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Thomas Carew - An Inductive Analysis

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Carew's "Celia Bleeding, to the Surgeon". Paradox and conceit are explained as tool...

Dickinson's "Much madness" and Eliot's "Prufrock"

This essay offers analysis and a comparison of T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" with Emily Dickinson's "Much ma...

Death in Poetry

Death, /Into the mouth of Hell / Rode the six hundred" (Tennyson, 1870). Still another type of poem shows death as sheer horror: ...

American Poetry

array of individuals that Whitman clearly associated himself with as perhaps an American. He states, "I am enamourd of growing out...

Langston Hughes The Trumpet Player

golden tones he creates" (Davis 276). This "new Harlem" apparently changes more dramatically than we think; Schatt notes that the ...

Early Literature and Poetry of China and Japan and Women

gap through which women continued to receive and even some praise from men in regards to their abilities as writers (Reichhold). ...

Man's Nature in the Romantic Poetry of William Wordsworth and John Keats

quite different in their presentation and their material or focus of material. But, at the same time the words of darkness apparen...

Berceo's Poem about Mary, Miracles of Our Lady

The writer examines the 13th century poem Milagros de Nuestra Senora (Miracles of Our Lady). The writer describes it as a series o...

The Life and Works of Emma Lazarus

in American culture, despite her pro-immigration sentiments, which were directly opposed to the anti-immigration public feeling of...

Emma Lazarus' Life and Times

rejection highly influenced Lazaruss "Spagnoletto," which provided Lazarus with the "literary props" to effectively represent the ...

Three Poems by Gary Soto, Nikki Giovanni, and William Blake

focus of the poem is on how the anger of the narrator as a corruptive influence that turns him into a murderer. As this illustrate...

'Big Black Car' by Lynn Emanuel

As Emanuel describes the interior of the car, and her reluctance to ride in it, she employs language that suggests that the car is...

Barreca/Nighttime Fires

the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...

Treatment of Women/17th Century New England

sanctioned as proper for women, Bradstreets work did not go against the norms of Puritan society. However, they do often emphasize...

Langston Hughes: Work and Worldview

the dawns were / young. / I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to / sleep. / I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyram...

Eavan Boland/Fever

5-8). This juxtaposition of images connects the fever of illness to the fever of lust, which leads into the third stanza and its s...

"The Life Of An Amorous Woman" - Dirty Profession, Pure Heart

out the way one may have originally intended; as such, a life perceived as less enlightened still encourages - and even requires -...

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...

Shakespeare/Sonnet 73

spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next fou...

Analysis: Emily Dickinson and Anne Bradstreet

are only 4-6 lines in length. "Contemplations" begins as what we might call a nature poem, describing the way in which the sun lig...

Melinda Sordino and Maya Angelou

allows the reader to read approximately 10 pages, enough to get the "flavor" of the authors writing. Here, she blends humor with a...

Reactions to Various Poems

break all the rules and express his artistic vision in his own highly original way. This leads him to fame, fortune and freedom, w...

Literary Analysis of Wislawa Szymborska’s Poem ‘True Love’

love between two ordinary people: "Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it h...

Power of Language in Langston Hughes’ Poems ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’ and ‘Mother to Son’

human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my ...

William Wordsworth’s Natural Imagery

to release the burthen of my own unnatural self and the wearying city days such as were not made for me" (Driver 48). The first li...

Overview of Experimental Feminist Poetry

Hunt conveys her message in a type of rapid New York "urban speak," which is specifically intended to jolt the readers passivity. ...

'Bright Star' by John Keats

In five pages this paper examines the poem by John Keats in order to consider how the poet depicted love's meaning. There are no ...

The Court of King Hrothgar in Beowulf

The writer uses a close reading of the Old English epic poem Beowulf, and in particular the events at King Hrothgar's court, to ex...

Metaphor and Imagery in 'My Papa's Waltz' by Theodore Roethke

In six pages this report analyzes the metaphor and imagery featured in 'My Papa's Waltz' by poet Theodore Roethke. Three sources ...

Virgil's The Aeneid, Free Will, and Fate

In a paper consisting of five pages this paper examines the concepts of fate and free will within the context of Virgil's epic and...