Essays 421 - 450
scanned text files, featured a scanned version Frank St. Vincents important exposition of the poem that was first published in Exp...
question that cannot be logically answered "puzzles scholars," while perfectly ordinary people are able to accept it as it is, as ...
of his mind and spirit working in tandem to overcome natures obstacles as well as the more primitive creatures on the Earth. Frost...
argued that poetry is the expression of ones very soul, encompassing many emotions, feelings and desires that can range from one e...
a feast of rejoicing, as well as to keep himself clean and well groomed; he is to cherish his children and his wife (Radcliffe PG)...
propelling them forward, as does the rhyme and the rhythm. The steady short-long cadence of the rhythm is, in this context, like a...
smooth stone/ That overlays the pile; and, from a bag/ All white with flour, the dole of village dames,/ He drew his scraps and fr...
This paper consists of four pages and discusses the characterization of the speaker and the poem's connotation, rhythm, diction, a...
This 4 page paper gives an overview of the poem “To his Excellency General Washington”, by Phillis Wheatley. This paper includes h...
In three pages Bradstreet's poems are evaluated by metaphysical and neoclassical criteria to determine that her poems are predomin...
In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at "Tithonus". The theme of immortality is examined through looking at the poem's mechan...
Wheatleys poem begins, "Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,/ Taught my benighted soul to understand/ That theres a God, that...
God and religion for answers to life struggles in a sense. Bradstreets poem begins as she slowly comes to sink into the fact that ...
gangrenous toe that her father had to have amputated and which, later, led directly to his death (127). The image of the "Frisco s...
This paper looks at Dickinson's views about and relationship with nature through a reading of several of her poems. The author lo...
In six pages an explication of 'Annabel Lee' considers how the rhythm of the rhyme, word repetition, and setting/imagery articulat...
read into the poem a bit more and might surmise that this boy is rather insecure and needs his girl to be seen by others in a posi...
of balance. The Knight carries the potential for both peace and war. They are intimately bound to one another, it should be said, ...
evening. Then there is nighttime. In this poem, the last thing that occurs is that the baby is put into bed with his mother. There...
The writer discusses the connection between the Old English epic poem Beowulf and today's rap culture. The writer argues that alth...
at the same time the calmness of it all makes it quite dramatic. The narrator does not see the action as dramatic, however, and si...
to believe that his elevated social standing makes him actually superior to anyone else. This perception definitely includes his w...
and taken blood from both. He tries to convince her that to give in to him, to give him herself, has been ultimately blessed by th...
object and made it extraordinary: "the tomato offers/ its gift/ of fiery color/ and cool completeness" (82-85). Ode to a Storm: T...
opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...
In 5 pages this paper discusses how Wordsworth and Hopkins perceived nature as God-like and powerful in beauty with a consideratio...
In three pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of birds in Walt Whitman's poem 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' and ...
values within, England holds itself it is in less than positive light. Indeed, it can readily be argued that this is his right an...
In five pages love as represented by Andrew Marvell in his poem 'The Definition of Love' is compared and contrasted with the poem ...
/ And every fair from fair sometimes declines, / By chance, or natures changing course untrimmd; / But thy eternal summer shall no...