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'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,' Justice and Mercy

In 7 pages this paper examines the concepts of justice and mercy as they are portrayed in this anonymous poem of the 14th century....

Poetically Viewing Women

In five pages Matthew Arnold's poem Dover Beach is compared with James Joyce's Araby and Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 to disccus the co...

Hecht's 'Dover Bitch' and Arnold's 'Dover Beach'

In a paper consisting of 5 pages these poems are compared and contrasted in terms of determining one's relationship to the other. ...

Michael Ondaatje's 'Elizabeth'

In five pages Ondaatje's depiction of the Virgin Queen Elizabeth I is examined within the context of his poem. There are no refer...

'Snake' by D.H. Lawrence

In five pages this poem of D.H. Lawrence's is compared with a reader's first reaction as compared to second and third readings tha...

Countee Cullen's 'Heritage' and African American Ancestry Perceptions

widely differing cultures. The very first line of "Heritage", a line that asks "What is Africa to me", reveals the nature of the ...

'Americana and the American Renaissance' by Wallace Stevens

In 5 pages this 1950 poem serves as a reflection on the American literary Renaissance characterized by Walt Whitman and Ralph Wald...

Sylvia Plath and Toni Morrison on the Self Actualization of Women

This paper examines the self actualization of women in an analysis of the poems 'Daddy' and 'Mirror' by Sylvia Plath and the novel...

An Analysis of Robert Frost's Stopping By Woods

This paper analyzes one of Frost's most famous works, which many critics interpret as Frost's own longing for death. However the ...

Unspeakable in Anna Akhmatova's 'Requiem' and Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares how human nature's 'unspeakable' dark side is portrayed in this poem and play. Fou...

'The Flea' by John Donne

In five pages religious satire, the notion of metaphysical conceit, argument, and metaphor are all considered within the context o...

Langston Hughes's 'I Too' and Walt Whitman's 'I Hear America Singing' Poetry Comparison

each line to have a variety of meanings. Perhaps there is symbolism, simile or metaphor lurking in his descriptions. If not, would...

'On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough' by John Milton

can start by noticing what occurs in the first stanza. Milton begins the work as follows: "Fairest flower no sooner blown but blas...

Comparison of Alfred LordTennyson's 'The Passing of Arthur' and 'Morte d'Arthur'

In 12 pages these Tennyson poems are contrasted and compared. There are 12 sources cited in the bibliography....

Poetry and War

In five pages this paper mentions the poems 'To Lucasta' by Richard Lovelace and 'Dover Beach' by Matthew Arnold in this contrast ...

Comparative Analysis of William Blake 'Songs' of Innocence and Experience

Academy (Richardson). Blakes first published volume of written work was "Poetical Sketches," which appeared in 1783 (Richardson)....

Robert Louis Stevenson and Shel Silverstein: Child Poetry

Good Play" the poem is far more simplistic in relationship to how children think and play as the poems narrator states, "We built ...

Anne Bradstreet’s “The Prologue”

presents the understanding of how she will write what she knows, what is particular to her and her experiences and perceptions, st...

Gunther/Death Be Not Proud

A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...

Analyzing 'To a Waterfowl' and 'Thanaptopsis' by William Cullen Bryant

In five pages the ways in which these poems represent the development of American literature and how they reflect the 19th century...

"A Far Cry from Africa"

Latino, classical and contemporary" (Bixby, 2000). His later work reveal a man "who has learned his craft from the European tradit...

T.S. Eliot Before and After Conversion

an old man for the life he will soon be leaving and a world filled with evil and corruption. His description of the city is one of...

The Gods of the Iliad and the Bhagavad-Gita

without specifically worrying about success or failure, "they cannot be stained by action" (Harrison, 1996). Hearing this, Arjuna ...

Poe: "Annabel Lee"

was a child and I was a child, / In this kingdom by the sea, / But we loved with a love that was more than love-- / I and...

"For the Union Dead"

confuse free verse with sloppiness. The tone of the poem ("tone" can best be understood as the attitude the speaker has toward his...

Materialism: Sen and Sand

does not have a job people envision him as a beggar. But, at the same time there is an understanding that he is doing a Holy mans ...

"Hugh Selwyn Mauberley"

However, the meaning is obscure and the student will have to pursue the tranlsation with more sophisticated tools than are availab...

Edward Taylor and Anne Bradstreet: Love

My Dear and Loving Husband" and "In Reference To Her Children 23 June, 1659" as well as Taylors "My Spouse" and "Upon Wedlock, and...

Pablo Neruda: A Soldier Sleeps

But, the poem examines the life and struggles of a soldier as he lays sleeping, and clearly bloodied and examining his cause. It s...

Aztec Poetry

in the way the political world was playing out in the conquest. And clearly he argues that the poetry was never simple. This seems...