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also differences in style. Smith, for example, uses less alliteration than Atwood, and his short, clipped lines emphasize and isol...
of the least attractive aspects of a nations character. However, after a country has been a colony for a time, that state of being...
Comparing and contrasting the search for enlightenment in the works of Dante Alighieri and Hanshan in 4 pages. Primary sources on...
and the "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes are both evocative and deeply beautiful poems. In each poem, the poet uses...
that this is "Her hardest hue to hold." The budding of plants at this time in the early spring is the shortest part of the seas...
each. An allegory, while closely associated with symbols or symbolism, is a unique literary element in that everything within the...
has planted a bomb. He sees a woman in a yellow jacket go in, then a man in dark glasses comes out; then two men in jeans talk for...
to the United States when she was seven. Her poetry then is an attempt to reconcile the extremes that come from living in two cult...
(Brooks 9-15). The narrator is illustrating how the reader, or listener, who is likely Black would not have believed them had they...
reached/ was you" (Brooks 2-8). In this the reader is subtly illustrating how society, white American society perhaps, has control...
This three page original poem is inspired by psalm 73, but takes a present day perspective. No surces are cited....
how Frost "speaks of the (metaphoric) wall between his neighbor and himself" which seems to him to be unnecessary. This brings to ...
a number of jobs, he worked in a textile mill and on a farm, and taught Latin at his mothers school in Methuen, Massachusetts."5 H...
power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...
who has lost her lover in the south. We can assume this came from a lynching (as evidenced by the reference to "Dixie," which lync...
unconquerable by time. Nevertheless, as their love is as fallible and mortal as they are, poem 11 shows the depth of Catullus pa...
paganism was not about to go quietly, even though the poet describes the protagonist as a gift that, "God, in His mercy, has sent....
and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden-paths In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jewelled...
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 ...
the title is clearly a powerful statement and use of words. Another critic dissects Dickinsons poem and offers the following: "The...
about war. It is about this soldiers experience when he began to shoot at an enemy soldier--who was of course shooting back--and ...
song of the ocean and the song of the woman. A comparison is offered of the songs, that both make a...
to have a relationship. The narrator tells us that he loves his father, and indicates that he cant handle his alcohol either (hint...
First, there is the surface level, that he was walking and had to decide which path to take to get to his destination. But at a mu...
are not red as coral; her breasts are not white but dun colored; her hair is coarse and wiry (on her head; Shakespeare being Shake...
likens the process of death to an innocuous fly buzzing. In other words, instead of being a mysterious occurrence, it is a proces...
However, the ways in which his thoughts were organized are often ironic, and can generate more than one meaning. For example, is ...
This paper offers two blog posts. One on "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and the other on "Sex without Love" by Sharon Olds....
This paper focuses on how death is treated in "Peter Pan" by J.M. Barrie, and then compares with the same theme in "Jim " and "Mat...
This essay considers three of Langston Hughes's poems, "Harlem," "I, Too," and "Ballad of the Landlord" and argues that they are r...