Essays 61 - 90
In eight pages this paper discusses Emerson's poetry not for its original thinking but for the philosophical crossroads his works ...
my pagan land,/ Taught my beknighted soul to understand/That theres a God" (Wheatley wheatley.html). Wheatleys struggle with the ...
In six pages this paper examines how poetry can be used to express a poet's crisis in 'Lady Lazarus' by Sylvia Plath and 'My Life ...
years old, he decided to change his life. Selling his farm and quitting his job, he moved to England to pursue a career as a poet....
until he realized that he wasnt really getting anywhere on his own; he owed all his advancement to affirmative action (Terkel). He...
In five pages the slavery chants continue to reverberate as they connect black literature and poetry past and present. Five sourc...
In eight pages Bob Kaufman and his poetry are examined and despite the fact that he was the least well known of all the 'Beat' poe...
to Leaves of Grass-certainly more perfect as a work of art, being adjusted in all its proportions . . . But I am perhaps mainly sa...
on other writers who were to follow them. However, just as Emerson did not express his philosophy in the same way as Thoreau, foll...
In three pages this research paper examines the life and poetry of Galway Kinnel with an explication of 'When One Has Lived a Long...
In five pages this paper considers how children with parents and without are compared in the social commentary featured in this co...
This paper considers how the poet's life was negatively impacted by religion and circumstances as revealed in his collection of po...
This paper analyzes the Romantic aspects of William Blake's 19th century poetry in a discussion of Songs of Innocence poems 'The C...
rationalism, a common symbolic and mythic language, the veneration of creative Imagination, an expressive aesthetic, and an organi...
In sixteen pages this paper examines the childhood theme that is an important component in William Wordsworth's poetry and in the ...
poetry that clearly expressed his unique and individual point of view. II. The Romantic Era of Poetry The Romantic Era, especial...
that Eliot was a highly bigoted individual as both a racist and an anti-Semitic. According to Julius, Eliot was the type of artis...
and that in the poems, he tried to transform these incidents and situations by way of his imagination and present them in a manner...
awhile as an architect before devoting himself to literature as a full-time vocation. He married in 1874, and within ten years, t...
In ten pages John Donne's poetry including 'Valediction Forbidding Mourning,' 'The Sunne Rising,' and 'The Anniversary' are exami...
In five pages this paper discusses the poetry of John Donne in a consideration of their various characteristics including the blen...
In one page the images and themes presented in this poem are discussed with the conclusion drawn that this excellent prose belies ...
and it is something that may be thought peculiar to his Paterson experience, but it is something that many people around the world...
array of individuals that Whitman clearly associated himself with as perhaps an American. He states, "I am enamourd of growing out...
take on religion and his faith which would later lead to his renouncing the Catholic Church (Jokinen). In many ways Donne ...
the end, ones heart may win over ones intellect. In Diane Ackermans poem, which may very well be a modern retelling of...
poem continues and discusses how life was once perhaps simple for these soldiers, but all innocence is past: "Their flowers the te...
and spiritual war is evident in the quote, "Faith is a fine invention for gentlemen who see; But microscopes are prudent in an eme...
that its bizarre poetic form could also be attributed to Ginsbergs love of jazz music. The coffeehouses which reached their popul...
Before actually describing the art and poetry that came out of detainees from Angel Island, a look at the locations history would ...