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song of the ocean and the song of the woman. A comparison is offered of the songs, that both make a...

the title is clearly a powerful statement and use of words. Another critic dissects Dickinsons poem and offers the following: "The...

implication is that anything signed by the hand of the king carries the weight of law. Sir Spence has to obey. The letter arrives ...

hilltop is now shown as much as it is suggested by two rounded green shapes in the lower half of the painting. The dancers barely ...

renewal [is] not exercised" (Harding 42). Blake wrote, "Earth raisd up her head / From the darkness dread and drear. / Her light...

talk that he had "hastened his wifes death to write the poem" (Allen 3). There can be little doubt that the poem itself is obvi...

her sister as "buddies in wartime" and the stairwell is described as a "shell hole." Like soldiers, Olds states that she and her ...

An analytic interpretation of this poem is presented in five pages with a discussion of loneliness and home themes that are featur...

sooner will his race be run, / And nearer hes to setting" (lines 7-8). In this manner, Herrick sets up an ever-increasing sense of...

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Blake's The Chimney Sweeper. The Innocence and Experience versions of the poem are ...

Comparing and contrasting the search for enlightenment in the works of Dante Alighieri and Hanshan in 4 pages. Primary sources on...

has grown deep like rivers" (line 4). Setting the line off by itself emphasizes its significance, as it ties the narrator directly...

Robinsons poem, Marie Antoinettes Lamentation, the language and the way in which she uses it conveys more than mere description, i...

this woman is not pushy, but rather has very definite feelings for this man. She feels a connection with him that his self-possess...

seems to address in her works include that of lost culture and a sense of longing to return to a time which is perceived to be mor...

and his first brush with death came at the age of eight, when his father, a livery-stableman by trade, died of a fractured skull a...

This paper focuses on how death is treated in "Peter Pan" by J.M. Barrie, and then compares with the same theme in "Jim " and "Mat...

This paper offers two blog posts. One on "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and the other on "Sex without Love" by Sharon Olds....

In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at found poetry. Rossetti's "Goblin Market" is used to construct a found poem with fem...

This essay considers three of Langston Hughes's poems, "Harlem," "I, Too," and "Ballad of the Landlord" and argues that they are r...

paganism was not about to go quietly, even though the poet describes the protagonist as a gift that, "God, in His mercy, has sent....

and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden-paths In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jewelled...

unconquerable by time. Nevertheless, as their love is as fallible and mortal as they are, poem 11 shows the depth of Catullus pa...

has planted a bomb. He sees a woman in a yellow jacket go in, then a man in dark glasses comes out; then two men in jeans talk for...

to the United States when she was seven. Her poetry then is an attempt to reconcile the extremes that come from living in two cult...

(Brooks 9-15). The narrator is illustrating how the reader, or listener, who is likely Black would not have believed them had they...

reached/ was you" (Brooks 2-8). In this the reader is subtly illustrating how society, white American society perhaps, has control...

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

Taken" and William Staffords "Traveling Through the Dark" are both poems about lifes journey and the choices that confront each in...

and the "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes are both evocative and deeply beautiful poems. In each poem, the poet uses...