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The World is Too Much with Us/William Wordsworth

other words, Wordsworth bemoans the materialistic nature of his society, which is a feature of Western society that continues into...

"The last Night that She Lived:" An Analysis of Comprehending Death According to Emily Dickinson

so-called loved ones seem to have gathered expecting to witness something memorably catastrophic, almost as if they seek to be ent...

Comparison of Birkerts' "Brown Loafers"/Rector's "Handmade Shoes"

too swollen to wear an expensive pair of Italian loafers, he presents them to Birkerts, who, initially, wears them, as they looked...

Overview of Book of Songs

a whole" (Yu 380). These natural images are used to open each stanza, as Yu notes that there are "three tetrasyllabic stanzas of f...

Taoist Poetry: A Photographic Analysis

is an ancient collection of philosophical principles presented in a poetic fashion. It has been maintained and circulated since th...

Homer, The Iliad and Death

original adventure stories; Indiana Jones has nothing on Odysseus, Achilles, Ajax and the rest of the characters who struggled on ...

John Donne’s Flea

also says that the flea is swollen with their blood (there is a strong suggestion here of the way male and female genitalia swell ...

Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold

misery" (lines 17-18). By the fourth stanza, the positive attitude of the first lines is completely gone, as the speaker compares ...

DRUG ADDICTION AND CULTURAL REFERENCES IN HAYDEN’S “SOLEDAD”

Dust, in 1940 (Robert Hayden). Accolades and awards followed (including being the first African-American to be named Poet Laureate...

Mending Wall by Robert Frost

reader feels privy to the inner reflections of the narrative voice, as he engages in the task of "walking the line" (line 13) and ...

Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock/Eliot

Song is an aging man who longs for love, particularly courtly love that fits with his expectations of both women and love....

Poe's The Raven

but was kicked out due to his gambling debts (Liukkonen). As a result, John Allan would disown him (Liukkonen). It was in 1826 tha...

Frost and Lennon/McCartney - A Poetic Comparison

in insular imaginary games the whole way. The narrator suggests that the two of them stop rebuilding the wall and question for onc...

Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe

1836 he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year old cousin and went to Philadelphia to edit Burtons Gentlemans Magazine, to which he c...

Art of James Magee

accompanying poem begins, "Juans ax aches/His tracks lead backwards." The alliteration, assonance and consonance of his word choic...

Beat Poetry and the Expression of Counterculture Values

Lawrence Ferlinghetti are quite different from one another. Ginsbergs long and sprawling lines certainly look nothing like Snyders...

A Thematic Analysis of Lovelace's "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars"

her, reluctantly, to maintain these values. This argument is grounded in 17th century ideals of chivalry and courtly honor, ideals...

Chimney Sweeper

another boy who is bald and who cries. This boy has a dream which is very innocent and very uplifting for the boy for in that drea...

The Lamb and The Tyger

the placement of the poem, offers the reader a sense of innocence and childhood as well as purity. The poem begins with...

Mythology and Iliad, Aeneid

This research paper/essay discusses the "Iliad" and the "Aeneid" as two epic poems that mirror the values of Greek and Roman socie...

Women's Search for Independence in 3 Works: Finding Happiness

This essay discusses 3 works: which are a poem by Gwendolyn Brook, "The Beam Eaters"; a short story by Kate Chopin, "The Story of ...

Homer's Iliad, Questions

This essay answers three question. The first pertains to the arguments presented to Achilles on why he should fight, the second li...

Rudyard Kipling's "If" and Othello

This essay pertains to Shakespeare's "Othello" and Rudyard Kipling's poem "If-," which lists various qualities that are required t...

John Keats, "Ode to Psyche" and "Eve of St. Agnes"

This essay pertains to "Ode to Psyche" and "The Eve of St. Agnes" by John Keats, and compares the two poems. Five pages in length...

Societal Criticism, Browning and Swift

This essay pertains to Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," published in 1729, and Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess, Ferra...

"Goblin Market" Interpretations

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at "Goblin Market". Social and Biblical interpretations are presented for the poem. Pap...

"A Subaltern's Love Song" - Post-Colonial Symbolism

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "A Subaltern's Love Song" by Betjeman. Symbols of post-colonial significance are de...

Donne and Marvell on Seduction

This essay analyzes Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" and John Donne's "The Flea" and offers the writer's reaction to these a...

Objectifying Male Dominance Over the Female in "My Last Duchess" and "Porphyria's Lover" by Robert Browning

How the male need to transform women into objects and possessions in order to control them existed in 19th century society is exam...

"Lady Lazarus", Performance Art, and Suicide

Suicide and self-negation as performance art are examined in a critical analysis of Sylvia Plath's 1962 poem, "Lady Lazarus" in a ...