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The Culture of the Beowulf Poem

faith primarily in their thane and in "wyrd," which is a pagan reference to fate or destiny, according to Abrams, et al (1968). ...

'The Lotos Eaters' by Alfred Tennyson

This analysis consists of ten pages and considers the poem's relationship to the Romantic period and also compares and contasts th...

Wordsworth/Solitary Reaper

on the beauty of the scene. The Romantics tended to be introspective, while also placing emphasis on beauty of everyday life, rath...

Analysis of Beowulf

monstrous creature Grendel, Grendels mother, and the dragon - it considers the impact of social obligations (loyalty to God and co...

"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

mans inventions and discoveries since Galileos time have been beneficial specifically to his existence; however, McCarthy illustra...

Societal Criticism, Browning and Swift

This essay pertains to Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," published in 1729, and Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess, Ferra...

Sublime and Subjective Romanticism in William Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey”:

natural sublime."2 As is common in the thematic development of the sublime in Romanticism, the sensation is one of rapture and on...

DRUG ADDICTION AND CULTURAL REFERENCES IN HAYDEN’S “SOLEDAD”

Dust, in 1940 (Robert Hayden). Accolades and awards followed (including being the first African-American to be named Poet Laureate...

Poetic Explication of Robert Burns’ “A Red, Red Rose”

of four lines known as quatrains, and each stanza comprised of alternating iambs or an unstressed syllable immediately followed by...

Children’s Perceptions of Adults

is presumably himself, as an adult, looking back at the things his father did for him. These are things that the child clearly nev...

Those Winter Sundays

and lonely offices?" (Hayden 13-14). All of this speaks of a childs ignorance and how children are simply children, ignora...

Parent/Child Responsibilities: Hayden’s Those Winter Sundays

about the circumstances of the household. An atmosphere of bitterness with bouts of anger is described. The recollection suggests ...

Songs of Innocence and Experience by Robert Blake

works together one can see the romantic power of both innocence and experience as Blake addressed a changing world where human per...

Benedicte Marie Wrensted’s Photographs of Native Americans

inaccuracies which are depicted. The time bracketing the latter part of the nineteenth century and the first years of the t...

Browning and Spera

various admirers which she held in just as much regard as anything she received from him-including the title. Furthermore, she fli...

Explication of Robert Browing's My Last Duchess

reader may have been a bit confused at prior lines that spoke of abstract thought and image, much of that could easily be contribu...

Robert Louis Stevenson and Shel Silverstein: Child Poetry

Good Play" the poem is far more simplistic in relationship to how children think and play as the poems narrator states, "We built ...

"For the Union Dead"

confuse free verse with sloppiness. The tone of the poem ("tone" can best be understood as the attitude the speaker has toward his...

Robert Browning, Edgar Allan Poe, and Their Narrators' Unreliability

says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...

'Tam o'Shanter' by Robert Burns

In five pages this poem by Scottish poet Robert Burns is analyzed with its satirical elements and similarities to Chaucer duly not...

Victorian Tradition and Robert Browning

This research paper offers an extensive overview of the work of Robert Browning and this poet fits within the context of Victorian...

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 ...

Symbolism in 'Angels' by Robert Wrigley

him into an angel. Wrigley writes that: "We didnt speak, we didnt need to: the negotiations of young flesh, this for that, mine fo...

My Father's Wedding by Robert Bly

This research paper/essay offers a detailed explication of a poem written by Robert Bly in 1981 entitled My Father's Wedding. The ...

2 Poems by Robert Herrick Analyzed

of the seasons, which have been going on their course throughout all of history. "And Titan on the eastern hill / Retires himself,...

'Smile' in the Poetry of Robert Browning and Dorothy Parker

the Duchess to show pleasure. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Wheneer I passed her, but who passed without Much the same smile? Th...

My Last Duchess/Robert Browning

as it relates to obsession and silent women. The poem begins, very pleasantly as the narrator seems to merely be giving the li...

Robert Phillips' 'Running on Empty'

experience it for himself. As a teenager I would drive Fathers Chevrolet cross-country, given me...

'Andrea del Sarto; by Robert Browning

and lust perhaps. She is an object to be worshipped and talked about, but not a woman who is given a voice. Throughout this poe...

Robert Lowell and Bob Dylan

began to write what came to be called "confessional poetry," which is defined as "an undisguised exposure of painful personal even...