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"When I Consider How My Light is Spent" - An Analysis

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Milton's "When I Consider How My Light is Spent". The sonnet is analyzed for Biblic...

John Forbes and John Keats

how one can see a metaphor Forbes mention of how Irish soldiers are shown on posters "like a saint on a holy card, soppy & pious" ...

Love Poetically Approached by John Donne

for a spiritual thinker, body and soul. In "The Good Morrow," Donne immediately established what critic Susannah B. Mintz refers ...

Gwen Harwood and her Poetry

(lines 3-4). It is clear that whatever aspirations that the woman had as a pianist have been supplanted by her role as a mother....

Comparative Analysis of the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Alfred Lord Tennyson

4 sonnets by Browning. We discuss them separately and then provide a comparison and contrast of their works. Mariana Tennysons...

Analyzing Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Her Poetry

Barrett Browning, See also Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning). Furthermore, her brother dies in 1838 and this, combined with the re...

Laura Sonnets by Petrarch

most tragic play" (line 8). Furthermore, he attests that this love is his "constant gate and fountain" of grief" (line 12). This ...

Love According to Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Margaret Atwood

(line 7). Brownings devotion to her future mate is equated with a sense of lost innocence, as well as religious fervor. "I love th...

Science According to the Poems of Walt Whitman and Edgar Allan Poe

1). Using this metaphor, he goes on to say that Science "alterest all things with thy peering eyes," which preys upon his poets h...

Comparing John Keats and William Shakespeare

demesne" (Keats PG). It is here that religion first crops up in Keats explanation. Further, the entire work is about discovery, op...

Symbolism In the Terze Rime of Veronica Franco

freedom and lack of subornation to men that was facilitated by her position as a courtesan (Adler, 1988). The symbols are both d...

'Sonnet XIX' by John Milton

In six pages this paper discusses how Milton reveals his value to his Creator through verse in a consideration of such techniques ...

The World is Too Much With Us by Wordsworth

and that in the poems, he tried to transform these incidents and situations by way of his imagination and present them in a manner...

Death in the Poems of John Donne

In five pages this paper analyzes how the theme of death and John Donne's depression regarding death are reflected in 2 of his 'Ho...

John Donne's Works and the Themes of Sin and Death

In fifteen pages the themes of death and sin as they manifested themselves in John Donne's poems, sonnets and Biathanatos are disc...

John Donne's Sonnets Five and Eleven

In four pages this paper applies Stanley Archer's examination method to Sonnets 5 and 11 by John Donne. There are no other source...

Innovation and Structure in 'Astrophel and Stella' by Sir Philip Sidney

In eight pages this paper examines the sonnet structure and poetic devices Sidney employed in this 16th century poem. There are 7...

Mary Robinson, Charlotte Smith, and Jane Austen on Romantic Love

In twenty pages this paper examines how female authors portrayed romantic love in the late 18th century in a consideration of Robi...

'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 ...

Gwen Harwood's 'Suburban Sonnet'

one original thought or idea. This is an apt description for the language of Harwoods Suburban Sonnet, for in this work she prese...

Sonnets of George Eliot

In six pages this essay considers the series of poems in Brother and Sister by George Eliot in a discussion of two sonnets feature...

Analysis of the Poem 'Surprised by Joy' by William Wordsworth

In five pages this paper discusses the sonnet form of this poem, who it is addressed to, meaning through division of octave and se...

'Sonnet 31' by Sir Philip Sidney

moons course through the sky and the act of falling in love. The tone includes a bit of sarcasm or perhaps cynicism in the love t...

Females in William Shakespeare Plays Queen Margaret and Lady Percy

In eleven pages Queen Margaret in William Shakespeare's Richard the Third and Lady Percy in Shakespeare's historical play Henry IV...

'Suburban Sonnet' by Gwen Harwood

In 5 pages the author's use of language in this sonnet is examined in terms of texture and surface. There are no other sources li...

John Donne and God

to its logical conclusion, reasoning, that there was nothing in the power of humanity capable of effecting personal salvation. The...

Comparison of John Donne and Christopher Marlowe

this?...(Marlowe 7). As this illustrates, Faustus is rationalizing his desire to elevate himself, to live as a god himself. Rat...

'Sonnet 75' from Amoretti by Edmund Spencer

original, so much so, that he invented his own rhyming scheme, hence this sonnet is typical of the "Spencerian" form. It is one of...

Gender Roles and the Petrachan Sonnets of Philip Sidney and Lady Mary Wroth

This paper considers gender role concepts featured in the Petrachan sonnets 'Pamphilia to Amphilanthus' by Lady Mary Wroth and 'As...

Comic Analysis of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew

In five pages this paper presents a comic and situational analysis of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Two sources ...