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'Early Snow' by Mary Oliver

nature in which the numbers play a role. She writes, "I thought of dried leaves/drifting spate after spate/out of the forests/th...

Analysis of Sharon Olds' 'Rite of Passage'

stand around jostling, jockeying for place, small fights...

Analysis of 'Fire and Ice' Poem by Robert Frost

also great/ And would suffice" (Frost 6-9). In this we see something we would perhaps normally associate with fire, that being hat...

Lovers Voices in 'Porphyria's Lover' and 'To His Coy Mistress'

he presents. Essentially, he wants his mistress to accept his advances not because she has been mentally or physically bludgeoned ...

Emily Dickinson's 'Publication is the Auction'

womens education and his ultimate hostility towards female intellectualism influenced his daughters choice of secular isolation to...

'Some keep the Sabbath going to church' by Emily Dickinson

In four pages this poetic explication focuses on the contrast between Victorian era religious conventions and Dickinson's individu...

Greek Values in Homer's 'The Iliad'

withdraws from the battlefield, refusing to fight. This quarrel typifies how the Greeks valued personal honor above all other cons...

Happy Eyes Prose of Liz Rosenberg

form the personality of the poet as narrator. As the reader gets to know the narrative voice, it also becomes clear that a pervasi...

Elijah in the Desert Painting by Washington Allston

the essence of poetry, encourages contemplation of metaphysical truths" and that this should be "at the heart of artistic expressi...

'Before I Knocked' by Dylan Thomas

is connected (18 poems, 1934, 2004). This colored his religious orientation and is evident in the religious symbolism in "Before I...

Overview of Edgar Allan Poe

In a paper consisting of 6 pages this important writer of the 19th century is examined in an overview of his life and works with i...

Faith of Dante Alighieri in Divine Comedy

In five pages this paper discuses how within the poetic narrative Dante reinforces the Christian faith attitudes and also embraces...

'On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough' by John Milton

can start by noticing what occurs in the first stanza. Milton begins the work as follows: "Fairest flower no sooner blown but blas...

Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche's Poetic Writings

In six pages this report examines the poetic writings of Freud and Nietzsche in an analysis of their uses of analogies, images, an...

'Beowulf' and the Characterization of Grendel's Mother

In five pages this paper discusses the viewpoint of Grendel's mother as featured in the poetic epic 'Beowulf.' Four sources are c...

Justifying Authority

The ways in which authority has been justified in literature is examined in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Tale,' William ...

Emily Bronte's Life and Poetry

In nine pages plus an outline of one page this paper examines Emily Bronte's life and analyzes her poetic style as reflected in 'T...

W.H. Auden's 'The Unknown Citizen' and William Blake's 'The Chimney Sweeper'

In three pages this comparative poetic analysis considers the meaning achieved through metaphors in each poem. There are no other...

Feminist Views of Adrienne Rich and Sylvia Plath

were attracted to writing poetry while very young and both were encouraged by their families (McHenry, 1995). Both the Pl...

Poetic Analysis of 'Hazel Tells LaVerne' by Kathryn Howd Machan

LaVerne," is a monologue of cleaning woman, who tells her friend of a strange encounter she had while performing her nightly toile...

Cane by Jean Toomer

In ten pages this paper analyzes the poetic lyricism of Cane by Jean Toomer. There are no other sources listed....

The Lais by Marie de France

to aristocratic women, or it may have been included simply as a necessary literary device that aided Marie in recounting the condi...

Aristotle's Poetics and Oedipus

In five pages this paper examines how a tragic literary hero is defined by Aristotle in Poetics and then applied to Oedipus. One ...

Symbolism and Meaning in 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman

Part forty seven is the focus of this poetic explication consisting of six pages in which symbolism uses by the poet are the prima...

Book VI of The Faerie Queen by Edmund Spenser

In five pages this essay analyzes Book Six of this poetic masterpiece. There are no other sources listed....

Analysis of the Poem 'Lob' by Edward Thomas

In five pages this paper examines how lines thirteen to twenty represent Edward Thomas' poem 'Lob' and also analyzes poetic devisi...

'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell

In seven pages a poetic explication of 'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell is presented in a line by line analysis. There are...

Life and Works of Author James Dickey

In seven pages this paper discusses Dickey's life, poetic writing style, and his most famous novel Deliverance. Nine sources are ...

Poetry Presentations

In five pages this paper informs as to how to have fun with poetic presentations of Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress,' John D...

Wordsworth, Frost, and Nature

Picking is merely a poem about a man picking apples and sleeping. Many have compared it to something deeper, seeing the sleep as r...