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Plunkett's History in "Omeros"

readers, the reference will be obvious, but for young people for whom the Second World War and its atrocities seem unreal, it may ...

Homecoming in "Omeros"

to understand his culture and find his place in it; its not surprising that his poems speak to his experience and his characters f...

Immortality in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson

that in the process of dying Dickinson believed there were senses, and perhaps there were senses upon death as well. But that sens...

Close Reading and Analysis: “Blues Spiritual for Mammy Prater”

a fa?ade that represents him at his best. But Mammy Prater apparently did none of this. Instead, "she waited until the technique...

Frost: “The Road Not Taken”

overwhelming, because they come with options: we can choose to see "300" now because Gerry Butlers incredibly hot, but we also kno...

A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal by Wordsworth

Form This particular poem has a very clear pattern of rhyme. It is considered to a type of poem that possesses a...

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Comparison/Contrast

the condition of oppression and restrictive realities. This is the symbolic premise of the poem. From this perspective the African...

Personal Statement - What Children Mean To Me

day, children come to our classrooms. Some are more ready to learn than others, some are more excited about learning than others b...

Sherman Alexie’s On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City

time" (Alexie 34-36). This is a summation of the conflict of the modern Native, from the eyes of the narrator, today. It speaks of...

Out, Out by Robert Frost

the wood is in the air and one can see the beauty of the mountains if they only looked up. It is a beautiful image and one that cl...

Karr’s A Blessing from My Sixteen Years’ Son

ring, and how he is seemingly unscathed with no broken bones or scars (Karr 20-21). She notes how "Someday soon, the tether/ will ...

The Function of Religion in Dante's "Inferno"

which he lived when he says that the poem is not the result of Dantes inner contemplation, "it is rooted in the immediate Christia...

Symbolism in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"

/ Arrayed of the Round Table rightful brothers ... / the feast was in force full fifteen days" (37-39, 44). They are celebrating t...

"A Far Cry from Africa"

Latino, classical and contemporary" (Bixby, 2000). His later work reveal a man "who has learned his craft from the European tradit...

Anne Bradstreet’s “The Prologue”

presents the understanding of how she will write what she knows, what is particular to her and her experiences and perceptions, st...

Gunther/Death Be Not Proud

A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...

Edward Taylor and Anne Bradstreet: Love

My Dear and Loving Husband" and "In Reference To Her Children 23 June, 1659" as well as Taylors "My Spouse" and "Upon Wedlock, and...

Pablo Neruda: A Soldier Sleeps

But, the poem examines the life and struggles of a soldier as he lays sleeping, and clearly bloodied and examining his cause. It s...

Poe: "Annabel Lee"

was a child and I was a child, / In this kingdom by the sea, / But we loved with a love that was more than love-- / I and...

"For the Union Dead"

confuse free verse with sloppiness. The tone of the poem ("tone" can best be understood as the attitude the speaker has toward his...

Materialism: Sen and Sand

does not have a job people envision him as a beggar. But, at the same time there is an understanding that he is doing a Holy mans ...

"Hugh Selwyn Mauberley"

However, the meaning is obscure and the student will have to pursue the tranlsation with more sophisticated tools than are availab...

The Gods of the Iliad and the Bhagavad-Gita

without specifically worrying about success or failure, "they cannot be stained by action" (Harrison, 1996). Hearing this, Arjuna ...

Robert Louis Stevenson and Shel Silverstein: Child Poetry

Good Play" the poem is far more simplistic in relationship to how children think and play as the poems narrator states, "We built ...

Maya Angelou/Caged Bird

was really blond, white and blue-eyed (Angelou 4). This feeling on Angelous part is highly related to the restrictions on black fr...

T.S. Eliot Before and After Conversion

an old man for the life he will soon be leaving and a world filled with evil and corruption. His description of the city is one of...

Fear as a Recurring Theme in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

Literature and Dangerous Male Cultural Socialization

now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...

Use of the Word 'I' in 'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost

Road Not Taken" can be viewed as an evaluation of his decisions that the poet takes at midlife. Frost describes standing in a "ye...

Maya Angelou's 'And Still I Rise'

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