A narrow Fellow in the Grass Themes

“A narrow Fellow in the Grass” reexamines two amazing snake-sightings that would otherwise seem very normal to a person without a poet’s eye for imagery. The first amazing sighting of the poe...

So, the Romantic poets revived this classical literary term called “the sublime.” The sublime isn’t only a Long Beach pseudo-reggae band from the '90s, in literary terms it's the experience o...

Folks, we're not saying that the snake = sex in this poem. Then again, we're not saying that it doesn't equal sex, either. You know who else isn't saying? That's right: ol' long-dead Emily Dickinso...

While it's not obvious, religion is the foundation on which this poem is built. Dickinson has modified the story of Adam, Eve, and the serpent (a.k.a. Satan, Lucifer, Beelzebub, Old Scratch, Mephis...