Essays 241 - 270
of striving to attain immortality, just as Jesus himself did. Over and over again in our lives we are tested, and each choice we ...
to its logical conclusion, reasoning, that there was nothing in the power of humanity capable of effecting personal salvation. The...
capturing the experiences of childhood. Wordsworths theories of romantic poetic structure have been both accepted and highly crit...
does seem that when analyzing genres, Callimachean poetry comes up quite often and seems to challenge the essence of the works. Wh...
has to "face the men of the time" and "think about war," in order to "construct a new stage" (Of Modern Poetry...Stevens). What St...
The very nature of such a situation requires that the primary character survive that which the reader is not sure he or she could ...
to play his part in society as a whole. However, he also maintained that the only way in which human beings could discover the tru...
Hunt conveys her message in a type of rapid New York "urban speak," which is specifically intended to jolt the readers passivity. ...
despair associated with poverty, class distinctions, and opportunities for individuals to ever rise above their "place." The Dif...
previous era and so many would experiment with free verse and would place special emphasis on the exploration of human feelings an...
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 ...
Dancers illustrates throughout the various poems, the Armenian experience of community. This community is not made up of relatives...
as perhaps a Jew. This presents us with imagery, symbolic references, to the confused state of Plath in terms of her own identity....
politics of the New Democratic Party of Canada after the Second World War, and she maintained a feminist perspective throughout he...
in a manner that was often regarded as blasphemous by her Puritan and Calvinist neighbors. Emily Dickinsons approach to poetry wa...
issues regarding his position as an adult, presenting us with a serious and introspective perspective: "To them I may have owed a...
much that it has immeasurably been altered. Who was Socrates and why was he so influential? Socrates was a Greek philosopher who ...
held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...
and Bloom). He escaped but was arrested and tried, and sentenced to a year and a day (Dyson and Bloom). His attorney got him relea...
tragedy" (Cai, 1999, p. 317). For Confucius, the focus was much narrower: when he considered poetry, he was thinking of the Book o...
went outside to sit under a tree where there was a nightingale, only to write a poem about it (Ode to a Nightingale). In the poem ...
In seven pages this paper discusses Robert Frost's nature poetry in terms of what it has to say about humanity. Six sources are c...
lessons of life the Great Depression had imposed upon my Father, but this was a new twist to a very tired story. The impact of the...
In nine pages this paper analyzes the poetry of John Donne and John Milton in terms of the metaphysical aspects of each poet's wor...
In six pages this paper analyzes some examples of irony and humor found in Caribbean poetry. Three sources are cited in the bibli...
In seven pages this paper examines what constitutes 'love poetry' in a consideration of the poetic works of Purdy, Johnson, Browni...
In six pages the influence of Emerson upon Whitman's poetry is examined with the primary focus being 'Song of Myself' and poetic l...
world wars. Modernism According to Gelpi (1990), "the Modernist period, bracketed by the two world wars, bore a complicated and a...
In ten pages this paper discusses the common spiritual and physical themes that are evident throughout the poetry of Emily Dickins...
rather than reality. This conclusion was probably made through the poets use of the repetition of the word "if." Any piece of lit...