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William Wordsworth's Poetry and Religion

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 ...

Robert Frost and Life Lessons

This essay pertains to the poetry of Robert Frost and discusses two poems: "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy...

Beat Poetry and the Expression of Counterculture Values

Lawrence Ferlinghetti are quite different from one another. Ginsbergs long and sprawling lines certainly look nothing like Snyders...

Post-Colonialism and the Poems of Bhatt and Das

of the least attractive aspects of a nations character. However, after a country has been a colony for a time, that state of being...

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)....

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...

Houston Promotion and the Value of Drama and Literature

In five pages this paper examines how Houston promotes drama and literature through theater and writers groups and considers their...

Poetry and Metaphors

savagery which slavery brought with it. Notice in this passage how the belles traits are given, then immediately juxtaposed with t...

A Letter from Waldo Frank to Carl Sandburg

"I am the people, the mob." In this, we share a similar sentiment. However, your work expresses a much more accepting and optimist...

African American Poet Langston Hughes

he foretold in this little piece written long before his name became a beloved household word"....

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...

Analysis of Modernism in Lines 340 to 434 of 'The Waste Land' by T.S. Eliot

bottle we buy. All we have to do is look at the contents of most plastic bottles such as for shampoo, lotion, juices, and milk, an...

Love Poetically Approached by John Donne

for a spiritual thinker, body and soul. In "The Good Morrow," Donne immediately established what critic Susannah B. Mintz refers ...

Analysis of Robert Frost's Poem 'Desert Places'

this as the focus changes from nature and subtly brings in the narrator: "I am too absent-spirited to count;/ The loneliness inclu...

Comparative Analysis of the Poetry of Robert Frost and Walt Whitman

and regular stress would at first strike his reader with incredulous amazement. But he was hardly prepared for the storm of abuse ...

Poetry Structure and the Influences of Culture

futility and anarchy (of) contemporary history": this is not to say that such a structure need be formal and stylised, only that i...

Literary and Poetic Examples of True Love

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. ...

Poetry of the Romantic Period

Fourth, while previous generations of poets felt that poetry should address noble or epic topics, the Romantics glorified the bea...

Lewis Carroll's Poetry and Novel Styles of Writing

nonsense poem is to not try to understand it at all. In other words, reading the poem outloud, rather than reading it to oneself, ...

Beloved Dismemberment in Poetry

particular woman but does not possess her. Another may clearly see that the woman he describes is his. Regardless, however, of whe...

Romanticism and 'Ode to a Grecian Urn' by John Keats

romantic poetry it that the emphasis was always on emotions, rather than reason. William Wordsworth, a fellow Romantic, defined "g...

The Poetry of Owen and Contextual Criticism

of publicly responding to criticisms over his exclusion of Owen that Yeats made the remark in question (Rusche, 2010). His primary...

Langston Hughes' Blues Poetry

and white, life and death, happiness and sadness, rich (white majority) and poor (black minority) to express social injustice and ...

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...

Mulan, Within the Context of Early Chinese Poetry

Allen 6). This poem clearly indicates the focus of cultural focus on women that stresses their role in terms of sexual desire an...

Hebrew Poetry - An Analysis

In a paper of ten pages, the writer looks at Hebrew poetry. Short essay answers and definitions to common poetic terms are given. ...

Veronica's Poetry and Araby

This essay discusses Joyce Joyce's "Araby" and Neil Sebacher's "Veronica's Poetry," pointing out similarities. Four pages in lengt...

Instruction and Tolkien's The Hobbit

This research paper describes five websites that pertain to J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and can be used in instructing students in...