Articles written by Savannah Schroll Guz

Angelou's free verse poem, filled with visceral imagery, warns of men's charm, women's desire, and the danger of succumbing to both.

Jan 31, 2011 - Savannah Schroll Guz

In this 10-stanza poem, Sexton reveals her disdain for unrealistic expectations set by fairytales.

Jan 29, 2011 - Savannah Schroll Guz

This work is an example of confessional poetry and reveals Plath's repeated and brazen attempts at self annihilation.

Jan 27, 2011 - Savannah Schroll Guz

This 8-line poem deals with, on a metaphorical level, the painful shock brought by truth and may relate directly to the poet's own expectations.

Jan 26, 2011 - Savannah Schroll Guz

This three-stanza poem, composed around 1862, is arguably autobiographical, revealing Dickinson's desire for privacy and preference for quiet seclusion.

Jan 25, 2011 - Savannah Schroll Guz

Canadian Printmaker Naoko Matsubara came of age during Modernism's zenith and employs the iconic principles of abstraction in her current oeuvre.

Apr 13, 2009 - Savannah Schroll Guz

Written around 1861, this more brazen example of Dickinson's verse has incited debate over its subject since its publication in the early 1890s.

Mar 2, 2009 - Savannah Schroll Guz

Published in 1955, O'Connor's short story is studded with symbolic clues that foreshadow its grisly ending.

Feb 27, 2009 - Savannah Schroll Guz

Mary Jo Salter's 1984 poem uses strategically chosen adjectives and nouns to reveal the country's nearly invisible historical and economic divide.

Feb 26, 2009 - Savannah Schroll Guz

In this c.1862 poem, Dickinson uses metaphors to communicate the physiological effects of ebbing emotion.

Feb 24, 2009 - Savannah Schroll Guz

Lawrence's three-quatrain lyric reveals the insidious effect of memory and the emotion that attends it.

Feb 24, 2009 - Savannah Schroll Guz

"Richard Cory" seduces the reader with its perfectly rhymed verses but ultimately shocks with its pointed concluding lesson.

Feb 23, 2009 - Savannah Schroll Guz

Written on O'Connor's deathbed, "Parker's Back" is reputed to be one of her most deeply symbolic, religiously engaged, and emotionally complex short stories.

Feb 20, 2009 - Savannah Schroll Guz

In difficult economic times, crockpot cooking is one of the most cost-effective and simple methods of preparing nutritious meals that yield multiple servings.

Feb 19, 2009 - Savannah Schroll Guz

For its alleged representation of abuse, Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz" frequently sparks strong emotional debate among contemporary students and academicians.

Feb 17, 2009 - Savannah Schroll Guz

Dickinson's poem is a self-effacing metaphor acknowledging the speaker's role in her own disillusionment.

Feb 17, 2009 - Savannah Schroll Guz

The speaker in "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" details the gentility of an anthropomorphized Death, who takes her on a carriage ride through life and beyond.

Feb 16, 2009 - Savannah Schroll Guz

In this 1966 poem, Hayden depicts a father's beneficent acts, which, at the time, went unacknowledged.

Feb 16, 2009 - Savannah Schroll Guz

Poet, illustrator, and anthropologist Rose communicates the magnitude of her pain at seeing a museum's monetary valuation of Native American skeletal remains.

Feb 15, 2009 - Savannah Schroll Guz

The Duke of Ferrara in Browning's poem My Last Duchess offers his audience a portrait of his wife, but also a glimpse of his own egocentrism.

Feb 13, 2009 - Savannah Schroll Guz

Published in 1901, The Ruined Maid, like Hardy's novels, comments on the ironies of Victorian morality. This dramatic dialogue points up accepted social mores by way of a

Feb 9, 2009 - Savannah Schroll Guz