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'Song of Myself,' 'When I Read the Book,' and 'One's Self I Sing' by Walt Whitman

With the plain-speaking simplicity that was his trademark, Whitman constructed this poem in such a rhythmic way that it could be s...

Phillis Wheatley's Poetry

the population in America at the time would have preferred to not know that a black woman was capable of such complex and abstract...

'Daddy' by Sylvia Plath

a foot For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breathe or Achoo"(Plath...

Suzanne Vega's Poem 'Playing'

their ultimate dream. And, the reference to the show indicates an imaginative perspective of life in general. There is an imaginat...

Unique Voice of Sandra Cisneros

the reader what Esperanza is thinking and feeling at the most important moments in her life, but other than that exact moment, the...

Literature and Dangerous Male Cultural Socialization

now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...

A Critique of Robert Frost's 'Acquainted with the Night'

about having gone out in rain and back again, which represents sorrow and tears. In other words, he has seen many people pass away...

'The Sun Rising' by John Donne

clearly seen in the following lines from Donnes poem: "Thy beams, so reverend and strong/ Why shouldst thou think?" (Donne 11-12)....

Life in America and the Works of William Carlos Williams and Carl Sandburg

Chicago are? Who knows?" Yet, there are evocative images that conjure images of the people that live there -- workers with big sho...

'Harlem' by Langston Hughes

questions rather than declarative sentences. Also Hansen (2002) points out that the tentative "maybe," which is part of this sole...

A Reading of Emily Dickinson's Poem #632

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...

Emily Dickinson, Popular Music, and Death Fascination

17). While this image is certainly chilling, the overall tone of the poem is one of "civility," which is actually expressed in lin...

Death in 2 Poems by Seamus Heaney

(line 5). As this illustrates, the second stanza builds the tension even further as this comment intimates that this death is par...

A Reading of Emily Dickinson's 'After Great Pain…'

questions Gods intentions. The capitalization of "He" suggests an allusion to Christ, whose suffering, both mentally and physica...

Romanticism and 'Ode to a Grecian Urn' by John Keats

romantic poetry it that the emphasis was always on emotions, rather than reason. William Wordsworth, a fellow Romantic, defined "g...

'Apparently With No Surprise' by Emily Dickinson

In one page this essay analyzes Dickinson's poem in terms of symbolism, imagery, and theme with an evaluation of her employment of...

Comparing Three Works Thematically

This research paper/essay discusses parallel themes in three works: Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet' and his poem "The ...

'Michael Robartes and the Dancer' by Irish Poet William Butler Yeats

poem despite the metaphysical airs assumed by Michael Robartes. In this poem, Yeats expresses the concept that can be concisely ...

Gender and Death in 4 Poems by Anne Sexton

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...

Three Poems by William Blake

/ 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...

'The Anagram' by John Donne

a good face." His voice is directly personal as he enumerates the many faults of "thy Flavia." He reminds the man who would marry...

The River Merchant's Wife by Ezra Pound

In five pages this essay considers the poem from several different interpretations. One source is cited in the bibliography....

Howard Hawks' His Girl Friday (1940)

This essay provides analysis of several aspects of this 1940 screwball comedy directed by Howard Hawks. The analysis focuses on as...

John Keats, "Ode to Psyche" and "Eve of St. Agnes"

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...

Rudyard Kipling's "If" and Othello

This essay pertains to Shakespeare's "Othello" and Rudyard Kipling's poem "If-," which lists various qualities that are required t...

Analysis of Major Credit Card Company

compared to Visas average of $2,470 and MasterCards average of $1,960. This is all part of their brand image marketing. When Ame...

Global Corporate Citizenship

and education services, corporate activities affect everything from air and water quality to the "availability of life-saving drug...

Societal Criticism, Browning and Swift

This essay pertains to Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," published in 1729, and Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess, Ferra...

Fredrick Douglass, "Learning to Read and Write"

This essay pertains to Fredrick Douglass's essay "Learning to Read and Write" and offers analysis. Three pages in length, three so...

The World is Too Much with Us/William Wordsworth

other words, Wordsworth bemoans the materialistic nature of his society, which is a feature of Western society that continues into...