Essays 181 - 210
poets position in this family situation -- my mothers hand opens in early grave and i hold it out like a good daughter." This imag...
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 ...
In five pages this essay examines William Wordsworth's poetic substance and form as represented by the poem 'The World is Too Much...
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...
In eleven pages this essay explicates Keats' nineteenth century poem in a consideration of life experiences, language, and poetic ...
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 ...
Road Not Taken" can be viewed as an evaluation of his decisions that the poet takes at midlife. Frost describes standing in a "ye...
This research paper/essay offers a detailed explication of a poem written by Robert Bly in 1981 entitled My Father's Wedding. The ...
In a paper consisting of 10 pages the aethetic, scientific, and sociopolitical influences on Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is considere...
As Emanuel describes the interior of the car, and her reluctance to ride in it, she employs language that suggests that the car is...
In the first half of the poem, Marvell describes time as he would have it if he could. He states, "Had we but world enough and tim...
the Duchess to show pleasure. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Wheneer I passed her, but who passed without Much the same smile? Th...
without becoming a casualty of war. For one brief moment amid the regularity of hell in the trenches, Baumer is overcome wi...
since the Middle Ages as the models for literature at its grandest" (McDaniel 1-15pope.htm). It is a general consensus that Popes ...
of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...
of mortal men exceeding fair" (18.490). The image of "two cities" mirrors the basic plot of the Iliad, which is a ten-year-long ...
her well" (lines 4-8). This substantiates the forgiveness and understanding that the speaker already has indicated towards his fat...
of the living (Schneider 834-835). In other words, someone in hell is only willing to expose his shameful state "to another of t...
devices not only within the line in which it occurs, but also between lines. Also in regards to these lines, while the poet refe...
best or the worst and the critic could not decide which. Consider these two excerpts from the same critique, the first is in respo...
accurately and appropriately described as of a "shared identity." However, that shared identity also has a level of uncertainty w...
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 ...
In five pages this essay considers the poem from several different interpretations. One source is cited in the bibliography....
a good face." His voice is directly personal as he enumerates the many faults of "thy Flavia." He reminds the man who would marry...
In two pages this essay analyzes this love poem in terms of the poet's descriptive language and its emotional attributes. There i...
popularity until his death. It is true that his poetry reflects a growing resentment of his critics and an apparent acceptance of...
In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Alexie's poem, "At the Trial of Hamlet, Chicago, 1994". Several discussion questions ...