SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Analyzing Three Poems About War

Essays 1981 - 2010

'Sick on a Journey' by Basho

principles such as Sabi and Wabi, are contained in the Bashos last Haiku. By the title one immediately understands that something ...

Verbal and Nonverbal Types of Communications and Their Ambiguous Natures

In five pages verbal and nonverbal communications are analyzed in terms of their various ambiguities. Three sources are cited in ...

China Boy by Gus Lee

In eight pages this paper analyzes the novel's Chinese American boy's struggles in a consideration of masculinity as defined by th...

'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...

Purpose and Theme of The Ramayana

In five page The Ramayana is analyzed in terms of its purpose and theme. Three other sources are cited in the bibliography....

Analysis of 3 Plots in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

of self-centeredness. The problem is simple: Mankind has completely lost his reverence that once existed toward one another, an e...

Secrets of the Gene by James Shreeve

In five pages this article on gene research developments and consequences is analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliograph...

Jay Gatsby's Personal Philosophy in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

expensive roadster, and momentarily loses control of the car, striking and killing a woman, Myrtle Wilson, whom readers later lear...

Language and Ideas in Derek Walcott's Poetry

poem. The rhyming pattern is alternately free form and occasional standard abab. It follows the pattern of iambic pentameter of ...

Evil and Pride in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock'

of Belindas bedroom, and how Ariel, her guardian sylph, awakens her. Pope describes the other sylphs that also guard Belinda and t...

Solitude in the City

refuge in the cafe. In this work the solitude, while sad, is also one of peacefulness. One might also say that it is a juxtaposit...

Music and Poems

played slightly louder, i.e. piano. The rhythm of the piece would be uniform 4/4 time, but the overall effect of the rhythm would...

Oakes's Becoming Good American Schools

tradition, particularly the tension between the very powerful concept of and drive for individualism and the ideals of civic virtu...

Poetic Theme of Carpe Diem

see their beauty, and youth, start to fade. This idea is reiterated and emphasized in the second verse, which speaks of the suns q...

'A Family Supper' by Kazuo Ishiguro

equivalent of playing Russian roulette, was popular in Japan, but his mother always refused to eat fugu, but decided to do so rath...

Early Greek Philosopher Parmenides

as a problem (Frost, 1962). However, later philosophers, as they pondered the nature of the universe, began to see the fact of cha...

Unorthodox Writings of American Poet James Merrill

blank verse" (Traveler With a Trunk of Poetic Devices). It begins with the poem, "The Friend of the Fourth Decade," which is fram...

William Shakespeare's The Tempest Featured in Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

as he, also, is an exile from civilization (12). Also like Prospero, Valerian exerts control over the rest of the characters (Walt...

Piano Concerto in A Major by Wolfgang Mozart

provides color, form and melody throughout the work (Landon, 1956). In general, Mozart employed two types of punctuation tools t...

Tragic Hero and Sympathy for William Shakespeare's Othello

of sympathy it is first necessary to understand that the classification of "Othello" as a "tragedy" is, of course, not to be confu...

Analysis of Real Networks

In seven pages this paper analyzes Real Networks with the inclusion of a SWOT analysis and company recommendations. Three sources...

Gabriele Basilico's Use of Space in the Urban Landscape

the exacting nature and immediately transitory nature of the medium. When we look at the work of this artist, for this is what h...

William Wordsworth's 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge' and William Blake's 'London'

and a London that is perhaps anything but majestic and beautiful. Blake states that "I wander thro each charterd street,/ Near whe...

'Variations on the Word Love' by Margaret Atwood

sell / it (lines 6-7). And, indeed, love sells well -- everything from cars to toothpaste -- filling whole magazines -- "you can /...

Dylan Thomas's 'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night'

use of cadences, rhythms, repetitions and events or actions that may take place within the poem. Also, it can be said that tone is...

Mark Tully's Four Faces A Journey in Search of Jesus the Divine Reviewed

that he did - when the masses desperately needed a "human" religion to cling to - was something that helped boost Jesus to "divine...

Courage is Named Maya Angelou

speaks of breaking free, not only from oppression and prejudice, but also from those things that bind and keep one from achieving ...

Good and Evil as Depicted in Othello by William Shakespeare

speaks so eloquently that the Duke comments that Othellos tale would "win my daughter too" (Act I, Scene 3, line 171). Furthermore...

Class, Privilege, and Maturity in 'A and P' by John Updike

definitely engages in what can be interpreted as seductive posturing (Wells 128). For example, as she slowly turns, Sammys stomach...

Religion and Emily Dickinson

who see; But microscopes are prudent in an emergency!" The poem whose first lines begin, "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers" is a ...