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China's Song and Qing Dynasties and Gender Roles

overrun by the Mongols. The Song Dynasty was known for its great changes in the economic and social climates of the country becaus...

Death in Korn's Song 'Alone I Break' and Robert Frost's Poem 'After Apple Picking'

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...

Cultural Determinism in the Songs of Tupac Shakur

has upon his fans, one must first understand the meaning behind the words. Perhaps the best definition of this particular type of...

Analysis of 'Ode to a Nightingale' by John Keats

intoxicated on the sound of the bird, the "light-winged Dryad of the trees" (line 7). Nevertheless, it is clear that his mental s...

Poetry Structure and the Influences of Culture

futility and anarchy (of) contemporary history": this is not to say that such a structure need be formal and stylised, only that i...

Robert Lowell and Bob Dylan

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

Evaluating Kashmir by Led Zeppelin

as well as the lyrics are of course very important to the analysis. Finally, how has the work fared in the long term? These criter...

Post Second World War Generation and Rock 'N Roll's Impact

by the discussion of sex, and thus make them vulnerable to communist influence(Gordon 2003). The Kinsey sexual research studies ha...

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...

Social Activism, Songwriting, and Poetry of William Blake

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

Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, and the Uses of Syntax and Language

cohesive literary glue that holds it all together. One of the ingredients of that glue is the use of language. His particular use ...

'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot and Frederik L. Rusch's Critique of the Poem

the street, / Rubbing its back upon the window-panes; / There will be time, there will be time / To prepare a face to meet the fac...

The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather

come through art and through living the life of an artist. In the beginning we do not necessarily see that Thea herself is sure...

Comparing T.S. Eliot and William Shakespeare

accompanied by his son, Ferdinand, the heir to his throne; Antonio, the Duke of Milan; Sebastian, the brother of Alonzo; and Gonza...

Ancient Poems and Love Songs of Egypt and China Compared on Love and Sex Attitudes

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

Carl Jung's Archetypes and Eating Disorders

archetypes can only become conscious secondarily (1981). The archetype is merely an example of a perfect form or prototype (Lohff,...

Four Essays On Literature

This paper bundles four essays into one. In five pages the writer separately discusses specific questions regarding Eliot's The L...

Point of View in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon

In six pages this paper examines realiites of Pilate, Hagar, and Milkman in a consideration of the point of view featured in Toni ...

Music Industry Protection and Copyright Laws

In a paper consisting of seven pages the ways in which Internet downloading of songs have impacted the music industry are examined...

Rise and Fall of China's Song Dynasty

In seven pages the stagnation that resulted from certain developments of the northern and southern Song dynasties between 960 and ...

Music Lyrics and Violence

In six pages this research paper discusses the violence report by the FTC, entertainment industry marketing regarding children and...

A Comparison of the Song of Roland and Beowulf

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...

U.S. Slave Children's Leisure and Play

In five pages this paper discusses the play and leisure activities of slave children in the United States as represented in the ci...

Literary Considerations of Greed

typical, but maybe too stereotypical. He is someone who today would appear on The Jerry Springer Show. His life has always been dy...

'Song of Roland' and Medieval Epic Poetry

long before it was ever written down. To use Si!r Philip Sidney phrase pertaining to the oral traditions of epic poetry, it was ...

Do Humans Control Their Own Lives?

This 7 page paper asks to what degree humans control their own lives. It uses three literary works, Metamorphosis by Kafka; The Lo...

Internal Reflection and External Expression in the Works of Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau

In three pages 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman is contrasted and compared with Thoreau's Transcendentalist writing in 'Economy an...

Overview of Modernism in Literature

In five pages literary modernism is defined and then illustrated in such works as James Joyce's 'The Dead' from Dubliners, 'The G...

Poetic Persona of Walt Whitman Expressed in 'Song of Myself'

This paper discusses how his American vision is expressed by Walt Whitman in 'Song of Myself' in five pages. There are no other s...

Call to Action by Ralph Waldo Emerson in The American Soldier and the Answer by Walt Whitman in Song of Myself

individuals freedom and dignity. He espoused the self as the most important entity. In transcendentalism, the person aspi...