Andrea del Sarto But do not let us quarrel any more, No, my Lucrezia; bear with me for once: Sit down and all shall happen as you wish. You turn your face, but does it bring your heart? I’ll work… Read More ›
Literature
Analysis of Robert Browning’s Fra Lippo Lippi
Fra Lippo Lippi [Florentine painter, 1412-69] I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave! You need not clap your torches to my face. Zooks, what’s to blame? you think you see a monk! What, ’tis past midnight, and you go the… Read More ›
Analysis of Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess
My Last Duchess FERRARA That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now; Fra Pandolf’s hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands. Will’t please you sit… Read More ›
Analysis of W. B. Yeats’s The Second Coming
One of the most famous poems in the English language, The Second Coming is the definitive vision of the Yeatsian apocalypse. It incorporates and intensifies ideas of cyclic creation and destruction already articulated in poems like “The Magi,” “On Woman,”… Read More ›
Analysis of W. B. Yeats’s Easter 1916
The Easter Rising of 1916 catalyzed the final phase of the Irish struggle for independence and forced Yeats to recant the stinging assessment of “September 1913” that “Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone, / It’s with O’Leary in the grave.” In… Read More ›
Analysis of Robert Frost’s Snow
Snow (1916) The three stood listening to a fresh access Of wind that caught against the house a moment, Gulped snow, and then blew free again—the Coles Dressed, but dishevelled from some hours of sleep, Meserve belittled in the great… Read More ›
Analysis of Robert Frost’s Skeptic
The speaker moves between two positions: belief and disbelief. He addresses the “Far star” that “tickles” his “sensitive plate” and whose heat is so intense that it can fry black atoms white. He refers to his body as his armor… Read More ›
Analysis of Robert Frost’s A Servant to Servants
In this dramatic monologue, a woman “servant” addresses a man who camps on the land she and her husband, Len, own. Several commentators have noted the similarity of the title to “and thou shalt be a servant of servants,” Noah’s… Read More ›
Analysis of Robert Frost’s A Serious Step Lightly Taken
A Serious Step Lightly Taken (1942) Between two burrs on the map Was a hollow-headed snake. The burrs were hills, the snake was a stream, And the hollow7 head was a lake. And the dot in front of a name… Read More ›
Analysis of Robert Frost’s The Self-Seeker
The Self-Seeker (1914) “Willis, I didn’t want you here to-day: The lawyer’s coming for the company. I’m going to sell my soul, or, rather, feet. Five hundred dollars for the pair, you know.” “With you the feet have nearly been… Read More ›
Analysis of Robert Frost’s A Roadside Stand
“A Roadside Stand” was first published in the June 1936 issue of the Atlantic Monthly before being collected in A Further Range with the subtitle “On Being Put out of Our Misery.” Frost at one time considered the title “Euthanasia”… Read More ›
Analysis of Robert Frost’s ‘Out, Out—’
‘Out, Out—’ (1916) The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood, Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it. And from there those that lifted eyes could count Five mountain… Read More ›
Analysis of Robert Frost’s One More Brevity
One More Brevity (1962) I opened the door so my last look Should be taken outside a house and book. Before I gave up seeing and slept, I said I would see how Sirius kept His watchdog eye on what… Read More ›
Analysis of Robert Frost’s On a Tree Fallen across the Road
On a Tree Fallen across the Road (1923) The tree the tempest with a crash of wood Throws down in front of us is not bar Our passage to our journey’s end for good, But just to ask us who… Read More ›
Analysis of Robert Frost’s An Old Man’s Winter Night
An Old Man’s Winter Night (1916) All out of doors looked darkly in at him Through the thin frost, almost in separate stars, That gathers on the pane in empty rooms. What kept his eyes from giving back the gaze… Read More ›
Analysis of Robert Frost’s November
November (1942) We saw leaves go to glory, Then almost migratory Go part way down the lane, And then to end the story Get beaten down and pasted In one wild day of rain. We heard ” ‘Tis Over” roaring. A… Read More ›
Analysis of Robert Frost’s Not Quite Social
Not Quite Social (1936) Some of you will be glad I did what I did, And the rest won’t want to punish me too severely For finding a thing to do that though not forbid Yet wasn’t enjoined and wasn’t… Read More ›
Analysis of Robert Frost’s Neither Out Far nor In Deep
Neither Out Far nor In Deep (1936) The people along the sand All turn and look one way. They turn their back on the land. They look at the sea all day. As long as it takes to pass A… Read More ›
Analysis of Robert Frost’s The Need of Being Versed in Country Things
The Need of Being Versed in Country Things (1923) The house had gone to bring again To the midnight sky a sunset glow. Now the chimney was all of the house that stood, Like a pistil after the petals go…. Read More ›
Analysis of Robert Frost’s My Butterfly: An Elegy
My Butterfly (1913) Thine emulous fond flowers are dead, too, And the daft sun-assaulter, he That frighted thee so oft, is fled or dead: Save only me (Nor is it sad to thee!) Save only me There is none left… Read More ›
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