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Evil and Pride in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock'

of Belindas bedroom, and how Ariel, her guardian sylph, awakens her. Pope describes the other sylphs that also guard Belinda and t...

'Black Unicorn' by Audre Lorde

writes of black experience: Once when I walked into a room My eyes would see out the one or two black faces For contact or reass...

5 Poems Interpreted

observing children at their studies. However, the second stanza offers a sharp contrast to this opening, as Yeats states that he d...

Lord Byron's Poems and the Metaphors of Love and Fame

more likely that they will remember and personally value the days of their youth. Byron takes a strong stand in representing thi...

Tragic Life of Edgar Allan Poe

good education, he was dismissed after just one year at the university because of his drinking and gambling (Edgar...Shadow). Back...

Literature and Nature Images

the hierarchy, to base matter, at its lowest level, with man and the natural world between the two, and Donnes commentary reflects...

'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...

Analysis of Walcott's The Light of the World

(Walcotts brother Roderick is a playwright). While young Derek was growing up and dipping into these books time and again, he foun...

Solitude in the City

refuge in the cafe. In this work the solitude, while sad, is also one of peacefulness. One might also say that it is a juxtaposit...

Music and Poems

played slightly louder, i.e. piano. The rhythm of the piece would be uniform 4/4 time, but the overall effect of the rhythm would...

Historical Context of Emily Dickinson

indeed, cannot, be overlooked. A rare taste of boundless joy is exemplified in Wild nights, wild nights. Perhaps written o...

Language and Ideas in Derek Walcott's Poetry

poem. The rhyming pattern is alternately free form and occasional standard abab. It follows the pattern of iambic pentameter of ...

The Symbolism of Heorot Hall in the Poem Beowulf

fulfills his part of the social bargain, which is to "give to young and old all that God has given him." Grendel who is describ...

A Consideration of The Rape of the Lock

since the Middle Ages as the models for literature at its grandest" (McDaniel 1-15pope.htm). It is a general consensus that Popes ...

William Butler Yeats' Poem 'The Second Coming'

The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;" (Yeats PG). This describes the inner workings of...

Poetic Theme of Carpe Diem

see their beauty, and youth, start to fade. This idea is reiterated and emphasized in the second verse, which speaks of the suns q...

Hating Allen Ginsberg's Poem 'America'

yourself with your atom bomb" (line 5). Even though it is easy to agree with Ginsbergs anti-war sentiment -- the consensus even...

'Inscriptions' by William Wordsworth

exploration of human feelings and emotions. In the poem, Inscriptions, to which the first lines are: HOPES what are they?--B...

Emily Dickinson's Poems 435 and 632 Compared

Syllable from Sound --" (2509-2510). This poem considers the origin of reality, and true to her Transcendentalist beliefs, spec...

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...

Courage is Named Maya Angelou

speaks of breaking free, not only from oppression and prejudice, but also from those things that bind and keep one from achieving ...

Dylan Thomas's 'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night'

use of cadences, rhythms, repetitions and events or actions that may take place within the poem. Also, it can be said that tone is...

Religion and Emily Dickinson

who see; But microscopes are prudent in an emergency!" The poem whose first lines begin, "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers" is a ...

Political Reflections in 'The Inferno' and Divine Comedy of Dante

the Renaissance was actually a period in which practically every aspect of European life from art to religion would experience a r...

'My Last Duchess' by Robert Browning

with its personae, while feeling extraneous or beside the point; more than sympathy or judgment, these alternatives lead readers t...

An Anlysis of The Road Not Taken

illustration of the narrator stopping and examining the two roads we are truly seeing what it before him. This sense of imagery...

Dark Passages in John Keats' 'Ode to a Nightingale'

of the thinking principle (Keats,1008-1022). Secondly, he believed that one was propelled into the next chamber simply b...

'Assisi' by Norman MacCaig Analyzed

result is that he was able to craft a poem such as "Assisi" which has a gentle yet pointed grace and, as Brodie points out, a "dec...

Horrors of War in 2 Poems by Wilfred Owen

obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...

Gillian Clarke's 'Letter from a Far Country'

inner soul of a woman to be appreciated for the ways in which she makes the lives of her family easier and more pleasant. A native...