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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...

Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

what might be a darker meaning to the poem. The last two lines are repeated ("And miles to go before I sleep") so that the reader...

Sharon Olds’ Vision of Children

of children and their behavior, their fears and victories. This paper compares and contrasts two of her poems, "The One Girl at th...

Maya Angelou: Million Man March

in spite of that, is often hopeful, even joyous. This paper explicates her poem "Million Man March." Discussion The theme of the ...

Puerto Rican Obituary and the Nuyorican Community

of the Puerto Rican dream to its death and the deaths of those who made up his poets society, but it is a stretch to say that it m...

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 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...

The Host by Heyen

a leech, which is the "host" (Heyen 24). "They would grow together, if the snapper lived" (Heyen 25). In this one can well argue t...

Kleos in "The Odyssey" of Homer (Book Nine)

Ithaca and kept him away from his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. Cast adrift on a ship with only his crewmembers for compa...

The Consequences of a Simple Decision

He probably thinks back on the choice fairly often, but theres no anger in the poem, no sense that the choice was a poor one, just...

"We Be Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara, and "Shiloh" by Bobbie Ann Mason and the American Dream

The thematic representation of the American dream in two literary genres (1 poem and 2 short stories) is discussed in 9 pages. Th...

Joy Harjo and the Dawn Butterflies

a poem. It is a series of these paragraphs, each building on the previous one until the reader can form a picture of what has happ...

Hector of Troy

but also by the fact that he is the king, and his people protect him rather than urging him onto the front lines as they might a y...

Thom Gunn: "A Map of the City"

has what might be considered a god-like perspective. That puts him in a place where he can not only look at the city, but judge it...

Wordsworth and Childhood

in many respects because they are so deeply connected, still, to that ethereal existence. Wordsworth then speaks of how "Shades ...

The Four Zoas by William Blake

of them all, the Sumerian Gilgamesh. Its not that Blake copied anyone, but his poem tends to evoke some of the same feelings in a ...

Analyzing a Visual Text of a Cyclops

his disposal beyond his huge physical size. It would seem no human could be safe against this creature that could easily pierce o...

Phenomenal Woman

this particular poem. In many ways it is a poem that illustrates how far she has come in relationship to her self confidence as on...

Kipling and Kincaid/Perspectives on Colonialism

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

Overview of Book of Songs

a whole" (Yu 380). These natural images are used to open each stanza, as Yu notes that there are "three tetrasyllabic stanzas of f...

Comparison of Birkerts' "Brown Loafers"/Rector's "Handmade Shoes"

too swollen to wear an expensive pair of Italian loafers, he presents them to Birkerts, who, initially, wears them, as they looked...

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...

"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...

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...

Explication of George Herbert's "Virtue"

dew that falls at night as weeping for the demise of day, "For thou must die" (Herbert line 4). The second stanza focuses on the...