Religion seen in “Sonnet, March 1791” by Tighe
In reading Tighe’s “Sonnet, March 1791,” I was intrigued and interested in the religious aspects found therein. The poem describes a lost mari...
Month: September 2015
Erin’s Key Passage Analysis on Mary Tighe’s “Sonnet, March 1791”
“Thou gentle stream of soft consoling peace O’erflow this heart, and all my tears shall cease, Cleanse my repenting soul at mercy’s shrine, And then, adorn her ...
Stephanie Runner’s Key Passage Analysis on Joanna Baillie’s “Thunder”
The traveler stands aghast and looks to heaven. / On the horizon’s verge thy lightning gleams, / And the first utterance of thy deep voice / Is heard in reveren...
Julia Mitchell’s Key Passage Analysis on Joanna Baillie’s “Song”.
The gliding fish that takes his play/ In shady nook of streamlet cool, / Thinks not how waters pass away, / And summer dries the pool. / The bird beneath his le...
Ashley White’s Key Passage Analysis of Mary Robinson’s “The Poet’s Garret”
“Stand quires of paper, white and beautiful!/Paper, by destiny ordain’d to be/ Scrawl’d o’er and blotted; dash’d, and scratch’d, and torn.” (page 636, lines 12-...
Emily Sharpe’s Key Passage Analysis on Robinson’s “The Negro Girl”
“The Tyrant WHITE MAN taught my mind/ The letter’d page to trace; / He taught me in the Soul to find/ No tint, as in the face: / He bade my reason blossom like ...
Shannon Anthony’s Key Passage Analysis of Mary Robinson’s “The Lascar”
“Yet the poor Indian wand’rer found, E’en where Religion smil’d around, That tears had little pow’r to speak When trembling on a sable cheek!” (Page 618, lines ...
Jennifer Hedgpeth’s Key Passage Analysis of Mary Robinson’s “The Lady of the Black Tower”
“Just now the Lady WOKE: — for she Had slept upon the lofty tow’r, And dreams of dreadful phantasie Had filled the lonely moon-light hour” While reading t...
Krista Robinson’s Key Passage Analysis of Mary Robinson’s “Stanzas Written after Successive Nights of Melancholy Dreams”
“If for one little morn of mirth, This breast must feel long nights of pain, Oh! Life, thy joys are nothing worth! Then let me sink to rest — AND NE...
Julia Wells Key Passage Analysis of Mary Robinson’s “London’s Summer Morning”
“On the pavement hot/The sooty chimney-boy, with dingy face/And tattered covering, shrilly bawls his trade,/Rousing the sleepy housemaid.” Mary Robinson,...