Lindsey Warren

This quote is a speech by Lady Macbeth, wife of Macbeth.  In this play, Lady Macbeth urges her husband to kill Duncan, the king of Scotland, so that they might usurp the throne.  In this...

Hopkins's view of the interplay between God and his creations are best described by the terms "inscape" and "instress."  Hopkins coined these terms himself.  Inscape describes the...

Lycidas is considered to be the archetypal pastoral elegy in English; as a result, it embodies many of the characteristics of the pastoral.  One of the major pastoral elements of the poem is...

In his poem "The Good Morrow," Donne's main vehicle to describe his vision of love is spatial; he uses many maps, globes, and locations in the poem, and they are his way of understanding the nature...

The verb tense changes to the conditional; the conditional is a tense that signifies "what if?".  We use the conditional to express hypothetical situations that we have not yet acted on or do...

"Three Years she Grew in Sun and Flower" is one of Wordsworth's Lucy poems, a group of poems that center on a girl who has passed away at a young age.  In this poem, Wordsworth imagines that a...

John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress is an extended allegory for a Christian's journey through the world to Heaven.  The protagonist is aptly named Christian, and along his journey he faces...

I think one of the governing images in this poem is the mirror in line 4.  The idea of a mirror is significant, as the entire purpose of the poem is to compare the little girl Frieda (Ted...

The passages of the story "Araby" that bear most relevance to the themes of light, vision, and beauty are those dealing with Mangan's sister.  To summarize the story's viewpoint, Mangan's...

Keats's "To Autumn" is a poem of description and rich imagery; much of the imagery looks to work against the stereotype of autumn as a time of withering and waning (moving toward winter).  As...

The Restoration period begins with the ending of Puritan rule and the restoration of the Stuart monarchy with the crowning of Charles II in 1660.  It is difficult to discern when, exactly, the...

The reason why this happens in "The Rape of the Lock" is because it is a mock epic.  "The Rape of the Lock" is a satire meant to criticize, through humor, the pettiness and frivolity of the...

This line comes from Keats's poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn," and it is part of a larger sentence that reads, "Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty--That is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know"...