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Overview of Experimental Feminist Poetry

Hunt conveys her message in a type of rapid New York "urban speak," which is specifically intended to jolt the readers passivity. ...

The Tradition of Chinese Medicine

of traditional Chinese medicine, it is important to also understand that it is not only a collection of ancient remedies and pract...

John Donne and God

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

19th Century Poet Jones Very

to play his part in society as a whole. However, he also maintained that the only way in which human beings could discover the tru...

From Snow and Rock, From Chaos by Hayden Carruth

In five pages this poetry collection by Hayden Carruth is analyzed. Six other sources are cited in the bibliography....

Poetic Depiction of Women

as if women were alien creatures, and not like men at all. In addition to looking at this the Lady of Shallot in particular, a st...

Epic of Gilgamesh and Relationships Between Parents and Children

In five pages this paper examines how parent and child relationships are portrayed in this epic in a consideration of Gilgamesh's ...

Beowulf Epic and 'Druncen' Word Uses

How the word 'druncen' or drunken is used in the epic Beowulf is the focus of this analysis consisting of five pages. Three sourc...

The Tradition of American Prose

In this paper consisting of five pages the ways in which American prose reflects the issues and the times in which it was composed...

Walt Whitman and the Influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson

In six pages the influence of Emerson upon Whitman's poetry is examined with the primary focus being 'Song of Myself' and poetic l...

The Tradition of Heroes in Literature

This paper discusses the elements necessary to creating a heroic character in literature. The author examines heroic protagonists...

Rilke and Baudelaire Modernist Poetry

world wars. Modernism According to Gelpi (1990), "the Modernist period, bracketed by the two world wars, bore a complicated and a...

Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Common Themes

In ten pages this paper discusses the common spiritual and physical themes that are evident throughout the poetry of Emily Dickins...

Poetry and the Reflection of Women's Status

rather than reality. This conclusion was probably made through the poets use of the repetition of the word "if." Any piece of lit...

Epic Heroes Gilgamesh and Hercules and Violence

In ten pages this paper discusses how violence is portrayed in the heroic epics of ancient Greece and Mesopotamia. Six sources ar...

Otherworld and Heroes in 'The Odyssey' and 'Epic of Gilgamesh'

in order to acquire knowledge, and to demonstrate bravery or quick-wittedness while they are dealing with unfamiliar situations or...

Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition

another, results in a convoluted narrative in which attempts to redress injustice are not always successful and it appears that th...

Mortality and Morality in the Epic of Gilgamesh

In five pages this paper examines the role of Enkidu in the education of Gilgamesh and his understanding that accepting his mortal...

Deities and Fate in The Epic of Gilgamesh and Sophocles' Oedipus the King

Deities and the concept of fate are examined in this comparative analysis of these classical literary works consisting of 6 pages....

Sylvia Plath's Life and Art

as perhaps a Jew. This presents us with imagery, symbolic references, to the confused state of Plath in terms of her own identity....

Love in the Poetry of Katherine Philips and John Donne

context changes and it seems more logical given the tone of the rest of the poem. Thus, the word as is reflective of the way that ...

Diana Der Hovanessian's Poetry

Dancers illustrates throughout the various poems, the Armenian experience of community. This community is not made up of relatives...

Shoah Train Holocaust Poetry of William Heyen

honest. He not only explores the evil of the Holocaust from the victims perspective, but also from the viewpoint of the ordinary G...

Nikki Giovanni's Life and Poetry

book include the black struggle (Becerra). Giovanni writes about her happy childhood with the work "Nikki-Rosa" (Becerra). Chi...

Epic Poem 'Beowulf' and Comparison of the Dragon and Grendel

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

Romance and Epic in Thomas Malory's 'Tale of Lancelot and Guenevere' and 'Beowulf'

1). With the passage of time, epics evolved into what is commonly referred to as chansons de geste or romances. French in origin...

Poetry of Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes During the Harlem Renaissance

are sticky and crusted, open sores, and other elements that suggest a physical representation of a dream. This makes the dream som...

Student's Poetry Rewritten

of my grandmother a desolate and lonely cemetery. Another possibility could be: The black jeep roared to life Jumping buckling...

Homeric Heroes and the Epic of Gilgamesh

end of the epic. This is different from the Homeric hero Odysseus for we generally like this man right from the beginning. The god...

Lyrical Significance of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, and Richard II

mere lust, but sacred and precious. Therefore, he constructed a poetic dialogue that would "provide this decisive encounter with ...