Essays 271 - 300
This research paper addresses the theme of posessive love in two poems by Robert Browning, My Last Duchess and Porphyria's Lover....
of balance. The Knight carries the potential for both peace and war. They are intimately bound to one another, it should be said, ...
faith primarily in their thane and in "wyrd," which is a pagan reference to fate or destiny, according to Abrams, et al (1968). ...
on. The illustration serves to emphasize the overall theme of complete joy, which Blake implies is something that can be experienc...
optimistic poet beyond this interpretation of his most famous work, which causes the work to stand out in a questionable way. Inde...
poetry is to use an economy of language to express ideas that are more complex than the concrete images and words that convey them...
cannot hear the falconer;/ Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" (Yeats 1-3). The narrator then speaks of how anarchy has bee...
the very antithesis of natural ("fleshly" or "bodily") love. Similarly, Taylor reframes the natural death of a wasp in the cold as...
In five pages this poetic explicaton considers the poem's meaning and examines the usage of tone, wording, images, and also discus...
This 5 page paper is a line-by-line explication of the poem The Convergence of the Twain, by Thomas Hardy. The writer explores the...
This paper consists of four pages and discusses the characterization of the speaker and the poem's connotation, rhythm, diction, a...
somewhere hes never gone before and that the woman (lets assume for this exercise that the beloved is his wife) is able to enclose...
kind. It is, or can be, a far more positive thought than the thought which is fear. When reading the poems, however,...
and be a part of it, she feels her connection with "everything" (line 11), which means she perceives the world in terms of connec...
values within, England holds itself it is in less than positive light. Indeed, it can readily be argued that this is his right an...
In 5 pages this paper discusses how Wordsworth and Hopkins perceived nature as God-like and powerful in beauty with a consideratio...
In three pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of birds in Walt Whitman's poem 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' and ...
read into the poem a bit more and might surmise that this boy is rather insecure and needs his girl to be seen by others in a posi...
In six pages an explication of 'Annabel Lee' considers how the rhythm of the rhyme, word repetition, and setting/imagery articulat...
This paper looks at Dickinson's views about and relationship with nature through a reading of several of her poems. The author lo...
The writer discusses the connection between the Old English epic poem Beowulf and today's rap culture. The writer argues that alth...
or how one human engages another. Frost is merely using nature as a setting, a natural setting, that emphasizes choices that human...
mention that the catch, which is that his throat will be so sore that he will want ice cream. The lies are then contrasted against...
more joyful than creation itself. Then he adds: "Light out of darkness! full of doubt I stand, / Whether I should repent me now of...
In five pages Grace Nichol's poetry is examined in terms of the images of resistance and stereotypes they employ with a discussion...
The writer compares and analyzes the Song of Roland and Beowulf, two epic poems. The main focus of the paper is the death of the r...
intended and his mother, she bites her hand in frustration in "inexpressible rage and desire" (Jones and Jones, nd, p. 13). During...
Mines of gold/Or the riches that the East doth h old" (Bradstreet 5-6). Similarly, Browning begins her famous sonnet by writing th...
peers by acclamation rather than divine right. The thane is spoke of as a "giver of treasure in gladness" (Beowulf 46). In other w...
A 4 page essay that analyzes 4 poems by Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672), Puritan poet and writer, as well as a devoted wife and loving...