Essays 661 - 690
This essay pertains to "Ode to Psyche" and "The Eve of St. Agnes" by John Keats, and compares the two poems. Five pages in length...
This essay pertains to Shakespeare's "Othello" and Rudyard Kipling's poem "If-," which lists various qualities that are required t...
This essay answers three question. The first pertains to the arguments presented to Achilles on why he should fight, the second li...
This essay discusses 3 works: which are a poem by Gwendolyn Brook, "The Beam Eaters"; a short story by Kate Chopin, "The Story of ...
This research paper/essay discusses the "Iliad" and the "Aeneid" as two epic poems that mirror the values of Greek and Roman socie...
In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at "Goblin Market". Social and Biblical interpretations are presented for the poem. Pap...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "A Subaltern's Love Song" by Betjeman. Symbols of post-colonial significance are de...
This essay analyzes Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" and John Donne's "The Flea" and offers the writer's reaction to these a...
Suicide and self-negation as performance art are examined in a critical analysis of Sylvia Plath's 1962 poem, "Lady Lazarus" in a ...
dew that falls at night as weeping for the demise of day, "For thou must die" (Herbert line 4). The second stanza focuses on the...
shared her names (Cisneros, 1987). This places a poetic emphasis on the lack of personal efficacious power women experienced in th...
practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaste...
much that is god-like in human beings. It is humanity hes celebrating. Kuebrich believes "that Whitmans work is not only religio...
for either side. However, even though the plot is simple, the way the poem is written is deliberately heroic, and is very much ...
(Corey and Corey 180). For heterosexuals and homosexuals alike, "Love is elusive... a goal we rarely achieve and, when we do, fin...
director, "having created us alive, then no longer wished, or was he able, to put us materially into a work of art. And this, sir,...
has died. Beginning in the third stanza, the poet discusses the death and again addresses the deceased directly. He says the youn...
soon scaped worlds and fleshs rage" (Jonson 6-7). In this the reader sees a rationalization that almost seems to be envy as the na...
the "music" of nature and is part of a continuous cycle. This poem concludes "How can we know the dancer from the dance" (line 64)...
says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...
In sage debates...To save the state" (Homer Book I). The reader begins to see that Telemachus is not wise enough to be prepared fo...
stories they remember from men who are from an older generation. Barker (1993) highlights the psychological effects of this popul...
a mystical quality that makes us think about what shes saying. Shes packed a lot of thought into a very few lines. The poem is par...
about being killed in war, or losing a friend in the war, but also how one can lose themselves to such a degree that death is the ...
the person who is coming home from work: Chin then directly enters into the conversation as an outside voice addressing the "Bab...
trees will give no shelter and the crickets, no relief" (Wasteland by TS Eliot). When looking at this particular reference one c...
are not representative of nature and he finds refreshment and nourishment in his memories, and now in his seeing nature again. ...
the Body, that is, as the force that gives the Body motion and life. However, Marvell stipulates in parenthesis that "(A fever cou...
as it relates to obsession and silent women. The poem begins, very pleasantly as the narrator seems to merely be giving the li...
than they did many years ago, that people who appear happy and content are not always happy and content. Being wealthy and handsom...