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T.S. Eliot's 'Waste Land' and Its Cultural Influences

In a paper consisting of 10 pages the aethetic, scientific, and sociopolitical influences on Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is considere...

My Father's Wedding by Robert Bly

This research paper/essay offers a detailed explication of a poem written by Robert Bly in 1981 entitled My Father's Wedding. The ...

2 Poems by Roman Poet Catullus

unconquerable by time. Nevertheless, as their love is as fallible and mortal as they are, poem 11 shows the depth of Catullus pa...

Homer's Iliad, Questions

This essay answers three question. The first pertains to the arguments presented to Achilles on why he should fight, the second li...

Puerto Rican Obituary and the Nuyorican Community

of the Puerto Rican dream to its death and the deaths of those who made up his poets society, but it is a stretch to say that it m...

Women's Search for Independence in 3 Works: Finding Happiness

This essay discusses 3 works: which are a poem by Gwendolyn Brook, "The Beam Eaters"; a short story by Kate Chopin, "The Story of ...

Robert Frost and Life Lessons

This essay pertains to the poetry of Robert Frost and discusses two poems: "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy...

Mythology and Iliad, Aeneid

This research paper/essay discusses the "Iliad" and the "Aeneid" as two epic poems that mirror the values of Greek and Roman socie...

Comparing Three Works Thematically

This research paper/essay discusses parallel themes in three works: Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet' and his poem "The ...

'Apparently With No Surprise' by Emily Dickinson

In one page this essay analyzes Dickinson's poem in terms of symbolism, imagery, and theme with an evaluation of her employment of...

The Lady of Shallot by Alfred Lord Tennyson and Song of Myself by Walt Whitman

best or the worst and the critic could not decide which. Consider these two excerpts from the same critique, the first is in respo...

Comparative Analysis of Walt Whitman's Song of the Open Road and Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

me leading wherever I choose. Out of the Cradle is a much slower-moving poem. It begins with the poet recalling a childhood ...

'Barbie Doll' by Marge Piercy

In three pages this essay examines how women are manufactured as described by Marge Piercy in this powerful poem. One source is c...

Perils and Promises of American Society in The Federalist and Song of Myself by Walt Whitman

accurately and appropriately described as of a "shared identity." However, that shared identity also has a level of uncertainty w...

The River Merchant's Wife by Ezra Pound

In five pages this essay considers the poem from several different interpretations. One source is cited in the bibliography....

'The Anagram' by John Donne

a good face." His voice is directly personal as he enumerates the many faults of "thy Flavia." He reminds the man who would marry...

'To Lucasta' by Richard Lovelace

In two pages this essay analyzes this love poem in terms of the poet's descriptive language and its emotional attributes. There i...

Dream State Validity and 'Ode to a Nightingale' by John Keats

popularity until his death. It is true that his poetry reflects a growing resentment of his critics and an apparent acceptance of...

Travel Poems by Frost and Stafford

Taken" and William Staffords "Traveling Through the Dark" are both poems about lifes journey and the choices that confront each in...

Overview of Book of Songs

a whole" (Yu 380). These natural images are used to open each stanza, as Yu notes that there are "three tetrasyllabic stanzas of f...

The World is Too Much with Us/William Wordsworth

other words, Wordsworth bemoans the materialistic nature of his society, which is a feature of Western society that continues into...

Explication of George Herbert's "Virtue"

dew that falls at night as weeping for the demise of day, "For thou must die" (Herbert line 4). The second stanza focuses on the...

Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold

misery" (lines 17-18). By the fourth stanza, the positive attitude of the first lines is completely gone, as the speaker compares ...

Mending Wall by Robert Frost

reader feels privy to the inner reflections of the narrative voice, as he engages in the task of "walking the line" (line 13) and ...

Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock/Eliot

Song is an aging man who longs for love, particularly courtly love that fits with his expectations of both women and love....

'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell and Imagery

In the first half of the poem, Marvell describes time as he would have it if he could. He states, "Had we but world enough and tim...

'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...

Kipling and Kincaid/Perspectives on Colonialism

the Victorians was their sense of social responsibility. Unfortunately, that sense of responsibility was self-righteous and obsess...

Comparing poems by Atwood and Smith

also differences in style. Smith, for example, uses less alliteration than Atwood, and his short, clipped lines emphasize and isol...

"Sonnet XXX" - A Mechanical Analysis

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Spenser's "Sonnet XXX". A mechanical analysis of the poem's devices is carried out,...