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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...

Poetic Explication of 'Dover Beach' by Matthew Arnold

condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...

Spiritual Fulfillment and Poetic Function

is, of course, contrary to the view of the Christian belief system. In the Christian system of belief, it is the other way around....

'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 ...

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, ...

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...

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...

Comparing the Poetic Works of Lord Byron and William Blake

make him a man, he must forego running in the fields and playing in the meadows. "How can the bird that is born for joy/Sit in a c...

Analysis of Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by William Blake

wealthy children, for the focus is on the fact that their faces are clean and their clothes are relatively powerful earth tones. T...

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...

Maya Angelou's Poetic Voice

In five pages this paper examines the poetic voice featured in the works of Maya Angelou. Seven sources are cited in the bibliogr...

Comparing the Poetic Styles of William Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelley

A paper consisting of five pages compares and contrasts the Romantic poetic styles of Wordsworth's 'A Complaint' and Shelley's 'A ...

'Hero and Leander' by Christopher Marlowe

In five pages the influence Marlowe received from writers of ancient Greece and Rome are considered as reflected in this poetic ep...

The Antiwar Poetry of W.H. Auden

In a paper consisting of four pages the ways in which Auden relied upon early forms of poetic diction to express his modern antiwa...

Explication of Robert Hayden's 'Those Winter Sundays'

The use of alliteration is perhaps most apparent in the initial stanza where the term "blueblack" and "blaze" are used. The rhythm...

Poetic Persona of Walt Whitman Expressed in 'Song of Myself'

This paper discusses how his American vision is expressed by Walt Whitman in 'Song of Myself' in five pages. There are no other s...

Dante's 'Inferno' Explanationa and Detailed Structural Analysis

In five pages a poetic explication of Dante's poem is presented in terms of explanation of betrayal as a more punishable sin than ...

Poetic Comparison of Deborah Garrison and John Keats

In five pages 'She Was Waiting to be Told' by Deborah Garrison and 'La Belle Da Mesans Merci' by John Keats are contrasted and com...

Poetry of Langston Hughes

has been to continuously "climb" up the socioeconomic ladder in a culture that is set against her. She advises her son, not to gi...

The Poetic Symbolism of 'a Rose By Any Other Name' in Edward Taylor's 'Huswifery'

In 5 pages a discussion of the author's intentions and how they are expressed through symbolism is presented. There is one source...

John Keats, William Blake, and William Wordsworth and Poetic Imagination

In 5 pages these poets and some of their poems are examined in terms of how the creativeness of the imagination is celebrated. Th...

Religion and Romance in John Donne's Poetry

In six pages this report discusses how religion manifests itself in John Donne's love poetry with the soul's passions and spiritua...

'Bushed' by Earle Birney

reiterates the point made in the first line, the destruction of his rainbow, was a significant event. Whatever this setback was, t...

Ancient Rome and the Works of Vergil

by Homer, Vergil, by establishing Aeneas as a Trojan also justifies Romes invasion and conquest of Greece as retribution for the f...

'My Heart Leaps Up' by William Wordsworth

intellect that he exhibits now are a logical fulfillment of his childhood promise. He has grown up to be the man his childhood im...

Retelling Beowulf in 13th Warrior

In the epic, the threat is supernatural; in the film, the menace is recast as a vicious, cannibalistic tribe who dress in animal s...

Hamlet According to Aristotle

In three pages this essay provides an analysis of Hamlet based upon the principles contained within Aristotle's Poetics and discus...

Poetic Analysis of 'The Battle of Frogs and Mice'

for either side. However, even though the plot is simple, the way the poem is written is deliberately heroic, and is very much ...

'The Ecstasy' by John Donne

of the coming together of souls in the joint union that will create one soul. One of the things that makes the poem interesting ...