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'Tam o'Shanter' by Robert Burns

In five pages this poem by Scottish poet Robert Burns is analyzed with its satirical elements and similarities to Chaucer duly not...

Robert Burns' Poetry and Poetic Devices

In five pages 5 of Robert Burns' poems are analyzed in terms of metrical structure and literary devices including 'Robert Bruce's ...

To Seize the Moment in Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress'

In five pages this paper discusses making the most out of each day in an analysis of the poem 'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marv...

Forugh Farrokhzad, Iranian Poet

In eight pages this paper examines this much loved Iranian poet in a social consideration of 'Border Walls' provided with the incl...

Comparative Poetic Analysis of 'Facing It' by Yusef Komunyakaa and 'Dulce Et Decorum' by Wilfred Owen

timeframe or the conflict. Both clearly make the point that a person is forever changed by war. Interestingly, both use similar ...

The River Merchant's Wife by Ezra Pound

In five pages this essay considers the poem from several different interpretations. One source is cited in the bibliography....

Meter in 'Kitchenette Building' by Gwendolyn Brooks

In five pages this short poem by Gwendolyn Brooks is analyzed in terms of meter, tone, and dramatic situation. One source is cite...

The Life and Works of Federico Garcia Lorca

This paper examines the works of the Twentieth Century Spanish poet, Federico Garcia Lorca. The author provides a brief biography...

The Grotesque in Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire

In five pages the way in which Baudelaire employs the grotesque in these short poems are examined. There are many secondary sourc...

The 'Essay on Man' by Alexander Pope

In fifteen pages this narrative poem is analyzed in terms of its depiction of the eighteenth century man with each of the four sec...

Romantic English Poet William Blake

This paper analyzes the Romantic aspects of William Blake's 19th century poetry in a discussion of Songs of Innocence poems 'The C...

God's 'Nature' According to Emily Dickinson and William Blake

In a paper consisting of five pages the attitudes of these poets regarding God are discussed in terms of how they are reflected in...

Analysis: Browning and Wordsworth

the Portuguese," the title of which is a veiled reference to her husbands pet nickname for her, inspired by her dark coloring whic...

Nature Theme in the Poetry of William Wordsworth

most enthusiastic, and probably the most complete celebration of the myth of nature. The popular conception of Wordsworths att...

Browning/My Last Duchess

This research paper addresses Browning's famous poem, My Last Duchess, as epitomizing poetic monologue structure. While derived fr...

Child Neglect Theme in 'The Chimney Sweeper' by William Blake

That this was an accepted practice makes it no less a neglectful situation; in fact, it only serves to set up the child in a more ...

Critical Evaluations of Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley

In six pages this paper examines changing critical assessments of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poetry from past to present in a consider...

'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge II

In five pages this paper discusses symbolism and structure as it relates to this famous poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Five sou...

2 Perspectives on 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot

In five pages Michael L. Baumann's and Elisabeth Schneider's perspectives on T.S. Eliot's famous poem are contrasted and compared....

Alienation Theme in 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot

In four pages this paper examines how emotional alienation is thematically developed by T.S. Eliot in this 1919 poem through image...

Time in The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

understand, and its relation to the twentieth century even more so. But it is important to recognize that even though the first kn...

Water Symbolism in The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

everything has been parched almost to nonexistence. The stanza closes with a line from a German translation of Tristan and Isolde,...

Changing Times and Changing Interpretations of 'The Waste Land' by T.S. Eliot

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares criticisms of this poem by T.S. Eliot and the changing interpretations that have t...

Donna Masini's Poetry

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the free verse and sexuality, relationships, and family themes featured in 3 of Do...

'Woodchucks' by Maxine Kumin

little bit of cyanide gas, and awake to begin eating the farmers vegetables. The verbs used to describe what the woodchucks did t...

Analysis of 'Under Milk Wood' by Dylan Thomas

In three pages this poem is analyzed in its depiction of loving women, the life cycle, death's inevitability, and the loss of inno...

Dylan Thomas's 'Fern Hill' and Revisiting Childhood

In five pages this poem is analyzed in terms of the poet's employment of imagery and the reasons for its complexity. Two sources ...

'Sunday Morning' by Wallace Stevens, The Profane and the Sacred

In three pages this paper analyzes the sacred and the profane Wallace Stevens represents in the poem 'Sunday Morning.' There are ...

Poetry of Robert Frost and Self Discovery

In six pages this paper examines the theme of self discovery featured in Robert Frost's poems 'Desert Places' and 'Stopping by Woo...

Personal Journey Undertaken in 'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost

have been unaware of the fact that the poems secondary meaning was particularly germane to his own life. Frost, as narrator, notes...