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Poem Analysis of the Chinese Book of Songs

In five pages this research paper presents an analysis of several poems found within the Chinese Book of Songs and also includes a...

An Analysis of the Blakes Poems, Songs of Innocence, and Songs of Experience

be the definitive poetic volumes with Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794). In each work, a poem entitled "Th...

'Song of Myself,' 'When I Read the Book,' and 'One's Self I Sing' by Walt Whitman

With the plain-speaking simplicity that was his trademark, Whitman constructed this poem in such a rhythmic way that it could be s...

'Songs of Innocence' and 'Songs of Experience' Poems by William Blake

as opposed to being naturally inherited. This poem typifies the poems that are included in Blakes, Songs of Innocence, in...

Overview of Book of Songs

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

Song's Chinatown

3 pages and 1 source used. This paper provides an overview of Cathy Song's poem Chinatown. This paper outlines the viewpoint of ...

Whitman: "Song of Myself"

except "en-masse" (Morace). Whitman refers to equality again in Section 5 when he says "...all the men ever born are also my brot...

Compare and Contrast: Jazz by Toni Morrison and Black and Blue by Louis Armstrong

This 5 page paper compares and contrasts Toni Morrison's book Jazz with Louis Armstrong's song Black and Blue....

"The War Drags On" by Donovan

This essay provides analysis and discussion of Donovan's 1969s protest song, "The War Drags On." Seven pages in length, two source...

Bob Marley and Redemption Song

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

'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...

Four Poems, Summary and Analysis

This essay offers summary and analysis of four poems which begin by offering a comparison of two companion poems from Songs of Inn...

The Fall of the Song Empire

them into thinking That this place is the other one we knew in times of peace. There is, at first blush, some validity to the as...

“I Alone” by Live

stanza, which pictures the listener, the person offering lifes big questions, emotionally stranded. The narrative voice states, "I...

Wordsworth & Hardy/Perspectives on Nature

First and foremost, the Thrush is seen by this Romantic poet in heroic terms, as a male facing the storm of the public world in or...

Hotel California and California History

in California. The song opens by picturing a "dark desert highway" and the "Warm smell of colitas" (Felder, et al). "Colitas" is...

Song of Myself

Walt Whitmans Song of Myself is a poem that is not necessarily about any one particular thing, not possessed of one single theme o...

Use of Metaphor in Popular Songs

but other support metaphors are also created that emphasis the illusionary quality of attraction that deludes the singer into thi...

Song Dynasty Artistry of Ma Yuan

album leaf (Ma Yflan). The style is "intimate, lyrical and delicate," with an emphasis on "less" rather than "more" (Ma Yflan). Li...

The D. Keightly Book Shang & Zhou Dynasties An Historical Examination

The writer reviews the D. Keightly book Shang & Zhou Dynasties, which provides an analysis of the Chinese civilization includi...

William Blake’s Poems

being presented. The narrator states how "The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,/ Thousands of little boys and ...

Chimney Sweeper

another boy who is bald and who cries. This boy has a dream which is very innocent and very uplifting for the boy for in that drea...

Emily Dickinson, Popular Music, and Death Fascination

17). While this image is certainly chilling, the overall tone of the poem is one of "civility," which is actually expressed in lin...

An Analysis of I Started Early Took My Dog

present us with the sheer power of the sea. Now, as mentioned, these lines, filled with imagery, can be seen from many symbolic ...

Yeats’ The Second Coming

that may speak of a lack of hope or direction. The reader does not really need to know what the poem is...

William Blake’s The Garden of Love

his unique nature he was, during his lifetime, "generally dismissed as an eccentric during his lifetime" although "posterity redis...

Out, Out by Robert Frost

has to be cut for the stove" (Wiles). When someone dies it does not mean they were not loved, and they are not missed, just becaus...

Carl Sandburg’s Chicago

the later part of the 19th century, who witnessed much of Chicagos history. He saw it in the early days of the 20th century when w...

Symbolism in 'The Second Coming' by William Butler Yeats

of Spiritus Mundi" (Yeats, 1920). "Spiritus Mundi" can be translated as the "Spirit of the Universe" which Yeats saw as holding i...

Parodying the Knight in Song of Roland and Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso

of knight. He was the kings representative in battle, and his role as the protector of freedom was assumed with honor and uncompro...