Essays 241 - 270
In six pages the influence of Emerson upon Whitman's poetry is examined with the primary focus being 'Song of Myself' and poetic l...
world wars. Modernism According to Gelpi (1990), "the Modernist period, bracketed by the two world wars, bore a complicated and a...
In ten pages this paper discusses the common spiritual and physical themes that are evident throughout the poetry of Emily Dickins...
rather than reality. This conclusion was probably made through the poets use of the repetition of the word "if." Any piece of lit...
In five pages this poetry collection by Hayden Carruth is analyzed. Six other sources are cited in the bibliography....
as if women were alien creatures, and not like men at all. In addition to looking at this the Lady of Shallot in particular, a st...
capturing the experiences of childhood. Wordsworths theories of romantic poetic structure have been both accepted and highly crit...
as we do not think--We remain there a long while, and notwithstanding the doors of the second Chamber remain wide open, showing a ...
sense of landscape and, in particular, his sense of certain locales as cherished landmarks ("even sacred places") is inevitably li...
to its logical conclusion, reasoning, that there was nothing in the power of humanity capable of effecting personal salvation. The...
trade as well (Thomas Hardy). However, Hardy was very much his mothers son, and shared her love of Latin poetry (Thomas Hardy). ...
has written that he remembers his father scraping off or painting over the offending symbols (Parmet 79). Considering this backg...
in a manner that was often regarded as blasphemous by her Puritan and Calvinist neighbors. Emily Dickinsons approach to poetry wa...
issues regarding his position as an adult, presenting us with a serious and introspective perspective: "To them I may have owed a...
does seem that when analyzing genres, Callimachean poetry comes up quite often and seems to challenge the essence of the works. Wh...
has to "face the men of the time" and "think about war," in order to "construct a new stage" (Of Modern Poetry...Stevens). What St...
The very nature of such a situation requires that the primary character survive that which the reader is not sure he or she could ...
Hunt conveys her message in a type of rapid New York "urban speak," which is specifically intended to jolt the readers passivity. ...
to play his part in society as a whole. However, he also maintained that the only way in which human beings could discover the tru...
despair associated with poverty, class distinctions, and opportunities for individuals to ever rise above their "place." The Dif...
of striving to attain immortality, just as Jesus himself did. Over and over again in our lives we are tested, and each choice we ...
previous era and so many would experiment with free verse and would place special emphasis on the exploration of human feelings an...
as perhaps a Jew. This presents us with imagery, symbolic references, to the confused state of Plath in terms of her own identity....
context changes and it seems more logical given the tone of the rest of the poem. Thus, the word as is reflective of the way that ...
much that it has immeasurably been altered. Who was Socrates and why was he so influential? Socrates was a Greek philosopher who ...
Dancers illustrates throughout the various poems, the Armenian experience of community. This community is not made up of relatives...
politics of the New Democratic Party of Canada after the Second World War, and she maintained a feminist perspective throughout he...
book include the black struggle (Becerra). Giovanni writes about her happy childhood with the work "Nikki-Rosa" (Becerra). Chi...
like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...
in form and lessened in abstraction. Yeatss once short, rhyming poems transformed into more lengthy poems that were less concerne...