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Metaphysical Conceit in the Poetry of John Donne and George Herbert

In eleven pages the concept of 'metaphysical conceit' and how it is stressed in the poems of Herbert and Donne are discussed in th...

Elizabeth Bishop's Poetry and Exploration of Human Issues

In six pages this paper considers how human issues are featured in Elizabeth Bishop's poems 'Casablanca,' 'Exchanging Hats,' 'One ...

Early Literature and Poetry of China and Japan and Women

gap through which women continued to receive and even some praise from men in regards to their abilities as writers (Reichhold). ...

Feminist Perspectives in the Poetry of Plath and Rich

This paper examines the feminist perspective seen in the poems of Adrienne Rich and Sylvia Plath. This eleven page paper has twel...

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...

Poetry and Different Romantic Modes of Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and Lord Byron

In eight pages this research paper discusses the romantic modes featured by Shelley's 'Platonic love,' Keats' 'doctrine of art,' a...

Robert Louis Stevenson and Shel Silverstein: Child Poetry

Good Play" the poem is far more simplistic in relationship to how children think and play as the poems narrator states, "We built ...

Man's Nature in the Romantic Poetry of William Wordsworth and John Keats

quite different in their presentation and their material or focus of material. But, at the same time the words of darkness apparen...

Los and Grief Expressed in Poetry

soon scaped worlds and fleshs rage" (Jonson 6-7). In this the reader sees a rationalization that almost seems to be envy as the na...

Advancing Age in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats

the "music" of nature and is part of a continuous cycle. This poem concludes "How can we know the dancer from the dance" (line 64)...

Poetry of Natives

done about those who suffered, those simple cultural people who were victims of the civilized world (Castillo 40-45). This...

Symbolism in Faulkner and Mansfield and an Analysis of Poetry

(Faulkner). In the story of Miss Brill one does not see her as a tradition of the people, a sort of monument to an Old South bec...

Nature in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson

"After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes," "This is My Letter to the World," "I Had Been Hungry," and "They Shut Me Up in Prose,"...

4 Poetry Classics and Their Meanings

really saw his last wife as a person in her own right, but rather regarded her just one more beautiful "object" that he owned and ...

Poetry and Time

can one accept that time runs out and that everyone will die someday? After all, time is of the essence. How does one love, be hap...

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,...

Themes of Death in Emily Dickinson's Poetry

to immortality" (73). The Civil War was being fought during Dickinsons most fertile period of creativity, and the deaths of many ...

Comparative Analysis of the Poetry of Sharon Olds and Short Fiction of Raymond Carver

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the Sharon Olds' poem 'Sex Without Love' with Raymond Carver's short story 'What W...

Love Poetry and Dependency Themes

places her love at the basest level of daily life. She needs her love as she needs water to drink or air to breath. The love in fa...

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...

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...

Elizabethan Poetry and Arcadia Imagery in Works by Robert Green and Sir Philip Sidney

In five pages this paper analyzes the poems 'Menaphon' and 'The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia' in a consideration of how Green an...

20th Century Glimpses in the 19th Century Poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

In five pages these poets' visions of the next century are examined in a consideration of their respective works. Five sources ar...

African American Experience in the Poetry of Langston Hughes

this poem is that of the universal anguish of being bound and imprisoned, no matter what the age. And, in a very real sense he is ...

Contemporary Thought Reflected in William Butler Yeats' Poetry

The allusion to Oscar Wildes epigram--What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities--...

Matthew Arnold's Poetry

and symbolism. As Arnold embraces God along with the seas that the maker has created, he questions things. The church is often the...

Robert Browning's Poetry and Religion

try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...

Elitist Poetry of Langston Hughes

but his folk heritage as well. "Hughes made the spirituals, blues, and jazz the bases of his poetic expression. Hughes wrote, he c...

Irish Folklore in the Poetry of William Butler Yeats

strife. The folklore of the country became an important vehicle for recording that turmoil and strife and Yeats was a critical pl...

Analysis of Carl Sandburg's Poetry

hobo before he was twenty, and even served a rotation in the Spanish-American War(Academy of Poets). This experience was...