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Virgil and Dante's 'Inferno'

In four pages the Virgil character is examined within the context of 'Inferno' and also considered as he actually existed as an ac...

Barreca/Nighttime Fires

the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...

God in a Technical Age, Arnold and Hopkins

In the media today, it is possible to frequently see pundits and politicians bemoaning the state of society in regards to morality...

Thomas Carew - An Inductive Analysis

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Carew's "Celia Bleeding, to the Surgeon". Paradox and conceit are explained as tool...

Maxence Fermine's Snow

This essay pertain to a Japanese novel that charts the evolution of a young poet in achieving perfection within this craft. The wr...

Homer's World, Similarities and Difference with Present Day

This essay pertains to "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" by Homer, the ancient Greek poet and the worldview and cultural values that a...

Pushkin's Most Successful Prose

Pushkin was a Russian poet who eventually began writing prose. This essay examines and analyzes a very successful work of prose en...

Comments on a Book for Ministers

This essay presents reflections and discussions about different sections of a book entitled "The Pastor As A Minor Poet" by M. Cra...

'Big Black Car' by Lynn Emanuel

As Emanuel describes the interior of the car, and her reluctance to ride in it, she employs language that suggests that the car is...

'Bushed' by Earle Birney

reiterates the point made in the first line, the destruction of his rainbow, was a significant event. Whatever this setback was, t...

Emma Lazarus' Life and Times

rejection highly influenced Lazaruss "Spagnoletto," which provided Lazarus with the "literary props" to effectively represent the ...

Early Literature and Poetry of China and Japan and Women

gap through which women continued to receive and even some praise from men in regards to their abilities as writers (Reichhold). ...

The Life and Works of Emma Lazarus

in American culture, despite her pro-immigration sentiments, which were directly opposed to the anti-immigration public feeling of...

Man's Nature in the Romantic Poetry of William Wordsworth and John Keats

quite different in their presentation and their material or focus of material. But, at the same time the words of darkness apparen...

Berceo's Poem about Mary, Miracles of Our Lady

The writer examines the 13th century poem Milagros de Nuestra Senora (Miracles of Our Lady). The writer describes it as a series o...

Songs of Innocence and Experience by Robert Blake

works together one can see the romantic power of both innocence and experience as Blake addressed a changing world where human per...

Transcendence of 'Routine' by Tom Wayman

a steadily-promoted deck officer on the Titanic" (Lancashire et al. "Philosophy"). This balanced perspective (positive and negativ...

T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land' and the Contemporary World

world was worth living in. Interestingly enough, one critic indicates that this is where Eliot uses the symbolism of the Holy G...

'Blackberry Sweet' by Dudley Randall

devices not only within the line in which it occurs, but also between lines. Also in regards to these lines, while the poet refe...

The Art of the 19th Century Poetic Manifesto

confused his contemporary readers, which often obscured from them his intent (Abrams 59). Therefore, neither Coleridge nor Blake ...

Three Poems by Gary Soto, Nikki Giovanni, and William Blake

focus of the poem is on how the anger of the narrator as a corruptive influence that turns him into a murderer. As this illustrate...

Emily Dickinson's Religious Perspectives in 'Some Keep the Sabbath by Going to Church'

is arguing in this poem that the search for eternal peace and a relationship with the divine can be just as meaningful when carrie...

Julia's Petticoat by Herrick

effect that the petticoat has on the male observer in the garment itself, which the poet asserts "Sometimes twould pant, and sigh,...

'Inferno' by Dante Alighieri and Gender

involving gender or related themes like romance and marriage. Yet, sex and love are highlights in the Inferno. Dante also writes o...

Comparative Style Analysis of Blake, Wordsworth, and Whitman

part. He and the Church had a love/hate relationship, to be certain. "Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy," st...

Analysis of the Poem 'Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening' by Robert Frost

a hook to bait a desired fish. But no competitive fisherman is eager to share his secrets for landing the big one. A poet is no ...

Life Experiences and Poetry Themes

ethical judgements. While the students perhaps though that these old people are no longer young and can offer nothing of value to ...

The Notebook/A Therapist's View

and supportive, as well as including the usual element of sexual attraction. The problem that Allie and Noah faced early on was ...

Same-Sex Marriage: Redefining Love

not take both male and female genitalia to create a loving, devoted relationship; rather, all it requires is the commitment from t...

Love and Power: The Great Gatsby and The Tempest

example, how he constantly throws huge parties that are very elaborate and clearly of wealth. Yet he never really attends them. He...