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of art that lives forever and offers youth and vitality and passion. One critic indicates that, "This contrasts the sensual world...

savagery which slavery brought with it. Notice in this passage how the belles traits are given, then immediately juxtaposed with t...

people pity the dead, not Death itself. In the end Donnes message is that there is little reason to fear death and that in the end...

condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...

clearly the use of the archaic in the art piece itself, and its history, which presents us with sense of the exotic as well for th...

opens "Marriage" delivers a millenarian prophecy that identifies Christ, revolution and apocalypse and, in so doing, "satanizes" a...

of vivid imagery and haunting metaphor. There is also no punctuation, by design. According to literary critic Michael Greenstein...

First and foremost, the Thrush is seen by this Romantic poet in heroic terms, as a male facing the storm of the public world in or...

the Bible - the Ten Commandments, the so-called Golden Rule, what civilized societies consider moral and immoral behaviors - all f...

spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next fou...

city with which he was intimately acquainted, London. The first two lines of the poem establish his thorough knowledge of the Lond...

a good face." His voice is directly personal as he enumerates the many faults of "thy Flavia." He reminds the man who would marry...

In eight pages this research paper considers the persona that ensnared late 19th century African American poet Paul Laurence Dunba...

In five pages the way in which the poet utilizes dualism throughout her poem is examined with several examples provided. There is...

In eight pages this paper examines this much loved Iranian poet in a social consideration of 'Border Walls' provided with the incl...

In a paper consisting of seven pages the way in which the poet painfully examines his generation is discussed along with the isola...

each individual word. Yet, paradoxically, poetry is that art form in which what is unsaid is often as important--or more importan...

takes on the tone of condescension and intolerance for the manner in which women have historical been portrayed. Swifts interest ...

In seven pages historical comparisons are made between the ways in which education is depicted in such films as Stand and Deliver,...

Donne takes a similar view in that he feels the ladys insistence on being concerned about honor is highly illogical, but he goes a...

until a water snake slithered by. Panicked and briefly forgetting about the traveler on his back, Puff-jaw dove, which threw the ...

The writer examines the 13th century poem Milagros de Nuestra Senora (Miracles of Our Lady). The writer describes it as a series o...

the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...

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

for either side. However, even though the plot is simple, the way the poem is written is deliberately heroic, and is very much ...

gap through which women continued to receive and even some praise from men in regards to their abilities as writers (Reichhold). ...

Pelagius II as ambassador to the Imperial court in Constantinople. It was at this time that the first of his commentaries was set ...

of dealing with this new and frightening situation (Modernism, 2002). The modernist poets had a much more disillusioned worldview ...

was not just one simple dream that Plath had, but an ongoing connection or vision of these three old women, these three witches wh...

sanctioned as proper for women, Bradstreets work did not go against the norms of Puritan society. However, they do often emphasize...