Essays 241 - 270
awhile as an architect before devoting himself to literature as a full-time vocation. He married in 1874, and within ten years, t...
to Leaves of Grass-certainly more perfect as a work of art, being adjusted in all its proportions . . . But I am perhaps mainly sa...
This paper defines poetry and considers its development and various structures in four pages with Ogden Nash and Emily Dickinson's...
my pagan land,/ Taught my beknighted soul to understand/That theres a God" (Wheatley wheatley.html). Wheatleys struggle with the ...
In six pages this paper examines how poetry can be used to express a poet's crisis in 'Lady Lazarus' by Sylvia Plath and 'My Life ...
years old, he decided to change his life. Selling his farm and quitting his job, he moved to England to pursue a career as a poet....
In five pages this research paper examines the negative capability theory of John Keats as it is reflected in his poetry with his ...
In two pages this research paper considers how negative capability is featured in the poetry of John Keats. Four sources are cite...
In six pages this paper examines changing critical assessments of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poetry from past to present in a consider...
In eight pages this paper discusses Emerson's poetry not for its original thinking but for the philosophical crossroads his works ...
that Eliot was a highly bigoted individual as both a racist and an anti-Semitic. According to Julius, Eliot was the type of artis...
In five pages this paper considers how children with parents and without are compared in the social commentary featured in this co...
This paper considers how the poet's life was negatively impacted by religion and circumstances as revealed in his collection of po...
This paper analyzes the Romantic aspects of William Blake's 19th century poetry in a discussion of Songs of Innocence poems 'The C...
rationalism, a common symbolic and mythic language, the veneration of creative Imagination, an expressive aesthetic, and an organi...
across and give his readers food for thought. In a reading provided by a student, Helen Vaudler suggests that Herberts poetry is i...
In ten pages this paper examines how the poet's proclaimed ambivalence about religion is undercut by the religious references in h...
In six pages this report discusses how religion manifests itself in John Donne's love poetry with the soul's passions and spiritua...
this household, Emilys early life was a contradiction in itself, for she received no guidance from a mother that did not "care for...
In ten pages this paper discusses the poetry of Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate of England until his 1998 death at age sixty eight. Six...
In five pages this paper examines the life and poetry of Maya Angelou including the classic I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Seve...
In seven pages this Spanish Nobel Laureate is discussed in terms of his life and poetry. Five sources are cited in the bibliograp...
In six pages the romanticism featured in the evocative love poetry of John Donne is examined. Nine sources are cited in the biblio...
This research paper describes five websites that pertain to J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and can be used in instructing students in...
In four pages this paper discusses how these song lyrics by Peter Gabriel can be regarded as poetry that is independent from the m...
In five pages this paper examines the importance of memory to the Native American cultural experience in a consideration of memory...
even to the edge of doom" (Shakespeare 9-12). In the end he claims that if he is wrong then he never wrote and no man ever loved. ...
nonsense poem is to not try to understand it at all. In other words, reading the poem outloud, rather than reading it to oneself, ...
the gods high-heeled walking wounded" (pp. 239). She was born in Boston, the daughter of a university professor and one of his gra...
Fourth, while previous generations of poets felt that poetry should address noble or epic topics, the Romantics glorified the bea...