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Arthurian Romances and Medieval Courtly Love

In eleven pages the courtly love theme as represented in the literary works of such authors as Chretien de Troyes and Andreas Cape...

Pontiac Indian Conspiracy

The history of the Indian wars is laid out by Francis Parkman in Conspiracy of Pontiac. This essay examines his use of theme, lite...

The Illusionist as Myth

The God of the Waning Year is associated with the sacrificial victim, whose death was believed necessary in order for the earth to...

Students and Using Credit Card Uses

a more accepting attitude of debt also indicates that this is resulting in the use of credit cards and higher than ever before cre...

Description and Imagery in Hamlet

in the play. This is clear when Claudius refers to Hamlet as son and Hamlet, aside, notes, "A little more than kin, and less than ...

Comparative Analysis of Poems by Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Langston Hughes

likens the process of death to an innocuous fly buzzing. In other words, instead of being a mysterious occurrence, it is a proces...

Poetic Explication of Robert Burns’ “A Red, Red Rose”

of four lines known as quatrains, and each stanza comprised of alternating iambs or an unstressed syllable immediately followed by...

Shakespeare/Sonnets 73 and 130

and Shakespeares use of metaphor achieves his purpose very well, particularly in the lines that refer to comparing a ladys breath ...

Explication of Jean Toomer's Reapers

to an era gone by as well as to the present time. The poem begins "Black reapers with the sound of steel on stones Are sharpening...

Thomas Paine's 'Common Sense' Pamphlet

the style the writing. This pamphlet was phrased in language which was understandable by the common man (Kashatus 53). In this hi...

A Comparative: John Ciardi and Alfred Noyes

a shared, antagonistic experience, and in the process radicalized poetry. This is attributed to Ciardi and di Prima, who brought w...

Analysis of When Death Comes by Mary Oliver

and be a part of it, she feels her connection with "everything" (line 11), which means she perceives the world in terms of connec...

Article Review on Manga and Anime

India, Hong Kong and Vietnam, and manga heavily dominates local comic industries in both Taiwan and Indonesia (Lent, 2006; Ng, 200...

Langston Hughes' Blues Poetry

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

Romeo and Juliet, a Play of Extremes

film. It tells us where we are and when; in the case of Shakespeares tragedy of young love, were in Verona, Italy, in the 1500s. T...

Demetria Martinez Speaks the Mother Tongue

her heritage is (Diaz, 1999). Because she is still wandering, Jos? Luis represents something wonderful to her: a man who is commit...

Finding Love and Meaning in the Mother Tongue

Luis, and it is foreshadowed from the first sentence of the book. Mary is at the airport to meet him, a refugee from El Salvador t...

"Boy at the Window" by Richard Wilbur

This essay offers analysis of "Boy at the Window" by Richard Wilbur. The writer focuses on the compelling nature of the poem's ima...

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

This essay pertains to "Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller" and presents a complete overview of the play that discusses its feat...

"Tito's Good-bye" by Christina Garcia

This essay relates a brief summary of Christina Garcia's "Tito's Good-bye," analyzes the characters and her use of setting and ima...

Running in Place by Pamela C. Joern

This essay offers analysis of Pamela C. Joern's short story "Running in Place." The writer focuses on Joern's skill in regards to ...

"Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost: A Poetic Analysis

Contrasting the images of fire and ice are repeated to emphasize the duality of human nature. They also reveal how love and hate ...

The World is Too Much with Us/William Wordsworth

other words, Wordsworth bemoans the materialistic nature of his society, which is a feature of Western society that continues into...

Describing Mental Illness

feels about their illness. The difficulties are then associated with a more physical symptom that the reader may be able to identi...

Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Light vs. Dark

1902 novel Heart of Darkness is widely acknowledge as a literary classic that provides considerable psychological insight into the...

Crimes and Misdemeanors, Film Analysis

over the credits, signifying that Judah has recovered from his burden of guilt and is prepared to get on with and enjoy his life (...

Aspects of "Romeo and Juliet"

describing Tybalt, Mercutio "invoked the plague as a figure of speech, saying ... The pox of such antic, lisping, affecting phanta...

The Sea Is History by Derek Walcott

title, the fact that he notes how the sea is history immediately makes the reader wonder. They may wonder about how the ocean is r...

Loren D. Estleman: Writing Style

on a fateful September day. The aftermath of this watershed moment - inclusive of the ever-present criminal lures that only capit...

Visual Imagery in 2 German Films

red interior, which contrasts with the white exterior of the car. Like the car, Ripley has a seemingly "spotless" exterior, but hi...