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Death Poetic Perspectives in the Works of Thomas, Donne, and Davis

shalt die"(Donne 812). In this poem, then, the literary devices used include personification, sonnet form, and irony. Irony is mo...

Death and Poetic Attitudes of Davis, Thomas, and Donne

people pity the dead, not Death itself. In the end Donnes message is that there is little reason to fear death and that in the end...

Lionel Trilling's 'Terrifying' Observation of Robert Frost

Frost as Terrifying In first examining how and why Frost is considered terrifying we must first understand that Trilling did not...

Emily Dickinson's Hardships

were very interesting, people probably would not like them because they were different. As such Emily decided at that point that s...

Maya Angelou's 'And Still I Rise'

in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt...

Literature of the First World War, Dying, Mutilation, and Death

that the other poppy "I gave to you" (line 8). In the third stanza, Rosenberg writes that the "sandbags narrowed" (line 9). The t...

Transcendence of 'Routine' by Tom Wayman

a steadily-promoted deck officer on the Titanic" (Lancashire et al. "Philosophy"). This balanced perspective (positive and negativ...

Songs of Innocence and Experience by Robert Blake

works together one can see the romantic power of both innocence and experience as Blake addressed a changing world where human per...

T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land' and the Contemporary World

world was worth living in. Interestingly enough, one critic indicates that this is where Eliot uses the symbolism of the Holy G...

Analysis of the Poem 'Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening' by Robert Frost

a hook to bait a desired fish. But no competitive fisherman is eager to share his secrets for landing the big one. A poet is no ...

Comparative Style Analysis of Blake, Wordsworth, and Whitman

part. He and the Church had a love/hate relationship, to be certain. "Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy," st...

'Inferno' by Dante Alighieri and Gender

involving gender or related themes like romance and marriage. Yet, sex and love are highlights in the Inferno. Dante also writes o...

Life Experiences and Poetry Themes

ethical judgements. While the students perhaps though that these old people are no longer young and can offer nothing of value to ...

Emily Dickinson's Religious Perspectives in 'Some Keep the Sabbath by Going to Church'

is arguing in this poem that the search for eternal peace and a relationship with the divine can be just as meaningful when carrie...

‘Requiem’ by Anna Akhmatova

was assassinated, probably by Stalin himself (Vartavarian). Stalin used the death as a pretext to begin purging those he thought w...

Marvell/To His Coy Mistress

20). The lyricism and imagery in this opening section are romantic, seductive and certain to appeal to the ego of any woman. Howev...

The Art of Indirection

in seconds. He continues this catalog of things she is not by comparing the color of her lips to coral (coral is redder); compari...

Lord Byron, We'll Go No More A-Roving

was staying in Venice. It was published by Moore in 1830, after Byrons death, in a text he edited, Letters and Journals of Lord By...

Comparative Poetic Explication of Death in Emily Dickinson’s “The Bustle in a House (#1078)” and Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”

in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,- The sweeping up the heart, And...

THE RELIGIOUS PHILOSPHY OF WILLIAM BLAKE

was raised a Catholic, he was christened in St. James Church (Eaves et al). During his childhood, Blake was surrounded by visions ...

Longfellow, Whitman and Dickinson

A 5 page paper which examines one poem from Longfellow, Whitman, and Dickinson. The poems examined are The poets, and their poems,...

Poetic Explication of Robert Burns’ “A Red, Red Rose”

of four lines known as quatrains, and each stanza comprised of alternating iambs or an unstressed syllable immediately followed by...

'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...

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...

The Art of the 19th Century Poetic Manifesto

confused his contemporary readers, which often obscured from them his intent (Abrams 59). Therefore, neither Coleridge nor Blake ...

Julia's Petticoat by Herrick

effect that the petticoat has on the male observer in the garment itself, which the poet asserts "Sometimes twould pant, and sigh,...

The Physician’s Touch: the Poetry of Peter Pereira

located in West Seattle; his patients are mostly urban and poor ("Peter Pereira"). On the literary front, he has been published...

Death in Emily Dickinson’s Poem ‘Because I Could Not Stop for Death (712)’ and Robert Frost’s ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’

turn brown; leaves drop from the trees in late autumn; butterflies soar for a short span of time; predatory animals kill their pre...

John Keats Deserves His Place in the Literary Canon

he was struck by the "ways in which evil and beauty, love and pain, aspiration and finitude, are not so much balanced as interwove...

W.B. Yeats/An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...