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Analysis of Two Poems by Sharon Olds

her sister as "buddies in wartime" and the stairwell is described as a "shell hole." Like soldiers, Olds states that she and her ...

Form and Structure of Emily Dickinson's Poetry

the last line which states the following: "Ah, what sagacity perished here!" (Dickinson 1-3, 11). This is a poem that is obviou...

War's Realities and Poetry

be born of patriotism and love for their country, as there are few things that would inspire the soldiers to put up with such bad ...

'First Follow Nature and 'An Essay on Criticism' by Alexander Pope

writes in lines 11 through 14: "In Poets as true Genius is but rare, / True Taste as seldom is the Critics share; / Both must alik...

'In Memoriam' by Alfred Lord Tennyson

That tumbled in the Godless deep;"(Tennyson 2630). In order to come to his final conclusion he begins to imagine...

Wallace Stevens' Poem 'The Idea of Order at Key West'

song of the ocean and the song of the woman. A comparison is offered of the songs, that both make a...

Analysis of 'Ode to a Nightingale' by John Keats

intoxicated on the sound of the bird, the "light-winged Dryad of the trees" (line 7). Nevertheless, it is clear that his mental s...

Role of Women and Male and Female Relationships in Poetry of Yeats, Hardy, Arnold, and Tennyson

and many of the traditional roles played by men and women in society and is famous for one of his quotes "Men at most differ as He...

'Jerusalem Delivered' by Torquato Tasso

the aid of Fortune herself as a guide, travel to the Fortunate Islands. There, they scale a mountain, fighting a dragon and a lion...

Tragedy as Defined by Aristotle

upon the very nature of man to enjoy learning something about others and in return about him or herself. In this way, he argues, w...

'Let America Be America Again' by Langston Hughes

In five pages this paper presents a poetic explication of the work by Langston Hughes in a discussion of what exactly 'land of the...

'The Holdfast' Poem by George Herbert

"obey God; nor trust in him; nor confess that nothing is our own" (White 218). There is nothing, literally nothing, that the narra...

Friendship Poetry of Katherine Philips

Friendship, within which the members each assumed classical pseudonyms. Katherine was known as Orinda," and in her "her poetry, sh...

Language and Ideas in 'The Solitary Reaper' by William Wordsworth

Iin five pages this poetic analysis of 'The Solitary Reaper' by William Wordsworth focuses upon the sights and language that sugge...

'The Solitary Reaper' by William Wordsworth Explicated

elements used by the author. The work begins as follows: BEHOLD her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reapi...

'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages 'The Raven' is subjected to a poetic explication and a thesis that Poe's life is reflected in this haunting poem. T...

Abstract and Concrete Language in Poetry

own anguish, illustrating the poets "mastery of weaving spontaneously narrative, meditative, and descriptive elements into a seemi...

Contemporary Chinese Poetry's Thematic and Linguistic Structure

Chinese poetry is replete with metaphor, simile, comparison, and personification as well with other linguistic contrivances which ...

'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...

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...

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...

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...

2 Poems By Emily Dickinson

she is dead. This interpretation is substantiated in the next stanza when she describes hearing the mourners lift a box, which c...

Personal Problems in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath

poetry as the stresses. It is because of this particular styling that syllabic poems most often contain no rhyme or uniform numbe...

Omeros by Derek Walcott and Character Identity

ignorant about its history. He is also a simple fisherman. The conflict in the story predominately revolves around Achille and Hec...

'Tradition and the Individual Talent' by T.S. Eliot

not a personality, in which impressions and experiences combine in peculiar and unexpected ways. Impressions and experiences which...

Literature and Laughter

away in the most inaccessible part of the abbeys labyrinthine library, where it remained for decades" (Essay on The Name of the Ro...

Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

while it is possible to sum up each of these poems with a single sentence, to cover even half the book would entail over a hundred...