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Isaac Rosenberg's and Wilfred Owen's First World War Poetry

poem continues and discusses how life was once perhaps simple for these soldiers, but all innocence is past: "Their flowers the te...

Literary and Poetic Examples of True Love

even to the edge of doom" (Shakespeare 9-12). In the end he claims that if he is wrong then he never wrote and no man ever loved. ...

Emily Dickinson's Poetic 'Truth'

and spiritual war is evident in the quote, "Faith is a fine invention for gentlemen who see; But microscopes are prudent in an eme...

Lewis Carroll's Poetry and Novel Styles of Writing

nonsense poem is to not try to understand it at all. In other words, reading the poem outloud, rather than reading it to oneself, ...

Beloved Dismemberment in Poetry

particular woman but does not possess her. Another may clearly see that the woman he describes is his. Regardless, however, of whe...

Love Poetically Approached by John Donne

for a spiritual thinker, body and soul. In "The Good Morrow," Donne immediately established what critic Susannah B. Mintz refers ...

Analysis of Robert Frost's Poem 'Desert Places'

this as the focus changes from nature and subtly brings in the narrator: "I am too absent-spirited to count;/ The loneliness inclu...

Comparative Analysis of the Poetry of Robert Frost and Walt Whitman

and regular stress would at first strike his reader with incredulous amazement. But he was hardly prepared for the storm of abuse ...

Poetry Structure and the Influences of Culture

futility and anarchy (of) contemporary history": this is not to say that such a structure need be formal and stylised, only that i...

Analysis of Modernism in Lines 340 to 434 of 'The Waste Land' by T.S. Eliot

bottle we buy. All we have to do is look at the contents of most plastic bottles such as for shampoo, lotion, juices, and milk, an...

African American Poet Langston Hughes

he foretold in this little piece written long before his name became a beloved household word"....

19th Century Poet Jones Very

to play his part in society as a whole. However, he also maintained that the only way in which human beings could discover the tru...

John Donne and God

to its logical conclusion, reasoning, that there was nothing in the power of humanity capable of effecting personal salvation. The...

European Thinking, Change, and Poetry

a vase and ask of what the pictures speak: "Thou still unravishd bride of quietness, / Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,...

Confessional Poets and the 'Father Complex'

work, moreover, carries with it an element of purging oneself of the terrible things that must prowl in their memories and refuse ...

Death Poetry of Ted Hughes

examined in several of his later animal poems the themes of survival and the mystery and destructiveness of the cosmos" (Anonymous...

Poetry and Metaphor

is T.S. Eliots The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Through the adroit use of metaphor Eliot invites the reader to undertake a jo...

Italian Poet Giuseppe Ungaretti

(Scire et. al., 2002). Ungarettis accomplishments would be numerous. He would start writing after joining the Italian ar...

Values, Virtues, and the Poetry of Robert Frost

was someone who, as Derek Walcott classified him, was ". . . the icon of Yankee values, the smell of wood smoke, the sparkle of de...

Ralph Waldo Emerson's and Walt Whitman's Transcendentalism

disjointed discourse on a series of ideas and impressions that flow freely through a characters or narrators mind. The very person...

Alexander Pope's 'Epistle to Burlington'

the expense of building the latest craze in architecture -- "...to punish awkward pride,/ Bids Bubo build, and send him such a gu...

Poetry and the Voice of Women

politics of the New Democratic Party of Canada after the Second World War, and she maintained a feminist perspective throughout he...

Love in the Poetry of Katherine Philips and John Donne

context changes and it seems more logical given the tone of the rest of the poem. Thus, the word as is reflective of the way that ...

Diana Der Hovanessian's Poetry

Dancers illustrates throughout the various poems, the Armenian experience of community. This community is not made up of relatives...

Poetry of the Romantic Age and Men's Role

previous era and so many would experiment with free verse and would place special emphasis on the exploration of human feelings an...

Shoah Train Holocaust Poetry of William Heyen

honest. He not only explores the evil of the Holocaust from the victims perspective, but also from the viewpoint of the ordinary G...

Sylvia Plath's Life and Art

as perhaps a Jew. This presents us with imagery, symbolic references, to the confused state of Plath in terms of her own identity....

Holocaust Poetry of William Heyen

has written that he remembers his father scraping off or painting over the offending symbols (Parmet 79). Considering this backg...

Spirituality in the Poetry of John Keats

as we do not think--We remain there a long while, and notwithstanding the doors of the second Chamber remain wide open, showing a ...

Influences Upon the Poetry of William Butler Yeats

sense of landscape and, in particular, his sense of certain locales as cherished landmarks ("even sacred places") is inevitably li...