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'The Good Man in Hell' Poem by Edward Muir

In four pages a poetic explication of this poem by Edward Muir is presented. There is no bibliography included....

Explication of Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson

simply that Moses, Plato and Milton had the self-confidence to express themselves, which ordinary people do not. Ordinary people,...

'Woodchucks' by Maxine Kumin

little bit of cyanide gas, and awake to begin eating the farmers vegetables. The verbs used to describe what the woodchucks did t...

Analysis: The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy

This 6 page paper is a detailed explication of Thomas Hardy's poem, The Darkling Thrush. The writer argues that Hardy is using na...

'Devolution of the Nude' by Lynne McMahon

In five pages this paper presents an explication of 'Devolution of the Nude' by Lynne McMahon. There is no bibliography included....

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...

'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...

Explication of Wilfred Owen's Anti War Poem 'Dulce Et Decorum Est'

In six pages this paper examines how poet Wilfred Owen portrayed sacrificing one's life for country in the antiwar poem 'Dulce Et ...

Structural Analysis of 'Sonnet 72' by Sir Philip Sidney

In five pages Astrophel and Stella by Sir Philip Sidney is the focus of this analysis of 'Sonnet 72' that includes a poetic explic...

Explication of The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx

In eight pages this sociopolitical text is presented in an information overview that includes definitions, crucial concept explana...

'The Fish' by Elizabeth Bishop

An explication of 'The Fish' consists of four pages and discusses how animals are dominated unfairly by man. There are no other s...

Galway Kinnell's Life and Poetry

In three pages this research paper examines the life and poetry of Galway Kinnel with an explication of 'When One Has Lived a Long...

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...

A Poetic Explication of 'The Paper' by Merwin

In one page the images and themes presented in this poem are discussed with the conclusion drawn that this excellent prose belies ...

'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...

Analysis of When Death Comes by Mary Oliver

and be a part of it, she feels her connection with "everything" (line 11), which means she perceives the world in terms of connec...

Explication of George Herbert's "Virtue"

dew that falls at night as weeping for the demise of day, "For thou must die" (Herbert line 4). The second stanza focuses on the...

Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold

misery" (lines 17-18). By the fourth stanza, the positive attitude of the first lines is completely gone, as the speaker compares ...

"The Scarlet Letter" and the Subversion of Puritanism

the entire monologue with a sense of poetics, inviting one to study the words more deeply in search of a hidden meaning. This idea...

Great Expectations - An Analysis of Themes

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at Great Expectations. Explications of quotes are used to give insights into themes. P...

Foucault and Arendt - A Reconciliation

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at Arendt and Foucault. An explication is made which reconciles their basic philosophie...

"The Great Gatsby" and the Pursuit of Hollow Dreams

value into ultimately empty goals; this is indicated by the comparison of Gatsbys quest for Daisy with the "American dream" itself...

Explication of 2 poems by Martin Espada

mention that the catch, which is that his throat will be so sore that he will want ice cream. The lies are then contrasted against...

Gary Soto/”Oranges”

trees carry with them the promise of spring and new growth, new beginnings, which is evocative of the fact that the two children s...

Significance of the Snake in Zora Neale Hurston’s Short Story, ‘Sweat’

on charming it much as he believes he has charmed most of the towns women, and confining Delia to the home for years is comparable...

Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself and Explication

actually ever addressed. The author states, for example, towards the beginning of the article, how "No gesture of style so prono...

Eliot: “Conversation Galante”

is an odd remark. She picks up on it and asks if hes referring to her as being vacuous and he says no, "it is I who am inane" (Eli...

Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ

un-natural cause is this new concept of God (Nietzsche). This God is a "God who demands - in place of a God who helps, who devises...

Maya Angelou/Phenomenal Woman

half=way through the stanza, Angelou prefaces giving her reaction with the line "I say," which is followed by her lyrical descript...