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'Some keep the Sabbath going to church' by Emily Dickinson

In four pages this poetic explication focuses on the contrast between Victorian era religious conventions and Dickinson's individu...

Lovers Voices in 'Porphyria's Lover' and 'To His Coy Mistress'

he presents. Essentially, he wants his mistress to accept his advances not because she has been mentally or physically bludgeoned ...

Happy Eyes Prose of Liz Rosenberg

form the personality of the poet as narrator. As the reader gets to know the narrative voice, it also becomes clear that a pervasi...

Elijah in the Desert Painting by Washington Allston

the essence of poetry, encourages contemplation of metaphysical truths" and that this should be "at the heart of artistic expressi...

'Before I Knocked' by Dylan Thomas

is connected (18 poems, 1934, 2004). This colored his religious orientation and is evident in the religious symbolism in "Before I...

'Early Snow' by Mary Oliver

nature in which the numbers play a role. She writes, "I thought of dried leaves/drifting spate after spate/out of the forests/th...

Analysis of Sharon Olds' 'Rite of Passage'

stand around jostling, jockeying for place, small fights...

Aristotle, Plato, and the Influence of Socrates

as the Socratic dialogue that in many ways can be compared to todays constructivist approach to education in which he "drew forth ...

Matthew Arnold's Poetry

and symbolism. As Arnold embraces God along with the seas that the maker has created, he questions things. The church is often the...

'Calm' by Loma Crozier

pause, heads tilted as if trying to hear someone softly...

'In Memoriam' by Alfred Lord Tennyson

That tumbled in the Godless deep;"(Tennyson 2630). In order to come to his final conclusion he begins to imagine...

Wallace Stevens' Poem 'The Idea of Order at Key West'

song of the ocean and the song of the woman. A comparison is offered of the songs, that both make a...

Medieval Poem 'I Sing of a Maiden'

next lines are an old reference to the celebration of the Annunciation which the Orthodox Catholic Church practiced. For example, ...

Meaning of 'Daddy' by Sylvia Plath

gangrenous toe that her father had to have amputated and which, later, led directly to his death (127). The image of the "Frisco s...

Explication of 'Lake Isle of Innisfree' by W.B. Yeats

the simplicity of the life that he foresees for himself, as well as its self-sufficiency. The sense of solitude that Yeats create...

Analysis of the Anglo Saxon Poem 'The Wanderer'

has overtaken their owners" (Bartleby.com). In many ways "The poem throws an interesting light on the close nature of the relation...

Explication of 'London' by Poet William Blake

in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...

Rap, Poetry, and Nikki Giovanni's 'Nikki Rosa'

In five pages this paper discusses rap music as a form of poetic expression as represented in Nikki Giovanni's 'Nikki Rosa.' Five...

'Don Juan' by Lord Byron

In eight pages the romantic 'Don Juan' is contrasted and compared with the hero's poetic satirist, Lord Byron. Five sources are c...

'Howl' by Allen Ginsberg and Themes of Anger and Compassion

occasionally disjointed, seemingly lacking in traditional sentence structure. This technique is certainly evident in "Howl," but ...

Analyzing 'These Yet to be United States' by Maya Angelou

A line by line poetic explication is offered in this paper consisting of five pages. There are four sources cited in the bibliogr...

Differing Opinions of Aristotle and Plato

In eight pages this paper examines how the views of Aristotle and Plato on God's existence, poetics, and forms concepts differed. ...

'Sonnet 146' by William Shakespeare

A poetic analysis of 'Sonnet 146' by William Shakespeare focuses upon similes, metaphors, tone, and meaning in five pages. Five s...

Odysseus' Tale in Homer's 'The Odyssey'

In five pages this paper considers Odysseus' heroic tale as described in Homer's poetic epic 'The Odyssey.' There are no other so...

Human Contact and 'Ozymandia' by Percy Bysshe Shelley

In five pages this paper presents a poetic analysis that compares its contents to human dependence in the contemporary world. The...

18th Century Education and Samuel Johnson's Poem 'The Vanity of Human Wishes'

Lines 135 through 177 are the focus of this poetic explication of 'The Vanity of Human Wishes' by Samuel Johnson consisting of fiv...

Poetry of Langston Hughes

has been to continuously "climb" up the socioeconomic ladder in a culture that is set against her. She advises her son, not to gi...

Dante's 'Inferno' Explanationa and Detailed Structural Analysis

In five pages a poetic explication of Dante's poem is presented in terms of explanation of betrayal as a more punishable sin than ...

Comparing the Poetic Styles of William Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelley

A paper consisting of five pages compares and contrasts the Romantic poetic styles of Wordsworth's 'A Complaint' and Shelley's 'A ...

The Antiwar Poetry of W.H. Auden

In a paper consisting of four pages the ways in which Auden relied upon early forms of poetic diction to express his modern antiwa...