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'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 ...

Poet and Poetry of Jimmy Santiago Baca

this book. Baca runs the gamut of emotions in this text that is true, but what the reader finds within Healing Earthquakes is onl...

Love Poetry and Poets Purdy, Johnson, Browning, Hardy, Lewis, and Marlowe

In seven pages this paper examines what constitutes 'love poetry' in a consideration of the poetic works of Purdy, Johnson, Browni...

E.M. Forster's Novel A Passage to India and Walt Whitman's Poem 'Passage to India' Analyzed

or sex. Thanks to technology, Whitman waxed poetic about an inspirational East-West cultural and intellectual exchange, with both...

Comparing Wordsworth's 'Ode Intimations of Mortality' to Keats' 'Ode to a Grecian Urn'

Early on in the history of odes the expected delivery was through song. Chorus would sing different categoric divisions of the re...

'Sonnet 75' from Amoretti by Edmund Spencer

original, so much so, that he invented his own rhyming scheme, hence this sonnet is typical of the "Spencerian" form. It is one of...

Poetic Depiction of Women

as if women were alien creatures, and not like men at all. In addition to looking at this the Lady of Shallot in particular, a st...

Beowulf's Epic Poetry

In five pages this paper examines such events as the Dane's nation rise, attack of Heorot, hero's arrival in Heorot, Heorot feast,...

Analysis of the Poem 'Old Photograph of the Future' by Robert Penn Warren

future in that image of a baby suggests the continuance of generations into the future. These themes are particularly suggested by...

'In Praise of Virginity' and 'Mahadeviyakka'

A comparative poetic analysis of these two works of prose is considered in 5 pages. There is 1 additional source included in the ...

Placing a Historical Value on 'The Iliad' by Homer

be regarded as a historical document. There is very little certain about the poem itself or its author, who was supposedly a blin...

'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages 'The Raven' is subjected to a poetic explication and a thesis that Poe's life is reflected in this haunting poem. T...

Language and Ideas in 'The Solitary Reaper' by William Wordsworth

Iin five pages this poetic analysis of 'The Solitary Reaper' by William Wordsworth focuses upon the sights and language that sugge...

'The Solitary Reaper' by William Wordsworth Explicated

elements used by the author. The work begins as follows: BEHOLD her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reapi...

Poetic Analysis of William Butler Yeats' 'Come Gather Round Me, Parnellites'

Indeed, it is these characteristics which may account for Yeats continuing appeal to readers who dont normally pay much attention ...

2 Poems By Emily Dickinson

she is dead. This interpretation is substantiated in the next stanza when she describes hearing the mourners lift a box, which c...

'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...

'Let America Be America Again' by Langston Hughes

In five pages this paper presents a poetic explication of the work by Langston Hughes in a discussion of what exactly 'land of the...

'The Holdfast' Poem by George Herbert

"obey God; nor trust in him; nor confess that nothing is our own" (White 218). There is nothing, literally nothing, that the narra...

Friendship Poetry of Katherine Philips

Friendship, within which the members each assumed classical pseudonyms. Katherine was known as Orinda," and in her "her poetry, sh...

Poetic Theme of Carpe Diem

see their beauty, and youth, start to fade. This idea is reiterated and emphasized in the second verse, which speaks of the suns q...

Tragedy as Defined by Aristotle

upon the very nature of man to enjoy learning something about others and in return about him or herself. In this way, he argues, w...

Poetic Deconstruction of 'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost

("Deconstruction"). For this reason, deconstructionists focus on very close and careful readings of particular texts, and can also...

'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...

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...

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...

Harlem Renaissance and Poet Langston Hughes

In seven pages the life of Langston Hughes and his poetic contributions to the Harlem Renaissance are examined. Five sources are ...

'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 ...

Religious Inspiration of Poet Marcus Garvey

In ten pages this paper examines the inspiration religion provided poet Marcus Garvey in a biography and poetic analysis of some o...