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Romantic Poetry

A 4 page essay that discusses examples of Romantic verse. In the early nineteenth century, artists rebelled against restrictions o...

John Keats, Emily Dickinson, Joyce Kilmer, and the Poetic Uses of Imagery

Ourselves - / And Immortality" (Dickinson 1-4). In this one can truly envision the picture she is creating with imagery. She offer...

'Out Far Nor in Deep' by Robert Frost

at the water. Frosts poem builds an elaborate, extended metaphor based on his social phenomena. The people along the sand All tur...

Aristotle, Plato, and the Influence of Socrates

as the Socratic dialogue that in many ways can be compared to todays constructivist approach to education in which he "drew forth ...

'Black Magic' by Dudley Randall

regards to both cherries and grapes. Her lips as "curved" like cherries and "full" like grape bunches, but they are "sweet" like ...

The Art of the 19th Century Poetic Manifesto

confused his contemporary readers, which often obscured from them his intent (Abrams 59). Therefore, neither Coleridge nor Blake ...

Comparison of the Poems by Christina Rossetti and John Milton

which is extremely faulty, shows that she is easily corrupted. Her first instinct on eating of the forbidden fruit is to entice ...

Rhythm Mechanics and Iambic Meter

corresponding syllables accurately. "Aunt JENnifeRAs TiGers PRANCe across THE screen,/Bright TOpaz DENizens OF a WORLD of GREEN" (...

Analysis of the Poem 'The Horse and His Rider' by Joanna Baillie

In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...

'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...

Hamlet - A Poetic Analysis

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at poetics in Hamlet. Key lines are analyzed in detail. Paper uses one source....

Maxence Fermine's Snow

This essay pertain to a Japanese novel that charts the evolution of a young poet in achieving perfection within this craft. The wr...

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...

Beowulf - The Translations of Heaney and Raffel

swords" (Heaney 2; Raffel 2). 2.) Comment on the differences in Heanys and Raffels translations and the authors of literary/rhet...

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 ...

E.M. Forster and Martha Nussbaum

In six pages this report examines class consciousness and inequalities as represented in E.M. Forster's Edwardian novel Howards En...

Victimization in 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and 'Prometheus' by Lord Byron

In five pages victimization as it is featured in each one of these poetic works is contrasted and compared. Two sources are cited...

Poetic Contrast of Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock' and John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'

In five pages this paper discusses the poets and the poems in this contrasting poetic analysis. Three sources are cited in the bi...

Humanity's Fall in Paradise Lost by John Milton

In five pages this paper evaluates whether or not there was a Fall in the biblical interpretation presented by John Milton in his ...

History and the Epic Poems of Homer

In five pages this essay examines what is revealed about ancient Greek history in Homer's poetic epics 'The Iliad' and 'The Odysse...

Armor of Achilles in 'The Iliad' by Homer

In five pages Homer's poetic epic is examined in a consideration of the significance of the armor worn by Achilles and the effects...

Comparative Analysis of the 'Poem of the Cid' Epic and Anthony Mann's 1961 Film El Cid

In three pages this paper discusses an epic in terms of characteristics and how thee are expressed in literature and on film in a ...

Poetry, Recreation, Cinema, and Ethnicity

In five pages social and cultural ethnic representations in a Johnson short story, Divakaruni and Clifton poetic themes are discus...

Mississippi Burning Film and Deviance

In five pages Alan Parker's film is considered within the context of the three types of deviance it portrays such as the townspeop...

'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe

of similar words and create definitive alliteration that supports the flow of the work. Alliteration of the words "love" and "li...

'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe

In seven pages this poetic explication reveals how Poe was able to achieve his morbid atmosphere through the literary elements of ...