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Meaning of the Poem 'The Second Coming' by William Butler Yeats II

would be needed if the creature were simply to be taken as male), is female--as the focus on the "slow thighs" suggests--as well a...

'Those Who Know' by Marcus Garvey

In five pages a poetic explication of this work by Marcus Garvey is presented. Three other sources are cited in the bibliography....

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...

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....

My Father's Wedding by Robert Bly

This research paper/essay offers a detailed explication of a poem written by Robert Bly in 1981 entitled My Father's Wedding. The ...

'Leda and the Swan' by W.B. Yeats

An explication of William Butler Yeats' poem 'Leda and the Swan' includes analysis of allusion, situation, character, and tone con...

Domesticity in 'Washing Sheets in July' by Jane Gentry Vance

goes outside to hang her sheets, and her own thin, strong hands which will soon be smoothing her own sheets on the line. Vance mov...

'The Tyger' by William Blake

been requisite in order to create the gentle, trusting lamb. The narrator never states that the Tyger is evil, but he indic...

Robert Burns's 'To A Mouse' and Destiny

In three pages the theme of destiny is probed in this poetic explication. There are no other sources used and there is a FREE 1 p...

Francisco de Quevedo/Sonnet 478

hope for ever having his love requited has evaporated, but he persists in his quest regardless because it has become too late to b...

Poe/Annabel Lee

a child and she was a child/In this kingdom by the sea" (lines 7-8). These lines, as do the opening lines of the poem, establish a...

'My Heart Leaps Up' by William Wordsworth

intellect that he exhibits now are a logical fulfillment of his childhood promise. He has grown up to be the man his childhood im...

'Sonny's Blues' A Short Story by James Baldwin

why he became an addict; he also express great uncertainty about his life after hes released from prison (Class lecture on "Sonnys...

H.C. Barrett's Article 'Rhetorical Analysis Differentiating Electronic Portfolios and Online Assessment Management Systems'

in the literature, making it difficult for research to validate the pedagogy" (Barrett). It is her basic purpose in writing this p...

Explication of the Poems 'God's Grandeur' by Gerard Manley Hopkins and 'The World is Too Much With Us' by William Wordsworth

So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the s...

'Out Far Nor in Deep' by Robert Frost

at the water. Frosts poem builds an elaborate, extended metaphor based on his social phenomena. The people along the sand All tur...

Barreca/Nighttime Fires

the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...

'Circular Ruins' by Jorge Borges

other hand, proposes that time is circular and events are cyclical. The old mystic who dreams is dreaming specifically to create...

'Sonnet 54' in Amoretti by Edmund Spenser

that all the pageants play,/Disguysing diversly my troubled wits" (lines 3-4). The poet narrator is the "star" of all the "pageant...

'Early Snow' by Mary Oliver

nature in which the numbers play a role. She writes, "I thought of dried leaves/drifting spate after spate/out of the forests/th...

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...

'Bushed' by Earle Birney

reiterates the point made in the first line, the destruction of his rainbow, was a significant event. Whatever this setback was, t...

'Dialogue between the Soul and the Body' by Andrew Marvell

the Body, that is, as the force that gives the Body motion and life. However, Marvell stipulates in parenthesis that "(A fever cou...

'America' by Claude McKay

gives the words "cultured hell" added significance since, as a poet, McKay has mastered this classical form; yet, it is inherently...

'I Shot the Sheriff' by Bob Marley

is a wanted man being tracked down by the police, but that his guilt has already been decided. "They say that they want to bring m...

Simple Eloquence of 'I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud' by William Wordsworth

a "crowd" and Wordsworth adds that they toss "their heads in a sprightly dance" (line 12). In other words, the poet is pictured as...

'Nineteen' by Elizabeth Alexander

gives the poem an intimate feel, as if the narrator is confessing youthful transgressions to a friend. "That summer in Culpepper, ...

Stanzas Seven through Fourteen of 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman

tells his readers to "undrape," because, to him, no one is guilty of shame or worthy of being discarded (line 145). Everyone and e...

An Exploration of 'Sonny's Blues' by James Baldwin

deal of depth. Sonny is put in jail and one can imagine that growth takes place there. While it seems that this would occur, and t...