Essays 121 - 150
In nine pages this paper analyzes the poetry of John Donne and John Milton in terms of the metaphysical aspects of each poet's wor...
In six pages this paper analyzes some examples of irony and humor found in Caribbean poetry. Three sources are cited in the bibli...
In six pages the influence of Emerson upon Whitman's poetry is examined with the primary focus being 'Song of Myself' and poetic l...
In seven pages this paper discusses Robert Frost's nature poetry in terms of what it has to say about humanity. Six sources are c...
world wars. Modernism According to Gelpi (1990), "the Modernist period, bracketed by the two world wars, bore a complicated and a...
In ten pages this paper discusses the common spiritual and physical themes that are evident throughout the poetry of Emily Dickins...
rather than reality. This conclusion was probably made through the poets use of the repetition of the word "if." Any piece of lit...
and it is something that may be thought peculiar to his Paterson experience, but it is something that many people around the world...
array of individuals that Whitman clearly associated himself with as perhaps an American. He states, "I am enamourd of growing out...
take on religion and his faith which would later lead to his renouncing the Catholic Church (Jokinen). In many ways Donne ...
in the way the political world was playing out in the conquest. And clearly he argues that the poetry was never simple. This seems...
sanctioned as proper for women, Bradstreets work did not go against the norms of Puritan society. However, they do often emphasize...
of dealing with this new and frightening situation (Modernism, 2002). The modernist poets had a much more disillusioned worldview ...
with subjects such as science, as well as religion and morality (Bradstreet, Anne Dudley (1612?-1672)). "However, her best poems d...
to start a disturbance in the street when he visits the thief the second time. When the man goes to the window, Dupin grabs the le...
opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...
In five pages this poetry collection by Hayden Carruth is analyzed. Six other sources are cited in the bibliography....
as if women were alien creatures, and not like men at all. In addition to looking at this the Lady of Shallot in particular, a st...
capturing the experiences of childhood. Wordsworths theories of romantic poetic structure have been both accepted and highly crit...
does seem that when analyzing genres, Callimachean poetry comes up quite often and seems to challenge the essence of the works. Wh...
has to "face the men of the time" and "think about war," in order to "construct a new stage" (Of Modern Poetry...Stevens). What St...
The very nature of such a situation requires that the primary character survive that which the reader is not sure he or she could ...
to play his part in society as a whole. However, he also maintained that the only way in which human beings could discover the tru...
Hunt conveys her message in a type of rapid New York "urban speak," which is specifically intended to jolt the readers passivity. ...
to its logical conclusion, reasoning, that there was nothing in the power of humanity capable of effecting personal salvation. The...
is the goddess of earthly love; she goes back at least to the Greeks, who called her Aphrodite. In the second poem, the "King" ref...
cities and the space of the regions in and out" (Spahr 6). The following paper examines how Spahr questions the reader, urging the...
Fourth, while previous generations of poets felt that poetry should address noble or epic topics, the Romantics glorified the bea...
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, ...