Essays 31 - 60
This essay focuses on the humor and Irony in Robert Frost's poems. The poems discussed are "Mending Wall," "Stopping by Woods on a...
This essay pertains to a Wilfred Owen's WWI poem that offers stark and vivid repudiation of the Latin phrase that it is sweet to ...
This essay is an explication of "Locked Ward: Newtown, Connecticut" by Rachel Loden. The writer bases this discussion on the assum...
half=way through the stanza, Angelou prefaces giving her reaction with the line "I say," which is followed by her lyrical descript...
was staying in Venice. It was published by Moore in 1830, after Byrons death, in a text he edited, Letters and Journals of Lord By...
In this essay containing five pages the symbolism and imagery similarities in Ammons' poems The Damned, Anxiety's Prosody, Kind, a...
farmer/is first selectman in our village;/shes in her dotage" (lines 4-6). As these lines indicate, the poem is in free verse. B...
the fleetingness of time, but his imagery and argument are more nuanced and complex. He, first of all, advises his mistress that i...
what might be causing the narrators shame. Shame is generally associated with sexual urges. During Frosts lifetime, i.e., the fi...
A 5 page paper which examines one poem from Longfellow, Whitman, and Dickinson. The poems examined are The poets, and their poems,...
appreciate what it means to feel happy? The two most vivid images in this poem are religious in nature and are quite significant ...
ball turret was a plexiglass sphere set into the belly of a B-17 or B-24 [bomber], and inhabited by two .50 caliber machine-guns a...
In four pages the conformity or nonconformity of Coleridge's prose in this poem is compared with the sonnet's and epic poem's trad...
Donne takes a similar view in that he feels the ladys insistence on being concerned about honor is highly illogical, but he goes a...
is not identified as a goddess except for when a servant speaks to Achilles about the legends that have begun to be spun concernin...
the Berlin wall. And we also know that there will be just a "touch" of whimsy about the poem, when it begins with "something ther...
Walt Whitmans Song of Myself is a poem that is not necessarily about any one particular thing, not possessed of one single theme o...
the perceived flaws in their models and so alters their appearance to fit their ideal image. Rossetti seems to find this appalling...
To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was ...
thinks of the woods as property, more then as just a part of the vast natural world. To him, this lovely wood is part of the man-m...
the first place, and what do his "fond regrets" concern? He does not tell us, but merely goes on describing his walk with...
too swollen to wear an expensive pair of Italian loafers, he presents them to Birkerts, who, initially, wears them, as they looked...
of Spiritus Mundi" (Yeats, 1920). "Spiritus Mundi" can be translated as the "Spirit of the Universe" which Yeats saw as holding i...
a "reject button" and she is pregnant with a Xerox machine (Piercy). The last lines of the poem give the reader the point: "File m...
11). After this section the dinner party clearly moves to the Drawing-Room wherein a woman who sits with fire reflecting her jewel...
different than the perspectives of the world at the time. Near the beginning of Manriques poem he states, "Let none be self-delud...
(VII). In this he is telling Beowulf that he had many apparently noble men claiming they would get rid of the beast but they drank...
In five pages the symbolism of master and slave is applied to the destructive marital relationship described in the poem....
In five pages some of Emily Dickinson's poems that celebrate her passion for nature are examined....
In seven pages the classical Greek definition of hero as revealed in the epic poems of Homer is discussed....