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DEATH POEMS AND "SONG OF A DARK GIRL"

who has lost her lover in the south. We can assume this came from a lynching (as evidenced by the reference to "Dixie," which lync...

Robert Frost Poems

how Frost "speaks of the (metaphoric) wall between his neighbor and himself" which seems to him to be unnecessary. This brings to ...

Original Poem Patterned After Psalm 73

This three page original poem is inspired by psalm 73, but takes a present day perspective. No surces are cited....

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...

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' ...

6 Poems and the 'Divided Self' of Poet Robert Frost

In nine pages this paper discusses individual divisiveness as it is featured in 6 of Robert Frost's poems. There are 4 sources ci...

2 Poems by Robert Frost and the Theme of Mortality

In four pages the theme of mortality is examined in an examination of the Robert Frost poems 'After Apple Picking' and 'Stopping B...

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 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...

'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 ...

Three Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks

In five pages a trio of poems by Gwendolyn Brooks including 'Corners on the Curving Sky,' 'When you have forgotten Sunday: The Lov...

'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...

Poems That Reveal Joy Harjo's Life and Art

Reservation in Oklahoma. Harjo has retained the storytelling brilliance of her ancestors in her spiritually moving works, and t...

Robert Wrigley's Poem 'In the Bank of Beautiful Sins'

In five pages this paper discusses the themes of sin and sexuality as they are presented in Robert Wrigley's poem 'In the Bank of ...

Individual's Responsibility in Kahlil Gibran's Poem 'The Prophet'

In twelve pages this paper discusses the themes of an individual's responsibility in 'The Prophet' poem by Kahlil Gibran. Six sou...

Explication of the Poem The Eternal Dice

In four pages this poetry explication considers the author's future world vision and anger regarding God....

Death in the Poems of John Donne

In five pages this paper analyzes how the theme of death and John Donne's depression regarding death are reflected in 2 of his 'Ho...

Robert Browning and Aphra Behn's Poems

enjoying the fact that many people have bleeding hearts from love. The narrator is clearly an individual who has been harmed by...

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five and Yon Yonson's Cyclic Poem

that his novel is not fictitious, but, on the other hand, he also states that everything only happened more or less thus restricti...

Objectification in Poems by Howard Moss, Thomas Hardy, and Walt Whitman

Objectification of humans is the focus of this poetic analysis of 'Pruned Tree' by Howard Moss, 'The Work Box' by Thomas Hardy and...

A Report onthe Poem 'Gretel in Darkness'

as the person with whom she experienced an ordeal and yet still escaped. In contemporary psychological jargon, she could be said...

Robert Frost's Poems 'Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening' and 'Desert Places' Compared

In five pages these poems by Robert Frost are compared in terms of their similarities and differences. There are no other sources...

Explication of Wilfred Owen's Anti War Poem 'Dulce Et Decorum Est'

In six pages this paper examines how poet Wilfred Owen portrayed sacrificing one's life for country in the antiwar poem 'Dulce Et ...

Comparing Four John Keats' Poems as 'A Thing of Beauty'

Agnes). While Keats has been described as one of the most commonly recognized creators of Romanticism, he should also be no...

'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' Poem by John Keats and Vampirism

In five pages this paper examines how Nina Auerbach's vampire themes of attraction, forbidden love, taking, and desired guilt are ...

Man's Insignificance in an Alexander Pope Poem

In a paper consisting of two pages the ways in which man is rendered insignificance within nature and the scheme of the universe a...

'The Good Man in Hell' Poem by Edward Muir

In four pages a poetic explication of this poem by Edward Muir is presented. There is no bibliography included....

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...

William Blake's Poems of Experience and Innocence

In six pages this paper considers how Blake interprets innocence and experience in his poetic works Songs of Innocence and Songs o...