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Christian Dogma in Beowulf

one true God. As this suggests, biblical allusions are plentiful in the Old English epic, particularly in regards to the Old Test...

Thematic Analysis of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'

lifted, they decided that it had been the bird that caused the fog and they praised the Mariner for seeing through it all. Then, h...

'The Sun Rising' by John Donne

clearly seen in the following lines from Donnes poem: "Thy beams, so reverend and strong/ Why shouldst thou think?" (Donne 11-12)....

Friendship in Three Poems by Sappho

was such time as it was appropriate to say goodbye and release them to adult life as defined by that society. In this poem, Sapp...

'When Lilacs Last in Dooryard Bloom'd' by Walt Whitman

the natural surroundings, with the death of a powerful man. More often than not we, as human beings, keep memories of such powerfu...

Evil as Defined by 19th Century English Romantic Poet William Blake

abnegates any evil whatsoever. Blake seems to believe, as one can readily determine from a study of his other works, that evil is...

'Anonymous A Ballad' by Sir Patrick Spence

ask that pauses and changes in tone come into play for it is clearly set out in a very smooth rhythm. In many ways this establishe...

Emily Dickinson's 'I Dwell in Possibility'

say in their prose pieces. "Of Chambers as the Cedars/Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof/The Gambrels of the S...

Robert Browning's Poetry and Religion

try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...

'The Sundew' by A.C. Swinburne

of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...

Poetic Explication of 'Dover Beach' by Matthew Arnold

condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...

Explication of 'My Last Duchess' by Robert Browning

so based on the dialogue of the narrator that it does not allow the woman a voice, and represents a narrator who is incredibly, an...

Sonnet Uses of Hopkins

vision of the natural world in which Gods presence can be seen as flowing through it like an electric current. This presence can b...

William Butler Yeats' 'The Wilde Swans of Coole'

between what is real and what is a mere reflection is indicated in the line that says, "Under the October twilight the water/Mirro...

T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land' and the Contemporary World

world was worth living in. Interestingly enough, one critic indicates that this is where Eliot uses the symbolism of the Holy G...

Andrew Marvell's 'The Garden'

man knows truth. How can this be? It is through the very essence of man, through the essence of the tree and of flowers and of dog...

Perillo/Dangerous Life

beginning of this stanza creates an image that says to the reader that the nature is hard; it "mows" you down. Society tries to im...

Phillis Wheatley's Poetry

the population in America at the time would have preferred to not know that a black woman was capable of such complex and abstract...

'Daddy' by Sylvia Plath

a foot For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breathe or Achoo"(Plath...

Comparative Analysis of To Penshurst by Ben Jonson and Description of Cookham by Aemelia Lanyer

In 5 pages this paper presents an ideological analysis which compares Lanyer's text to Jonson's poem. Two sources are cited in th...

Form and Structure of Emily Dickinson's Poetry

the last line which states the following: "Ah, what sagacity perished here!" (Dickinson 1-3, 11). This is a poem that is obviou...

'Eyes That Last I Saw in Tears' by T.S. Eliot

is seeing the eyes in the present, which is "Here in deaths dream kingdom." Again, alliteration, this time with /d/, makes the lin...

'Song of Myself,' 'When I Read the Book,' and 'One's Self I Sing' by Walt Whitman

With the plain-speaking simplicity that was his trademark, Whitman constructed this poem in such a rhythmic way that it could be s...

Feminism and Alexander Pope's Poem 'The Rape of the Lock'

he mocks. It is after all a story of a lock of hair stolen while a young woman sleeps. What can be simpler? What can be less impo...

'The Children's Hour' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

the midst of conversation, a factor that appears to be typical of Longfellows verse. The entirety of the poem, while formally stru...

Agard"s 'Listen Mr. Oxford,' William Carlos Williams' 'Impromptu', and Language Codes

in with her family and in order for them not to feel inferior or uncomfortable around her(Mellix 315). However, when Mellix found ...

Symbolism in Faulkner and Mansfield and an Analysis of Poetry

(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...

Close Reading and Analysis: “Blues Spiritual for Mammy Prater”

a fa?ade that represents him at his best. But Mammy Prater apparently did none of this. Instead, "she waited until the technique...

Karr’s A Blessing from My Sixteen Years’ Son

ring, and how he is seemingly unscathed with no broken bones or scars (Karr 20-21). She notes how "Someday soon, the tether/ will ...

Sherman Alexie’s On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City

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...