Essays 271 - 300
This essay analyzes two poems by Hughes, "Theme for English B" and "Let America Be America Again." The writer asserts that "Theme"...
of the monarchy due to his support of the Commonwealth (John Milton). Married three times, he spent his later years dictating to h...
This essay summarizes several essays in the Longwood Reader. The paper provides the major points and support as well as the reader...
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...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Browning's "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point". Short essay responses to discuss...
In one page this essay analyzes Dickinson's poem in terms of symbolism, imagery, and theme with an evaluation of her employment of...
This research paper/essay discusses parallel themes in three works: Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet' and his poem "The ...
In five pages this essay considers the poem from several different interpretations. One source is cited in the bibliography....
a good face." His voice is directly personal as he enumerates the many faults of "thy Flavia." He reminds the man who would marry...
questions rather than declarative sentences. Also Hansen (2002) points out that the tentative "maybe," which is part of this sole...
Chicago are? Who knows?" Yet, there are evocative images that conjure images of the people that live there -- workers with big sho...
In other words, to be a woman outside the accepted societal role for women is not to be a woman. As this indicates, any woman wh...
poem despite the metaphysical airs assumed by Michael Robartes. In this poem, Yeats expresses the concept that can be concisely ...
/ So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep" (lines 3-4 11290). In the next stanza a small boy is upset because all of his hair h...
seemed inseparable. A true friend, in other words, wishes for another person the highest possible good. This sort of friendship i...
17). While this image is certainly chilling, the overall tone of the poem is one of "civility," which is actually expressed in lin...
serves to draw the readers attention to this word and give it added emphasis. They break up the lines in such a way that mimics th...
(line 5). As this illustrates, the second stanza builds the tension even further as this comment intimates that this death is par...
questions Gods intentions. The capitalization of "He" suggests an allusion to Christ, whose suffering, both mentally and physica...
romantic poetry it that the emphasis was always on emotions, rather than reason. William Wordsworth, a fellow Romantic, defined "g...
as, first of all knows her place, and, secondly was divinely inspired. In the antebellum era, it was illegal for slaves to be tau...
shivering in the gale/ The bark unfurls her snowy sail/ And whistling oer the bending mast/Loud sings n high the freshning blast" ...
12, Whitman was indoctrinated in the printers trade (AAP). It was at this time that he fell in love with words, and began to read ...
of mortal men exceeding fair" (18.490). The image of "two cities" mirrors the basic plot of the Iliad, which is a ten-year-long ...
her well" (lines 4-8). This substantiates the forgiveness and understanding that the speaker already has indicated towards his fat...
the Duchess to show pleasure. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Wheneer I passed her, but who passed without Much the same smile? Th...
without becoming a casualty of war. For one brief moment amid the regularity of hell in the trenches, Baumer is overcome wi...
consider myself a failed woman and a failed poet, or to try to find some synthesis by which to understand what was happening to me...
20). The lyricism and imagery in this opening section are romantic, seductive and certain to appeal to the ego of any woman. Howev...
describes the Tiger beetle, which is "often brightly patterned" in a manner that looks "like small jewels" (Russell 222). Her desc...