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Comparison and Contrast of The City and Ithaca

a higher understanding of what life could be. In better understanding some of these obvious themes we analyze the poem through ...

Petrarchan Love Poetry of Lady Mary Wroth and John Donne

The first lines of "The Canonization" read: "For Gods sake hold your tongue and leg me love/ Or chide my palsy, or my gout,/ My fi...

Seventeenth Century Love in Poetry

celebration of Gods love, as well as a poet that addressed the purity of a love for a woman. In better understanding this we discu...

Visions of Death in Emily Dickinson's Works

traumatic experience that the narrator has been through could very well be death. It is interesting to not the way that Dickinson ...

Robert Frost's Poetry and Symbolism

ambitious path than romanticism (Liebman 417). In fact, Frost tries to make every poem a metaphor to show his commitment to thes...

Analyzing 'The Iliad' from Achilles' Point of View

(Hunter). She takes him to the River Styx because, "everything the sacred waters touched became invulnerable, but the heel remain...

'She Had Some Horses' by Joy Harjo

a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...

Metaphor Controlling

interesting to note, there are several distinctions of metaphors. According to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary (2002) metaph...

Fish Symbolism in Elizabeth Bishop's 'The Fish'

the perhaps an understanding of fate, on the part of the fish. We are further offered an understanding that the fish is old in the...

Christina Rossetti's 'Goblin Market'

a child will enjoy it to some extent, but it is safe to say that this poem was not intended for the young, though it may very well...

'William at the Beach, Age 7' by William Stafford

know that William Stafford is a poet from Americas heartland. In fact, he may be, according to Heldrich (2002), "Kansass most famo...

Punishment and Poetry

The bright-eyed Mariner"(Coleridge, 2002). The sailor (or Mariner) says that though they started on calm enough seas, the wind p...

Poetry and its Elements

a big messy bowl of goop. In the same way, the placement of words, especially in the poem, can be said to be very important. There...

Argument in 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' by William Blake

one can tell that the Angels of Heaven are stoic, devoid of emotion, limited, and conformity. Blake, himself, makes an appearance ...

'Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot

merely an attendant. Prufrock states, "No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;/Am an attendant loud, one that will do/To ...

Swirszczynska's A Conversation Through the Door

is presumably a nurse, and the nurse arrives at an individuals house at five in the morning: "At five in the morning/ I knock on h...

'Arms and the Boy' by Wilfred Owen

"Since a boy is not armed by nature, society must provide him with man-made weapons" (Hibberd, 1986, p. 143). Furthermore, accordi...

William Cullen Bryant's 'The Prairies' and 'To a Waterfowl'

old and his first book at age 13 (Yarborough). In short, he was a prodigy who might have been destined for greater things, had he ...

'Wild Night Wild Nights' by Emily Dickinson and 'Earth! My Likeness' by Walt Whitman

of the key phrases in these lines is "Were I with thee," which indicates that the poet is not with her beloved. It is the fact th...

Homer's 'The Odyssey' and the Characters of Nausicaa and Calypso

a mortal man, and live with him in open matrimony" (Book V). She illustrates how she found him after all alone and shipwrecked and...

Linkage Between Chapter Ten of Religion and the Decline of Magic by Keith Thomas and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

seventeenth century in his impressive text of nearly 800 pages entitled, Religion and the Decline of Magic. Thomas demonstrated h...

'Parliament of Fowles' by Geoffrey Chaucer

not procreate indiscriminately but should rather follow Natures example and wait until circumstances are optimal in order to add t...

John Clare's 'Spring Comes' and John Keats' 'To Autumn'

sort of image of things that awe us. Even in these two simple words we are presented with a magical picture of a time of harvest, ...

The Heroism of Beowulf

turbulent in respect to British history ("Angelcynn" PG). It was a time when England was first created, and the time of King Arth...

Ancient Writings Like Epic of Gilgamesh and Ideology

purposes of taming Enkidu, the wild man (Radcliffe, 2001). Enkidu is important to the story as he exemplifies the average man in s...

Analyzing 'A Valentine' by Edgar Allan Poe

himself to be a poet at heart (An Analysis of A Valentine, 2002). Although he wrote all kinds of literature, poetry was his favor...

'Harlem' by Langston Hughes

questions rather than declarative sentences. Also Hansen (2002) points out that the tentative "maybe," which is part of this sole...

A Poetic Explication of Robert Frost's 'Birches'

the trees brings back an plethora of memories for the poet, images of himself as a "swinger of birches," when life was not so comp...

Poetic Spiders

seems to be making a statement about independence of spirit, but an involvement with mankind. "I markd where on a little promontor...

Unique Voice of Sandra Cisneros

the reader what Esperanza is thinking and feeling at the most important moments in her life, but other than that exact moment, the...