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A Loaded Gun - Emily Dickinson’s Exploration of Oppression

Stood - A Loaded Gun," has been described as her most difficult. This paper discusses the poem with regard to its meaning and some...

The Poets’ Toolbox

geographical region to artists works Definition of and importance of voice The paper then presents these four sections: Sec...

The “King of Kings,” Ozymandias

party recite the poem removes the reader even further from the statue, lending it an even greater air of mystery and moving it fur...

Kipling and Kincaid/Perspectives on Colonialism

the Victorians was their sense of social responsibility. Unfortunately, that sense of responsibility was self-righteous and obsess...

The Tropics in New York

considering they are the only words that are linked/combined with dashes, which clearly emphasizes their metaphorical nature. Rill...

Rhina Espaillat: Bilingual/Bilingüe

States when she was seven. Her poetry then is an attempt to reconcile the extremes that come from living in two cultures simultane...

Taoist Poetry: A Photographic Analysis

is an ancient collection of philosophical principles presented in a poetic fashion. It has been maintained and circulated since th...

Homer, The Iliad and Death

original adventure stories; Indiana Jones has nothing on Odysseus, Achilles, Ajax and the rest of the characters who struggled on ...

John Donne’s Flea

also says that the flea is swollen with their blood (there is a strong suggestion here of the way male and female genitalia swell ...

Poe's The Raven

but was kicked out due to his gambling debts (Liukkonen). As a result, John Allan would disown him (Liukkonen). It was in 1826 tha...

A Thematic Analysis of Lovelace's "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars"

her, reluctantly, to maintain these values. This argument is grounded in 17th century ideals of chivalry and courtly honor, ideals...

Analysis of The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh

haiku poem Blasts of light, motion, Tortured vision, endless beauty, Lead to new understanding. Vincent van Gogh painted The Sta...

"Do Not Expect Again a Phoenix Hour" by C Day Lewis

of recurrence and an admonishment not to expect recurrence immediately draws the reader in. The poet them goes on to describe "the...

Judith Ortiz Cofer’s Silent Dancing

words ONLY is a little over 9 pgs!!! 11 14 3037 (5-10-10) 3150 12 15 3375 13 16 3600 14 18 15 19 16 20 4500...

Weston and Eliot

how it results in the wasting of the land, which results from the hero failing to ask the right questions (Weston 18). The theme...

"Handmade Shoes" by Liam Rector

a figurative level, the poet is inviting the reader to take his perspective, to figuratively "walk in his shoes" and, thereby, lea...

Langston Hughes, An Overview

this became the most well known poem by Hughes and appeared in his first volume of poetry, The Weary Blues, which was published in...

Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock/Eliot

Song is an aging man who longs for love, particularly courtly love that fits with his expectations of both women and love....

The World is Too Much with Us/William Wordsworth

other words, Wordsworth bemoans the materialistic nature of his society, which is a feature of Western society that continues into...

"The last Night that She Lived:" An Analysis of Comprehending Death According to Emily Dickinson

so-called loved ones seem to have gathered expecting to witness something memorably catastrophic, almost as if they seek to be ent...

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 ...

DRUG ADDICTION AND CULTURAL REFERENCES IN HAYDEN’S “SOLEDAD”

Dust, in 1940 (Robert Hayden). Accolades and awards followed (including being the first African-American to be named Poet Laureate...

Snake by Lawrence and The Fish by Bishop

in relationship to these voices, fear is likely the reason a person does kill a snake. The narrator watches as the snake drinks a...

Literary Elements in Poems "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson and "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost and William Faulkner's Short Story "A Rose for Emily"

each. An allegory, while closely associated with symbols or symbolism, is a unique literary element in that everything within the...

Martin Espada: Federico's Ghost and Imagine the Angels of Bread

to an end. Espada is really calling for a revolution: He says that "This is the year that squatters evict landlords"; it is the y...

Female Characters and Ancient Texts

is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...

Lacking Conviction in Sexual Intimacy in "Sex without Love" by Sharon Olds and "Lust" by Susan Minot

She is dismissive about feeling hurt or jealous that she was little more than another notch on Tims belt. For this young girl, se...

A Night-Piece on Death by Thomas Parnell

mans mortality is Death itself. He walks among the graves and notes that the poorer people have flat markers and the more famous h...

How We Grow Into Who We Are

include "back-yards graying / with knowledge, embankments blazoned / with pig-face whose hardihood / be theirs, / mantling with pu...

Design by Robert Frost

They are simply animals doing what they do and creating a balance in the world, another aspect of duality for without opposites th...