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Essays 1561 - 1590

Phillis Wheatley's Poetry

the population in America at the time would have preferred to not know that a black woman was capable of such complex and abstract...

English Romantic Poetry and the Role of Nature

Strung on slender blades of grass; Or a spiders web...

Punishment and Poetry

The bright-eyed Mariner"(Coleridge, 2002). The sailor (or Mariner) says that though they started on calm enough seas, the wind p...

Petrarchan Love Poetry of Lady Mary Wroth and John Donne

The first lines of "The Canonization" read: "For Gods sake hold your tongue and leg me love/ Or chide my palsy, or my gout,/ My fi...

Seventeenth Century Love in Poetry

celebration of Gods love, as well as a poet that addressed the purity of a love for a woman. In better understanding this we discu...

Robert Frost's Poetry and Symbolism

ambitious path than romanticism (Liebman 417). In fact, Frost tries to make every poem a metaphor to show his commitment to thes...

Imagery in Poetry by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Christina Rossetti

the bird with his crossbow. With this act, which apparently was motivated by pure blood-lust, the Mariner sins not only ag...

Emily Dickinson's Private Affairs and Their Influence on Her Poetry

born (The Life of Emily Dickinson). Although her childhood was typical of most, by the time she was a young adult she had retreat...

Yusef Komunyakaa's Poetry

loss and redemption. If one were to move deeper into the meanings of both poems, or on an emotional, cognitive tour of the poem, ...

Romanticism in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins

argued that poetry is the expression of ones very soul, encompassing many emotions, feelings and desires that can range from one e...

Robert Frost's Poetry and Darkness

see the secrecy, the sense of spying that is darkness, though not a darkness associated with nature, other than perhaps the nature...

Unconditional Love in the Poetry of William Wordsworth

shipwreck (Anonymous, 2002; Junaidul, 2000). Wordsworth worked out his grief over this event in several poems, most notably the "E...

Abstract and Concrete Language in Poetry

own anguish, illustrating the poets "mastery of weaving spontaneously narrative, meditative, and descriptive elements into a seemi...

Comparative Analysis of the Poetry of William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman

For example, in verse six, Whitman is ". . . Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms/strong and content I tra...

Poet and Poetry of Jimmy Santiago Baca

this book. Baca runs the gamut of emotions in this text that is true, but what the reader finds within Healing Earthquakes is onl...

Poetry and its Elements

a big messy bowl of goop. In the same way, the placement of words, especially in the poem, can be said to be very important. There...

Man's Nature in the Romantic Poetry of William Wordsworth and John Keats

quite different in their presentation and their material or focus of material. But, at the same time the words of darkness apparen...

Poetry of Natives

done about those who suffered, those simple cultural people who were victims of the civilized world (Castillo 40-45). This...

Los and Grief Expressed in Poetry

soon scaped worlds and fleshs rage" (Jonson 6-7). In this the reader sees a rationalization that almost seems to be envy as the na...

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)...

Early Literature and Poetry of China and Japan and Women

gap through which women continued to receive and even some praise from men in regards to their abilities as writers (Reichhold). ...

Robert Louis Stevenson and Shel Silverstein: Child Poetry

Good Play" the poem is far more simplistic in relationship to how children think and play as the poems narrator states, "We built ...

Poetry of Homer and Heroism in 'The Odyssey' and 'The Iliad'

the weak and defender of his territory and do whatever he must in the name of survival. A ravenous Odysseus is described by Homer...

Human Conflict and the Poetry of Robert Frost

human conflict is more than apparent. "I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the ...

Poetry of Christopher Okigbo

The prose of this celebrated Nigerian poet is examined in a research paper consisting of five pages. Four sources are cited in th...

Poetry of Dylan Thomas and Robert Frost Compared

In seven pages these two poets are compared in terms of the differences and similarities in Thomas's 'Do Not Go Gently Into That G...

Joy Imagery in the Poetry of John Keats and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

reinforce this impression, as do the alteration of four-stress lines and three-stress lines. We know without really analyzing it t...

Aphra Behn's Poetry of Rebellion

In three pages this paper examines Restoration poet Aphra Behn and how her prose rebelled not only against Puritanism but also aga...

Bridging the West and East with the Poetry of Kahlil Gibran

In ten pages this essay considers Gibran's political, state, and government views in a discussion of The Prophet and The New Front...

Czeslaw Milosz's Life and Poetry

In ten pages this paper examines Czeslaw Milosz's life and analyzes such poetic works as 'A Poem for the End of the Century' and '...