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First World War and its Psychological Impact

stories they remember from men who are from an older generation. Barker (1993) highlights the psychological effects of this popul...

Advancing Age in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats

the "music" of nature and is part of a continuous cycle. This poem concludes "How can we know the dancer from the dance" (line 64)...

''The Phoenix and the Turtle' by William Shakespeare

about 1594 onward it is believed that he played with a group of actors, however: "written records give little indication of the wa...

'Black Magic' by Dudley Randall

regards to both cherries and grapes. Her lips as "curved" like cherries and "full" like grape bunches, but they are "sweet" like ...

Homer's 'The Iliad' and Achilles' Shield

of mortal men exceeding fair" (18.490). The image of "two cities" mirrors the basic plot of the Iliad, which is a ten-year-long ...

'Cross' by Langston Hughes

her well" (lines 4-8). This substantiates the forgiveness and understanding that the speaker already has indicated towards his fat...

Interpretation of 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot

of the living (Schneider 834-835). In other words, someone in hell is only willing to expose his shameful state "to another of t...

3 Women in Odysseus's Life in 'The Odyssey' by Homer

her part. What she didnt know was that Zeus was responsible for thwarting her attempts at consummating her relationship with Odys...

Poems of William Blake and Theodicy

is self-contradictory" (Davies 86). As envisioned by William Blake, God is not to blame for the good and evil in the world becaus...

Epic Poem 'Beowulf' and Comparison of the Dragon and Grendel

night returning, anew began ruthless murder; he recked no whit, / firm in his guilt, of the feud and crime" (II 12-22). When Hrot...

Nature Imagery in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston and William Wordsworth

are not representative of nature and he finds refreshment and nourishment in his memories, and now in his seeing nature again. ...

'Smile' in the Poetry of Robert Browning and Dorothy Parker

the Duchess to show pleasure. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Wheneer I passed her, but who passed without Much the same smile? Th...

'Dialogue between the Soul and the Body' by Andrew Marvell

the Body, that is, as the force that gives the Body motion and life. However, Marvell stipulates in parenthesis that "(A fever cou...

'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell and Imagery

In the first half of the poem, Marvell describes time as he would have it if he could. He states, "Had we but world enough and tim...

How Baumer and Kantorek in All Quiet On The Western FrontWould Respond to the poem The Next War by Robert Graves

without becoming a casualty of war. For one brief moment amid the regularity of hell in the trenches, Baumer is overcome wi...

'Boundless Moment' by Robert Frost

and real images, illustrating his understanding of how poetics could work, how placement of words, creating imagery and also a str...

'Delilah' and 'Salome' Poems by Carol Ann Duffy Compared

matter? Good-looking, of course, dark hair, rather matted; the reddish beard several shades lighter; with very deep lines round th...

Comparison of the Poems by Christina Rossetti and John Milton

which is extremely faulty, shows that she is easily corrupted. Her first instinct on eating of the forbidden fruit is to entice ...

Analysis of the Poem 'The Elixir' by George Herbert

to see, And what I do in anything, To do it as for thee:" (311) In the next stanza, Herbert comments on mans desire for perfectio...

Three Poems by Gary Soto, Nikki Giovanni, and William Blake

focus of the poem is on how the anger of the narrator as a corruptive influence that turns him into a murderer. As this illustrate...

'A Work of Artifice' by Marge Piercy

curlers, the hands you love to touch" (Piercy 75). a. The poem denotes cultural symbols. b. Symbols include bound feet an...

'Blackberry Sweet' by Dudley Randall

devices not only within the line in which it occurs, but also between lines. Also in regards to these lines, while the poet refe...

Examination and Analysis of 'Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening' and 'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost

a poem that examines ones past and the choices made, as well as a poem that presents the narrator with two obvious choices. In a l...

My Last Duchess/Robert Browning

as it relates to obsession and silent women. The poem begins, very pleasantly as the narrator seems to merely be giving the li...

Edwin Arlington Robinson's 'Richard Cory'

than they did many years ago, that people who appear happy and content are not always happy and content. Being wealthy and handsom...

John Keats and Ernest Hemingway

desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....

'War is Kind' and 'A Mystery of Heroism' by Stephen Crane

in any real noble cause, he quickly succumbs to the realities that surround him, the bullets and the danger. This man has taken i...

Essays and Poems on Barbie

she is seen as pretty and thus she finds "Consummation at last" (Piercy 6). In this poem we see how it is the ideal media image ...

Poems of Emily Dickinson

Dickinson wrote numerous poems and many times enclosed those original poems in letters which she wrote to friends. She wasnt reco...

t.s. eliot's 'The Waste Land' and Maud Ellmann's 'A Sphinx Without a Secret'

itself and thus establish its own limits" (261). This, necessarily, involves the collapse of boundaries, which can be "sexual, nat...