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Explication of 'London' by Poet William Blake

in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...

'The Odyssey' by Homer and Mortal Women

I think of naming, far less telling, / every feat of that rugged man, Odysseus, / but here is something that he dared to do / at T...

'Coal' by Audre Lorde and 'Her Kind' by Anne Sexton

that is illustrating the power that was possessed by these women, but not the power that the men and women of the time thought the...

African American Experience in the Poetry of Langston Hughes

this poem is that of the universal anguish of being bound and imprisoned, no matter what the age. And, in a very real sense he is ...

Examination of Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself'

Thomas Eakins: A Friendship of Artistic Gain). In fact, this particular painting is clearly a representation of a scene in Whitman...

Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, American Identity and Education

the preamble to the Constitution even faster than Bailey" (Angelou). In essence, we see Margaret excited and bearing no feelin...

Comparative Analysis of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Homer's 'The Odyssey'

journeys, "After leaving his ruined home in a galaxy far, far away, Luke Skywalker began a journey taken by countless other heroes...

Gerard Manley Hopkins' 'God's Grandeur'

Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;...

Robert Phillips' 'Running on Empty'

experience it for himself. As a teenager I would drive Fathers Chevrolet cross-country, given me...

Depictions of Nature in the Poetry of Dickinson and Frost

action so that the reader can easily imagine its intensity. It is a strikingly vivid image. Likewise, Frost is famous for his im...

''The Phoenix and the Turtle' by William Shakespeare

about 1594 onward it is believed that he played with a group of actors, however: "written records give little indication of the wa...

William Butler Yeats' 'The Wilde Swans of Coole'

between what is real and what is a mere reflection is indicated in the line that says, "Under the October twilight the water/Mirro...

Explication of 'My Last Duchess' by Robert Browning

so based on the dialogue of the narrator that it does not allow the woman a voice, and represents a narrator who is incredibly, an...

Symbolism in Dickinson's 'I Am Ashamed-I Hide'

be a Bride --/ So late a Dowerless Girl -" (Dickinson 2-3). This indicates that she has nothing to offer, that she is a poor woman...

T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land' and the Contemporary World

world was worth living in. Interestingly enough, one critic indicates that this is where Eliot uses the symbolism of the Holy G...

Gender Representations in 'The White Heron' by Sarah Orne Jewett

positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...

Poets R.S. Thomas and John Betjeman on Nature and the Modern World

and soul) are in a fight for their own survival and right to exist, and that the simple things in life, those things that really c...

Poetic Comparison of John Keats's 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer' and William Wordsworth's 'Lines Composed upon Westminster Bridge'

relating it to their own life experiences through the powers of imagination (Minahan 38). Two works that characterize the creativ...

Love in Andrew Marvell's 'The Definition of Love' and in Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey's 'Love, That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought'

survive, the most poignant works were his love sonnets. Surrey was considered to be quite the ladies man, even though he was marr...

Ornamental Arts, Fame and Fate in Beowulf

comes to the aid of Hrothgar: "Thou Hrothgar, hail! Hygelacs I, kinsman and follower. Fame a plenty have I gained in youth! These...

Robert Frost's Favorite Theme

providing an avenue for the author to release the inner struggles of human conflict that can be set free through no other means th...

Poetry and the Concepts of Sovereignty and Ancestry

how the poet views his own culture: eternal, ancient and worthy of great awe, respect and wonder. "As ulu grows branches for lea...

John Donne's Seventeenth Century Love Poetry

in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest ;...

Whitman Poetic Comparison of A Noiseless Patient Spider, Drum Taps, and Song of Myself

for repetition and free flowing verse to express his ideas and was considered not only exceptional because of these elements but a...

'In An Artist Studio' by Christina Rossetti Explicated

the nude for an artist, or a class of artists, they become very modest when the session is over. Indeed, artist models are often q...

Reviewing 'Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey' by William Wordsworth

This dissolution, first adverse, becomes a positive driving force which allows us to sway from crime, avarice and over-anxious car...

'Beowulf' and Its Representation of Heroic and Christian Traditions

a rather powerful enemy. Thus, one sees heroic feats on either end, but also, there is Christian love and the love of a parent tha...

Love and Marriage Disappointments

the elements that speak of such disappointments. The paper finishes with a brief discussion of the works discussed. Story of an ...

Robert Frost's 'Now Close the Windows'

theme (including any symbolism and imagery), and the technical aspects of rhythm, rhyme, and meter. Frost tended to use both categ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 'Paul Revere's Ride,' Its Inaccuracies, and the Real Paul Revere

slumber to acts of resistance. However, Fischer demonstrates that Revere did make his famous ride and that the ride was signific...