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Love According to Andrew Marvell and John Donne

In five pages love as represented by Andrew Marvell in his poem 'The Definition of Love' is compared and contrasted with the poem ...

Nature in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson

"After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes," "This is My Letter to the World," "I Had Been Hungry," and "They Shut Me Up in Prose,"...

Four Poems by A.R. Ammons

In this essay containing five pages the symbolism and imagery similarities in Ammons' poems The Damned, Anxiety's Prosody, Kind, a...

A Comparative Analysis of Roethke and Ammons

In five pages this essay offers a contrast and comparison of Theodore Roethke's poems 'The Waking' and 'I Knew a Woman' and A.A. A...

Chicago by Carl Sandburg

Carolina, on July 22, 1967 at the age of 89. Although beloved during his lifetime, Sandburg remains a target of critical neglect ...

Nature and the Poems of Emily Dickinson

This paper looks at Dickinson's views about and relationship with nature through a reading of several of her poems. The author lo...

Rap and the Rap Culture

The writer discusses the connection between the Old English epic poem Beowulf and today's rap culture. The writer argues that alth...

Analysis: The Rock by Wallace Stevens

This 6 page paper analyzes Wallace Stevens' poem The Rock in terms of the way the poet discusses alternate realities. The writer a...

'This World is not Conclusion' by Emily Dickinson

question that cannot be logically answered "puzzles scholars," while perfectly ordinary people are able to accept it as it is, as ...

Poetry by Hardy and Eliot

himself who willed that he should suffer (lines 5-8). In other words, Hardy pictures preferring a world such as the ancient Gre...

Meaning of 'Daddy' by Sylvia Plath

gangrenous toe that her father had to have amputated and which, later, led directly to his death (127). The image of the "Frisco s...

Epic 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and the Use of Symbolism

of balance. The Knight carries the potential for both peace and war. They are intimately bound to one another, it should be said, ...

'Calm' by Loma Crozier

pause, heads tilted as if trying to hear someone softly...

‘Requiem’ by Anna Akhmatova

was assassinated, probably by Stalin himself (Vartavarian). Stalin used the death as a pretext to begin purging those he thought w...

Teaching and Learning in Poetry

school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...

The Art of Indirection

in seconds. He continues this catalog of things she is not by comparing the color of her lips to coral (coral is redder); compari...

Death/Injury in Poetry

narrator is perhaps confused, perhaps trying to share an image and what that image, or group of images, may mean. The characters w...

Poets Philip Larkin and Robert Frost

In ten pages this research essay compares and contrasts Philip Larkin's poem 'Church Going' and Robert Frost's poem 'The Wood pile...

'Infant Joy' and 'Infant Sorrow' Poems by William Blake

on. The illustration serves to emphasize the overall theme of complete joy, which Blake implies is something that can be experienc...

"I'm Nobody! Who Are You?": An Analysis of a Poem by Emily Dickinson

To an admiring Bog! (846). The subject matter features a person who feels inwardly lonely who does not wish to advertise h...

Lord Byron, We'll Go No More A-Roving

was staying in Venice. It was published by Moore in 1830, after Byrons death, in a text he edited, Letters and Journals of Lord By...

The Happy Fault in Paradise Lost

more joyful than creation itself. Then he adds: "Light out of darkness! full of doubt I stand, / Whether I should repent me now of...

Analysis of When Death Comes by Mary Oliver

and be a part of it, she feels her connection with "everything" (line 11), which means she perceives the world in terms of connec...

Travelled,gladly beyond by e.e. cummings

somewhere hes never gone before and that the woman (lets assume for this exercise that the beloved is his wife) is able to enclose...

Explication of 2 poems by Martin Espada

mention that the catch, which is that his throat will be so sore that he will want ice cream. The lies are then contrasted against...

Humor and Irony in the poems of Robert Frost

This essay focuses on the humor and Irony in Robert Frost's poems. The poems discussed are "Mending Wall," "Stopping by Woods on a...

Robert Frost's The Road not Taken: Oral Presentation

This 4 page paper gives an overview of the element within the poem The Road not Taken. This paper includes irony, symbolism, repre...

“To his Excellency General Washington” and American Liberty

This 4 page paper gives an overview of the poem “To his Excellency General Washington”, by Phillis Wheatley. This paper includes h...

"At the Trial of Hamlet, Chicago, 1994" Discussion Questions

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Alexie's poem, "At the Trial of Hamlet, Chicago, 1994". Several discussion questions ...

Synthetic Treatment of Dichotomy in Isabella Southern's Sonnets

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "Of Pruning and Production" by Isabella Southern. The poem's themes are gradually s...