Essays 31 - 60
In a paper of ten pages, the writer looks at Hebrew poetry. Short essay answers and definitions to common poetic terms are given. ...
In six pages this essay considers the epigrams featured in Hellenistic poetry particularly in regards to the employment of wit and...
sun, "a ribbon at a time" (35). By displaying one "ribbon" after another, Dickinson presented not just a story, but a complete cov...
Whitmans lyric style -- "A Noiseless Patient Spider." Although the subject of the poem is a lonely spider, the tone is formal, wh...
romantic poetry it that the emphasis was always on emotions, rather than reason. William Wordsworth, a fellow Romantic, defined "g...
a whole" (Yu 380). These natural images are used to open each stanza, as Yu notes that there are "three tetrasyllabic stanzas of f...
the path of the devotee is said to be "sweetened with the nectar of devotion" (Bailly 12). This example of Utpaladevas verse exemp...
towards his music. Perhaps what Orpheus is best known for his ill-fated marriage to the nymph Eurydice. Soon after the wedding...
opens "Marriage" delivers a millenarian prophecy that identifies Christ, revolution and apocalypse and, in so doing, "satanizes" a...
letter dated February 17, 1903, Rilke warns the young poet that Things arent all so tangible and sayable as people would usually ...
however, this relationship can also be shown by examining three representative poems: specifically, "The Wind begun to knead the ...
honest. He not only explores the evil of the Holocaust from the victims perspective, but also from the viewpoint of the ordinary G...
works together one can see the romantic power of both innocence and experience as Blake addressed a changing world where human per...
A 4 page essay that discusses examples of Romantic verse. In the early nineteenth century, artists rebelled against restrictions o...
I must master the processes associated involved in writing clearly as my ultimate goal is to teach middle school, and I must, ther...
example, the author describes how her mother always shopped for fresh ingredients, and prepared fresh herbs, such as "parsley, cil...
those who enforce religious laws" (Mernissi). In other words, by being larger than a size six, Mernissi, in the salesladys opinion...
This writer/tutor does not, of course, have any idea how the student feels on this topic, or, for that matter, the specific course...
that are beyond their control. In other words, there are factors that affect the way in which an event is evaluated morally that a...
insanity, which becomes her only way she can avoid the domination that threatens to totally suffocate her individuality. In his di...
opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...
is the goddess of earthly love; she goes back at least to the Greeks, who called her Aphrodite. In the second poem, the "King" ref...
cities and the space of the regions in and out" (Spahr 6). The following paper examines how Spahr questions the reader, urging the...
held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...
and Bloom). He escaped but was arrested and tried, and sentenced to a year and a day (Dyson and Bloom). His attorney got him relea...
tragedy" (Cai, 1999, p. 317). For Confucius, the focus was much narrower: when he considered poetry, he was thinking of the Book o...
In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at found poetry. Rossetti's "Goblin Market" is used to construct a found poem with fem...
This research paper describes five websites that pertain to J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and can be used in instructing students in...
In twenty pages this paper discusses the poets and the poetry that characterized the Romantic Era of the end of the 18th century i...
For many, a comparison of the gentle grace of Maya Angelou's poetry with the fiery prose of Malcolm X would be difficult. Yet, as ...