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Houston Promotion and the Value of Drama and Literature

In five pages this paper examines how Houston promotes drama and literature through theater and writers groups and considers their...

Poetry and Metaphors

savagery which slavery brought with it. Notice in this passage how the belles traits are given, then immediately juxtaposed with t...

Early American Poetry

would end without seeing "half my days thats due" (line 13). This suggests that Bradstreet is giving birth in middle age, which s...

Expression Changes in the Later Poetry of Walt Whitman

. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has...

'The Odyssey' by Homer and Fate

beginning, feels like he is in a position of complete helplessness. His father has been gone nearly 20 years and he is forced to d...

Symbolism in the Love Poetry of William Butler Yeats

in form and lessened in abstraction. Yeatss once short, rhyming poems transformed into more lengthy poems that were less concerne...

The Sadness of Thomas Hardy

the poem did not deviate from this perspective it would become something of a pointless poem that was only possessed of sadness. T...

Poetry, Social Change, and Business

Tom Ehrenfield (author of Poetry & Business) states that entrepreneurs have a lot in common with poet, as they both "invent new wa...

Literary Tools Used by Emily Dickinson

61). Symbolism is the use of one thing to stand for or suggest another; a falling leaf to symbolize death, for example. And langua...

The Poetry of Wheatley and Hughes

experiences were good ones, and quite unique when compared to slaves in the south. As such "racial equality is not a theme to be f...

Poetry, Art, and Music Creativity

conceptions of himself, his fellowmen and his universe" (Fleming, 1974, p. 1). The visages that art can take are many and varied, ...

Cultural Influences Exerted by the Life and Art of Robert Frost

other poets of the time by rejecting modernism. As this poem demonstrates, Frost frequently drew his imagery from nature. While m...

The Republic by Plato and Poetry

like Hades and the underworld; Tiresias the blind seer; and other references to death and dying (Plato). They decide they have to...

Poems of Emily Dickinson

Dickinson wrote numerous poems and many times enclosed those original poems in letters which she wrote to friends. She wasnt reco...

The Poetry of Anne Bradstreet: Insight into History

with subjects such as science, as well as religion and morality (Bradstreet, Anne Dudley (1612?-1672)). "However, her best poems d...

Modernist and Confessional Poets and the Place of "Personality" in Poetry

of dealing with this new and frightening situation (Modernism, 2002). The modernist poets had a much more disillusioned worldview ...

Common Themes in "The Purloined Letter" and Poe's Poetry

to start a disturbance in the street when he visits the thief the second time. When the man goes to the window, Dupin grabs the le...

William Congreve's Contributions

works called The Mourning Bride which was created in 1697 contains the following well known line: "Heavn has no Rage, like Love to...

Aztec Poetry

in the way the political world was playing out in the conquest. And clearly he argues that the poetry was never simple. This seems...

Treatment of Women/17th Century New England

sanctioned as proper for women, Bradstreets work did not go against the norms of Puritan society. However, they do often emphasize...

Walt Whitman

printers apprentice and then went on to work as a journeyman printer and a teacher (Books and Writers). Following that period of...

Poetry of Frank O'Hara

help keep me in New York against coercion/ but now Im happy for a time and interested" (OHara 1-8). This is sort of a free form...

Edgar Allan Poe's Poetry and Death

her, hearing her cough and moan, witnessing her tears at the knowledge that she must soon leave them... the mothers despair and an...

Asian and Andalusian Poetry

were searching for food, and clouds that possess swords. In addition, in terms of form or structure, this poem possesses lines ...

Poetry and the Voice of Women

politics of the New Democratic Party of Canada after the Second World War, and she maintained a feminist perspective throughout he...

Poetry of the Romantic Age and Men's Role

previous era and so many would experiment with free verse and would place special emphasis on the exploration of human feelings an...

Sylvia Plath's Life and Art

as perhaps a Jew. This presents us with imagery, symbolic references, to the confused state of Plath in terms of her own identity....

Love in the Poetry of Katherine Philips and John Donne

context changes and it seems more logical given the tone of the rest of the poem. Thus, the word as is reflective of the way that ...

Diana Der Hovanessian's Poetry

Dancers illustrates throughout the various poems, the Armenian experience of community. This community is not made up of relatives...

Nikki Giovanni's Life and Poetry

book include the black struggle (Becerra). Giovanni writes about her happy childhood with the work "Nikki-Rosa" (Becerra). Chi...