Essays 241 - 270
a world of what might have been is not healthy. Therefore, he is suggesting that when one determines a course of action, that one ...
In five pages this paper presents a critical analysis of Sylvia Plath's poem 'Lady Lazarus.' Four pages are cited in the bibliogr...
"obey God; nor trust in him; nor confess that nothing is our own" (White 218). There is nothing, literally nothing, that the narra...
This paper offers a summary, analysis and background information on Rafeef Ziadah's poem "Shades of Anger," which expresses the po...
has been to continuously "climb" up the socioeconomic ladder in a culture that is set against her. She advises her son, not to gi...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these poems in an analysis of each poet's voice and how it is influenced by imager...
road that was not as well traveled. The grass being green and not trampled tells the reader that few people coming to that crossro...
In five pages the spiritual aspects of Lorna Goodison's poetry are the focus of this analysis of the symbolism, language, and styl...
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...
regards to both cherries and grapes. Her lips as "curved" like cherries and "full" like grape bunches, but they are "sweet" like ...
really saw his last wife as a person in her own right, but rather regarded her just one more beautiful "object" that he owned and ...
questions rather than declarative sentences. Also Hansen (2002) points out that the tentative "maybe," which is part of this sole...
In five pages this essay examines William Wordsworth's poetic substance and form as represented by the poem 'The World is Too Much...
In eleven pages this essay explicates Keats' nineteenth century poem in a consideration of life experiences, language, and poetic ...
In five pages this essay ponders how religious faith in poetry represents the time periods in which it was composed in an examinat...
In five pages this essay analyzes this poem and the impacts of connecting to a particular place on human relationships. There is ...
This essay provides a reading of the classic Cummings' poem, "somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond." The aut...
In five pages this essay analyzes the theme of loneliness as it is presented in 'The Whitsun Weddings,' 'Toad's Revisited,' and 'M...
This research paper/essay offers a detailed explication of a poem written by Robert Bly in 1981 entitled My Father's Wedding. The ...
popularity until his death. It is true that his poetry reflects a growing resentment of his critics and an apparent acceptance of...
In two pages this essay analyzes this love poem in terms of the poet's descriptive language and its emotional attributes. There i...
In three pages this essay examines how women are manufactured as described by Marge Piercy in this powerful poem. One source is c...
me leading wherever I choose. Out of the Cradle is a much slower-moving poem. It begins with the poet recalling a childhood ...
best or the worst and the critic could not decide which. Consider these two excerpts from the same critique, the first is in respo...
mentions herself once, which is when she says that she stood on the sand bluff that overlook the site of the Sand Creek massacre. ...
B.C. when it was a sparsely population area (Pearson Education 2008). The Nok culture is known to have resided there between 800 B...
unconquerable by time. Nevertheless, as their love is as fallible and mortal as they are, poem 11 shows the depth of Catullus pa...
without becoming a casualty of war. For one brief moment amid the regularity of hell in the trenches, Baumer is overcome wi...