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'Nothing Gold Can Stay' by Robert Frost

understands that youth and life cannot remain, for "nothing gold can stay." Metaphor When we take the poem in its entirety, and...

Erotic Poetry of Ovid and Catullus

be expected that the earlier writing would be more explicit, because of Augustus reputation for demanding morality. This is not t...

Medieval Poem 'I Sing of a Maiden'

next lines are an old reference to the celebration of the Annunciation which the Orthodox Catholic Church practiced. For example, ...

Romantic Era British Poets

a specific time or age. While romanticism will be prominent in certain epochs, because in its essential characteristics it is a sp...

Poetic Analysis of John Keats' 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'

The urn it seems, inanimate or not, is alive in some peculiar sense. In...

Abstract and Concrete Language in Poetry

own anguish, illustrating the poets "mastery of weaving spontaneously narrative, meditative, and descriptive elements into a seemi...

Contemporary Chinese Poetry's Thematic and Linguistic Structure

Chinese poetry is replete with metaphor, simile, comparison, and personification as well with other linguistic contrivances which ...

Matthew Arnold's Poetry

and symbolism. As Arnold embraces God along with the seas that the maker has created, he questions things. The church is often the...

Explication of 'London' by Poet William Blake

in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...

Analysis of the Anglo Saxon Poem 'The Wanderer'

has overtaken their owners" (Bartleby.com). In many ways "The poem throws an interesting light on the close nature of the relation...

'Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot

merely an attendant. Prufrock states, "No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;/Am an attendant loud, one that will do/To ...

Explication of 'Lake Isle of Innisfree' by W.B. Yeats

the simplicity of the life that he foresees for himself, as well as its self-sufficiency. The sense of solitude that Yeats create...

'And Death Shall Have No Dominion' by Dylan Thomas

Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales in 1914 (Abrams, et al 1907). Early in 1933, when he was nineteen years old. Thomas sent two of ...

Meaning of 'Daddy' by Sylvia Plath

gangrenous toe that her father had to have amputated and which, later, led directly to his death (127). The image of the "Frisco s...

Poet Thomas Gray's Life and Poetry

In seven pages this paper examines 18th century poet Thomas Gray's life, his profound poetic influence in his lifetime and his swi...

1644 to 1844 Ch'ing Dynasty and Life Affirmation Importance

In ten pages this paper examines China's Ch'ing dynasty's first 200 years in a consideration of the importance of life affirmation...

African American Poetic Modernism

172). But while modernism was a reaction to the modern age and the disassociation that came with it, there also seems to have been...

The Civil Rights Era and its Impact upon African American Poetry

endured by Black People during various eras. Research I uncovered focuses much on the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Poets, an...

Poetry and the Environment

In five pages the environment is featured in a consideration of the poetic works 'The Prairies' by William Cullen Bryant, 'Human E...

'Coloredness' in the Poem Theme for English B by Langston Hughes

In five pages a poetic explication of Theme for English B examines how 'coloredness' is represented by poet Langston Hughes. Two ...

Poetry, Recreation, Cinema, and Ethnicity

In five pages social and cultural ethnic representations in a Johnson short story, Divakaruni and Clifton poetic themes are discus...

Poetic Contrast of Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock' and John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'

In five pages this paper discusses the poets and the poems in this contrasting poetic analysis. Three sources are cited in the bi...

Humanity's Fall in Paradise Lost by John Milton

In five pages this paper evaluates whether or not there was a Fall in the biblical interpretation presented by John Milton in his ...

The Importance of Ancestry in 3 Canadian Poets' Works

The Jewish Canadian heritage which figures prominently in the poetic works of A.M. Klein, Miriam Waddington and Irving Layton is t...

Victimization in 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and 'Prometheus' by Lord Byron

In five pages victimization as it is featured in each one of these poetic works is contrasted and compared. Two sources are cited...

E.M. Forster and Martha Nussbaum

In six pages this report examines class consciousness and inequalities as represented in E.M. Forster's Edwardian novel Howards En...

Aristotle and Greek Tragedy

Poetics by Aristotle is used as a springboard for this topic. Aristotle's take on tragedy is the focus of this paper. This five ...

History and the Epic Poems of Homer

In five pages this essay examines what is revealed about ancient Greek history in Homer's poetic epics 'The Iliad' and 'The Odysse...

Armor of Achilles in 'The Iliad' by Homer

In five pages Homer's poetic epic is examined in a consideration of the significance of the armor worn by Achilles and the effects...

Comparative Analysis of the 'Poem of the Cid' Epic and Anthony Mann's 1961 Film El Cid

In three pages this paper discusses an epic in terms of characteristics and how thee are expressed in literature and on film in a ...