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Emily Dickinson's Poems 341 and 465 Compared and Contrastd

power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...

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...

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...

Lacking Conviction in Sexual Intimacy in "Sex without Love" by Sharon Olds and "Lust" by Susan Minot

She is dismissive about feeling hurt or jealous that she was little more than another notch on Tims belt. For this young girl, se...

Taoist Poetry: A Photographic Analysis

is an ancient collection of philosophical principles presented in a poetic fashion. It has been maintained and circulated since th...

Analysis of The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh

haiku poem Blasts of light, motion, Tortured vision, endless beauty, Lead to new understanding. Vincent van Gogh painted The Sta...

Overview of Book of Songs

a whole" (Yu 380). These natural images are used to open each stanza, as Yu notes that there are "three tetrasyllabic stanzas of f...

"Do Not Expect Again a Phoenix Hour" by C Day Lewis

of recurrence and an admonishment not to expect recurrence immediately draws the reader in. The poet them goes on to describe "the...

"Handmade Shoes" by Liam Rector

a figurative level, the poet is inviting the reader to take his perspective, to figuratively "walk in his shoes" and, thereby, lea...

"The last Night that She Lived:" An Analysis of Comprehending Death According to Emily Dickinson

so-called loved ones seem to have gathered expecting to witness something memorably catastrophic, almost as if they seek to be ent...

Explication of George Herbert's "Virtue"

dew that falls at night as weeping for the demise of day, "For thou must die" (Herbert line 4). The second stanza focuses on the...

Dissonance in AJM Smith's 'The Lonely Land'

certain that the reader has not missed the implication. Note that in the lines leading up to the "beauty of dissonance" th...

Prufrock's Character in 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot

be a lover and an optimist. But we begin to see images of tension in the fact that he describes the evening sky spread out as "a p...

Comparative Analysis of Four Poems by William Butler Yeats

the first two lines in each verse rhyme. The mood is one of absolute freedom, which stresses that the things that society values -...

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...

Lovers Voices in 'Porphyria's Lover' and 'To His Coy Mistress'

he presents. Essentially, he wants his mistress to accept his advances not because she has been mentally or physically bludgeoned ...

Analysis of 2 of Elizabeth Daryush's Poems

The tone of the poem builds from this beginning: "you should at times walk on,/ away from your friends ways,/ go where the scorned...

Poems of William Blake and Theodicy

is self-contradictory" (Davies 86). As envisioned by William Blake, God is not to blame for the good and evil in the world becaus...

Analysis of the Poem 'The Elixir' by George Herbert

to see, And what I do in anything, To do it as for thee:" (311) In the next stanza, Herbert comments on mans desire for perfectio...

'A Work of Artifice' by Marge Piercy

curlers, the hands you love to touch" (Piercy 75). a. The poem denotes cultural symbols. b. Symbols include bound feet an...

Analysis of the Poem 'The Horse and His Rider' by Joanna Baillie

In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...

John Keats and Ernest Hemingway

desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....

An Analysis of the Blakes Poems, Songs of Innocence, and Songs of Experience

be the definitive poetic volumes with Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794). In each work, a poem entitled "Th...

Summary and Tonal Analysis of 'Salvation' by Langston Hughes

oppression could flourish" (Langston Hughes 1902) - has a hard time realizing how religion serves any other purpose than to latch ...

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...

Pedro Salinas' Razon de Amor

woman. The narrator states, for example, "If the skies illuminate/ trasluces of paradise,/ islands of color of ed?n,/ it is that i...

Advancing Age in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats

the "music" of nature and is part of a continuous cycle. This poem concludes "How can we know the dancer from the dance" (line 64)...

First World War and its Psychological Impact

stories they remember from men who are from an older generation. Barker (1993) highlights the psychological effects of this popul...

Comparative Analysis of the 'Poem of the Cid' Epic and Anthony Mann's 1961 Film El Cid

In three pages this paper discusses an epic in terms of characteristics and how thee are expressed in literature and on film in a ...