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The Life of Emily Dickinson by Richard B. Sewall

came into the world on December 10, 1830, the second of four children born to Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson. As Sewall note...

Virgil's The Aeneid, Free Will, and Fate

In a paper consisting of five pages this paper examines the concepts of fate and free will within the context of Virgil's epic and...

Classic Poetic Elements of Edgar Allan Poe's Poems

In six pages this paper analyzes the classic elements of the poems 'Letter to F...,' 'Lenore,' and 'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe....

Pericles' Funeral Oration

In an essay consisting of five pages the comment that city is the best teacher of man by ancient Greek poet Simonides is examined ...

Poetic Analysis of 'If We Must Die' by Claude McKay

exploded out of me" (McKay on "If We Must Die"). Somewhat surprisingly, McKay elected to structure his impassioned contemporary p...

Classic Literary Poets, Searchers, Lovers, and Heroes

In six pages this paper examines these character genres and how they occasionally have coincided or overlapped throughout literary...

A Consideration of The Rape of the Lock

since the Middle Ages as the models for literature at its grandest" (McDaniel 1-15pope.htm). It is a general consensus that Popes ...

Victorian Critic and Poet Matthew Arnold

noted for acerbity or harshness in his work; even though he was in many respects critical of the way in which contemporary society...

The Poet Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson

means nothing when they are unable to see beyond what is before them to the heart of the art and the beauty of its simple being. T...

Confessional Poets and the 'Father Complex'

work, moreover, carries with it an element of purging oneself of the terrible things that must prowl in their memories and refuse ...

Poetic Theme of Carpe Diem

see their beauty, and youth, start to fade. This idea is reiterated and emphasized in the second verse, which speaks of the suns q...

19th Century Poet Jones Very

to play his part in society as a whole. However, he also maintained that the only way in which human beings could discover the tru...

Poetic Analysis of William Butler Yeats' 'Come Gather Round Me, Parnellites'

Indeed, it is these characteristics which may account for Yeats continuing appeal to readers who dont normally pay much attention ...

'Bright Star' by John Keats

In five pages this paper examines the poem by John Keats in order to consider how the poet depicted love's meaning. There are no ...

Lord Byron's Poems and the Metaphors of Love and Fame

more likely that they will remember and personally value the days of their youth. Byron takes a strong stand in representing thi...

Meaning of the Lyrics 'America the Beautiful' by Poet Katherine Lee Bates

(Nash 12C). At the time of her composition, Bates had traveled to Colorado with an expedition to climb up the 14,000-foot-plus Pik...

'Assisi' by Norman MacCaig Analyzed

result is that he was able to craft a poem such as "Assisi" which has a gentle yet pointed grace and, as Brodie points out, a "dec...

Unorthodox Writings of American Poet James Merrill

blank verse" (Traveler With a Trunk of Poetic Devices). It begins with the poem, "The Friend of the Fourth Decade," which is fram...

The Poet and the Women by Aristophanes

p. 102). As this indicates, Mnesilochus humor is low-brow, earthy and very funny. The crux of the plot soon comes out as Euripide...

Analysis of a Section of 'Tintern Abbey' by William Wordsworth

interrelationship of human beings with the forces of nature. He mentions that his own growth as a mature individual allows him to ...

Italian Poet Giuseppe Ungaretti

(Scire et. al., 2002). Ungarettis accomplishments would be numerous. He would start writing after joining the Italian ar...

Laura Sonnets by Petrarch

most tragic play" (line 8). Furthermore, he attests that this love is his "constant gate and fountain" of grief" (line 12). This ...

'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...

Seventeenth Century 'Old English' Literature

observing the "loud mirth in the hall," yet unable to be a part of such fellowship due to no fault of its own, but rather the circ...

Poetic Spiders

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

Sufi Poet and Mystic Jelaluddin Rumi

they are found in the Koran, point to this constant interplay of Mercy and Wrath, Beauty and Power" (76). (As bibliographical data...

Social Role of Poets

express themselves in ways that the majority could not. The poets role in part appears to be to get one to think outside of the bo...

Whitman Poetic Comparison of A Noiseless Patient Spider, Drum Taps, and Song of Myself

for repetition and free flowing verse to express his ideas and was considered not only exceptional because of these elements but a...

Poets R.S. Thomas and John Betjeman on Nature and the Modern World

and soul) are in a fight for their own survival and right to exist, and that the simple things in life, those things that really c...

Issues of Emotional Identification in Film

Hitchcocks movie, Vertigo. This whole movie is centered around one man and his inability to let go of an old love. The story, in b...