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Seventeenth Century Love in Poetry

celebration of Gods love, as well as a poet that addressed the purity of a love for a woman. In better understanding this we discu...

Imagery in Poetry by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Christina Rossetti

the bird with his crossbow. With this act, which apparently was motivated by pure blood-lust, the Mariner sins not only ag...

Punishment and Poetry

The bright-eyed Mariner"(Coleridge, 2002). The sailor (or Mariner) says that though they started on calm enough seas, the wind p...

Differences in Silence in Poetry of the East and West

was the spirit of Zen, as he drew his imagery from the "taproots" of the earth, the presence of a moment (Hassain, 1995). The "su...

Love Poetry and Dependency Themes

places her love at the basest level of daily life. She needs her love as she needs water to drink or air to breath. The love in fa...

Beowulf's Epic Poetry

In five pages this paper examines such events as the Dane's nation rise, attack of Heorot, hero's arrival in Heorot, Heorot feast,...

Comparative Analysis of the Poetry of Sharon Olds and Short Fiction of Raymond Carver

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the Sharon Olds' poem 'Sex Without Love' with Raymond Carver's short story 'What W...

4 Poetry Classics and Their Meanings

really saw his last wife as a person in her own right, but rather regarded her just one more beautiful "object" that he owned and ...

Nature in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson

"After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes," "This is My Letter to the World," "I Had Been Hungry," and "They Shut Me Up in Prose,"...

Poetry and Time

can one accept that time runs out and that everyone will die someday? After all, time is of the essence. How does one love, be hap...

'Smile' in the Poetry of Robert Browning and Dorothy Parker

the Duchess to show pleasure. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Wheneer I passed her, but who passed without Much the same smile? Th...

Symbols Used in Poetry and in the Bible

kingdom of heaven is similar to a field in which a man has sown good seed. The "good seed" are righteous people who will come to b...

Depictions of Nature in the Poetry of Dickinson and Frost

action so that the reader can easily imagine its intensity. It is a strikingly vivid image. Likewise, Frost is famous for his im...

Life Experiences and Poetry Themes

ethical judgements. While the students perhaps though that these old people are no longer young and can offer nothing of value to ...

Time Perceptions in Poetry

in tone, but still harbors the undercurrent that there is reason to dread. The poem describes the "soote" (sweet) season of spring...

World and Self in Poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

selected one thing (one person, one book, she is not specific) and close her attention to all others. However, the "Soul" is not...

Irish Folklore in the Poetry of William Butler Yeats

strife. The folklore of the country became an important vehicle for recording that turmoil and strife and Yeats was a critical pl...

Poetry of William Blake and William Wordsworth and the Theme of Poverty

smooth stone/ That overlays the pile; and, from a bag/ All white with flour, the dole of village dames,/ He drew his scraps and fr...

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...

Robert Frost's Poetry and Darkness

see the secrecy, the sense of spying that is darkness, though not a darkness associated with nature, other than perhaps the nature...

Emily Dickinson's Private Affairs and Their Influence on Her Poetry

born (The Life of Emily Dickinson). Although her childhood was typical of most, by the time she was a young adult she had retreat...

Yusef Komunyakaa's Poetry

loss and redemption. If one were to move deeper into the meanings of both poems, or on an emotional, cognitive tour of the poem, ...

Sappho's Poetry, Homer's Epics, and Women

we mortals bear perforce, although we suffer; for they are much stronger than we. But now I will teach you clearly, telling you th...

Contemporary Thought Reflected in William Butler Yeats' Poetry

The allusion to Oscar Wildes epigram--What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities--...

Matthew Arnold's Poetry

and symbolism. As Arnold embraces God along with the seas that the maker has created, he questions things. The church is often the...

Robert Browning's Poetry and Religion

try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...

Elitist Poetry of Langston Hughes

but his folk heritage as well. "Hughes made the spirituals, blues, and jazz the bases of his poetic expression. Hughes wrote, he c...

Poetry, Literature: Influence of Victorian Society, World War I

This essay pertains to T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontent, as well as the influence t...

African American Experience in the Poetry of Langston Hughes

this poem is that of the universal anguish of being bound and imprisoned, no matter what the age. And, in a very real sense he is ...

John Donne's Seventeenth Century Love Poetry

in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest ;...