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'The Odyssey' by Homer and the Character Cyclops

instead decides they should be dinner. According to Odysseus, "He clutched my companions / and caught two in is hands like squirm...

Poets R.S. Thomas and John Betjeman on Nature and the Modern World

and soul) are in a fight for their own survival and right to exist, and that the simple things in life, those things that really c...

Gender Representations in 'The White Heron' by Sarah Orne Jewett

positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...

Poetic Comparison of John Keats's 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer' and William Wordsworth's 'Lines Composed upon Westminster Bridge'

relating it to their own life experiences through the powers of imagination (Minahan 38). Two works that characterize the creativ...

The Bean Eater vs. Old Couple, Comparison

is stating the most depressing facts that seem obvious to them. However, as the poem ends we see an understanding of the gentle an...

Analysis of the Poem 'Earth's Answer' by William Blake

renewal [is] not exercised" (Harding 42). Blake wrote, "Earth raisd up her head / From the darkness dread and drear. / Her light...

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...

Emily Dickinson, Popular Music, and Death Fascination

17). While this image is certainly chilling, the overall tone of the poem is one of "civility," which is actually expressed in lin...

Poetry and the Concepts of Sovereignty and Ancestry

how the poet views his own culture: eternal, ancient and worthy of great awe, respect and wonder. "As ulu grows branches for lea...

Death in 2 Poems by Seamus Heaney

(line 5). As this illustrates, the second stanza builds the tension even further as this comment intimates that this death is par...

Love in Andrew Marvell's 'The Definition of Love' and in Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey's 'Love, That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought'

survive, the most poignant works were his love sonnets. Surrey was considered to be quite the ladies man, even though he was marr...

Ornamental Arts, Fame and Fate in Beowulf

comes to the aid of Hrothgar: "Thou Hrothgar, hail! Hygelacs I, kinsman and follower. Fame a plenty have I gained in youth! These...

Robert Frost's Favorite Theme

providing an avenue for the author to release the inner struggles of human conflict that can be set free through no other means th...

'The Gift Outright' by Robert Frost

When someone mentions "the road not taken" or "the road less traveled" it is often without any realization of Frosts famous poem, ...

Yusef Komunyakaa's Poetry

loss and redemption. If one were to move deeper into the meanings of both poems, or on an emotional, cognitive tour of the poem, ...

Suzanne Vega's Poem 'Playing'

their ultimate dream. And, the reference to the show indicates an imaginative perspective of life in general. There is an imaginat...

Seventeenth Century Love in Poetry

celebration of Gods love, as well as a poet that addressed the purity of a love for a woman. In better understanding this we discu...

Analyzing 'The Iliad' from Achilles' Point of View

(Hunter). She takes him to the River Styx because, "everything the sacred waters touched became invulnerable, but the heel remain...

Comparing the Impact of Colonization in Brand's 'Blues Spiritual for Mammy Prater' and Walcott's 'A Far Cry from Africa'

the struggle of colonization of the West Indies and slavery issues from conception to independence. In his poem "A Far Cry from Af...

Visions of Death in Emily Dickinson's Works

traumatic experience that the narrator has been through could very well be death. It is interesting to not the way that Dickinson ...

Religious Themes in the Butterfly Shaped Poem 'Easter Wings' by George Herbert

do with something more important than materiality. The poem goes on to complete the first set of wings as follows: "With Thee O le...

Romantic Era Poetry of John Keats

sort of heroic quest, or the heroic person trapped and confined by societys dictates or the citys walls. This is evident in ...

Underlying Themes of Various Poems

woods, peopled with the wild creatures of the forest, witches and all sort of magical folk, including Satan, himself. Tam stops to...

Robert Frost's Poetry and Symbolism

ambitious path than romanticism (Liebman 417). In fact, Frost tries to make every poem a metaphor to show his commitment to thes...

'The Tell Tale Heart' and 'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe

brother and sister, were split, with Edgar being taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Poe Chronology). His sister,...

Punishment and Poetry

The bright-eyed Mariner"(Coleridge, 2002). The sailor (or Mariner) says that though they started on calm enough seas, the wind p...

Life in America and the Works of William Carlos Williams and Carl Sandburg

Chicago are? Who knows?" Yet, there are evocative images that conjure images of the people that live there -- workers with big sho...

Christina Rossetti's 'Goblin Market'

a child will enjoy it to some extent, but it is safe to say that this poem was not intended for the young, though it may very well...

Poems 'Sir Patrick Spens' and 'Schoolsville'

blackboard." The town, then, is basically little more than a school, but a school with grown-ups rather than kid students. ...

'William at the Beach, Age 7' by William Stafford

know that William Stafford is a poet from Americas heartland. In fact, he may be, according to Heldrich (2002), "Kansass most famo...