Essays 31 - 60
A.E. Housman. They are both young men who die before they age, before they have perhaps achieved a powerful greatness it would see...
an old man for the life he will soon be leaving and a world filled with evil and corruption. His description of the city is one of...
powerful and intense poem, in relationship to the struggles of the African American people, that it has been adapted into song (Af...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". Similarities to "Dubliners" are recounte...
First, there is the surface level, that he was walking and had to decide which path to take to get to his destination. But at a mu...
This essay pertains to T.S. Eliot's "The Long Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and the theme of modernity and its affect on the human p...
In 5 pages this paper discusses how the Lebanese poet expresses love in terms of oneness and harmony in such works as 'Song of the...
"It did not seem to me to be a time to guard myself / against Loves blows: so I went on / confident, unsuspecting; from that, my t...
This essay provides analysis and discussion of Donovan's 1969s protest song, "The War Drags On." Seven pages in length, two source...
sense that Tennyson may be speaking of songs of faith or the songs that he and his friend once shared but the poet clarifies that ...
This essay offers summary and analysis of four poems which begin by offering a comparison of two companion poems from Songs of Inn...
his unique nature he was, during his lifetime, "generally dismissed as an eccentric during his lifetime" although "posterity redis...
dungeon and as such is nothing more than a simple fun work (The Book of Good Love of Juan Ruiz Archpriest of Hita, 2007). There ar...
of gaining knowledge in a sole purpose of gaining friends. As the book progresses, Charlie goes through dramatic changes mentally,...
stanza, which pictures the listener, the person offering lifes big questions, emotionally stranded. The narrative voice states, "I...
in California. The song opens by picturing a "dark desert highway" and the "Warm smell of colitas" (Felder, et al). "Colitas" is...
but other support metaphors are also created that emphasis the illusionary quality of attraction that deludes the singer into thi...
the stern discipline of an active career" and these characteristics "had taken over the office of modeling these features. Behind ...
war songs, marriage songs and love songs among many more. Throughout the ages, the poems came to known as not merely an example of...
that man and woman should be attracted to each other, fall in love, marry, and produce new life. This is Eros love" (Eros. Philios...
revealing aspect of "Loves Executioner" which makes the book a tremendously useful and constructive resource to practicing psychot...
previous era and so many would experiment with free verse and would place special emphasis on the exploration of human feelings an...
wealthy children, for the focus is on the fact that their faces are clean and their clothes are relatively powerful earth tones. T...
be the definitive poetic volumes with Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794). In each work, a poem entitled "Th...
stations" (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame). He was clearly very influenced by many talented musicians at the time, and in a place th...
This 5 page paper argues that true love is a rare, idealised type of love that is truly found only in a parent's love for a child....
best or the worst and the critic could not decide which. Consider these two excerpts from the same critique, the first is in respo...
In 5 pages the thematic differences in which these two poems depict death are contrasted and compared with Donne's faith in sharp ...
This 5 page paper compares and contrasts Toni Morrison's book Jazz with Louis Armstrong's song Black and Blue....
except "en-masse" (Morace). Whitman refers to equality again in Section 5 when he says "...all the men ever born are also my brot...