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Ancient Greek Civilization Aspects Glimpsed in 'The Odyssey' by Homer

the defeat of Troy and it is about the adventures of Odysseus, king of Ithaca and throughout his travels, the story "provides a pi...

Comparison Between John Keats' 'On Seeing the Elgin Marbles' and 'Ozymandias' by Percy Bysshe Shelley

human rulers answers to the sands of time. The message: Power is temporary. Nature is forever. This is a common theme among Roma...

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The House of Fame' and its Dream Sequence

it will portray a bizarre but, perhaps, epic journey. But determining what connections may exist between all the elements of the d...

Poetic Comparison of Robert Frost's 'Meeting and Passing,' 'The Road Not Taken,' and 'An Old Man's Winter Night'

it was / That brought him to that creaking room was age. / He stood with barrels round him -- at a loss. / And having scared the c...

Live Burial Theme in Edgar Allan Poe's Writings

stupor, Montressor begins to wall him in...alive. As Fortunato begins to sober up and realize what is going on he begins to scream...

Nature's Role in 'Kubla Khan' and 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ancient Mariner is perhaps the greatest Romantic statement about the consequences of psychic separation of an isolated individual ...

Comparative Analysis of John Keats’ Poem ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ and Bob Dylan’s Song ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’

ship" (Dylan). Though phrased differently, each poet is illustrating how inspiration can take the artist away to different places...

Analysis: Monologue for an Onion

the layers will not reveal any great secrets. And that appears to be breaking the examiners heart. The reader should keep in mind...

Elegies: The Wife’s Lament and The Seafarer

loss of an individual, perhaps most commonly the death of an individual. But, with the English tradition of the elegy there is als...

Angelou: “Phenomenal Woman”

When she heard about the murder, she "fell silent and did not speak for five years" (Bloom). She began to speak once more when she...

Langston Hughes: “I, Too, Sing America”

the more tolerant cities of the north, where there was both work and opportunity (Rowen and Brunner). Nearly three-quarters of a m...

A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal by Wordsworth

Form This particular poem has a very clear pattern of rhyme. It is considered to a type of poem that possesses a...

Frost: “The Road Not Taken”

overwhelming, because they come with options: we can choose to see "300" now because Gerry Butlers incredibly hot, but we also kno...

Two Passages from “The Iliad”

book, Ares is battling Diomedes; he thrusts at him but Athena knocks his spear away and Diomedes stabs the god. Ares flies up to O...

Immortality in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson

that in the process of dying Dickinson believed there were senses, and perhaps there were senses upon death as well. But that sens...

Close Reading and Analysis: “Blues Spiritual for Mammy Prater”

a fa?ade that represents him at his best. But Mammy Prater apparently did none of this. Instead, "she waited until the technique...

Robert Frost: Terrifying Poet

(4-5). This sounds like a childrens rhyme and as such would seem pleasant but the imagery is of blight, and death and then it pres...

Robert Frost

but the presence of Winter coming on is clearly a powerful element, or theme, in the poem as the narrator illustrates how he is re...

A Summary of The Song of Roland (Chanson de Roland)

it is possible that the poet telling "The Song of Roland" was using the character of Charlemagne to represent Christianity as it m...

'Beowulf' and Family Ties

In five pages the bonds of kinship and family as represented in this classic Medieval poem are discussed. One source is cited in ...

The Way in Which Sundiata and Beowulf Present Heroism

The writer compares and contrasts the Old English poem Beowulf with Sundiata, which is an African epic. The writer argues that whi...

King Lear, Beowulf, the Concepts of Kingship and Hero's Downfall

In five pages these literary characters are contrasted and compared in terms of their deaths with the concept of kingship and what...

Comparing and Contrasting Achilles and Beowulf

The writer compares and contrasts Achilles, a hero from Greek mythology, with Beowulf, the hero of the Old English epic poem. The ...

Divine Power and 'The Iliad' by Homer

on Mount Olympus, where the gods lived. As the Iliad opens, the Trojan War has actually been going on for nine years, but the figh...

How Virgil's 'Aeneid' Influences 'The Waste Land' by T.S. Eliot\

In twelve pages this paper presents a comparative analysis of 'Aeneid' by Virgil and 'The Waste Land' by T.S. Eliot in order to de...

Five Tales of Anti Feminism

In five pages the anti feminist handling of female characters in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet, Chaucer's The Wi...

Multicultural Writing and Exile

In seven pages th is paper discusses how exile is thematically developed in such multicultural writings as Goodbyes by Pablo Nerud...

An Analysis of Heroism and the Journey in Star Wars

An eight page research paper considering the literary concept of the hero's journey in this classic science fiction film by direct...

Death Perspectives of Leo Tolstoy and Dylan Thomas

This paper contrasts the death perspectives articulated by Dylan Thomas in the poem 'Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night' with t...

Analyzing Robert Frost's 'The Road Not Taken'

Aspects of Robert Frost's poem are analyzed in this exposition that consists of five pages. There are no other sources listed in ...