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Spiritual Journey of Dante's 'Inferno'

The development of the journey motif throughout the poem and how it serves as an allegory for spiritual growth are discussed in a ...

Innocence Lost in William Blake's 'The Garden of Love' and 'The Sick Rose'

In three pages this paper considers the theme of lost innocence in a contrast and comparison of these William Blake poems. There ...

'Strange Fits of Passion I Have Known' by William Wordsworth and its Hallmarks of Romanticism

In five pages this paper argues how this poem by Wordsworth is the definitive representation of Romanticism in its presentation of...

Lusiads by Luis Vas de Camoes

In five pages this Portuguese poem of the 16th century is examined in terms of the expression of dogmatism and nationalism by the ...

Female Gender Roles in the Writings of Jonathan Swift

takes on the tone of condescension and intolerance for the manner in which women have historical been portrayed. Swifts interest ...

Analyzing Tennyson's Poetry

The ways in which Tennyson's poems 'The Palace of Art' and 'The Poet' express the poet's attitudes regarding politics, morality, a...

Reclusive Emily Dickinson

of struggling against it. For example, the "gentleman caller" in "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" -- who is clearly intended...

Explication of 'Mirror' by Sylvia Plath

has watched as a young girl has matured and ultimately been replaced with an old woman, which the mirror looks upon as the passing...

'My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun' by Emily Dickinson Analyzed Psychologically

In six pages this paper discusses how inequality is strengthened through repressing anger about gender roles and sexuality in a ps...

'The Tyger' by William Blake

been requisite in order to create the gentle, trusting lamb. The narrator never states that the Tyger is evil, but he indic...

'At the Fishhouses' by Elizabeth Bishop

In five pages this paper discusses what external factors influenced this poem by Elizabeth Bishop. Six sources are cited in the b...

Technique and Theme of 'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost

In 3 pages a thematic examination and analysis of technique employed by Robert Frost in his poem 'The Road Not Taken' are presente...

'Prayer' by George Herbert, Structure and Metaphor

In 5 pages this paper examines the sonnet structure of this 17th century poem and considers its use of religious metaphor. There ...

'On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year' by Lord Byron

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Byron's use of literary devices in this poem are examined in an argument that youth is for love w...

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...

Meaning and Money in the Works of Wallace Stevens, Ernest Hemingway, and Eugene O'Neill

In five pages this paper discusses how spirituality and money are represented in O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, Hemingwa...

Comparative Analysis of Philip Levine's 'Animals are Passing From Our Lives' and Charles Simic's 'Butcher Shop'

Contrasts and comparisons of these two poems are drawn in this paper consisting of five pages. There are no other sources listed....

Comparing 'Home' by Grace Nicholas to 'Wherever I Hang' by Anne Bronte

In three pages the literary devices of simile, metaphor, rhythm, rhyme, and alliteration are used in a comparative analysis of the...

Dark and Light Imagery in 'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night' by Dylan Thomas

In five pages Thomas' dark and light imagery is examined within the context of the poem as representing how people should continue...

The Chess Game by Jorge Luis Borges

The writer describes the way in which Jorge Luis Borges uses the techniques of magic realism and metaphor in his poem. The paper i...

Transformation During 2 Centuries of the Qing Dynasty, from 1644 to 1844

In ten pages this paper examines the first 200 years of China's Qing dynasty in a consideration of how literature, society, and cu...

Emily Dickinson's Poetry and Themes of Nature and Death

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the ways in which the poet's views of nature and death are represented in such poems as 'Twas jus...

Emily Dickinson's Views on Death Expressed in Her Poetry

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Emily Dickinson's contention that one should live life to the fullest and not be constrained by f...

'Unknown Citizen' by W.H. Auden

In a paper consisting of five pages the ways in which Auden employs the literary techniques of allusion and irony in his poem 'Unk...

Misery in Poetry

ties have ceased to exist. He says that although the world appears to be beautiful, in actuality, it contains "neither joy, nor lo...

Nature as Poetically Envisioned by Gerard Manley Hopkins

clear the writers intent: to demonstrate the manner by which poetry and ones life experiences are infinitely intertwined. Nature ...

Imagination and Love in On Love by Alain de Botton and Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

In twenty four pages this report contrasts and compares the themes of love and imagination as depicted in these works and also com...

Human Conflict and the Poetry of Robert Frost

human conflict is more than apparent. "I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the ...

Death and the Works of Emily Dickinson

Donoghue has aptly observed that "of her religious faith virtually anything may be said, with some show of evidence. She may be r...

Artifice and Art in 'Rape of the Lock' by Alexander Pope

In 5 pages this paper discusses how the poet pokes fun at Belinda for affecting an artistic appearance when all the while he is do...