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Social Commentary's Dark Side

In six pages this paper discusses the dark side of social commentary and how the writers reflect their respective societies in Tom...

Rap and the Rap Culture

The writer discusses the connection between the Old English epic poem Beowulf and today's rap culture. The writer argues that alth...

A Comparison of the Song of Roland and Beowulf

The writer compares and analyzes the Song of Roland and Beowulf, two epic poems. The main focus of the paper is the death of the r...

Resistance and Stereotypes in the Poems of Grace Nichols

In five pages Grace Nichol's poetry is examined in terms of the images of resistance and stereotypes they employ with a discussion...

Ideology and 'Englishness'

values within, England holds itself it is in less than positive light. Indeed, it can readily be argued that this is his right an...

Birds in Literature

In three pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of birds in Walt Whitman's poem 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' and ...

'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe

In six pages an explication of 'Annabel Lee' considers how the rhythm of the rhyme, word repetition, and setting/imagery articulat...

Analysis of 2 Poems Written by Women

read into the poem a bit more and might surmise that this boy is rather insecure and needs his girl to be seen by others in a posi...

Gerard Manley Hopkins and William Wordsworth on Nature

In 5 pages this paper discusses how Wordsworth and Hopkins perceived nature as God-like and powerful in beauty with a consideratio...

Langston Hughes/Critical Response to 2 Poems

opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...

Christianity in Beowulf

has received a considerable amount of attention. Eighteenth century critics argued in favor of viewing the poem as fundamentally p...

The Happy Fault in Paradise Lost

more joyful than creation itself. Then he adds: "Light out of darkness! full of doubt I stand, / Whether I should repent me now of...

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...

Two Poems by Robert Frost

or how one human engages another. Frost is merely using nature as a setting, a natural setting, that emphasizes choices that human...

"I'm Nobody! Who Are You?": An Analysis of a Poem by Emily Dickinson

To an admiring Bog! (846). The subject matter features a person who feels inwardly lonely who does not wish to advertise h...

Gabriela Mistral

kind. It is, or can be, a far more positive thought than the thought which is fear. When reading the poems, however,...

Poets Philip Larkin and Robert Frost

In ten pages this research essay compares and contrasts Philip Larkin's poem 'Church Going' and Robert Frost's poem 'The Wood pile...

Wislawa Szymborska's War Poem 'The End and the Beginning'

cannot afford to become too emotional over the huge of amount of dead bodies that require disposal. There are simply too many. It ...

Emily Dickinson's Works on Self and Death

line and the metaphor in the first, Dickinson employs all of the literary devices available, but, prefers, for the most part, to f...

An Analysis of Homer's Epic Poem, The Odyssey

of the Muse to introduce its tale: "Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story / of that man skilled in all ways of contendin...

Literary and Poetic Examples of True Love

even to the edge of doom" (Shakespeare 9-12). In the end he claims that if he is wrong then he never wrote and no man ever loved. ...

Phyllis Wheatley and Edward Taylor

Wheatleys poem begins, "Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,/ Taught my benighted soul to understand/ That theres a God, that...

Edward Taylor and Anne Bradstreet Poetic Comparision

God and religion for answers to life struggles in a sense. Bradstreets poem begins as she slowly comes to sink into the fact that ...

Robert Browning's 'My Last Duchess'

to believe that his elevated social standing makes him actually superior to anyone else. This perception definitely includes his w...

Analysis of Poems by Wilfred Owen and Robert Browning

at the same time the calmness of it all makes it quite dramatic. The narrator does not see the action as dramatic, however, and si...

Blake and Wordsworth

narrative voice relates how his mother died when he was quite young and his father sold him before he could cry "weep." In the Nor...

Reactions to Various Poems

break all the rules and express his artistic vision in his own highly original way. This leads him to fame, fortune and freedom, w...

Wordsworth/A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal

the deceased woman no longer has voluntary motion or sensory perception, but she is part of nature, which has sweeping grandeur in...

Mallarme, Baudelaire and Goethe

faun, so that he participates in the creation of the work (Betz, 1996). The faun cannot decide if he has been dreaming or not, but...

Women: The Other

the point of their clothing which was powerfully restrictive. In this poem the narrator states, "Aunt Jennifers tigers prance ac...