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Abstract and Concrete Language in Poetry

own anguish, illustrating the poets "mastery of weaving spontaneously narrative, meditative, and descriptive elements into a seemi...

Contemporary Chinese Poetry's Thematic and Linguistic Structure

Chinese poetry is replete with metaphor, simile, comparison, and personification as well with other linguistic contrivances which ...

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...

Robert Frost's Poetic Style

is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods...

Examining Shakespeare's Comedic Dream

In this we are set up with a very quiet and harmless love that is only waiting for consummation. It is a pleasant little scene tha...

Emily Dickinson's Poetic 'Truth'

and spiritual war is evident in the quote, "Faith is a fine invention for gentlemen who see; But microscopes are prudent in an eme...

Medieval Poem 'I Sing of a Maiden'

next lines are an old reference to the celebration of the Annunciation which the Orthodox Catholic Church practiced. For example, ...

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...

Petrarchan Love Poetry of Lady Mary Wroth and John Donne

The first lines of "The Canonization" read: "For Gods sake hold your tongue and leg me love/ Or chide my palsy, or my gout,/ My fi...

Historically Accurate Staging of William Shakespeare's Comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream

Athens and the Amazon Queen Hippolyta. Although the setting is Athens, Shakespeare originally staged the production at the Globe ...

Language and Ideas in 'The Solitary Reaper' by William Wordsworth

Iin five pages this poetic analysis of 'The Solitary Reaper' by William Wordsworth focuses upon the sights and language that sugge...

'The Solitary Reaper' by William Wordsworth Explicated

elements used by the author. The work begins as follows: BEHOLD her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reapi...

Analysis of the Poem 'Old Photograph of the Future' by Robert Penn Warren

future in that image of a baby suggests the continuance of generations into the future. These themes are particularly suggested by...

Friendship Poetry of Katherine Philips

Friendship, within which the members each assumed classical pseudonyms. Katherine was known as Orinda," and in her "her poetry, sh...

'The Holdfast' Poem by George Herbert

"obey God; nor trust in him; nor confess that nothing is our own" (White 218). There is nothing, literally nothing, that the narra...

2 Poems By Emily Dickinson

she is dead. This interpretation is substantiated in the next stanza when she describes hearing the mourners lift a box, which c...

'Nothing Gold Can Stay' by Robert Frost

understands that youth and life cannot remain, for "nothing gold can stay." Metaphor When we take the poem in its entirety, and...

'Let America Be America Again' by Langston Hughes

In five pages this paper presents a poetic explication of the work by Langston Hughes in a discussion of what exactly 'land of the...

Analysis of 'Dulce et Decorum Est' by Wilfred Owen

behind. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!--An ecstasy of fumbling Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, But someone still was yelling out...

William Wordsworth, William Blake, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

important, yet we are not really told who it is. We are puzzled at one point for the narrator uses the word I in such a way that i...

Tragedy as Defined by Aristotle

upon the very nature of man to enjoy learning something about others and in return about him or herself. In this way, he argues, w...

Erotic Poetry of Ovid and Catullus

be expected that the earlier writing would be more explicit, because of Augustus reputation for demanding morality. This is not t...

'Before I Knocked' by Dylan Thomas

is connected (18 poems, 1934, 2004). This colored his religious orientation and is evident in the religious symbolism in "Before I...

Elijah in the Desert Painting by Washington Allston

the essence of poetry, encourages contemplation of metaphysical truths" and that this should be "at the heart of artistic expressi...

Analysis of Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by William Blake

wealthy children, for the focus is on the fact that their faces are clean and their clothes are relatively powerful earth tones. T...

Happy Eyes Prose of Liz Rosenberg

form the personality of the poet as narrator. As the reader gets to know the narrative voice, it also becomes clear that a pervasi...

Biography of 19th Century British Romantic Poet William Blake

begin studying engraving and it would be here that his genius would find a purchase. As a young man, some biographies state,...

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 ...

Analysis of Sharon Olds' 'Rite of Passage'

stand around jostling, jockeying for place, small fights...

'Early Snow' by Mary Oliver

nature in which the numbers play a role. She writes, "I thought of dried leaves/drifting spate after spate/out of the forests/th...