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Poetry of Langston Hughes

has been to continuously "climb" up the socioeconomic ladder in a culture that is set against her. She advises her son, not to gi...

Robert Frost's Darker Poetry

In thirteen pages this paper examines Robert Frost's dark or melancholy poems from 6 critical perspectives. Seven sources are cit...

War and Its Futility as Conveyed by Poetry

In five pages this paper analyzes war's futility in a comparative poetic analysis of 'Poor Man' and 'WPA.'...

Ethnic Poetry of Tato Laviera and Chitra Divakaruni

all whistle as she seductively moves her hips. The lover-hero of the film dances in, lip syncing to a song, which is "a little off...

Artistic Imagination and the Poetry of William Butler Yeats

Artistic imagination is the focus of this paper consisting of five pages in which W.B. Yeats' poems 'He Tells of the Perfect Beaut...

Love in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich

In five pages this paper analyzes the poems 'At a Bach Concert' and 'History' in an examination of how Adrienne Rich thematically ...

Poets and Poetry of the Renaissance

In ten pages this paper examines the poetic style that emerged during the Renaissance in a consideration of the works by John Donn...

Symbolism and the Poetry of Robert Frost

In seven pages this paper discusses how poet Robert Frost employed symbolism with an analysis of 'Mending Wall.' Five sources are...

Analyzing Tennyson's Poetry

The ways in which Tennyson's poems 'The Palace of Art' and 'The Poet' express the poet's attitudes regarding politics, morality, a...

Aphra Behn's Poetry of Rebellion

In three pages this paper examines Restoration poet Aphra Behn and how her prose rebelled not only against Puritanism but also aga...

Poetry of Dylan Thomas and Robert Frost Compared

In seven pages these two poets are compared in terms of the differences and similarities in Thomas's 'Do Not Go Gently Into That G...

Bridging the West and East with the Poetry of Kahlil Gibran

In ten pages this essay considers Gibran's political, state, and government views in a discussion of The Prophet and The New Front...

Czeslaw Milosz's Life and Poetry

In ten pages this paper examines Czeslaw Milosz's life and analyzes such poetic works as 'A Poem for the End of the Century' and '...

Emily Dickinson's Poetry and Themes of Nature and Death

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the ways in which the poet's views of nature and death are represented in such poems as 'Twas jus...

Emily Dickinson's Views on Death Expressed in Her Poetry

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Emily Dickinson's contention that one should live life to the fullest and not be constrained by f...

Poetry of Christopher Okigbo

The prose of this celebrated Nigerian poet is examined in a research paper consisting of five pages. Four sources are cited in th...

Joy Imagery in the Poetry of John Keats and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

reinforce this impression, as do the alteration of four-stress lines and three-stress lines. We know without really analyzing it t...

Poetry of Homer and Heroism in 'The Odyssey' and 'The Iliad'

the weak and defender of his territory and do whatever he must in the name of survival. A ravenous Odysseus is described by Homer...

Human Conflict and the Poetry of Robert Frost

human conflict is more than apparent. "I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the ...

Othello by William Shakespeare, Direct Prose, and Dramatic Poetry

In a paper consisting of 7 pages Shakespeare's uses of iambic pentameter in his 'good' characters and spoken prose by the 'evil' c...

Rap, Poetry, and Nikki Giovanni's 'Nikki Rosa'

In five pages this paper discusses rap music as a form of poetic expression as represented in Nikki Giovanni's 'Nikki Rosa.' Five...

Black Man's Experience in Langston Hughes' Poetry

In five pages this paper discusses how the black man's experience manifests itself in Langston Hughes' poems. Four sources are ci...

Civil War and the Poetry of Walt Whitman

In five pages this paper discusses how Walt Whitman represented the Civil War in such poems as 'A March in the Ranks Hard Prest an...

Pedro Pietri's Poetry

that this crisis of space and language has been most deeply problematized, and yet where a possible alternative lies for these wri...

Misery in Poetry

ties have ceased to exist. He says that although the world appears to be beautiful, in actuality, it contains "neither joy, nor lo...

Theme of Romantic Love in the Poetry of Felicia Hemans and William Blake

In 10 pages the ways in which romantic love is expressed by each poet is examined in an analysis of William Blake's 'Marriage of H...

Negron-Muntaner/Barbie's Hair

if it was straightened, which is viewed as an "act of self-hatred or conformity" (Negron-Muntaner 45). Within this cultural framew...

Welfare Reform 1996 - The Law And Its Impact

his War on Poverty campaign; it was part of his Great Society movement (Berman and Routh, 2006). Johnsons Great Society plan was a...

Adolescent Motivation To Learn And Achieve

this youngster is challenged with massive physiological and emotional changes. This stage is called: Identity vs. Role Confusion (...

Thoreau/Nature Essays

imposed boundaries. He asks, "What sort of a country is that where the huckleberry fields are private property? When I pass such f...