SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :20th Century Glimpses in the 19th Century Poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

Essays 151 - 180

Oration of Pico

therefore created as basically protean, formless, and capable of making what he wishes of himself. The other creations are fixed w...

Slavery During the European Renaissance

can be termed neither solely positive or solely negative in regard to its influence on culture and people. There would be tremend...

Tenth and Twentieth Century Variations in Language

spelling of swor (to swoor) and the change from "hire" to "hir." In addition, though of the usable participle "to" clarifies the ...

Human Nature and the Poetry of Walt Whitman

this reveals his positive outlook toward the world and his own existence, and allows the reader some comprehension as to his value...

France's King Louis the Fourteenth and His Absolutism

was an absolute ruler, he kept his nobles living at court and as such their power base was impotent as they lacked independence an...

Egyptian Architecture and Art and Their Modern Art Influence

the attention of the fashion-setting upper class. Free-standing obelisks were constructed around England, the first, which is stil...

Death Becomes Her, An Exhibition at the MMA

This essay pertains to the Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The write...

Leader of Virgin Group Ltd

Sir Richard Branson is one of the 20th century’s most successful entrepreneurs. He built up a multibillion company in just a few d...

Depictions of Aboriginal People in Australia 1729 - 2006

Overell, 1993). A more civilised image was put forward by Hawkesworth in 1773 when editing the account of Captain Cooks voyage. ...

On the Beach at Night by Walt Whitman

stanza carries the fathers musings further as he tells his child that there is "Something...more immortal than the stars" (Whitman...

Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself' and Religion

much that is god-like in human beings. It is humanity hes celebrating. Kuebrich believes "that Whitmans work is not only religio...

Comparative Analysis of The Importance of Being Earnest and The Misanthrope

word be spoken that comes not from the heart" (Moliere I.i). As this opening argument to the play suggests, Molieres view of fun...

Adolescence Throug the Ages

Most people would agree that adolescents have a very difficult time negotiating their teenage years. Their bodies are changing rap...

Whitman: "Song of Myself"

except "en-masse" (Morace). Whitman refers to equality again in Section 5 when he says "...all the men ever born are also my brot...

Walt Whitman and the Influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson

In six pages the influence of Emerson upon Whitman's poetry is examined with the primary focus being 'Song of Myself' and poetic l...

Nature in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson

"After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes," "This is My Letter to the World," "I Had Been Hungry," and "They Shut Me Up in Prose,"...

Analysis of Emily Dickinson's Poem 712

wanted the poem to leave a profound impression; for that reason, it is subject to the interpretation of the individual. I...

2 Poems By Emily Dickinson

she is dead. This interpretation is substantiated in the next stanza when she describes hearing the mourners lift a box, which c...

Influences on Emily Dickinson

This paper asserts that the main motivator for Emily Dickinson's works were the physical and spiritual influences in her life. Thi...

Comparative Analysis of Poems by Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Langston Hughes

likens the process of death to an innocuous fly buzzing. In other words, instead of being a mysterious occurrence, it is a proces...

Comparing Blake & Dickinson Poems

of a child. 1. "I a child and thou a lamb" (Blake 670). B. Dickinsons narrator is a dying woman. 1. "The Eyes around-had wrung the...

Three Poets: Dickinson, Frost and Hughes

safe place: the dead are "untouched" beneath their rafters of satin and roofs of stone (Dickinson). They wait motionless for the r...

Poems: Dickinson, Donne, Marvell, Parker, and Roethke

and taken blood from both. He tries to convince her that to give in to him, to give him herself, has been ultimately blessed by th...

Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Emily Dickinson and the Connection Between Poet, Nature, Body, and Soul

In five pages this report compares and contrasts William Butler Yeats' 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' and Emily Dickinson's '#632' i...

Dickinson's Poem 'A Clock Stopped'

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Emily Dickinson's poem in terms of the poet's attitudes and feelings about time are analyzed. Th...

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...

Poems of Emily Dickinson and Edwin Robinson as They Thematically Depict Success

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares how success is thematically portrayed in Edwin Robinson's 'Richard Cory' and Emily ...

2 Poems by Emily Dickinson

In five pages pain is examined within the context of the metaphors featured in Emily Dickinson's poems 'There is a pain so utter' ...

'As Imperceptibly As Grief' by Emily Dickinson

In three pages this paper provides an explication of Emily Dickinson's poem. There are no other sources listed....