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Sappho's 'To Evening' Analyzed

evening. Then there is nighttime. In this poem, the last thing that occurs is that the baby is put into bed with his mother. There...

William Wordsworth and John Keats

envision more positive feelings) a human being can better come into contact with their nature, their creative side, their truths w...

Nature and Poetic Views Contrasted

his moment in nature (Wakefield 354). But while the first stanza ends the implied assumption that the poet need not concern hims...

Meaning of 'Daddy' by Sylvia Plath

gangrenous toe that her father had to have amputated and which, later, led directly to his death (127). The image of the "Frisco s...

'Infant Joy' and 'Infant Sorrow' Poems by William Blake

on. The illustration serves to emphasize the overall theme of complete joy, which Blake implies is something that can be experienc...

Poets Philip Larkin and Robert Frost

In ten pages this research essay compares and contrasts Philip Larkin's poem 'Church Going' and Robert Frost's poem 'The Wood pile...

Emily Dickinson's Works on Self and Death

line and the metaphor in the first, Dickinson employs all of the literary devices available, but, prefers, for the most part, to f...

Wislawa Szymborska's War Poem 'The End and the Beginning'

cannot afford to become too emotional over the huge of amount of dead bodies that require disposal. There are simply too many. It ...

Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare Analyzed

/ And every fair from fair sometimes declines, / By chance, or natures changing course untrimmd; / But thy eternal summer shall no...

'This World is not Conclusion' by Emily Dickinson

question that cannot be logically answered "puzzles scholars," while perfectly ordinary people are able to accept it as it is, as ...

Poetry by Hardy and Eliot

himself who willed that he should suffer (lines 5-8). In other words, Hardy pictures preferring a world such as the ancient Gre...

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, ...

The Culture of the Beowulf Poem

faith primarily in their thane and in "wyrd," which is a pagan reference to fate or destiny, according to Abrams, et al (1968). ...

'Calm' by Loma Crozier

pause, heads tilted as if trying to hear someone softly...

An Analysis of Homer's Epic Poem, The Odyssey

of the Muse to introduce its tale: "Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story / of that man skilled in all ways of contendin...

Analysis of 'Enoch Arden' by Alfred Lord Tennyson

In seven pages this paper analyzes the poem that asserts the spiritual themes of the poem are metaphorically portrayed by the trag...

A Reading of Emily Dickinson's Short Poem #1755

apt description of reverie being that which is made up of a few simple things; and if those things are not available, well, reveri...

Love According to Andrew Marvell and John Donne

In five pages love as represented by Andrew Marvell in his poem 'The Definition of Love' is compared and contrasted with the poem ...

A Comparative Analysis of Roethke and Ammons

In five pages this essay offers a contrast and comparison of Theodore Roethke's poems 'The Waking' and 'I Knew a Woman' and A.A. A...

The Un-Human Enemies of Beowulf

The writer discusses the fact that in Beowulf, which is the oldest poem in English, many of Beowulf's enemies are non-humans. Thes...

A Review of The Road Not Taken

A 5 page esay reviewing the Robert Frost poem. This paper comments on both the strengths and the weaknesses of the poem. 1 sourc...

Poetic Analysis of 'If We Must Die' by Claude McKay

exploded out of me" (McKay on "If We Must Die"). Somewhat surprisingly, McKay elected to structure his impassioned contemporary p...

Nature in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson

"After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes," "This is My Letter to the World," "I Had Been Hungry," and "They Shut Me Up in Prose,"...

Gerard Manley Hopkins and William Wordsworth on Nature

In 5 pages this paper discusses how Wordsworth and Hopkins perceived nature as God-like and powerful in beauty with a consideratio...

Ideology and 'Englishness'

values within, England holds itself it is in less than positive light. Indeed, it can readily be argued that this is his right an...

Birds in Literature

In three pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of birds in Walt Whitman's poem 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' and ...

Social Commentary's Dark Side

In six pages this paper discusses the dark side of social commentary and how the writers reflect their respective societies in Tom...

'Patterns' by Amy Lowell

This paper consists of four pages and discusses the characterization of the speaker and the poem's connotation, rhythm, diction, a...

Rap and the Rap Culture

The writer discusses the connection between the Old English epic poem Beowulf and today's rap culture. The writer argues that alth...

Analysis of 2 Poems Written by Women

read into the poem a bit more and might surmise that this boy is rather insecure and needs his girl to be seen by others in a posi...