such as form‚ tone and symbolismMargePiercy’s “A Work of Artifice‚” one can see the oppression of women and feministic problems in society. This is relevant because it is within society today and will stay that way if not changed. This poem gives readers a realization that ...
Thus, the “artifice of eternity” suggests that art both has the power to give humans a glimpse of eternity, and is itself a way to reach that eternity for themselves. The speaker wants to join them, in his own way, and his final vision of immortality is one that sums up the power...
The poem begins with a strange command: "Go and catch a falling star." This is only the first of a list of impossibilities that the speaker demands of his listener. The enchanted world the speaker begins to evoke in these first four lines is one that's both melancholy and a little si...
in his poem “Unter der Linden” (“Under the Linden Tree”), a love meeting that was mutual, intense, and passionate, in which the woman delights in uninhibitedly yielding to her lover. The poem is a challenge to the poetry ofhôhe minne, high courtly love, and its chaste eroticism....