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Madness And Depression As Common Literary Themes

for the best. Soon, however, a sudden sense of calm overcomes her as she whispers "free, free, free" (Chopin PG). Mrs. Mal...

Wang's The Joy Luck Club Film and the Mythological Approach

forced to make an inner journey that she was loathe to make. This is often a key component in the mythological heros quest. He or ...

"Obasan"

work on a road gang, where his frail health will ultimately doom him, the girl is raised by her aunt and uncle, and it is this aun...

Profile of an Equitable Math/Science Classroom

and "facilitate the integration of all member of the class into learning activities" (Wallace). A particular evocative suggestion ...

Amy Tan: "Two Kinds"

magazines; these tests are things like name the capitals of the states and so on (Tan, 1989). She hopes that Jing-mei will demonst...

An analysis of Beethovern's Music in Immortal Beloved

through the use of rolling chords that softly underscore the melody line in the treble, while octaves sound in the bass like dista...

An Idealistic Literary Vision of America

two people who hold true to the notion that determination and hard work can get you ahead in the world of the American ideal. Gats...

Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Symbolism

play, the power in this contest lies with Waverly. But her mother is jealous of the girls success (not an unusual reaction), and ...

Sexual Imagery/Depression in 3 Poems By Robert Frost

what might be causing the narrators shame. Shame is generally associated with sexual urges. During Frosts lifetime, i.e., the fi...

2 Carpe Diem Poems

the fleetingness of time, but his imagery and argument are more nuanced and complex. He, first of all, advises his mistress that i...

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...

Strand: The Garden

Strand, a critic by the name of Carl Singleton is not. He characterized Strands poetry as "entirely characteristic of the age in w...

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...

Pablo Neruda: 4 Poems

object and made it extraordinary: "the tomato offers/ its gift/ of fiery color/ and cool completeness" (82-85). Ode to a Storm: T...

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 ...

Langston Hughes/Critical Response to 2 Poems

opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...

Christianity in Beowulf

has received a considerable amount of attention. Eighteenth century critics argued in favor of viewing the poem as fundamentally p...

Women: The Other

the point of their clothing which was powerfully restrictive. In this poem the narrator states, "Aunt Jennifers tigers prance ac...

Mallarme, Baudelaire and Goethe

faun, so that he participates in the creation of the work (Betz, 1996). The faun cannot decide if he has been dreaming or not, but...

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...

St. Francis of Assisi A

Francis tried to resume his former practices and his old life, and briefly considered a military career, but the call to a religio...

W.B. Yeats/An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...

Researching the Poem ‘Ars Poetica’ by Archibald MacLeish on the Internet

scanned text files, featured a scanned version Frank St. Vincents important exposition of the poem that was first published in Exp...

Reactions to Various Poems

break all the rules and express his artistic vision in his own highly original way. This leads him to fame, fortune and freedom, w...

Poems: Dickinson, Donne, Marvell, Parker, and Roethke

and taken blood from both. He tries to convince her that to give in to him, to give him herself, has been ultimately blessed by th...

Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson in a Historical Context

held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...

Parodying the Knight in Song of Roland and Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso

of knight. He was the kings representative in battle, and his role as the protector of freedom was assumed with honor and uncompro...

Comparative Poetic Explication of Death in Emily Dickinson’s “The Bustle in a House (#1078)” and Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”

in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,- The sweeping up the heart, And...

Bob Marley and Redemption Song

stations" (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame). He was clearly very influenced by many talented musicians at the time, and in a place th...

Analyzing Poet Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art”

practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaste...