Essays 481 - 510
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,...
In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at "Tithonus". The theme of immortality is examined through looking at the poem's mechan...
This essay offers analysis of "Boy at the Window" by Richard Wilbur. The writer focuses on the compelling nature of the poem's ima...
This essay presents a character sketch of the narrator in "The ABC of Aerobics," a poem by Peter Meinke. Three pages in length, th...
This essay is an explication of "Locked Ward: Newtown, Connecticut" by Rachel Loden. The writer bases this discussion on the assum...
This essay pertains to a Wilfred Owen's WWI poem that offers stark and vivid repudiation of the Latin phrase that it is sweet to ...
question that cannot be logically answered "puzzles scholars," while perfectly ordinary people are able to accept it as it is, as ...
of balance. The Knight carries the potential for both peace and war. They are intimately bound to one another, it should be said, ...
In ten pages this research essay compares and contrasts Philip Larkin's poem 'Church Going' and Robert Frost's poem 'The Wood pile...
gangrenous toe that her father had to have amputated and which, later, led directly to his death (127). The image of the "Frisco s...
A 4 page essay that contrasts and compares these 2 poems. While William Blake, the eighteenth century British poet, and Emily Dick...
"sex-obsessed," but Frieda argues that Lawrence was "simply pro-human" and that because D.H. Lawrence wrote what he did, "...the y...
and comments that the young man was "smart" to "slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay" (lines 9-10). Housman the...
peers by acclamation rather than divine right. The thane is spoke of as a "giver of treasure in gladness" (Beowulf 46). In other w...
household. As a teen, he became enthralled with Islam and converted. Lindh came to reject everything America stands for. By active...
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...
in miracle I, "The Chausuble of Saint Ildephonsus," Berceo, first of all, describes the piety, humility and service of the venerab...
Mines of gold/Or the riches that the East doth h old" (Bradstreet 5-6). Similarly, Browning begins her famous sonnet by writing th...
intended and his mother, she bites her hand in frustration in "inexpressible rage and desire" (Jones and Jones, nd, p. 13). During...
of the forest as "yellow" tells the reader that the time of year is autumn. This signifies the time of life for the narrator. Fros...
topic was greatly on her mind. This can be discerned due to the fact that the poem is written as a riddle with "pregnancy" as the ...
because pity carries with it the connotation that divinely imposed punishment is less than just. He tells Dante to lift his eyes a...
have learned to "fly" and to "sing," that is, that they have become responsible adults, capable of living and contributing to soci...
"I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once again. We keep th...
creating a believable psychological portrait based on this duke, which is largely considered to be accurate according to Renaissan...
theme in that poets verse. Section 1 When Longfellow was born the nation was less than fifty years old. America was in the proce...
to "enjoy" whatever society had to offer, or whatever society insisted on the citizen possessing in order to follow the norm. Th...
about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...
melted, and I let it fall and break" (Frost 9-13). This section of the poem clearly offers the reader the image of winter coming o...
and she wishes that she were "wife to a better man" (Homer Book VI). Through Helens eyes and, also, through Homers portrayal of He...