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rather than reality. This conclusion was probably made through the poets use of the repetition of the word "if." Any piece of lit...
world wars. Modernism According to Gelpi (1990), "the Modernist period, bracketed by the two world wars, bore a complicated and a...
In six pages this paper analyzes some examples of irony and humor found in Caribbean poetry. Three sources are cited in the bibli...
In nine pages this paper analyzes the poetry of John Donne and John Milton in terms of the metaphysical aspects of each poet's wor...
In a paper consisting of five pages Chinese golden age of poetry was the Tang Dynasty and no one shone more brightly than the prol...
In seven pages this paper discusses Robert Frost's nature poetry in terms of what it has to say about humanity. Six sources are c...
lessons of life the Great Depression had imposed upon my Father, but this was a new twist to a very tired story. The impact of the...
In five pages this essay ponders how religious faith in poetry represents the time periods in which it was composed in an examinat...
that in this poem, Dickinson sees death as a "courtly lover," accepting at face value the lines concerning his "civility" (Griffit...
In five pages this paper analyzes the social commentary featured in allusions to the physical love between women symbolized in Aph...
capturing the experiences of childhood. Wordsworths theories of romantic poetic structure have been both accepted and highly crit...
has to "face the men of the time" and "think about war," in order to "construct a new stage" (Of Modern Poetry...Stevens). What St...
The very nature of such a situation requires that the primary character survive that which the reader is not sure he or she could ...
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...
does seem that when analyzing genres, Callimachean poetry comes up quite often and seems to challenge the essence of the works. Wh...
a vase and ask of what the pictures speak: "Thou still unravishd bride of quietness, / Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,...
work, moreover, carries with it an element of purging oneself of the terrible things that must prowl in their memories and refuse ...
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...
examined in several of his later animal poems the themes of survival and the mystery and destructiveness of the cosmos" (Anonymous...
opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...
sanctioned as proper for women, Bradstreets work did not go against the norms of Puritan society. However, they do often emphasize...
is the goddess of earthly love; she goes back at least to the Greeks, who called her Aphrodite. In the second poem, the "King" ref...
with subjects such as science, as well as religion and morality (Bradstreet, Anne Dudley (1612?-1672)). "However, her best poems d...
in the way the political world was playing out in the conquest. And clearly he argues that the poetry was never simple. This seems...
of dealing with this new and frightening situation (Modernism, 2002). The modernist poets had a much more disillusioned worldview ...
even to the edge of doom" (Shakespeare 9-12). In the end he claims that if he is wrong then he never wrote and no man ever loved. ...
romantic poetry it that the emphasis was always on emotions, rather than reason. William Wordsworth, a fellow Romantic, defined "g...
Fourth, while previous generations of poets felt that poetry should address noble or epic topics, the Romantics glorified the bea...
nonsense poem is to not try to understand it at all. In other words, reading the poem outloud, rather than reading it to oneself, ...