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Essays 1651 - 1680
(Hunter). She takes him to the River Styx because, "everything the sacred waters touched became invulnerable, but the heel remain...
a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...
his own set of biases that he probably brought into the telling of the story, and it can be assumed that he did not have as good a...
the struggle of colonization of the West Indies and slavery issues from conception to independence. In his poem "A Far Cry from Af...
Chicago are? Who knows?" Yet, there are evocative images that conjure images of the people that live there -- workers with big sho...
sort of heroic quest, or the heroic person trapped and confined by societys dictates or the citys walls. This is evident in ...
This essay presents a comprehensive overview of the poem that analyzes its content and draws on scholarly opinion as substantiatio...
the perhaps an understanding of fate, on the part of the fish. We are further offered an understanding that the fish is old in the...
a child will enjoy it to some extent, but it is safe to say that this poem was not intended for the young, though it may very well...
The bright-eyed Mariner"(Coleridge, 2002). The sailor (or Mariner) says that though they started on calm enough seas, the wind p...
the bird with his crossbow. With this act, which apparently was motivated by pure blood-lust, the Mariner sins not only ag...
In a paper of one page, the writer looks at Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey. A brief explanation is given of several themes invoked in ...
Psalm of Life" and Edgar Allan Poes "Sonnet-To Science" address the way that each poet perceived life and the reality of their era...
by comparing his own life to a "twice-written scroll", bearing marks from both a pursuit of intellectual virtues, and a pursuit of...
Suicide and self-negation as performance art are examined in a critical analysis of Sylvia Plath's 1962 poem, "Lady Lazarus" in a ...
How the male need to transform women into objects and possessions in order to control them existed in 19th century society is exam...
the Victorians was their sense of social responsibility. Unfortunately, that sense of responsibility was self-righteous and obsess...
what might be a darker meaning to the poem. The last two lines are repeated ("And miles to go before I sleep") so that the reader...
geographical region to artists works Definition of and importance of voice The paper then presents these four sections: Sec...
party recite the poem removes the reader even further from the statue, lending it an even greater air of mystery and moving it fur...
of Oisin is one of the most beautiful epics ever written. It is particularly rich in imagery, as Yates paints a word picture of 30...
is an ancient collection of philosophical principles presented in a poetic fashion. It has been maintained and circulated since th...
misery" (lines 17-18). By the fourth stanza, the positive attitude of the first lines is completely gone, as the speaker compares ...
Dust, in 1940 (Robert Hayden). Accolades and awards followed (including being the first African-American to be named Poet Laureate...
reader feels privy to the inner reflections of the narrative voice, as he engages in the task of "walking the line" (line 13) and ...
Song is an aging man who longs for love, particularly courtly love that fits with his expectations of both women and love....
original adventure stories; Indiana Jones has nothing on Odysseus, Achilles, Ajax and the rest of the characters who struggled on ...
also says that the flea is swollen with their blood (there is a strong suggestion here of the way male and female genitalia swell ...
but was kicked out due to his gambling debts (Liukkonen). As a result, John Allan would disown him (Liukkonen). It was in 1826 tha...
in insular imaginary games the whole way. The narrator suggests that the two of them stop rebuilding the wall and question for onc...