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Death Poetic Perspectives in the Works of Thomas, Donne, and Davis

shalt die"(Donne 812). In this poem, then, the literary devices used include personification, sonnet form, and irony. Irony is mo...

Religious Poetry of the Victorian Age

those around them, as if they were now removed from all responsibility to those around them. She seems to call them dead before th...

T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land' and the Contemporary World

world was worth living in. Interestingly enough, one critic indicates that this is where Eliot uses the symbolism of the Holy G...

Transcendence of 'Routine' by Tom Wayman

a steadily-promoted deck officer on the Titanic" (Lancashire et al. "Philosophy"). This balanced perspective (positive and negativ...

Power of Language in Langston Hughes’ Poems ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’ and ‘Mother to Son’

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 ...

Literary Analysis of Wislawa Szymborska’s Poem ‘True Love’

love between two ordinary people: "Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it h...

William Wordsworth’s Natural Imagery

to release the burthen of my own unnatural self and the wearying city days such as were not made for me" (Driver 48). The first li...

Death and Poetic Attitudes of Davis, Thomas, and Donne

people pity the dead, not Death itself. In the end Donnes message is that there is little reason to fear death and that in the end...

Lionel Trilling's 'Terrifying' Observation of Robert Frost

Frost as Terrifying In first examining how and why Frost is considered terrifying we must first understand that Trilling did not...

Literature of the First World War, Dying, Mutilation, and Death

that the other poppy "I gave to you" (line 8). In the third stanza, Rosenberg writes that the "sandbags narrowed" (line 9). The t...

Early American Poetry

would end without seeing "half my days thats due" (line 13). This suggests that Bradstreet is giving birth in middle age, which s...

Emily Dickinson's Hardships

were very interesting, people probably would not like them because they were different. As such Emily decided at that point that s...

Spiritual Fulfillment and Poetic Function

is, of course, contrary to the view of the Christian belief system. In the Christian system of belief, it is the other way around....

'Rhine Boat Trip' by Irving Layton

of vivid imagery and haunting metaphor. There is also no punctuation, by design. According to literary critic Michael Greenstein...

Maya Angelou's 'And Still I Rise'

in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt...

Maya Angelou's Poem 'Woman Work'

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

'Proverbs of Hell' by William Blake and the 5 Senses

five senses; "whatever the truth may be" (Ballis). In the "Proverbs from Hell", the Devil speaks wise statements in regards to t...

Nature's Role in 'Kubla Khan' and 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ancient Mariner is perhaps the greatest Romantic statement about the consequences of psychic separation of an isolated individual ...

Performance Artist Genny Lim

in regards to information on the Internet and within journals, books and magazines. Because of Lims extensive reach in regards to ...

Modernist Theme in 'The Waste Land' by 'T.S. Eliot

is mocking our hopes, and at the same time the teasing promise of Spring is false. With the coming of this Spring we can also envi...

Poetry and Metaphors

savagery which slavery brought with it. Notice in this passage how the belles traits are given, then immediately juxtaposed with t...

Ancient Greece and Roles for Women as Portrayed by Homer

and also provided insight into the character when she brazenly broke with firmly held tradition. For example, in Homers Iliad and ...

'Inferno' by Dante Alighieri

is in line with Christian ideology. In Dantes interpretation of events, Hell is reserved for the pagans, again a tribute...

Friendship in Three Poems by Sappho

was such time as it was appropriate to say goodbye and release them to adult life as defined by that society. In this poem, Sapp...

Irish Nationalism and Michael Collins, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, and Umberto Saba

Joyces brother, Stanislaus, records that in April of 1907, in a conversation with Joyce questioned, "Do you not think Ireland has...

Poetic Reality in the Works of Gwendolyn Brooks and Langston Hughes

In seven pages this paper discusses the poems 'We Real Cool, The Pool Players. Seven at the Golden Shovel' by Gwendolyn Brooks and...

Poetic Contrast of Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock' and John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'

In five pages this paper discusses the poets and the poems in this contrasting poetic analysis. Three sources are cited in the bi...

Adrienne Rich's Poetry

In eight pages this paper discusses the works of lesbian poet Adrienne Rich in a consideration of how she has influenced culture a...

Homosexuality and Other Prevalent Themes in Federico Garcia Lorca's Works

This paper examines the works of the Twentieth Century Spanish Poet, Federico Garcia Lorca. The author discusses how two of Lorca...

The Life and Works of W.H. Auden

In a paper that consists of ten pages the life and poetry of British poet W.H. Auden. Eleven sources are cited in the bibliograph...