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the end, ones heart may win over ones intellect. In Diane Ackermans poem, which may very well be a modern retelling of...

that its bizarre poetic form could also be attributed to Ginsbergs love of jazz music. The coffeehouses which reached their popul...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Before actually describing the art and poetry that came out of detainees from Angel Island, a look at the locations history would ...

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

Whitmans lyric style -- "A Noiseless Patient Spider." Although the subject of the poem is a lonely spider, the tone is formal, wh...

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...

sun, "a ribbon at a time" (35). By displaying one "ribbon" after another, Dickinson presented not just a story, but a complete cov...

ones own inner feelings. Whitman had been raised by Quaker parents (Hood). His orientation to religion was centered around the i...

how the poet views his own culture: eternal, ancient and worthy of great awe, respect and wonder. "As ulu grows branches for lea...

as the vital key, where one sings to their beloved in life and after death, supporting themselves within a delicate and austere sc...

then of trust when most intense, hence, amid ills that vex and wrongs that crush our hearts -- if here the words of Holy Writ may ...

truth that was eventually revealed. While we may argue he could have looked for the truth, rather than running from it, thereby sp...

beyond the confines of her era to see how future generations might view it. Her poetry speaks to many topics such as, love, loss,...

that in the summer of 1797, he retired in "ill health" to a "lonely farmhouse between Porlock and Linton" (231). Because of a "sli...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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