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Welsh Poet Dylan Thomas

could find. He entered his teen years in a state of rebellion, and left school when he was sixteen years old. He found work as a...

Styles of Poets Alfred Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning

human emotions or actions to nature or inanimate objects. Porphyrias Lover (Robert Browning) We might label this dramatic monolo...

Conversation Between Poets Carl Sandburg and William Butler Yeats

An imagined conversation between these very different poets is presented in a paper consisting of five pages. Eight sources are c...

Romanticism of Poet Walt Whitman

free through no other means than verse. "Out from behind this bending, rough-cut mask, These lights and shades, this drama of the...

'Sailing to Byzantium' by Poet William Butler Yeats

Symbolism and meaning are considered in this analysis of the poem 'Sailing to Byzantium' by W.B. Yeats in 5 pages. There are no o...

'Inferno' by Dante Alighieri and 9th U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky

In five pages this paper considers how to relate Pinsky's concepts to 'Inferno' based upon an April 1995 Atlantic Monthly online d...

Chemist, Novelist, and Poet Primo Levi's Death Blamed on the Nazi Death Camp in Auschwitz

In five pages this paper discusses the impact of his incarceration in Auschwitz on Primo Levi which led to his 1987 suicide. Four...

Taylor and Bradstreet, Two Puritan Poets

Puritans have a dour, unsympathetic reputation, so the idea of Puritan poets may seem rather odd. However, that faith tradition pr...

Poet Robert Lowell

Richard Eberhart, that he started to write poetry (lowell.bio.html). From here went on to study English literature at Harvard, but...

Utopia by Thomas More, Pearl by the Gawain Poet, and the City

In 4 pages these 14th and 16th century works are examined in terms of how each depicted the city of their respective time periods....

Beat Generation Poets Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Allen Ginsberg

In 7 pages an overview of these 3 'Beat Generation' poets and their influence are presented. There are 5 sources are cited in the...

Dominican Poet and Novelist Julia Alvarez

In ten pages the life and works of Julia Alvarez are examines in an overview that includes a discussion of How the Garcia Girls Lo...

Ovid's Metamorphoses/Concept of Art, Poet

her sisters husband and how he had cut out her tongue to keep silent and a prisoner (Ovid BkVI:571-619). Those characters who as...

Analyzing Poet Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art”

practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaste...

Sylvia Plath’s Identity as a Confessional Poet

was not just one simple dream that Plath had, but an ongoing connection or vision of these three old women, these three witches wh...

Modernist and Confessional Poets and the Place of "Personality" in Poetry

of dealing with this new and frightening situation (Modernism, 2002). The modernist poets had a much more disillusioned worldview ...

'Women Poets of the Italian Renaissance'

is the goddess of earthly love; she goes back at least to the Greeks, who called her Aphrodite. In the second poem, the "King" ref...

Romantic Poet: Wordsworth

blowing on my body, felt within/ A correspondent breeze, that gently moved/ With quickening virtue" (Wordsworth I: 33-36). In thi...

Robert Frost: Terrifying Poet

(4-5). This sounds like a childrens rhyme and as such would seem pleasant but the imagery is of blight, and death and then it pres...

Existentialism and Progressivism in Dead Poets Society

Neil Perry (Robert Sean Leonard, lately of the TV show House), to pursue his love of acting (Dead Poets Society). The glitch is th...

2 Poems by Roman Poet Catullus

unconquerable by time. Nevertheless, as their love is as fallible and mortal as they are, poem 11 shows the depth of Catullus pa...

Dante’s Inferno/Canto XX

because pity carries with it the connotation that divinely imposed punishment is less than just. He tells Dante to lift his eyes a...

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...

Romantic Poetry

A 4 page essay that discusses examples of Romantic verse. In the early nineteenth century, artists rebelled against restrictions o...

Barreca/Nighttime Fires

the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...

Berceo's Poem about Mary, Miracles of Our Lady

The writer examines the 13th century poem Milagros de Nuestra Senora (Miracles of Our Lady). The writer describes it as a series o...

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...

"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...

Wordsworth & Hardy/Perspectives on Nature

First and foremost, the Thrush is seen by this Romantic poet in heroic terms, as a male facing the storm of the public world in or...

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...