Essays 31 - 60
but the battle was not a true victory by any means. Of course, one can still construe it as a turning point. Up until then, ther...
This paper examines the American historical significance of William Wirt in fifteen pages. Fourteen sources are cited in the bibl...
the "almost terrifying" manner in which Beethoven pursues the underlying motif (Machlis, 1970, p. 225). The second movement, And...
William Blakes "The Divine Image" have little in common, as the first poem relates a mystical enchantment of a knight with a super...
In the various paintings, one can see an appreciation of nature figuring more prominently as well as a celebration of the emotiona...
Fourth, while previous generations of poets felt that poetry should address noble or epic topics, the Romantics glorified the bea...
child and is sentenced to death. As this indicates, Faust is plot driven. This contrasts sharply with Ivan Ilych, which mostly c...
up and down the keyboard and accompaniments vary from simple chords to arpeggios that span all possibilities (Pniewski, 1999). O...
would sweep away the superstitions of the past and replace them with the clear light of reason. Regardless of the discipline in wh...
A 4 page essay that discusses examples of Romantic verse. In the early nineteenth century, artists rebelled against restrictions o...
pianists hand that the "music seems almost to play itself" (Machlis 84). Therefore, it is probably not surprising that so many o...
(or) get together" (Raykoff). These seemingly disparate definitions in actuality "point to the heterogeneous nature commonly attri...
babies shown abandoned testifies to the fact that many of the women were mothers who were separated from their children. A red rob...
This paper presents an overview of "Pillow Talk" and "Desk Set," which are two fifties' era romantic comedies. The writer relates ...
in what was historically thought of as a straitlaced society. Lystra (1996) - assistant professor at California State University ...
Godlike erect, with native Honour clad...
all (Hinze PG). Dickinson is described as reclusive and shy. Although she was well educated, she is said to have often deferred ...
said to have been a reaction against classicism. In Germany it was a reaction rather against rationalism, emerging together with a...
Robbins conceived, directed and choreographed West Side Story in 1957, which was written by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim...
This essay looks at representative works of William Blake, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde in relation to the eras in which they w...
workers who are hurrying to finish their work and/or reach their destinations before the storm arrives are on the left-hand side o...
In five pages this paper examines h ow 'The Vanity of Human Wishes' by Samuel Johnson and William Wordsworth's 'Ode Intimations o...
becomes apparent that the coverage of the matter was varied, but there was seemingly a government preference. After all, people in...
imagery perfectly sums up the pressures modern age, as the narrator is too pressed for time to pause and appreciate nature more th...
In five pages this paper examines this author's attempts to emphasizes the similarities between the Civil War and the Reconstructi...
since the latter 1800s facilitated greater and greater industrialization. With that industrialization the ethic of hard work beca...
on the artistic forms of that day and time were not from the artists themselves, but from the ideas and influences of all the scho...
a historic rupture divides the fantastic and the fairy tale" (Chen 397). Todorov reserves the fantastic specifically for "French f...
natural sublime."2 As is common in the thematic development of the sublime in Romanticism, the sensation is one of rapture and on...
on the beauty of the scene. The Romantics tended to be introspective, while also placing emphasis on beauty of everyday life, rath...