Essays 31 - 60
faith primarily in their thane and in "wyrd," which is a pagan reference to fate or destiny, according to Abrams, et al (1968). ...
the first great epic poems of English history is thought to have been written around the time of the first half of the 8th century...
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...
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...
This 3 page paper discusses three of Wordsworth's poems, "The World is too Much with Us," "Composed on Westminster Bridge," and "I...
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....
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the free verse and sexuality, relationships, and family themes featured in 3 of Do...
of sounds within any language, the speakers in a language community all feel that certain sounds either "the same" or "different" ...
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...
Walt Whitmans Song of Myself is a poem that is not necessarily about any one particular thing, not possessed of one single theme o...
the first place, and what do his "fond regrets" concern? He does not tell us, but merely goes on describing his walk with...
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...
is not identified as a goddess except for when a servant speaks to Achilles about the legends that have begun to be spun concernin...
A 5 page paper which examines one poem from Longfellow, Whitman, and Dickinson. The poems examined are The poets, and their poems,...
To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was ...
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...
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...
the perceived flaws in their models and so alters their appearance to fit their ideal image. Rossetti seems to find this appalling...
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...
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...
could be brought to an end. Espada is really calling for a revolution: He says that "This is the year that squatters evict landlo...
that second coming, beginning with a sense of hope, but finished with a sense of fear or dread: "The Second Coming! Hardly are tho...
people have other people that they look up to in an envious manner, believing that someone elses life is far better than their own...
girl, outcast, forlorn/as thrown her life away?"). But the poet is adamant that both parties, the man and the woman involved in th...
imagery perfectly sums up the pressures modern age, as the narrator is too pressed for time to pause and appreciate nature more th...
In seven pages the classical Greek definition of hero as revealed in the epic poems of Homer is discussed....
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...