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Birds in Literature

In three pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of birds in Walt Whitman's poem 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' and ...

Robert Frost: Ambiguity and Meaning

optimistic poet beyond this interpretation of his most famous work, which causes the work to stand out in a questionable way. Inde...

Resistance and Stereotypes in the Poems of Grace Nichols

In five pages Grace Nichol's poetry is examined in terms of the images of resistance and stereotypes they employ with a discussion...

Nature and the Poems of Emily Dickinson

This paper looks at Dickinson's views about and relationship with nature through a reading of several of her poems. The author lo...

Emily Dickinson and the Poems of Fascicle Twenty-Eight

to discern the "inexhaustible richness of consciousness itself" (Wacker 16). In other words, the poetry in fascicle 28 presents ...

Macabre Themes in the Works of Robert Frost

of his mind and spirit working in tandem to overcome natures obstacles as well as the more primitive creatures on the Earth. Frost...

Romanticism in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins

argued that poetry is the expression of ones very soul, encompassing many emotions, feelings and desires that can range from one e...

Ten Poems by Emily Dickinson

of mourning and regret, while singing the praises of something wondrous. I Came to buy a smile -- today (223) The first thing...

A Comparative Analysis of Roethke and Ammons

In five pages this essay offers a contrast and comparison of Theodore Roethke's poems 'The Waking' and 'I Knew a Woman' and A.A. A...

Four Poems by A.R. Ammons

In this essay containing five pages the symbolism and imagery similarities in Ammons' poems The Damned, Anxiety's Prosody, Kind, a...

Love According to Andrew Marvell and John Donne

In five pages love as represented by Andrew Marvell in his poem 'The Definition of Love' is compared and contrasted with the poem ...

Song's Chinatown

3 pages and 1 source used. This paper provides an overview of Cathy Song's poem Chinatown. This paper outlines the viewpoint of ...

Poetic Analysis of 'If We Must Die' by Claude McKay

exploded out of me" (McKay on "If We Must Die"). Somewhat surprisingly, McKay elected to structure his impassioned contemporary p...

A Review of The Road Not Taken

A 5 page esay reviewing the Robert Frost poem. This paper comments on both the strengths and the weaknesses of the poem. 1 sourc...

A Reading of Emily Dickinson's Short Poem #1755

apt description of reverie being that which is made up of a few simple things; and if those things are not available, well, reveri...

Emily Dickinson's Works on Self and Death

line and the metaphor in the first, Dickinson employs all of the literary devices available, but, prefers, for the most part, to f...

Poetry by Hardy and Eliot

himself who willed that he should suffer (lines 5-8). In other words, Hardy pictures preferring a world such as the ancient Gre...

'Calm' by Loma Crozier

pause, heads tilted as if trying to hear someone softly...

Literary and Poetic Examples of True Love

even to the edge of doom" (Shakespeare 9-12). In the end he claims that if he is wrong then he never wrote and no man ever loved. ...

Thomas Whyte's The Heart Aroused and Beowulf

states that such archetypes are "mental predispositions independent of individual experience, which have their source in the colle...

Contemporary Hero Mother Teresa

Beyond ordinary or normal human ability, power, or experience" (Dictionary.com, 2004). Applying this we can look at the way she c...

The Christian Influence in Medieval Literature

made of its mortality" (Dante 539). For Dante, then, "the way to God is found in human life. This was Abelards message. It was the...

Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

any serious faults or weaknesses. As such the story has no frivolous moments, no humor for it si not necessary and was likely not ...

Myth and Allegory in Beowulf

and Christian values that are embedded within the narrative; in other words, it, like many myths, intends to convey a central less...

Perspective and the Theme of Beowulf

similar to the character of Virgil, who, despite occupying a seemingly major role in the Divine Comedy, primarily exists to better...

Beowulf - The Translations of Heaney and Raffel

swords" (Heaney 2; Raffel 2). 2.) Comment on the differences in Heanys and Raffels translations and the authors of literary/rhet...

Beowulf and Pagan and Christian Values

worth in the final reckoning (2250-2252). The fatalistic nature of the passage is emphasized by the use of language evoking imager...

Gawain and Beowulf

Green Knight and comes across challenges which he seems to deal with honorably. At one point in the story he is staying in a won...

Development of English Literature from 'Beowulf' to Alexander Pope

very clear division between those who followed Christianity in the genuine way, and those who used it merely for their own advance...

All About Monsters

"The iron-braced door turned on its hinge when his hands touched it. Then his rage boiled over, he ripped open the mouth of the bu...