If you think this is far fetched, then you might want to try reading Filthy Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Most Outrageous Sexual Puns. Even if you end up disagreeing with some of the book’s more outlandish assertions, it will nevertheless open the eyes to a more robust Elizabethan humor. It...
While scholars (and readers) are increasingly less apt to think of Dickinson as the lovelorn mouse of Victorian lore, they nevertheless seem to interpret her poetry that way, seemingly missing her irreverence and humor. And that brings me back to Gordon’s other comment concerning Grandmother ...
Readers can think of Moloch as something like "the Man" or "the power" (as in the phrase "Fight the Power"), a greedy, heartless, and deeply destructive entity that the poem's heroes tried and failed to escape. The soullessness of the American system, the poem argues, has crushed ...
What makes you think your light is so awesome? All it takes is for me to blink an eye and, hey presto, I've beaten you. But I don't want to waste time doing that, my eyes are for my lover only. The speaker is boasting now, putting the sun in its place with two perfectly con...
Analysis of Poem "Birches" by Robert Frost Summary and Analysis of the Poem "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost: Analysis and Interpretation Analysis of Poem 'Home Burial' by Robert Frost...
Mean mischief most. If you are such Lo! I am also such One must be master. try thy Arts I also will try mine For I percieve Thou hast Abundance which I claim as mine Urizen startled stood but not Long soon he cried Obey my voice young Demon I am God from Eternity to Eternity ...
Do you say, Venture not? If you leave me, you are lost? Do you say, I am already prepared—I am well-beaten and undenied—adhere to me? O public road! I say back, I am not afraid to leave you—yet I love you; You express me better than I can express myself; ...
Episode 68: It’s the Real Thing is not about a Coca Cola ad, which you would not even think about anyway if you are under the age of 55, but it is about hands, hand in hand, fingerprints on one’s hands, Ma Barker’s gang of outlaws during the Depression and . . . hands, ...
God you are the best by Asif Andalib God you have made beautiful nature. by Mukta Sawant God zooms into Me by John Tiong Chunghoo God! by Ramdas Bhandarkar God! by Ric S. Bastasa God! in my arms by Vizard Dhawan God! You're like, sooo banal... by Michael Shepherd ...
If the snake is a phallic or masculine symbol, the hole can be read as a yonic or feminine symbol. Notice that the wall is made of "earth," and the earth is often feminized in traditional myths—think Mother Earth, Gaia, and so on. The snake exiting and entering the hole, a.k.a...