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author or both; the last suggested interpretation is that "Ulysses is an Ancient Mariner who has never learned his lesson" (Landow...

was time to allow Odysseus to return home. Should he be allowed to go back to Ithaka to be reunited with his wife Penelope and hi...

natural sublime."2 As is common in the thematic development of the sublime in Romanticism, the sensation is one of rapture and on...

believes, would seal his everlasting fame (Irving 86). The poem championed Beowulfs desire for fame as a badge of honor: "In all ...

society tells her its wrong; however, she cant resist flirting with her lover or inviting him to kiss her again (though obviously ...

levels. First of all, a virginal is an early form of the harpsichord that was a preferred instrument among young ladies during the...

present Beowulf as a young hero, who is called upon by his fathers old friend King Hrothgar of Geatland, to defend his subjects ag...

consider myself a failed woman and a failed poet, or to try to find some synthesis by which to understand what was happening to me...

20). The lyricism and imagery in this opening section are romantic, seductive and certain to appeal to the ego of any woman. Howev...

practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaste...

located in West Seattle; his patients are mostly urban and poor ("Peter Pereira"). On the literary front, he has been published...

nearly twenty years without complaint. Should that not account for something? As his pain intensifies, Ivan Ilych begins feeling...

safe place: the dead are "untouched" beneath their rafters of satin and roofs of stone (Dickinson). They wait motionless for the r...

stations" (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame). He was clearly very influenced by many talented musicians at the time, and in a place th...

was raised a Catholic, he was christened in St. James Church (Eaves et al). During his childhood, Blake was surrounded by visions ...

of four lines known as quatrains, and each stanza comprised of alternating iambs or an unstressed syllable immediately followed by...

Bloom). He escaped but was arrested and tried, and sentenced to a year and a day (Dyson and Bloom). His attorney got him released ...

is presumably himself, as an adult, looking back at the things his father did for him. These are things that the child clearly nev...

ceinture is a cloth belt), strikes a romantic note, but again, these are what the gowns do not look like. This may indicate the gl...

held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...

in relationship to these voices, fear is likely the reason a person does kill a snake. The narrator watches as the snake drinks a...

to an end. Espada is really calling for a revolution: He says that "This is the year that squatters evict landlords"; it is the y...

is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...

They are simply animals doing what they do and creating a balance in the world, another aspect of duality for without opposites th...

mighty war in Italy, beat down proud nations, give his people laws, found them a city, a matter of three years, from victory to se...

She is dismissive about feeling hurt or jealous that she was little more than another notch on Tims belt. For this young girl, se...

mans mortality is Death itself. He walks among the graves and notes that the poorer people have flat markers and the more famous h...

include "back-yards graying / with knowledge, embankments blazoned / with pig-face whose hardihood / be theirs, / mantling with pu...

a shared, antagonistic experience, and in the process radicalized poetry. This is attributed to Ciardi and di Prima, who brought w...

of children and their behavior, their fears and victories. This paper compares and contrasts two of her poems, "The One Girl at th...