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The writer compares and analyzes the Song of Roland and Beowulf, two epic poems. The main focus of the paper is the death of the r...

In five pages this research paper presents an analysis of several poems found within the Chinese Book of Songs and also includes a...

This paper examines the self actualization of women in an analysis of the poems 'Daddy' and 'Mirror' by Sylvia Plath and the novel...

avails not, time nor place - distance avails not, I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations he...

The transcendentalism of Walt Whitman is discussed in a paper consisting of seven pages which focuses upon analysis of the poem 'S...

primarily agricultural pursuits to one which depended almost solely on complex machinery. The simpler hand tools which had been s...

sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...

In three pages this paper presents a thematic explication of this William Blake poem as it portrays lacking worth, faith, and inno...

In three pages this paper considers the theme of lost innocence in a contrast and comparison of these William Blake poems. There ...

That this was an accepted practice makes it no less a neglectful situation; in fact, it only serves to set up the child in a more ...

propelling them forward, as does the rhyme and the rhythm. The steady short-long cadence of the rhythm is, in this context, like a...

smooth stone/ That overlays the pile; and, from a bag/ All white with flour, the dole of village dames,/ He drew his scraps and fr...

narrative voice relates how his mother died when he was quite young and his father sold him before he could cry "weep." In the Nor...

ship" (Dylan). Though phrased differently, each poet is illustrating how inspiration can take the artist away to different places...

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...

powerful and intense poem, in relationship to the struggles of the African American people, that it has been adapted into song (Af...

First, there is the surface level, that he was walking and had to decide which path to take to get to his destination. But at a mu...

Song is an aging man who longs for love, particularly courtly love that fits with his expectations of both women and love....

has grown deep like rivers" (line 4). Setting the line off by itself emphasizes its significance, as it ties the narrator directly...

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "A Subaltern's Love Song" by Betjeman. Symbols of post-colonial significance are de...

his mind tends to wander, that he has forgotten that the boy who helped him a few years earlier is off at school. Mary explains ho...

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

remains rigid. This poem presents us with a rhyme on every line, further adding to the structural content. We note the first fe...

time she was thirty years old. In Victorian England, it was normal for girls to marry young, and Mary Ann was unusual in that she ...

war songs, marriage songs and love songs among many more. Throughout the ages, the poems came to known as not merely an example of...

like a walk in the park. The poem describes how tired a person can feel while working hard, and laboring at ones love. Though a mu...

began to write what came to be called "confessional poetry," which is defined as "an undisguised exposure of painful personal even...

a sufferer from mental illness, which may have been triggered at least in part by her fathers death during her childhood....

now" (Whitman, 2005). Clearly, this illustrates his belief that heaven and hell are right here on earth, which was a very controv...

In six pages this paper discuses how the narrator and the speaking eye impact the poem 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman. There ar...