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Langston Hughes’ Theme for English B

that everything he says is truth and thus at this point his analyzing is only supporting that truth. He assumes, or infers...

Piercy: “The Secretary Chant”

a "reject button" and she is pregnant with a Xerox machine (Piercy). The last lines of the poem give the reader the point: "File m...

Poetic Works of Emily Dickinson

In five pages some of Emily Dickinson's poems that celebrate her passion for nature are examined....

Heroic Greek Definition in 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' of Homer

In seven pages the classical Greek definition of hero as revealed in the epic poems of Homer is discussed....

Martin Espada: Heart of Hunger and Imagine the Angels of Bread

could be brought to an end. Espada is really calling for a revolution: He says that "This is the year that squatters evict landlo...

"If" by Rudyard Kipling

1-2). Kiplings expertise with rhythm and word choice within the framework of the poems structure also constitute a feature that ...

Theme for English By Langston Hughes

This essay analyzes the meaning of Langston Hughes' poem "Theme for English B." Three pages n length, two sources are cited. ...

Wilfred Owen/"Dulce et Decorum Est"

This essay pertains to Wilfred Owen's poem, which captures the horror of World War I. Five pages in length, seven sources are cite...

'Answering the Unanswerable' by Nancy Willard Analyzed

It does not love flesh. It leaves a ring of cold in the wound." On the surface of this particular stanza,...

A Review of the Poem As Watchers Hang Upon the East

A 4 page review and explanation of the poem by Emily Dickinson. 3 sources....

Douglas Robertson's Wake Up Australia

however, and we begin to feel that the poem will clearly focus on some political argument. He then introduces the word "white" ...

Wordsworth’s Nutting

his poem and essentially relying on words that are descriptive and are simply part of his experience with nature. In this it is pe...

The Second Coming by Yeats

that second coming, beginning with a sense of hope, but finished with a sense of fear or dread: "The Second Coming! Hardly are tho...

Out, Out by Robert Frost

has to be cut for the stove" (Wiles). When someone dies it does not mean they were not loved, and they are not missed, just becaus...

Richard Cory

people have other people that they look up to in an envious manner, believing that someone elses life is far better than their own...

DOUBLE STANDARD BY ELLEN WATKINS HARPER

girl, outcast, forlorn/as thrown her life away?"). But the poet is adamant that both parties, the man and the woman involved in th...

Analysis of 4 poems by Robert Frost

imagery perfectly sums up the pressures modern age, as the narrator is too pressed for time to pause and appreciate nature more th...

Robert Frost's "Mending Wall" - Analysis

"I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once again. We keep th...

Dante’s Inferno & Humanism

must take a stand against evil and live according to ideals rather than simply from a myopic focus on personal needs. In Canto 2...

2 Carpe Diem Poems

the fleetingness of time, but his imagery and argument are more nuanced and complex. He, first of all, advises his mistress that i...

Perillo/Dangerous Life

beginning of this stanza creates an image that says to the reader that the nature is hard; it "mows" you down. Society tries to im...

Sexual Imagery/Depression in 3 Poems By Robert Frost

what might be causing the narrators shame. Shame is generally associated with sexual urges. During Frosts lifetime, i.e., the fi...

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...

Analysis of Beowulf

monstrous creature Grendel, Grendels mother, and the dragon - it considers the impact of social obligations (loyalty to God and co...

Sappho's 'To Evening' Analyzed

evening. Then there is nighttime. In this poem, the last thing that occurs is that the baby is put into bed with his mother. There...

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

line assures us that we are in this world" (Ogilvie et al.). There is a very relaxed, yet very introspective, tone to the lines as...

Poets Philip Larkin and Robert Frost

In ten pages this research essay compares and contrasts Philip Larkin's poem 'Church Going' and Robert Frost's poem 'The Wood pile...

Two Poems by Robert Frost

or how one human engages another. Frost is merely using nature as a setting, a natural setting, that emphasizes choices that human...

Explication of 2 poems by Martin Espada

mention that the catch, which is that his throat will be so sore that he will want ice cream. The lies are then contrasted against...

The Happy Fault in Paradise Lost

more joyful than creation itself. Then he adds: "Light out of darkness! full of doubt I stand, / Whether I should repent me now of...