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Analyzing Sylvia Plath's Poetic Voice

scared woman. While she is now grown and teetering on the brink of emotional despair, she recalls both the idolatry and anger of ...

'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...

Analysis of 'Ode on Melancholy' and 'To Autumn' by John Keats

Age of Reason: Experiencing the Poetry of Wordsworth and Keats). In this poem Keats also brings sounds into play in a very power...

Modernist Approaches in 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot

modernist writing was meant as a contrast to the traditional approach in that it could recognize how fast the world was changing a...

Readings on Family Reunion Theme

generation, perceiving life and important family relationships very differently. They do not come from the same position, in terms...

'Song to a Waitress' by Aron Kessbury

demand. Kessbury does not employ rhyme in this stanza. In fact, he only employs rhyme once in the poem, in the last two lines, w...

Setting in 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Raven' and 'The Oval Portrait' by Edgar Allan Poe

tales. While "The Oval Portrait" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are distinctive in setting they share certain simil...

'Eyes That Last I Saw in Tears' by T.S. Eliot

is seeing the eyes in the present, which is "Here in deaths dream kingdom." Again, alliteration, this time with /d/, makes the lin...

Homer and the Old Testament

holds the Greeks captive in his cave, into allowing them to escape by first blinding his one eye while he sleeps. However, Odysseu...

Form and Structure of Emily Dickinson's Poetry

the last line which states the following: "Ah, what sagacity perished here!" (Dickinson 1-3, 11). This is a poem that is obviou...

Poetry and Time

can one accept that time runs out and that everyone will die someday? After all, time is of the essence. How does one love, be hap...

'The Waste Land' by T.S. Eliot

became sterile and meaningless. (Because of the variety and relative obscurity of Eliots allusions, readers must work through the ...

Duino Elegies by Rainer Rilke and The Book of Nightmares by Galway Kinnell

In five pages this paper examines these two poems in terms of Rilke's presentation of the hero and child relationship and Kinnell'...

'Lady Lazarus' by Sylvia Plath

In five pages this paper presents a critical analysis of Sylvia Plath's poem 'Lady Lazarus.' Four pages are cited in the bibliogr...

Analyzing Robert Frost's 'The Road Not Taken'

Aspects of Robert Frost's poem are analyzed in this exposition that consists of five pages. There are no other sources listed in ...

Comparison Between John Keats' 'On Seeing the Elgin Marbles' and 'Ozymandias' by Percy Bysshe Shelley

human rulers answers to the sands of time. The message: Power is temporary. Nature is forever. This is a common theme among Roma...

James Merrill's Life and Environmental Influences

after the divorce of his parents that occurred when he was twelve years old ("Keene," 2000). Certainly, the divorce would have an ...

'The Starry Night' by Anne Sexton

The author's use of imagery in the poem is the focus of this paper consisting of five pages. There are no other sources listed....

'My Last Duchess' by Robert Browning

recognize that Aristotles use of "spectacle" and "song" refer to the way in which the work has been aesthetically arranged. Spect...

'Departmental' by Robert Frost

In five pages this report examines the animal characteristics humans exhibit in this poem by Robert Frost. There are no other sou...

'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night' by Dylan Thomas

In seven pages this tutorial considers Dylan Thomas's classic poem. Nine sources are cited in the bibliography....

Greece and Its Influence Upon Lord Byron

In six pages this paper examines how Greece influenced and inspired Lord Byron in a consideration of his Greek poems and his parti...

Chivalry, the Heroic Conflict, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

In five pages this paper discusses the chivalric code and heroic conflicts within the context of this epic Medieval poem. Three o...

Metaphor in the Work of E. E. Cummings

This essay provides a reading of the classic Cummings' poem, "somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond." The aut...

Imagery in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In eight pages this paper examines how Fitzgerald employs symbolism and imagery in his novel much as a lyric poem would in terms o...

Men vs. Women in 'Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward' by Anne Sexton and 'To Speak of the Woe That is in Marriage' by Robert Lowell

In thirteen pages this paper analyzes these poems from the points of view of both men and women. Five sources are cited in the bi...

Faith Reflected in Poetry

In five pages this essay ponders how religious faith in poetry represents the time periods in which it was composed in an examinat...

'Good People' by Maura Stanton

In five pages this essay analyzes this poem and the impacts of connecting to a particular place on human relationships. There is ...

Langston Hughes' 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers'

In five pages this paper analyzes the structure, meaning, and themes of Langston Hughes' poem 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers.' Four ...

Edna St. Vincent Millay's 'What My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why'

The structure, theme, and meaning of this poem are discussed in this paper consisting of 5 pages. There are 4 additional bibliogr...