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Analysis of the Poem 'Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening' by Robert Frost

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 ...

Elements of Poems by Neal Bowers, Linda Pastan, and W.H. Auden

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

Poems of William Blake and Theodicy

is self-contradictory" (Davies 86). As envisioned by William Blake, God is not to blame for the good and evil in the world becaus...

Analysis of 2 of Elizabeth Daryush's Poems

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

Analysis of 'Fire and Ice' Poem by Robert Frost

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

Comparison of the Poems by Christina Rossetti and John Milton

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

Analysis of the Poem 'The Elixir' by George Herbert

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...

Analysis of the Poem 'The Horse and His Rider' by Joanna Baillie

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

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five and Yon Yonson's Cyclic Poem

that his novel is not fictitious, but, on the other hand, he also states that everything only happened more or less thus restricti...

Robert Browning and Aphra Behn's Poems

enjoying the fact that many people have bleeding hearts from love. The narrator is clearly an individual who has been harmed by...

Feminism and Alexander Pope's Poem 'The Rape of the Lock'

he mocks. It is after all a story of a lock of hair stolen while a young woman sleeps. What can be simpler? What can be less impo...

Analysis of Robert Frost's Poem 'Out, Out'

But, Frost never treats it as an overpowering tragedy for the participants, who still live, continue without looking back it seems...

Margaret Atwood's Poem 'Spelling'

understand our world and as we seek to communicate with that world. As the poem progresses we surely see elements that speak of...

John Donne's Poem 'The Flea'

In six pages a poetic summary and explication of John Donne's 'The Flea' are presented. There are no other sources included....

Opposition in William Blake's Poems

all three in a way that is distinct from all other "political appropriations" of the myth (Schock 445). As a new heaven is...

William Blake's Poem 'The Little Black Boy'

In three pages this paper presents a thematic explication of this William Blake poem as it portrays lacking worth, faith, and inno...

2 Poems by Robert Herrick Analyzed

of the seasons, which have been going on their course throughout all of history. "And Titan on the eastern hill / Retires himself,...

'The Temple' Poem by George Herbert

moral and religious instruction, Herbert includes an invitation to delve deeper in the "church" before beginning the next section....

Carpe Diem Poems by Herrick and Donne

sooner will his race be run, / And nearer hes to setting" (lines 7-8). In this manner, Herrick sets up an ever-increasing sense of...

Analysis of the Poem 'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe

talk that he had "hastened his wifes death to write the poem" (Allen 3). There can be little doubt that the poem itself is obvi...

Analysis of Two Poems by Sharon Olds

her sister as "buddies in wartime" and the stairwell is described as a "shell hole." Like soldiers, Olds states that she and her ...

Robert Frost's Poem 'The Death of the Hired Man'

An analytic interpretation of this poem is presented in five pages with a discussion of loneliness and home themes that are featur...

Richard Wilbur's Poem 'Love Calls Us to the Things of This World'

the soul from the confines of the earth and into the far reaches of the heavens. In its spiritual form the soul is no longer conf...

Maya Angelou's Poem 'Woman Work'

is left out: herself. "Shine on me, sunshine Rain on me, rain...

'To Penhurst' Poem by Ben Jonson

Penshurst is an example of hospitality and warmth regardless of ones rank in society. At Penshurst, there is none of the social d...

Poems of Emily Dickinson and Edwin Robinson as They Thematically Depict Success

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares how success is thematically portrayed in Edwin Robinson's 'Richard Cory' and Emily ...

The Wedding Motif in the Poem 'In Memoriam' by Alfred Tennyson

This paper consists of five pages and discusses how Section 40 of the poem that features the bride analogy is enmeshed in the comp...

Individual's Responsibility in Kahlil Gibran's Poem 'The Prophet'

In twelve pages this paper discusses the themes of an individual's responsibility in 'The Prophet' poem by Kahlil Gibran. Six sou...

Explication of the Poem The Eternal Dice

In four pages this poetry explication considers the author's future world vision and anger regarding God....

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...