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Modernist Approaches in 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot

modernist writing was meant as a contrast to the traditional approach in that it could recognize how fast the world was changing a...

'Cosmos' of Parmenides

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the two parts of the poem by Parmenides, 'The Way of Truth' and 'The Way of Mortal Opinions'...

Poetry and Metaphor

is T.S. Eliots The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Through the adroit use of metaphor Eliot invites the reader to undertake a jo...

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...

'Claudette Colvin Goes to Work' by Rita Dove

Her 1999 volume of poetry, "On the Bus with Rosa Parks" exemplifies the ways in which Dove captures a moment, sees it for what it ...

The Court of King Hrothgar in Beowulf

The writer uses a close reading of the Old English epic poem Beowulf, and in particular the events at King Hrothgar's court, to ex...

Langston Hughes, Three Poems

This essay considers three of Langston Hughes's poems, "Harlem," "I, Too," and "Ballad of the Landlord" and argues that they are r...

Robert Frost and Life Lessons

This essay pertains to the poetry of Robert Frost and discusses two poems: "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy...

Langston Hughes' 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers'

In five pages this paper analyzes the structure, meaning, and themes of Langston Hughes' poem 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers.' Four ...

'Lady Lazarus' by Sylvia Plath

In five pages this paper presents a critical analysis of Sylvia Plath's poem 'Lady Lazarus.' Four pages are cited in the bibliogr...

Comparative Analysis of John Keats’ Poem ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ and Bob Dylan’s Song ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’

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

'Move' by Lucille Clifton

from their own ideas concerning societal norms. Clifton writes, "they had begun to whisper/among themselves hesitant/ to be bran...

Poetic Explication of 'Dover Beach' by Matthew Arnold

condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...

'The Odyssey' by Homer and Mortal Women

I think of naming, far less telling, / every feat of that rugged man, Odysseus, / but here is something that he dared to do / at T...

Symbolic Analysis of 'The Tyger' Poem by William Blake

the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...

'Songs of Innocence' and 'Songs of Experience' Poems by William Blake

as opposed to being naturally inherited. This poem typifies the poems that are included in Blakes, Songs of Innocence, in...

'Forgiving My Father' by Lucille Clifton

poets position in this family situation -- my mothers hand opens in early grave and i hold it out like a good daughter." This imag...

Robert Phillips' 'Running on Empty'

experience it for himself. As a teenager I would drive Fathers Chevrolet cross-country, given me...

Examination of Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself'

Thomas Eakins: A Friendship of Artistic Gain). In fact, this particular painting is clearly a representation of a scene in Whitman...

Gerard Manley Hopkins' 'God's Grandeur'

Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;...

'Andrea del Sarto; by Robert Browning

and lust perhaps. She is an object to be worshipped and talked about, but not a woman who is given a voice. Throughout this poe...

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...

Robert Browning's Dramatic Monologues in 'My Last Duchess' and 'Porphyria's Lover'

angry or even vengeful, but sedate and sullen. But, there is also the element of natural violence as well in the symbolic presence...

Gwendolyn Brooks' 'We Real Cool'

pool one day. She thought about their lives and how they felt and realized they were victims of a society and also young me who de...

Alfred Lord Tennyson's Poems Including 'Locksley Hall'

expression in the sections of the poem where the persona deals with happy memories, and the sharpness and abruptness of those wher...

Linguistic Analysis of Thomas Hardy's Poem 'Darkling Thrush'

of sounds within any language, the speakers in a language community all feel that certain sounds either "the same" or "different" ...

Dark and Light Imagery in 'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night' by Dylan Thomas

In five pages Thomas' dark and light imagery is examined within the context of the poem as representing how people should continue...

Analyzing Tennyson's Poetry

The ways in which Tennyson's poems 'The Palace of Art' and 'The Poet' express the poet's attitudes regarding politics, morality, a...

Emily Dickinson's Poem, I'm Wife- I've Finished That

educated, and grew up in a house that was essentially filled with political and intellectual stimulation. "All the Dickinson men w...

Human Soul's Journey in 'The Waste Land' by T.S. Eliot

trees will give no shelter and the crickets, no relief" (Wasteland by TS Eliot). When looking at this particular reference one c...