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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...

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 ...

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...

Epic Oral Poetry Tradition

In seven pages this paper examines the epic 'Beowulf' in a consideration of the poetic oral tradition. Seven sources are cited in...

Poetic Form of William Wordsworth

In five pages this essay examines William Wordsworth's poetic substance and form as represented by the poem 'The World is Too Much...

'Ode on a Grecian Urn' and a Dissection of John Keats's Prose

In eleven pages this essay explicates Keats' nineteenth century poem in a consideration of life experiences, language, and poetic ...

Classic Poetic Elements of Edgar Allan Poe's Poems

In six pages this paper analyzes the classic elements of the poems 'Letter to F...,' 'Lenore,' and 'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe....

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...

Connection Between Othello by William Shakespeare and Poetics by Aristotle

of patriarchy and the political state (Shakespeare, 1994 and See Also Lambs Tales from Shakespeare - Othello, 2001). This essay ...

Walt Whitman and the Influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson

In six pages the influence of Emerson upon Whitman's poetry is examined with the primary focus being 'Song of Myself' and poetic l...

Pablo Nerusa's 'Walking Around'

This 5 page poetic analysis considers the theme, tone, and use of imagery. There are no additional bibliographic sources used....

Poetic Analysis of 'If We Must Die' by Claude McKay

exploded out of me" (McKay on "If We Must Die"). Somewhat surprisingly, McKay elected to structure his impassioned contemporary p...

'The Odyssey' by Homer and Characters Penelope and Athena

more fidelity than did her missing husband. However, while Penelope is keeping Odysseus home fires burning, it is Athena to whom ...

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...

Sarah's "Bounty" and Circular Poetic Structure

This 3 page paper explores how circular poetic form can create a sense of grief in Robyn Sarah's "Bounty" through a change of mete...

Shakespeare's Tempest/Act III Scene 1

Milan (Sutton 224). To further exemplify these features, consider a close examination of one scene. As Act III, scene 2, opens, ...

'Patterns' of Life and in the Poem by Amy Lowell

and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden-paths In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jewelled...

Georg Lukacs on Novalis' Conceptualization of Poetry

on the world (Vazsonyi 14). Browsing through Lukacss writing, it is clear that Novalis highly influenced his worldview and manner ...

Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl"

what to plant and where, and so forth, comprehensively covering the major areas of a womans life. Thrown into this long rambling...

Social Commentary in King Lear - Men and Beasts

"King Lear". In the passage, Lear is reacting to the latest treacherous ploy by his daughters Goneril and Regan, who have suggeste...

Comparing the Book and Film, Shaara's The Killer Angels

to achieve dramatic effect. In Shaaras book, Armistead simply comments to Longstreet that he would like to see his old friend one ...

"Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost: A Poetic Analysis

Contrasting the images of fire and ice are repeated to emphasize the duality of human nature. They also reveal how love and hate ...

Comparing poems by Atwood and Smith

also differences in style. Smith, for example, uses less alliteration than Atwood, and his short, clipped lines emphasize and isol...

Frost and Lennon/McCartney - A Poetic Comparison

in insular imaginary games the whole way. The narrator suggests that the two of them stop rebuilding the wall and question for onc...

Comparative Poetic Explication of Death in Emily Dickinson’s “The Bustle in a House (#1078)” and Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”

in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,- The sweeping up the heart, And...

Article Analysis: The Poetics of Anne Finch by Jennifer Keith

friendship is not defined per se but exemplified by a series of mimetic actions in which one person takes anothers place or lends ...

Poetic Analysis of Jimmy Carter’s “I Wanted to Share My Father’s World”

is a pain I mostly hide, but ties of blood, or seed, endure, and even now I feel inside the hunger for his outstretched hand, a ma...

Comparative Analysis of Poems by Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Langston Hughes

likens the process of death to an innocuous fly buzzing. In other words, instead of being a mysterious occurrence, it is a proces...