SEARCH RESULTS

stories they remember from men who are from an older generation. Barker (1993) highlights the psychological effects of this popul...

Wheatleys poem begins, "Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,/ Taught my benighted soul to understand/ That theres a God, that...

This paper looks at Dickinson's views about and relationship with nature through a reading of several of her poems. The author lo...

This paper examines the self actualization of women in an analysis of the poems 'Daddy' and 'Mirror' by Sylvia Plath and the novel...

In six pages an explication of 'Annabel Lee' considers how the rhythm of the rhyme, word repetition, and setting/imagery articulat...

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...

avails not, time nor place - distance avails not, I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations he...

In five pages Sylvia Plath's poetry is considered in an analysis of reader experiences and how their tragic elements differ from t...

at the same time the calmness of it all makes it quite dramatic. The narrator does not see the action as dramatic, however, and si...

the "music" of nature and is part of a continuous cycle. This poem concludes "How can we know the dancer from the dance" (line 64)...

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

In 5 pages this paper examines William Wordsworth's poem 'Simon Lee' in a character analysis of the old huntsman. There are 5 sou...

the very antithesis of natural ("fleshly" or "bodily") love. Similarly, Taylor reframes the natural death of a wasp in the cold as...

a whole" (Yu 380). These natural images are used to open each stanza, as Yu notes that there are "three tetrasyllabic stanzas of f...

haiku poem Blasts of light, motion, Tortured vision, endless beauty, Lead to new understanding. Vincent van Gogh painted The Sta...

lingers, then erased, Wisdom grasped and then replaced With new wisdoms, no time for decay. Where is permanence? Useless Next to ...

a figurative level, the poet is inviting the reader to take his perspective, to figuratively "walk in his shoes" and, thereby, lea...

a poem that examines ones past and the choices made, as well as a poem that presents the narrator with two obvious choices. In a l...

dew that falls at night as weeping for the demise of day, "For thou must die" (Herbert line 4). The second stanza focuses on the...

so-called loved ones seem to have gathered expecting to witness something memorably catastrophic, almost as if they seek to be ent...

optimistic poet beyond this interpretation of his most famous work, which causes the work to stand out in a questionable way. Inde...

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

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "Of Pruning and Production" by Isabella Southern. The poem's themes are gradually s...

In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at "Tithonus". The theme of immortality is examined through looking at the poem's mechan...

of its first publication in 1845, Edgar Allan Poes poem "The Raven" has been an element in American cultural influencing the publi...

This essay presents a character sketch of the narrator in "The ABC of Aerobics," a poem by Peter Meinke. Three pages in length, th...

This essay is an explication of "Locked Ward: Newtown, Connecticut" by Rachel Loden. The writer bases this discussion on the assum...

of recurrence and an admonishment not to expect recurrence immediately draws the reader in. The poet them goes on to describe "the...

How the male need to transform women into objects and possessions in order to control them existed in 19th century society is exam...

Suicide and self-negation as performance art are examined in a critical analysis of Sylvia Plath's 1962 poem, "Lady Lazarus" in a ...