel's arm, claw, and shoulders from the rafters of the meeting hall.”No Dane doubted The victory, for the proof, hanging high From the rafters where Beowulf had hung it, was the monster's Arm, claw and shoulder and all.”(line 485-488) Had Beowulf attacked Grendel with a sword, the events would not ha .....

.... But once again the sky turned blue And all the little children came out To play, with the sky so blue With its pretty picture of laughter Haiku I went on a walk And saw all that I can see From flowers to trees The grass was bright green And the flowers were bright yellow Everything was calm .....

.... also to the meaning of the poem. Another constraint of the sonnet is the length of the lines themselves. In a sonnet, the rythem is always iambic pentameter, which means that there must always be ten syllables per line, with each second syllable being stressed. Where the author breaks this pattern, it must obviously be for a good reason, when the author wants a certain word or syllable to be stressed. This in itself will naturally add tot he meaning of the poem. This, in addition, to the constraints of the number of lines, again causes the poem to have to be compressed, clarifying the poem's meaning, and thereby enhance i .....

.... (Barry 13) of returning when the poems reads "Oh, I kept the first for another day!" (line 13). He also knew that the possibilities of him actually returning to ever walk the path not chosen were very slim. He made a decision and "took the other" (line 6) path. It is obvious that these two roads in the woods symbolize paths in life and choices that people make in the journey of life itself. Decisions that people make, large or small, have an impact on their future. The speaker says that the path he choose "made all the difference" (line 20) in his life. Frost does not name specific decisions that are made and he does not tel .....

.... creates a lasting picture in the mind of the reader, of a man just beginning to reveal his inner “darkness”. As the second stanza begins, the speaker has reached the borderline of the quickly darkening woods, and it seems as though he has paused in his walking, as if to stop and ponder his own vacancy and loneliness. In lines five and six, Frost alludes to what may be the cause of the speaker’s inner vacancy: “The woods around it have it – it is theirs/All animals are smothered in their lairs” (lines 5-6). “It” stands for the spirit that in line seven Frost states the speaker is missing: “I am too abse .....

.... Heaney looks at the very human society functions, both in ancient and present times. This us summed up at the end of the poem; "who would connive in civilized outrage yet understand the exact and tribal, intimate revenge" (Stanza 11) Heaney here, writes that he does not only feel empathy and sympathy towards the "little Adulteress", but is also able to detach himself from his emotions and look at her death as a function of an ancient tribal system. The role which the bog woman played in her society is further elaborated to the role in which she would have played in contemporary society; "When your betraying sisters, .....

.... 35, 338) Sandburg was the first of a long line of poets and authors to use the words and phrases that he created in his poetry. Sandburg's style of writing is what changed the course of American poetry. Before Sandburg, most poetry and other literary works were considerably similar, along with dull and boring. He carried poetry to "new horizons." He, many times, wrote of reality, which was not always what people wanted to read, but it was reality and it had to be dealt with. This is how his writing became so known, because he dealt with what was real in our fantasy world. Sandburg was not afraid to express his true fe .....

.... one must take an enhanced inspection at certain elements that Hughes uses throughout the poem. In "Negro", Hughes gives the reader a compact visual exposé of the historical life of blacks. He does not tell the reader in detail about what has happened to blacks; therefore, Hughes allows these actual accounts to marinate in the mind of the reader. Instead of saying that he[Hughes] is a black man living in America, he simply says that "I am a Negro" (1 and 17). He does not create a mysterious aura about blacks, but leaves that up to the reader. Thinking, on the reader's behalf, plays a major part in understanding "Negro." T .....

.... William DISCovering). Wordsworth went to college at St. John's College in Cambridge and later wrote that the highlight of those years was his walking tour of France and Switzerland taken with his friend, Robert Jones (Watson 1421). He graduated in 1791 when the French revolution was in its third year, but, even though he had showed no prior interest, he quickly supported the Revolution's goals. After Wordsworth was forced to flee France he became involved with the studies of philosopher William Godwin; Godwin became one of the most inveterate influences on Wordsworth's thought ("Wordsworth, William" Compton's). In 1793 Words .....

.... nothing. The characters search for the meaning of self and, in essence, the meaning of life, but because their search is triggered by intoxication due to alchohol, the quest is doomed from the start. Throughout the quest, the characters believe themselves to be in a form of Purgatory when they are allegorically in Hell. They fail to realize this due to "the modern human condition which denies possibility but refuses to call it impossible" (Nelson 117). In "The Age of Anxiety", there are four characters of significance. Quant, the first to be introduced, addresses himself in a mirror, an action typical to a drunken man. He is .....