Essays 121 - 150
In seven pages the classical Greek definition of hero as revealed in the epic poems of Homer is discussed....
that second coming, beginning with a sense of hope, but finished with a sense of fear or dread: "The Second Coming! Hardly are tho...
The symmetry or balance represented by these two poems by William Blake is analyzed in a paper consisting of four pages....
In four pages this paper discusses how William Blake educates others on the gifts from God humans possess in his poem 'The Lamb.'...
This 4 page paper is a detailed explication of Thomas Hardy's poem Convergence of the Twain, which describes the Titanic sinking....
a "reject button" and she is pregnant with a Xerox machine (Piercy). The last lines of the poem give the reader the point: "File m...
But it also tells of the two neighbors who work to repair the wall together: they set a specific day and time to do so (Frost, 200...
imagery perfectly sums up the pressures modern age, as the narrator is too pressed for time to pause and appreciate nature more th...
could be brought to an end. Espada is really calling for a revolution: He says that "This is the year that squatters evict landlo...
stage for us, with the different levels of meaning of this story at the different times in our lives, when it may have been read t...
In five pages the symbolism of master and slave is applied to the destructive marital relationship described in the poem....
This essay presents a self-analysis with a personal reflection. The analysis focuses on the writer's adult development. Analysis c...
A 4 page essay that contrasts and compares these 2 poems. While William Blake, the eighteenth century British poet, and Emily Dick...
beginning of this stanza creates an image that says to the reader that the nature is hard; it "mows" you down. Society tries to im...
In eight pages this paper discusses how colonialism has shaped Irish identity in a comparative analysis of some poems by W.B. Yeat...
In twelve pages this paper presents a comparative analysis of 'Aeneid' by Virgil and 'The Waste Land' by T.S. Eliot in order to de...
Francis tried to resume his former practices and his old life, and briefly considered a military career, but the call to a religio...
In four pages Spenser's poem is examined in an analysis of its tones, settings, characterizations, the distinctions between man's ...
ask that pauses and changes in tone come into play for it is clearly set out in a very smooth rhythm. In many ways this establishe...
say in their prose pieces. "Of Chambers as the Cedars/Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof/The Gambrels of the S...
With the plain-speaking simplicity that was his trademark, Whitman constructed this poem in such a rhythmic way that it could be s...
one true God. As this suggests, biblical allusions are plentiful in the Old English epic, particularly in regards to the Old Test...
lifted, they decided that it had been the bird that caused the fog and they praised the Mariner for seeing through it all. Then, h...
the natural surroundings, with the death of a powerful man. More often than not we, as human beings, keep memories of such powerfu...
abnegates any evil whatsoever. Blake seems to believe, as one can readily determine from a study of his other works, that evil is...
the last line which states the following: "Ah, what sagacity perished here!" (Dickinson 1-3, 11). This is a poem that is obviou...
is seeing the eyes in the present, which is "Here in deaths dream kingdom." Again, alliteration, this time with /d/, makes the lin...
how the poet views his own culture: eternal, ancient and worthy of great awe, respect and wonder. "As ulu grows branches for lea...
"Since a boy is not armed by nature, society must provide him with man-made weapons" (Hibberd, 1986, p. 143). Furthermore, accordi...
know that William Stafford is a poet from Americas heartland. In fact, he may be, according to Heldrich (2002), "Kansass most famo...