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Essays 271 - 300

Societal Criticism, Browning and Swift

This essay pertains to Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," published in 1729, and Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess, Ferra...

A Comparison, Poe and Longfellow

Psalm of Life" and Edgar Allan Poes "Sonnet-To Science" address the way that each poet perceived life and the reality of their era...

Trekkies, Russell and Black Experience

describes the Tiger beetle, which is "often brightly patterned" in a manner that looks "like small jewels" (Russell 222). Her desc...

"Wickedness" and Liberation in Cisneros

shared her names (Cisneros, 1987). This places a poetic emphasis on the lack of personal efficacious power women experienced in th...

Comparison of Birkerts' "Brown Loafers"/Rector's "Handmade Shoes"

too swollen to wear an expensive pair of Italian loafers, he presents them to Birkerts, who, initially, wears them, as they looked...

Analysis of The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh

haiku poem Blasts of light, motion, Tortured vision, endless beauty, Lead to new understanding. Vincent van Gogh painted The Sta...

The Collapse of the Maya Society

that were once great and in some cases spanned the globe no longer exist. The Roman Empire was feared throughout the known world o...

Chapter Summaries/I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Plot: After a brief prologue that introduces the reader to Maya, aka Marguerite, the first chapter fills in the reader on her back...

Art of James Magee

accompanying poem begins, "Juans ax aches/His tracks lead backwards." The alliteration, assonance and consonance of his word choic...

The Maya by John Sosa

choice, as a parent it is his duty to support his children as they live their own lives. Honorio is on his way back to the villa...

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...

Black Writers Speak Out

the best basketball players at Fisk sank his first ball right here at Lafayette County Training School" (Angelou 870). Angelou is ...

Maya Deren and the Shadow Self

on the table with a knife still perched within it, a telephone off the hook on the stairs, as if someone is on hold. Her mind imme...

A Comparative Analysis of My Name is Asher Lev and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

an "observant Jew," which means that he is at odds with his own culture because "observant Jews do not paint at all" (Potok 3). H...

Phillis Wheatley's Poetry

the population in America at the time would have preferred to not know that a black woman was capable of such complex and abstract...

Pre Columbian Inca and Maya Civilizations

as the first culture in the New World to keep historical records in written form from 50 BC until the Spanish conquest in the 1500...

Analysis of the Poem 'Earth's Answer' by William Blake

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

American Society in Three Literary Views

what her life has been. This view of Granny life offers a contradiction to every misogynist preconception of womanhood that was ev...

Interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's Writings

In eleven pages Poe's writings are interpreted in terms of its representation of conflict as well as pastoral with such works as '...

Comparison of Poets Cesar Vallejo and Pablo Neruda

In five pages Cesar Vallejo's 'Down to the Dregs' and an untitled Pablo Neruda poem are contrasted and compared in this analysis o...

Architect of the Vietnam Memorial Maya Lin

something happens within the viewer. Its like reading a book. I purposely had the names etched ragged right on each panel to look...

Singing the Song of the People in African American Literature

her works dealt little with the condition of the slaves in America, and held mainly to classical poetical themes. She was an accom...

Czeslaw Milosz's Life and Poetry

In ten pages this paper examines Czeslaw Milosz's life and analyzes such poetic works as 'A Poem for the End of the Century' and '...

'Claudette Colvin Goes to Work' by Rita Dove

Her 1999 volume of poetry, "On the Bus with Rosa Parks" exemplifies the ways in which Dove captures a moment, sees it for what it ...

James Merrill's Life and Environmental Influences

after the divorce of his parents that occurred when he was twelve years old ("Keene," 2000). Certainly, the divorce would have an ...

Poetic Concepts of Writer Maya Angelou

Angelou addresses the concept of oppression among the black race, coming forth to stand as a twentieth century hero to her heritag...

Life and Work of Poet Robinson Jeffers

In five pages Robertson Jeffers' life and work are discussed and include poems 'Ave Caesar' and 'Science.' Six sources are cited ...

Maya Angelou and Malcolm X, No Comparison?

For many, a comparison of the gentle grace of Maya Angelou's poetry with the fiery prose of Malcolm X would be difficult. Yet, as ...

The Life and Works of Federico Garcia Lorca

This paper examines the works of the Twentieth Century Spanish poet, Federico Garcia Lorca. The author provides a brief biography...

The Wedding Motif in the Poem 'In Memoriam' by Alfred Tennyson

This paper consists of five pages and discusses how Section 40 of the poem that features the bride analogy is enmeshed in the comp...