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Arts and Socrates

much that it has immeasurably been altered. Who was Socrates and why was he so influential? Socrates was a Greek philosopher who ...

Italian Poet Giuseppe Ungaretti

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

Values, Virtues, and the Poetry of Robert Frost

was someone who, as Derek Walcott classified him, was ". . . the icon of Yankee values, the smell of wood smoke, the sparkle of de...

Social Activism, Songwriting, and Poetry of William Blake

primarily agricultural pursuits to one which depended almost solely on complex machinery. The simpler hand tools which had been s...

Ralph Waldo Emerson's and Walt Whitman's Transcendentalism

disjointed discourse on a series of ideas and impressions that flow freely through a characters or narrators mind. The very person...

Alexander Pope's 'Epistle to Burlington'

the expense of building the latest craze in architecture -- "...to punish awkward pride,/ Bids Bubo build, and send him such a gu...

Exploring War Poetry

see how he views war - both admiring the bravery of the soldiers while also acknowledging their certain death. There is evidence ...

Life and Art of Poet Pablo Neruda

from a different era. Considering that he saw some of mans worst atrocities to his fellow man, it is no wonder that his poetry r...

Romantic Era Poetry of John Keats

sort of heroic quest, or the heroic person trapped and confined by societys dictates or the citys walls. This is evident in ...

Robert Browning's Poetry and Women

they all present us with an obsessive narrator. The examination of the poems also illustrates how Browning presents us with women ...

Edgar Allan Poe's Poetry

Other Poems, and the poem Dreams, which was referenced above, is contained in this book (Misery is Manifold). His second book of ...

Romantic Period Artistic Beauty

ability to allow us the opportunity to interpret the rational through the concrete forms presented in art. Hegel believed that ...

Holocaust Poetry

To understand this powerful poem we must recognize a small bit of the history of the Holocaust. After coming into power and invad...

Emily Dickinson's Poetic 'Truth'

and spiritual war is evident in the quote, "Faith is a fine invention for gentlemen who see; But microscopes are prudent in an eme...

Isaac Rosenberg's and Wilfred Owen's First World War Poetry

poem continues and discusses how life was once perhaps simple for these soldiers, but all innocence is past: "Their flowers the te...

Comparison of Callimachean and Catullus Poetry

does seem that when analyzing genres, Callimachean poetry comes up quite often and seems to challenge the essence of the works. Wh...

Canadian Literature and Violence

The very nature of such a situation requires that the primary character survive that which the reader is not sure he or she could ...

From Snow and Rock, From Chaos by Hayden Carruth

In five pages this poetry collection by Hayden Carruth is analyzed. Six other sources are cited in the bibliography....

Poetic Depiction of Women

as if women were alien creatures, and not like men at all. In addition to looking at this the Lady of Shallot in particular, a st...

Romantic Essence of 'Tintern Abbey' by William Wordsworth

capturing the experiences of childhood. Wordsworths theories of romantic poetic structure have been both accepted and highly crit...

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 ...

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...

Overview of Experimental Feminist Poetry

Hunt conveys her message in a type of rapid New York "urban speak," which is specifically intended to jolt the readers passivity. ...

John Donne and God

to its logical conclusion, reasoning, that there was nothing in the power of humanity capable of effecting personal salvation. The...

Poetry and Metaphor

is T.S. Eliots The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Through the adroit use of metaphor Eliot invites the reader to undertake a jo...

Expression Changes in the Later Poetry of Walt Whitman

. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has...

'The Odyssey' by Homer and Fate

beginning, feels like he is in a position of complete helplessness. His father has been gone nearly 20 years and he is forced to d...

Poetry and Literary Effectiveness on the Topic of Lynching

water, boiling my limbs panting, begging I clutched childlike, clutched to the hot sides of death (Wright, 2003)....

Fragment 92 of Sappho

the sea, suggests a love of nature, as is evocative of natures beauty. Secondly, Sappho connected this image with memory, which su...

'Fragment 93' by Sappho

affected her personally. This is exemplified in her poem fragment that scholars have numbered 93. The poem begins with the injunc...