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Prejudice in Education Confronted by Langston Hughes and Toni Cade Bambara

In five pages education and its prejudices are captured in the poem 'Theme for English B.' and the short story 'The Lesson.' Ther...

Adam's Fall and the Reasons Presented in Paradise Lost by John Milton

In three pages this paper discusses Milton's reasons for writing this epic poem and the sympathy generated for Adam and Eve that r...

Poetic Contrast of Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock' and John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'

In five pages this paper discusses the poets and the poems in this contrasting poetic analysis. Three sources are cited in the bi...

T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land' and D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover

In ten pages the depiction of sexuality in Lawrence's novel and Eliot's poem are compared and contrasted. There are 8 bibliograph...

Lord George Byron's 'Don Juan'

In eight pages the Don Juan characterization as depicted in Lord Byron's poem is examined. Five sources are cited in the bibliogr...

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...

"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...

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...

Judith Ortiz Cofer’s Silent Dancing

words ONLY is a little over 9 pgs!!! 11 14 3037 (5-10-10) 3150 12 15 3375 13 16 3600 14 18 15 19 16 20 4500...

Weston and Eliot

how it results in the wasting of the land, which results from the hero failing to ask the right questions (Weston 18). The theme...

Langston Hughes, An Overview

this became the most well known poem by Hughes and appeared in his first volume of poetry, The Weary Blues, which was published in...

"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...

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...

Comparison of Birkerts' "Brown Loafers"/Rector's "Handmade Shoes"

too swollen to wear an expensive pair of Italian loafers, he presents them to Birkerts, who, initially, wears them, as they looked...

Travel Poems by Frost and Stafford

Taken" and William Staffords "Traveling Through the Dark" are both poems about lifes journey and the choices that confront each in...

Cult of Courtly Love and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

This paper consists of 10 pages and examines the reflection of courtly love in this poem and its false ideals. There are 9 source...

George Herbert's Poetry and Religious Message

across and give his readers food for thought. In a reading provided by a student, Helen Vaudler suggests that Herberts poetry is i...

Welsh Poet Dylan Thomas

could find. He entered his teen years in a state of rebellion, and left school when he was sixteen years old. He found work as a...

John Donne's 'The Flea' and Seduction Meanings

In five pages this paper examines the meaning of seduction within the context of this poem by John Donne. One source is cited in ...

John Keats, William Blake, and William Wordsworth and Poetic Imagination

In 5 pages these poets and some of their poems are examined in terms of how the creativeness of the imagination is celebrated. Th...

Styles of Poets Alfred Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning

human emotions or actions to nature or inanimate objects. Porphyrias Lover (Robert Browning) We might label this dramatic monolo...

Derek Walcott's Poetry

In six pages this paper examines 2 poems by Derek Walcott, 'Nearing Forty' and 'The Virgins' in a contrast and comparison the the ...

'The Sovereign Beauty' by Edmund Spenser

In six pages this explication of Spenser's poem argues that it serves as a celebration of Queen and country in terms of 'virtue' a...

American Experience in the Poems of Langston Hughes and Walt Whitman

In five pages this paper examines how unique aspects of the American experience are featured in the poems of Langston Hughes and W...

Comparison of Poems 'To the Evening Star' by William Blake and 'It is a Beauteous Evening' by William Wordsworth

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these poems in an analysis of each poet's voice and how it is influenced by imager...

Dante's 'Inferno' Explanationa and Detailed Structural Analysis

In five pages a poetic explication of Dante's poem is presented in terms of explanation of betrayal as a more punishable sin than ...

Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, e.e. cummings' 'somewhere i have never traveled' and Fragility

In 4 pages this paper examines the power of fragility as represented in this play and poem. There are 4 sources cited in the bibl...

Comparison of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

In a paper consisting of 7 pages the poems in these two works are compared and include variations of 'Little Girl Lost' and 'The C...

Wilfred Owen's First World War Poetry

continues as follows: "And thinly drawn with famishing for flesh. Lend him to stroke these blind, blunt bullet-leads, Which long t...

A Reivew of Adam's Curse by W. B. Yeats

This 5 page essay explores the poem by W.B. Yeats. A correlation is made between the passage of time and love. 3 sources are cit...