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Beowulf

While there is a sense of pride, it is not an arrogant pride or a pride that is only involved in self for Beowulf is proud of bein...

Explication: "Scenes from the Playroom"

latest goldfish gamely swims" (Gwynn). The ink will poison the fish, but the worst part of it is that this is only the "latest" in...

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Comparison/Contrast

the condition of oppression and restrictive realities. This is the symbolic premise of the poem. From this perspective the African...

Karr’s A Blessing from My Sixteen Years’ Son

ring, and how he is seemingly unscathed with no broken bones or scars (Karr 20-21). She notes how "Someday soon, the tether/ will ...

2 Original Poems

my brain. Never show fear (Free verse) Animals and small children know when youre afraid. They growl and bite, or cry and fight ...

Sherman Alexie’s On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City

time" (Alexie 34-36). This is a summation of the conflict of the modern Native, from the eyes of the narrator, today. It speaks of...

Out, Out by Robert Frost

the wood is in the air and one can see the beauty of the mountains if they only looked up. It is a beautiful image and one that cl...

Shakespeare/Sonnet 73

spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next fou...

Symbolism in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"

/ Arrayed of the Round Table rightful brothers ... / the feast was in force full fifteen days" (37-39, 44). They are celebrating t...

The Function of Religion in Dante's "Inferno"

which he lived when he says that the poem is not the result of Dantes inner contemplation, "it is rooted in the immediate Christia...

Personal Statement - What Children Mean To Me

day, children come to our classrooms. Some are more ready to learn than others, some are more excited about learning than others b...

Canterbury Tales Contemporary Poems

In 4 pages this paper examines how two Canterbury Tales' pilgrims are presented in 2 contemporary poems. There are no sources in ...

A Debate about the Nature of Man, Argued by Hamlet, Beowulf and Sir Gawain

The writer presents an imaginary debate among Hamlet, Sir Gawain and Beowulf on the nature of man, why he has been placed on earth...

'My Papa's Waltz' by Theodore Roethke and Child Abuse

and bravery and excitement. They beg for it many times as they beg to be spun like an airplane or hung upside down. They trust the...

'Macavity The Mystery Cat' by T.S. Eliot

is an easy scapegoat whether he is even near the situation that occurs. In Eliots poem, the reader is able to visualize the ligh...

'Snake' by D.H. Lawrence

In nine pages the metaphor and symbolism in the poem 'Snake' are discussed as well as the author's life and the perceptions of him...

'Alastor' by Percy Bysshe Shelley

In 5 pages this paper takes a feminist view of this poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley. There are no other sources listed....

Theme of Death in Lord Alfred Tennyson's 'Song and John Donne's 'Holy Sonnet No. 10'

In 5 pages the thematic differences in which these two poems depict death are contrasted and compared with Donne's faith in sharp ...

Black Man's Experience in Langston Hughes' Poetry

In five pages this paper discusses how the black man's experience manifests itself in Langston Hughes' poems. Four sources are ci...

Audre Lorde's Life, Poetry, and Activism

In seven and a half pages this poet's life, poetry, and activism are examined in an analysis that focuses primarily upon 'Power,' ...

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman and Trancendentalism

The transcendentalism of Walt Whitman is discussed in a paper consisting of seven pages which focuses upon analysis of the poem 'S...

'Childhood' by Maura Stanton

ceiling of my house where I could walk around in empty rooms all by myself"(Stanton). Everything in this place would be quie...

Analysis of Robert Frost's 'The Telephone'

against an actual flower. However, if one will recall, during this time in history in which Frost wrote, the phone had just been i...

Literature and Domestic Abuse

boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy(Roethke). This is...

Jane Kenyon's 'Depression in Winter'

seems to add to the depression, the unhappiness that the narrator is speaking of because there is a sense of futility in trying to...

Death of Abraham Lincoln and the Grief of Poet Walt Whitman

12, Whitman was indoctrinated in the printers trade (AAP). It was at this time that he fell in love with words, and began to read ...

'Epithalamion' by Spenser and the Concepts of Sacrifice and Ritual

some reference to violence, in the course of the consummation of the marriage. There are, she notes, elaborate rhyming stanzas, th...

Lovers Voices in 'Porphyria's Lover' and 'To His Coy Mistress'

he presents. Essentially, he wants his mistress to accept his advances not because she has been mentally or physically bludgeoned ...

'Sometimes in Winter' by Linda Pastan and Imagery

632). Thus, it is evident that the use of images is advancing the theme of coping with death. Fragile faces indicates those ...

Native Americans as Perceived by Walt Whitman

now" (Whitman, 2005). Clearly, this illustrates his belief that heaven and hell are right here on earth, which was a very controv...