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This essay presents a character sketch of the narrator in "The ABC of Aerobics," a poem by Peter Meinke. Three pages in length, th...

This essay is an explication of "Locked Ward: Newtown, Connecticut" by Rachel Loden. The writer bases this discussion on the assum...

This essay focuses on the humor and Irony in Robert Frost's poems. The poems discussed are "Mending Wall," "Stopping by Woods on a...

This 4 page paper gives an overview of the element within the poem The Road not Taken. This paper includes irony, symbolism, repre...

This 4 page paper gives an overview of the poem “To his Excellency General Washington”, by Phillis Wheatley. This paper includes h...

was assassinated, probably by Stalin himself (Vartavarian). Stalin used the death as a pretext to begin purging those he thought w...

school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...

half=way through the stanza, Angelou prefaces giving her reaction with the line "I say," which is followed by her lyrical descript...

narrator is perhaps confused, perhaps trying to share an image and what that image, or group of images, may mean. The characters w...

monstrous creature Grendel, Grendels mother, and the dragon - it considers the impact of social obligations (loyalty to God and co...

mention that the catch, which is that his throat will be so sore that he will want ice cream. The lies are then contrasted against...

To an admiring Bog! (846). The subject matter features a person who feels inwardly lonely who does not wish to advertise h...

or how one human engages another. Frost is merely using nature as a setting, a natural setting, that emphasizes choices that human...

people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...

break all the rules and express his artistic vision in his own highly original way. This leads him to fame, fortune and freedom, w...

the deceased woman no longer has voluntary motion or sensory perception, but she is part of nature, which has sweeping grandeur in...

narrative voice relates how his mother died when he was quite young and his father sold him before he could cry "weep." In the Nor...

scanned text files, featured a scanned version Frank St. Vincents important exposition of the poem that was first published in Exp...

faun, so that he participates in the creation of the work (Betz, 1996). The faun cannot decide if he has been dreaming or not, but...

the point of their clothing which was powerfully restrictive. In this poem the narrator states, "Aunt Jennifers tigers prance ac...

1). Using this metaphor, he goes on to say that Science "alterest all things with thy peering eyes," which preys upon his poets h...

his moment in nature (Wakefield 354). But while the first stanza ends the implied assumption that the poet need not concern hims...

household. As a teen, he became enthralled with Islam and converted. Lindh came to reject everything America stands for. By active...

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

Wheatleys poem begins, "Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,/ Taught my benighted soul to understand/ That theres a God, that...

to believe that his elevated social standing makes him actually superior to anyone else. This perception definitely includes his w...

at the same time the calmness of it all makes it quite dramatic. The narrator does not see the action as dramatic, however, and si...

opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...

has received a considerable amount of attention. Eighteenth century critics argued in favor of viewing the poem as fundamentally p...

object and made it extraordinary: "the tomato offers/ its gift/ of fiery color/ and cool completeness" (82-85). Ode to a Storm: T...