Essays 421 - 450
'Home Burial' and 'The Death of the Hired Man' are the focus of this analysis of death themes in the poetry of Robert Frost consis...
In eight pages this paper discusses the social and political influences Walt Whitman exerted through his poetry from an historical...
In five pages this essay presents the argument that Nathaniel Hawthorne uses this short story to reflect his New England Puritanis...
In five pages this Native American poetry collection and its consideration of isolation and individuality are analyzed. Three sou...
particular values, and freedom from persecution by authorities for those views. One could say that the roots, as far as it can b...
In five pages this paper examines Jimmy Santiago Baca's modern and totally unique style of poetry. Two sources are cited in the b...
shows his endeavor in following a specific element of style that was all his own. Mood: for example in "The Fall of...
The Aeneid of Virgil and Dante's The Divine Comedy are similar in style and format, both being produced by poets. This paper compa...
her works dealt little with the condition of the slaves in America, and held mainly to classical poetical themes. She was an accom...
In five pages this paper discusses the impact of African American poet Phyllis Wheatley in a consideration of her life and her poe...
pursued, his literary prose are filled with illusions that do not equate with realistic events, but rather, they conjure up sensat...
all three in a way that is distinct from all other "political appropriations" of the myth (Schock 445). As a new heaven is...
An analysis of this poem and what it reveals about the life and poetry of Walt Whitman is presented in five pages. Attached are 4...
In five pages this paper examines the definition of identity in the works of Euripides, Sophocles, Sappho's poetry, the Oresteia, ...
apart from the literary establishment through concise and reticent and very powerful poems (McNair 146). Through her use of langua...
In two pages this paper examines women's relationships in the poetry of Sappho. There are no sources listed....
himself with a sense of timelessness. Each of the poets gives the reader a sense of a good friend explaining something with an at...
moral and religious instruction, Herbert includes an invitation to delve deeper in the "church" before beginning the next section....
In one page the images and themes presented in this poem are discussed with the conclusion drawn that this excellent prose belies ...
In six pages this essay considers the epigrams featured in Hellenistic poetry particularly in regards to the employment of wit and...
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...
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 discusses the poetry of John Donne in a consideration of their various characteristics including the blen...
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...
and that in the poems, he tried to transform these incidents and situations by way of his imagination and present them in a manner...
rationalism, a common symbolic and mythic language, the veneration of creative Imagination, an expressive aesthetic, and an organi...
awhile as an architect before devoting himself to literature as a full-time vocation. He married in 1874, and within ten years, t...
In sixteen pages this paper examines the childhood theme that is an important component in William Wordsworth's poetry and in the ...