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Poetic Analysis of Jane Kenyon's 'Happiness'

appreciate what it means to feel happy? The two most vivid images in this poem are religious in nature and are quite significant ...

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...

The Miller’s Tale

some life lesson, Nicholas is trying to get Alison in bed with him, and thus also needs a lesson. There is Alison who is willing t...

Comparative Analysis of Oedipus and Willy Loman as They Relate to Aristotle’s Definition of a Tragic Hero

plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...

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 ...

Edgar Reitz’s Homeland: A Chronicle of Germany

home, but in a mythical way that remains difficult to obtain and hold on to. The first episodes of the series begin the process of...

'Dinner Guest Me' by Langston Hughes

reflect an attitude of equality instead of segregation between blacks and whites; however, inasmuch as much as humanity has succes...

Aristotle's Definition of a 'Tragic Hero' and the Deviation of William Shakespeare in His Play Othello

not apply. First, the tragic hero is supposed to be a combination of good and bad traits. Othello is a Moorish commander who has...

Blake and Wordsworth

narrative voice relates how his mother died when he was quite young and his father sold him before he could cry "weep." In the Nor...

Poetic Spiders

seems to be making a statement about independence of spirit, but an involvement with mankind. "I markd where on a little promontor...

Charlotte Smith's 'Written at the Close of Spring'

May new buds and flowers shall bring; (I)/ Ah! why has happiness--no second Spring? (I)" (Smith 1-14). As we can note, at least...

Allen Ginsberg's Life and Poetic Art

that its bizarre poetic form could also be attributed to Ginsbergs love of jazz music. The coffeehouses which reached their popul...

Life and Poetic Art of Walt Whitman

to Whitmans own estimates, he aided over 100,000 soldiers during this period, many of whom became his devoted friends (Valiumas 70...

William Wordsworth, William Blake, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

important, yet we are not really told who it is. We are puzzled at one point for the narrator uses the word I in such a way that i...

Old Age Poetic Portrayals in the Works of Jenny Joseph and Ursula Fanthorpe

Lord once of shed, garage and garden, Each with its proper compliment of tackle"...

Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare Analyzed

/ And every fair from fair sometimes declines, / By chance, or natures changing course untrimmd; / But thy eternal summer shall no...

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...

Analysis of 'Dulce et Decorum Est' by Wilfred Owen

behind. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!--An ecstasy of fumbling Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, But someone still was yelling out...

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...

Petrarchan Love Poetry of Lady Mary Wroth and John Donne

The first lines of "The Canonization" read: "For Gods sake hold your tongue and leg me love/ Or chide my palsy, or my gout,/ My fi...

'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...

Examining Shakespeare's Comedic Dream

In this we are set up with a very quiet and harmless love that is only waiting for consummation. It is a pleasant little scene tha...

Emily Dickinson's Poetic 'Truth'

and spiritual war is evident in the quote, "Faith is a fine invention for gentlemen who see; But microscopes are prudent in an eme...

Historically Accurate Staging of William Shakespeare's Comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream

Athens and the Amazon Queen Hippolyta. Although the setting is Athens, Shakespeare originally staged the production at the Globe ...

Nature Perspectives

employs descriptive words to create in the reader an appreciation for the reality of nature. This is not to imply that these poets...

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...

'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...