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Langston Hughes: Work and Worldview

the dawns were / young. / I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to / sleep. / I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyram...

Eavan Boland/Fever

5-8). This juxtaposition of images connects the fever of illness to the fever of lust, which leads into the third stanza and its s...

Wordsworth & Hardy/Perspectives on Nature

First and foremost, the Thrush is seen by this Romantic poet in heroic terms, as a male facing the storm of the public world in or...

Melinda Sordino and Maya Angelou

allows the reader to read approximately 10 pages, enough to get the "flavor" of the authors writing. Here, she blends humor with a...

Analysis: Emily Dickinson and Anne Bradstreet

are only 4-6 lines in length. "Contemplations" begins as what we might call a nature poem, describing the way in which the sun lig...

Reactions to Various Poems

break all the rules and express his artistic vision in his own highly original way. This leads him to fame, fortune and freedom, w...

bell hooks “Bone Black”

What hooks has described with all the innocence of childhood is the ugly reality of busing, a controversial and still roundly disl...

Literary Analysis of Wislawa Szymborska’s Poem ‘True Love’

love between two ordinary people: "Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it h...

Power of Language in Langston Hughes’ Poems ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’ and ‘Mother to Son’

human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my ...

William Wordsworth’s Natural Imagery

to release the burthen of my own unnatural self and the wearying city days such as were not made for me" (Driver 48). The first li...

Berceo's Poem about Mary, Miracles of Our Lady

The writer examines the 13th century poem Milagros de Nuestra Senora (Miracles of Our Lady). The writer describes it as a series o...

Early Literature and Poetry of China and Japan and Women

gap through which women continued to receive and even some praise from men in regards to their abilities as writers (Reichhold). ...

The Life and Works of Emma Lazarus

in American culture, despite her pro-immigration sentiments, which were directly opposed to the anti-immigration public feeling of...

Man's Nature in the Romantic Poetry of William Wordsworth and John Keats

quite different in their presentation and their material or focus of material. But, at the same time the words of darkness apparen...

'Big Black Car' by Lynn Emanuel

As Emanuel describes the interior of the car, and her reluctance to ride in it, she employs language that suggests that the car is...

Emma Lazarus' Life and Times

rejection highly influenced Lazaruss "Spagnoletto," which provided Lazarus with the "literary props" to effectively represent the ...

'Inferno' by Dante Alighieri and Gender

involving gender or related themes like romance and marriage. Yet, sex and love are highlights in the Inferno. Dante also writes o...

Analysis of the Poem 'Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening' by Robert Frost

a hook to bait a desired fish. But no competitive fisherman is eager to share his secrets for landing the big one. A poet is no ...

Life Experiences and Poetry Themes

ethical judgements. While the students perhaps though that these old people are no longer young and can offer nothing of value to ...

Comparative Style Analysis of Blake, Wordsworth, and Whitman

part. He and the Church had a love/hate relationship, to be certain. "Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy," st...

Emily Dickinson's Religious Perspectives in 'Some Keep the Sabbath by Going to Church'

is arguing in this poem that the search for eternal peace and a relationship with the divine can be just as meaningful when carrie...

Julia's Petticoat by Herrick

effect that the petticoat has on the male observer in the garment itself, which the poet asserts "Sometimes twould pant, and sigh,...

The Art of the 19th Century Poetic Manifesto

confused his contemporary readers, which often obscured from them his intent (Abrams 59). Therefore, neither Coleridge nor Blake ...

'Blackberry Sweet' by Dudley Randall

devices not only within the line in which it occurs, but also between lines. Also in regards to these lines, while the poet refe...

Three Poems by Gary Soto, Nikki Giovanni, and William Blake

focus of the poem is on how the anger of the narrator as a corruptive influence that turns him into a murderer. As this illustrate...

'Bushed' by Earle Birney

reiterates the point made in the first line, the destruction of his rainbow, was a significant event. Whatever this setback was, t...

Death in Poetry

Death, /Into the mouth of Hell / Rode the six hundred" (Tennyson, 1870). Still another type of poem shows death as sheer horror: ...

Homer's World, Similarities and Difference with Present Day

This essay pertains to "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" by Homer, the ancient Greek poet and the worldview and cultural values that a...

Comments on a Book for Ministers

This essay presents reflections and discussions about different sections of a book entitled "The Pastor As A Minor Poet" by M. Cra...

Pushkin's Most Successful Prose

Pushkin was a Russian poet who eventually began writing prose. This essay examines and analyzes a very successful work of prose en...