Essays 31 - 60
exploded out of me" (McKay on "If We Must Die"). Somewhat surprisingly, McKay elected to structure his impassioned contemporary p...
faith primarily in their thane and in "wyrd," which is a pagan reference to fate or destiny, according to Abrams, et al (1968). ...
farmer/is first selectman in our village;/shes in her dotage" (lines 4-6). As these lines indicate, the poem is in free verse. B...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the free verse and sexuality, relationships, and family themes featured in 3 of Do...
years old, he decided to change his life. Selling his farm and quitting his job, he moved to England to pursue a career as a poet....
This 3 page paper discusses three of Wordsworth's poems, "The World is too Much with Us," "Composed on Westminster Bridge," and "I...
account take up revenue. For Genentech we get the following Gross profit 2002 2003 2004 Revenue (a) 2,719.3 3,300.3 4,621.2 Cost o...
of sounds within any language, the speakers in a language community all feel that certain sounds either "the same" or "different" ...
the first place, and what do his "fond regrets" concern? He does not tell us, but merely goes on describing his walk with...
First and foremost, the Thrush is seen by this Romantic poet in heroic terms, as a male facing the storm of the public world in or...
To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was ...
the perceived flaws in their models and so alters their appearance to fit their ideal image. Rossetti seems to find this appalling...
A 5 page paper which examines one poem from Longfellow, Whitman, and Dickinson. The poems examined are The poets, and their poems,...
is not identified as a goddess except for when a servant speaks to Achilles about the legends that have begun to be spun concernin...
In four pages the conformity or nonconformity of Coleridge's prose in this poem is compared with the sonnet's and epic poem's trad...
her, reluctantly, to maintain these values. This argument is grounded in 17th century ideals of chivalry and courtly honor, ideals...
Walt Whitmans Song of Myself is a poem that is not necessarily about any one particular thing, not possessed of one single theme o...
ball turret was a plexiglass sphere set into the belly of a B-17 or B-24 [bomber], and inhabited by two .50 caliber machine-guns a...
thinks of the woods as property, more then as just a part of the vast natural world. To him, this lovely wood is part of the man-m...
the Berlin wall. And we also know that there will be just a "touch" of whimsy about the poem, when it begins with "something ther...
focuses on four poems that all deal with grief. In "Stairway to Heaven" by Joaquin G. Rubio; "Dont Forget About Me!" by Jenny Gord...
This essay discusses Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz," and Robert Hayden's poem "Those Winter Sundays." Both poems pertain to...
the poem involves the power of antiquities, of ancient history and of those relics that are left behind after someones time and er...
except "en-masse" (Morace). Whitman refers to equality again in Section 5 when he says "...all the men ever born are also my brot...
The symmetry or balance represented by these two poems by William Blake is analyzed in a paper consisting of four pages....
In four pages this paper discusses how William Blake educates others on the gifts from God humans possess in his poem 'The Lamb.'...
This 4 page paper is a detailed explication of Thomas Hardy's poem Convergence of the Twain, which describes the Titanic sinking....
different than the perspectives of the world at the time. Near the beginning of Manriques poem he states, "Let none be self-delud...
often simply a reality that was accepted as part of life. It did not necessarily make people angry or bitter or resentful in a con...
being a man./ And it happens that I walk into tailorshops and movie/ houses/ dried up, waterproof, like a swan made of felt/ steer...