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American Experience in the Poems of Langston Hughes and Walt Whitman

In five pages this paper examines how unique aspects of the American experience are featured in the poems of Langston Hughes and W...

Fear Of Death in the Poems of Donne and Dunbar

This paper discusses ways in which death is used as an allegory or theme on Jon Donne's, Death Be Not Proud, and William Dunbar's,...

Providing an End to 'The Triumph of Life' Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley

In six pages this paper discusses Shelley's poem that has no end in a proposal of a fitting conclusion for it. There are no other...

Emily Dickinson's Poem, After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes

This paper provides a reading of the Dickinson poem, 'After Great Pain a Formal Feeling Comes. The author contends that Dickinson...

William Butler Yeats and 3 Poems on Time and Love

In five pages this report discusses how love and time are featured in the poems 'Adam's Curse,' 'O Do not Love too Long,' and 'Nev...

Epic Poem Beowulf and the Heroic Code

In six pages this paper analyzes the epic Beowulf in terms of its interpretation of the heroic code both in characters and in deed...

Life of Robert Frost Reflected in the Poem 'The Road Not Taken'

In six pages this paper analyzes the ways in which Robert Frost's life is reflected in his poem 'The Road Not Taken.' Three sourc...

E.M. Forster's Novel A Passage to India and Walt Whitman's Poem 'Passage to India' Analyzed

or sex. Thanks to technology, Whitman waxed poetic about an inspirational East-West cultural and intellectual exchange, with both...

Imagery in 4 Poems by Robert Frost

is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Frost writes only about things that are close to his hea...

Analyzing Twelve Poems

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

Two Poems by William Wordsworth Compared

uses is "disturb." the author is clearly shaken by this presence of someone else. This "someone" is likely his sister with whom he...

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...

2 Poems By Emily Dickinson

she is dead. This interpretation is substantiated in the next stanza when she describes hearing the mourners lift a box, which c...

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...

Three Poems by William Blake

/ So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep" (lines 3-4 11290). In the next stanza a small boy is upset because all of his hair h...

2 Poems by T.S. Eliot

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 ...

Alfred Lord Tennyson and His Poems on Death

In five pages Tennyson's views of death are considered with an examination of his poems 'Charge of the Light Brigade' and 'Ulysses...

Two Poems Featuring Women by William Carlos Williams

American women's social roles are considered in William Carlos Williams' poems 'Portrait of a Lady' and 'The Young Housewife' in a...

A Review of the Poem Aunt Jennifer's Tigers

A 5 page examination of the Adrienne Rich poem. The experience of marriage as it is affected by constriction, theme, tone, narrat...

Classic Poetic Elements of Edgar Allan Poe's Poems

In six pages this paper analyzes the classic elements of the poems 'Letter to F...,' 'Lenore,' and 'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe....

British Poet Philip Larkin and 3 of His Poems

In five pages this essay analyzes the theme of loneliness as it is presented in 'The Whitsun Weddings,' 'Toad's Revisited,' and 'M...

Poems by Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickinson

In six pages this paper compares the influences and poetry styles of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath. Six sources are cited in t...

'Book of the Duchesse' Poem by Geoffrey Chaucer

In seven pages the chess symbolism presented in the description of the game in lines 618 to 678 are considered particularly as the...

'Coloredness' in the Poem Theme for English B by Langston Hughes

In five pages a poetic explication of Theme for English B examines how 'coloredness' is represented by poet Langston Hughes. Two ...

2 Poems by Langston Hughes

In five pages 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' and 'Dream Deferred' poems of Langston Hughes are compared in a discussion of brutal re...

Life and Poems of Emily Dickinson

In ten pages this paper considers the poet and her poetry in terms of her preferred themes and life as a recluse. Ten sources are...

2 Poems by Emily Dickinson

In five pages pain is examined within the context of the metaphors featured in Emily Dickinson's poems 'There is a pain so utter' ...

History and the Epic Poems of Homer

In five pages this essay examines what is revealed about ancient Greek history in Homer's poetic epics 'The Iliad' and 'The Odysse...

An Overview of the Epic Poem Beowulf

The writer of this paper first gives an overview of the poem Beowulf, which was written in Old English, and then relates it to con...

Fathers and Sons in Poems by Robert Hayden and Theodore Roethke

the dance, of course, is that Theodore loves it, despite the fact it is somewhat rough-and-tumble; Roethke observes that "at every...