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Symbolism in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"

/ Arrayed of the Round Table rightful brothers ... / the feast was in force full fifteen days" (37-39, 44). They are celebrating t...

The Function of Religion in Dante's "Inferno"

which he lived when he says that the poem is not the result of Dantes inner contemplation, "it is rooted in the immediate Christia...

Shakespeare/Sonnet 73

spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next fou...

Beowulf

While there is a sense of pride, it is not an arrogant pride or a pride that is only involved in self for Beowulf is proud of bein...

Karr’s A Blessing from My Sixteen Years’ Son

ring, and how he is seemingly unscathed with no broken bones or scars (Karr 20-21). She notes how "Someday soon, the tether/ will ...

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Comparison/Contrast

the condition of oppression and restrictive realities. This is the symbolic premise of the poem. From this perspective the African...

Explication: "Scenes from the Playroom"

latest goldfish gamely swims" (Gwynn). The ink will poison the fish, but the worst part of it is that this is only the "latest" in...

The Gods of the Iliad and the Bhagavad-Gita

without specifically worrying about success or failure, "they cannot be stained by action" (Harrison, 1996). Hearing this, Arjuna ...

"A Far Cry from Africa"

Latino, classical and contemporary" (Bixby, 2000). His later work reveal a man "who has learned his craft from the European tradit...

Edward Taylor and Anne Bradstreet: Love

My Dear and Loving Husband" and "In Reference To Her Children 23 June, 1659" as well as Taylors "My Spouse" and "Upon Wedlock, and...

Pablo Neruda: A Soldier Sleeps

But, the poem examines the life and struggles of a soldier as he lays sleeping, and clearly bloodied and examining his cause. It s...

Maya Angelou/Caged Bird

was really blond, white and blue-eyed (Angelou 4). This feeling on Angelous part is highly related to the restrictions on black fr...

T.S. Eliot Before and After Conversion

an old man for the life he will soon be leaving and a world filled with evil and corruption. His description of the city is one of...

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 ...

Comparative Analysis of William Blake 'Songs' of Innocence and Experience

Academy (Richardson). Blakes first published volume of written work was "Poetical Sketches," which appeared in 1783 (Richardson)....

Anne Bradstreet’s “The Prologue”

presents the understanding of how she will write what she knows, what is particular to her and her experiences and perceptions, st...

Gunther/Death Be Not Proud

A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...

Robert Frost/An Overview

and its joys. This quality of Frosts poetry is exemplified by his poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." In this work, Fro...

The Sea Is History by Derek Walcott

title, the fact that he notes how the sea is history immediately makes the reader wonder. They may wonder about how the ocean is r...

Supplication in "The Iliad"

its absolutely necessary, but then he wants something in return, because if he does lose her its a matter of honor. Achilles tries...

Browning and Spera

various admirers which she held in just as much regard as anything she received from him-including the title. Furthermore, she fli...

Gwendolyn Brooks/Old Black Woman, Homeless & Indistinct

as if she did not exist. They tune her out, just as they do other unsightly aspects of urban living. No one sees the cigarette but...

Eavan Boland/Fever

5-8). This juxtaposition of images connects the fever of illness to the fever of lust, which leads into the third stanza and its s...

Thom Gunn: "A Map of the City"

has what might be considered a god-like perspective. That puts him in a place where he can not only look at the city, but judge it...

Crucible of Character by Etheridge

who felt that the school needed to deal with admissions differently. When he presents Hughes poem, however, he is presenting it as...

Poe: "Annabel Lee"

was a child and I was a child, / In this kingdom by the sea, / But we loved with a love that was more than love-- / I and...

"For the Union Dead"

confuse free verse with sloppiness. The tone of the poem ("tone" can best be understood as the attitude the speaker has toward his...

Materialism: Sen and Sand

does not have a job people envision him as a beggar. But, at the same time there is an understanding that he is doing a Holy mans ...

"Hugh Selwyn Mauberley"

However, the meaning is obscure and the student will have to pursue the tranlsation with more sophisticated tools than are availab...

John Milton/Paradise Lost

of the monarchy due to his support of the Commonwealth (John Milton). Married three times, he spent his later years dictating to h...