YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Overview of the Epic Poem Beowulf
Essays 991 - 1020
This essay pertains to Shakespeare's "Othello" and Rudyard Kipling's poem "If-," which lists various qualities that are required t...
This paper offers a summary, analysis and background information on Rafeef Ziadah's poem "Shades of Anger," which expresses the po...
This essay pertains to the poetry of Robert Frost and discusses two poems: "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy...
How the male need to transform women into objects and possessions in order to control them existed in 19th century society is exam...
Suicide and self-negation as performance art are examined in a critical analysis of Sylvia Plath's 1962 poem, "Lady Lazarus" in a ...
In a paper of one page, the writer looks at Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey. A brief explanation is given of several themes invoked in ...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Kipling's "White Man's Burden". The poem is placed in an historical context. Paper ...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "A Subaltern's Love Song" by Betjeman. Symbols of post-colonial significance are de...
This essay analyzes Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" and John Donne's "The Flea" and offers the writer's reaction to these a...
This essay analyzes two poems by Hughes, "Theme for English B" and "Let America Be America Again." The writer asserts that "Theme"...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Browning's "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point". Short essay responses to discuss...
how it results in the wasting of the land, which results from the hero failing to ask the right questions (Weston 18). The theme...
Psalm of Life" and Edgar Allan Poes "Sonnet-To Science" address the way that each poet perceived life and the reality of their era...
by comparing his own life to a "twice-written scroll", bearing marks from both a pursuit of intellectual virtues, and a pursuit of...
a figurative level, the poet is inviting the reader to take his perspective, to figuratively "walk in his shoes" and, thereby, lea...
this became the most well known poem by Hughes and appeared in his first volume of poetry, The Weary Blues, which was published in...
and trash everywhere (Ainsworth). To her right is her grandson, dressed in blue short and a white t-shirt; he appears to be about ...
readers, the reference will be obvious, but for young people for whom the Second World War and its atrocities seem unreal, it may ...
to understand his culture and find his place in it; its not surprising that his poems speak to his experience and his characters f...
which he lived when he says that the poem is not the result of Dantes inner contemplation, "it is rooted in the immediate Christia...
spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next fou...
that in the process of dying Dickinson believed there were senses, and perhaps there were senses upon death as well. But that sens...
(Faulkner). In the story of Miss Brill one does not see her as a tradition of the people, a sort of monument to an Old South bec...
overwhelming, because they come with options: we can choose to see "300" now because Gerry Butlers incredibly hot, but we also kno...
a fa?ade that represents him at his best. But Mammy Prater apparently did none of this. Instead, "she waited until the technique...
ring, and how he is seemingly unscathed with no broken bones or scars (Karr 20-21). She notes how "Someday soon, the tether/ will ...
the condition of oppression and restrictive realities. This is the symbolic premise of the poem. From this perspective the African...
/ Arrayed of the Round Table rightful brothers ... / the feast was in force full fifteen days" (37-39, 44). They are celebrating t...
day, children come to our classrooms. Some are more ready to learn than others, some are more excited about learning than others b...
time" (Alexie 34-36). This is a summation of the conflict of the modern Native, from the eyes of the narrator, today. It speaks of...