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to the United States when she was seven. Her poetry then is an attempt to reconcile the extremes that come from living in two cult...

who has lost her lover in the south. We can assume this came from a lynching (as evidenced by the reference to "Dixie," which lync...

how Frost "speaks of the (metaphoric) wall between his neighbor and himself" which seems to him to be unnecessary. This brings to ...

a number of jobs, he worked in a textile mill and on a farm, and taught Latin at his mothers school in Methuen, Massachusetts."5 H...

This three page original poem is inspired by psalm 73, but takes a present day perspective. No surces are cited....

However, the ways in which his thoughts were organized are often ironic, and can generate more than one meaning. For example, is ...

she is seen as pretty and thus she finds "Consummation at last" (Piercy 6). In this poem we see how it is the ideal media image ...

In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...

a spell to make them balance" (Frost 16-18). In this we again see an imagery that allows us to perhaps comprehend the composition ...

The tone of the poem builds from this beginning: "you should at times walk on,/ away from your friends ways,/ go where the scorned...

which is extremely faulty, shows that she is easily corrupted. Her first instinct on eating of the forbidden fruit is to entice ...

to see, And what I do in anything, To do it as for thee:" (311) In the next stanza, Herbert comments on mans desire for perfectio...

night returning, anew began ruthless murder; he recked no whit, / firm in his guilt, of the feud and crime" (II 12-22). When Hrot...

also great/ And would suffice" (Frost 6-9). In this we see something we would perhaps normally associate with fire, that being hat...

a hook to bait a desired fish. But no competitive fisherman is eager to share his secrets for landing the big one. A poet is no ...

gloves" (Auden 8). Tone As one critic states, "The tone of a poem is roughly equivalent to the mood it creates in the reader" ...

Im flesh" ((Komunyakaa 3-5). These lines illustrate that no matter how much time has passed since the Vietnam War this narrator ca...

part of them." The "roasting" of Louie is stated as being symbolic, but Dickson describes a quite vivid scene that leads the read...

that this is "Her hardest hue to hold." The budding of plants at this time in the early spring is the shortest part of the seas...

reflects both the poet and the readers changing perspectives that can only be achieved through a rational and nonprejudiced examin...

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

and the "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes are both evocative and deeply beautiful poems. In each poem, the poet uses...

has grown deep like rivers" (line 4). Setting the line off by itself emphasizes its significance, as it ties the narrator directly...

This paper offers two blog posts. One on "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and the other on "Sex without Love" by Sharon Olds....

This paper focuses on how death is treated in "Peter Pan" by J.M. Barrie, and then compares with the same theme in "Jim " and "Mat...

Comparing and contrasting the search for enlightenment in the works of Dante Alighieri and Hanshan in 4 pages. Primary sources on...

In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at found poetry. Rossetti's "Goblin Market" is used to construct a found poem with fem...

This essay considers three of Langston Hughes's poems, "Harlem," "I, Too," and "Ballad of the Landlord" and argues that they are r...

are not red as coral; her breasts are not white but dun colored; her hair is coarse and wiry (on her head; Shakespeare being Shake...

human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my ...