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Four Poems by A.R. Ammons

In this essay containing five pages the symbolism and imagery similarities in Ammons' poems The Damned, Anxiety's Prosody, Kind, a...

Comparing Nathaniel Hawthorne's Short Stories 'Young Goodman Brown' and 'Roger Malvin's Burial'

In two pages this essay compares these short stories in terms of symbolism, theme, and imagery. There are no other sources listed...

John Steinbeck's Short Story 'The Chrysanthemums'

In five pages this paper examines the symbolism, theme, and imagery featured in John Steinbeck's short story 'The Chrysanthemums.'...

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and Symbolism

In six pages this paper examines the importance of imagery and symbolism in Hurston's 1937 classic novel. Six sources are cited i...

Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel

on her symptoms she has cancer. Soon, Hagar will be an angel. But, since she is such a tough old bird, difficult to those trying t...

Literary Overview of 'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens

the commoners, Darnay renounces his title to the Evremonde Estate and goes back to England to live. He proposes to Lucie and she a...

The Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko and Searching for Self

it is as much a story about the Earth as it is a story about the human characters that strive to seek resolution to the very real ...

'If You Touched My Heart' by Isabel Allende

human being. Her song on the "blond wood psaltery" produced a "crystalline sound like water purling between stones" (82). As this ...

Epic 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and the Use of Symbolism

of balance. The Knight carries the potential for both peace and war. They are intimately bound to one another, it should be said, ...

Dreams and Their Meaning

In ten pages this research paper examines how to interpret dreams in a consideration of literature on symbolism and imagery. Ten ...

Disease Imagery in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In five pages this paper discusses the symbolism of disease imagery such as poison in the ear and elements of decay featured in th...

'Apparently With No Surprise' by Emily Dickinson

In one page this essay analyzes Dickinson's poem in terms of symbolism, imagery, and theme with an evaluation of her employment of...

Poetic Analysis of 'The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner' by Randall Jarrell

ball turret was a plexiglass sphere set into the belly of a B-17 or B-24 [bomber], and inhabited by two .50 caliber machine-guns a...

'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd' by Walt Whitman

President Abraham Lincoln's assassination is examined within the context of this poem by Walt Whitman in five pages with imagery a...

Of Mice and Men/Symbolism

55). The appeal of this dream attracts the interest of both Crooks and Candy, who would also like to be part of the dream, as it...

'To Build a Fire' by Jack London and Literary Style

In five pages the literary style in this short story is analyzed in terms of the story's direct and indirect evidence, deductive o...

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards

the audience immediately. Edwards then frames four implications from the verse that begin with the lead-in sentence just quoted an...

Sylvia Plath's 'Above the Oxbow'

is characteristic of Plaths works. "Back of the Connecticut, the river-level Flats of Hadley...

Analysis of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and William Shakespeare's King Lear Act I

In five pages there are four questions answered in an analysis of how metaphor and imagery are employed in these two literary work...

'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe

In seven pages this poetic explication reveals how Poe was able to achieve his morbid atmosphere through the literary elements of ...

A Synopsis of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's, Love in the Time of Cholera

This paper provides a synopsis and overview of Marquez's classic novel, Love in the Time of Cholera. The author notes Marquez's u...

Medieval Poem 'I Sing of a Maiden'

next lines are an old reference to the celebration of the Annunciation which the Orthodox Catholic Church practiced. For example, ...

'Inscriptions' by William Wordsworth

exploration of human feelings and emotions. In the poem, Inscriptions, to which the first lines are: HOPES what are they?--B...

'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' Analyzed

the intent of the writer. Might he have an agenda hidden under the ghost story? At the same time, this is a classic supernatural t...

Literary Tools in Jack London's Short Stories

life is at stake as the narrator expresses the fact that a man will actually freeze to death if he cannot get a fire going. The ...

Symbolism in 'The Second Coming' by William Butler Yeats

of Spiritus Mundi" (Yeats, 1920). "Spiritus Mundi" can be translated as the "Spirit of the Universe" which Yeats saw as holding i...

Tolkein and Fellowship of the Ring

tale is primarily told in a book titled "The Hobbit," wherein he has many adventures and comes into possession of the one ring of ...

Symbolism and the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Such a setting, she points out, simply added to the fear and accusations of witchcraft against innocent people (Jacobs). I...

Achilles' Shield in 'The Iliad' by Homer

In five pages the importance and symbolism of the shield of Achilles is considered in this examination of Homer's epic....

Sonnet 138 by William Shakespeare

In four pages this paper examines the symbolism in terms of how a couple's aging love is represented in the sonnet....