Essays 151 - 180
"I am the people, the mob." In this, we share a similar sentiment. However, your work expresses a much more accepting and optimist...
the gods high-heeled walking wounded" (pp. 239). She was born in Boston, the daughter of a university professor and one of his gra...
savagery which slavery brought with it. Notice in this passage how the belles traits are given, then immediately juxtaposed with t...
In five pages this paper examines how Houston promotes drama and literature through theater and writers groups and considers their...
would end without seeing "half my days thats due" (line 13). This suggests that Bradstreet is giving birth in middle age, which s...
. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has...
water, boiling my limbs panting, begging I clutched childlike, clutched to the hot sides of death (Wright, 2003)....
beginning, feels like he is in a position of complete helplessness. His father has been gone nearly 20 years and he is forced to d...
As Tom was a sleeping he had such a sight!/ That thousands of sweepers Dick, Joe, Ned, & Jack,/ Were all of them lockd up in coffi...
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...
lessons of life the Great Depression had imposed upon my Father, but this was a new twist to a very tired story. The impact of the...
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 seven pages this paper examines what constitutes 'love poetry' in a consideration of the poetic works of Purdy, Johnson, Browni...
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...
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...
the expense of building the latest craze in architecture -- "...to punish awkward pride,/ Bids Bubo build, and send him such a gu...
(Scire et. al., 2002). Ungarettis accomplishments would be numerous. He would start writing after joining the Italian ar...
primarily agricultural pursuits to one which depended almost solely on complex machinery. The simpler hand tools which had been s...
was someone who, as Derek Walcott classified him, was ". . . the icon of Yankee values, the smell of wood smoke, the sparkle of de...
examined in several of his later animal poems the themes of survival and the mystery and destructiveness of the cosmos" (Anonymous...
is T.S. Eliots The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Through the adroit use of metaphor Eliot invites the reader to undertake a jo...
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...
to its logical conclusion, reasoning, that there was nothing in the power of humanity capable of effecting personal salvation. The...
a vase and ask of what the pictures speak: "Thou still unravishd bride of quietness, / Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,...
work, moreover, carries with it an element of purging oneself of the terrible things that must prowl in their memories and refuse ...
rather than reality. This conclusion was probably made through the poets use of the repetition of the word "if." Any piece of lit...
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...