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Language in Pharaoh's Daughter by Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill

obvious characteristically reminiscent of the common themes of life, love and landscape, as well as the not-so-happy aspects of hu...

Child Labor and William Blake's Poetry

As Tom was a sleeping he had such a sight!/ That thousands of sweepers Dick, Joe, Ned, & Jack,/ Were all of them lockd up in coffi...

Robert Frost: Life and Poetry

$15 on the sale (Untermeyer). "His mother was proud, but the rest of the family were alarmed" (Untermeyer 4). Their alarm was well...

Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson in a Historical Context

held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...

Maya Angelou: Her Life, Works and Mr. Shakespeare

and Bloom). He escaped but was arrested and tried, and sentenced to a year and a day (Dyson and Bloom). His attorney got him relea...

Maya Angelou: Her Works and Her Life

Bloom). He escaped but was arrested and tried, and sentenced to a year and a day (Dyson and Bloom). His attorney got him released ...

Essay on Man by Alexander Pope

(I i 1-4). In this there are clear, and strong, elements of philosophy as the narrator is clearly inferring the existence of God a...

Frost and Keats

went outside to sit under a tree where there was a nightingale, only to write a poem about it (Ode to a Nightingale). In the poem ...

George Herbert's Poetry and Religious Message

across and give his readers food for thought. In a reading provided by a student, Helen Vaudler suggests that Herberts poetry is i...

Emily Dickinson's Poetry Reflects a Lonely Life

this household, Emilys early life was a contradiction in itself, for she received no guidance from a mother that did not "care for...

More to Poet Ted Hughes Than Being the Husband of Sylvia Plath

In ten pages this paper discusses the poetry of Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate of England until his 1998 death at age sixty eight. Six...

Romantic Poetry of John Donne

In six pages the romanticism featured in the evocative love poetry of John Donne is examined. Nine sources are cited in the biblio...

Religion and Romance in John Donne's Poetry

In six pages this report discusses how religion manifests itself in John Donne's love poetry with the soul's passions and spiritua...

Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Its Religious Aspects

In ten pages this paper examines how the poet's proclaimed ambivalence about religion is undercut by the religious references in h...

'Song of Roland' and Medieval Epic Poetry

long before it was ever written down. To use Si!r Philip Sidney phrase pertaining to the oral traditions of epic poetry, it was ...

Meaning, Free Verse, and Poetry

In five pages this paper discusses expressionist poetry and the importance of tone or meaning of the author in Philip Booth's 'Nar...

Romanticism of Poet Walt Whitman

free through no other means than verse. "Out from behind this bending, rough-cut mask, These lights and shades, this drama of the...

Nobel Laureate Juan Ramon Jimenez

In seven pages this Spanish Nobel Laureate is discussed in terms of his life and poetry. Five sources are cited in the bibliograp...

Life and Poetry of Maya Angelou

In five pages this paper examines the life and poetry of Maya Angelou including the classic I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Seve...

Comparative Analysis of the Romantics and Sigmund Freud

In seven pages this paper compares the Romantic perspectives articulated in the poetry of William Blake, Walt Whitman, and William...

Emily Dickinson's Life and Influences oh Her Poetry

This paper looks at ways in which Dickinson defined life through her poetry. The author identifies common themes in her work and ...

Works of Diane Wakoski and Alicia Ostriker's Remythologizing of Women

In 5 pages this paper discusses the ways in which these feminist authors show how women can reinvent their identities in a positiv...

Nature and the Poetry of Robert Frost

can pay a poet about his or her work is to say that the poetry was "felt, not just read." Certainly, such is the case with Frosts...

William Wordsworth and Romantic Poetry

In five pages this paper discusses William Wordsworth's poetry in a consideration of his structuring and the criticisms this gener...

Seventeenth Century Cavalier and Metaphysical Poetry

In twelve pages this paper contrasts and compares the cavalier and metaphysical approaches to seventeenth century poetry in a cons...

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,' ...

This Connection of Everyone with Lungs

cities and the space of the regions in and out" (Spahr 6). The following paper examines how Spahr questions the reader, urging the...

Lorna Goodison's Selected Poems

In five pages the spiritual aspects of Lorna Goodison's poetry are the focus of this analysis of the symbolism, language, and styl...

Seamus Heaney's Poetry and Ghosts of the Earth

four and five provide additional support for this hypothesis; the boys father, who usually "takes funerals in stride" is "crying"....

Wartime and Anti-Civilization

In five pages the ways in which Primo Levi reveals how anti civilization commences during times of war in his texts Collected Poe...