Essays 301 - 330
other words, Wordsworth bemoans the materialistic nature of his society, which is a feature of Western society that continues into...
misery" (lines 17-18). By the fourth stanza, the positive attitude of the first lines is completely gone, as the speaker compares ...
reader feels privy to the inner reflections of the narrative voice, as he engages in the task of "walking the line" (line 13) and ...
Song is an aging man who longs for love, particularly courtly love that fits with his expectations of both women and love....
up" and went to a dinner, where their contribution was a venison roast, which introduces the seeming contradiction of hunters as d...
of the Puerto Rican dream to its death and the deaths of those who made up his poets society, but it is a stretch to say that it m...
20). The lyricism and imagery in this opening section are romantic, seductive and certain to appeal to the ego of any woman. Howev...
consider myself a failed woman and a failed poet, or to try to find some synthesis by which to understand what was happening to me...
This essay analyzes Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" and John Donne's "The Flea" and offers the writer's reaction to these a...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Browning's "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point". Short essay responses to discuss...
This essay summarizes several essays in the Longwood Reader. The paper provides the major points and support as well as the reader...
This essay presents a comprehensive overview of the poem that analyzes its content and draws on scholarly opinion as substantiatio...
This essay analyzes two poems by Hughes, "Theme for English B" and "Let America Be America Again." The writer asserts that "Theme"...
In twelve pages this quotation from the Bible is analyzed in terms of its interpretation in a book, essay, and poem. Four sources...
This essay provides a reading of the classic Cummings' poem, "somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond." The aut...
In five pages this essay analyzes the theme of loneliness as it is presented in 'The Whitsun Weddings,' 'Toad's Revisited,' and 'M...
In one page this essay analyzes Dickinson's poem in terms of symbolism, imagery, and theme with an evaluation of her employment of...
This research paper/essay discusses parallel themes in three works: Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet' and his poem "The ...
a good face." His voice is directly personal as he enumerates the many faults of "thy Flavia." He reminds the man who would marry...
In five pages this essay considers the poem from several different interpretations. One source is cited in the bibliography....
poem despite the metaphysical airs assumed by Michael Robartes. In this poem, Yeats expresses the concept that can be concisely ...
/ So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep" (lines 3-4 11290). In the next stanza a small boy is upset because all of his hair h...
This 5 page essay explores the poem by W.B. Yeats. A correlation is made between the passage of time and love. 3 sources are cit...
In three pages this essay examines how women are manufactured as described by Marge Piercy in this powerful poem. One source is c...
me leading wherever I choose. Out of the Cradle is a much slower-moving poem. It begins with the poet recalling a childhood ...
best or the worst and the critic could not decide which. Consider these two excerpts from the same critique, the first is in respo...
In two pages this essay analyzes this love poem in terms of the poet's descriptive language and its emotional attributes. There i...
popularity until his death. It is true that his poetry reflects a growing resentment of his critics and an apparent acceptance of...
This 5 page essay analyzes the poem by Marilyn Chin. Chin presents an account of the immigrant experience as she experienced it ...
became sterile and meaningless. (Because of the variety and relative obscurity of Eliots allusions, readers must work through the ...