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Societal Criticism, Browning and Swift

This essay pertains to Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," published in 1729, and Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess, Ferra...

"Helas" and the Victorian Hypocrisy

by comparing his own life to a "twice-written scroll", bearing marks from both a pursuit of intellectual virtues, and a pursuit of...

Tintern Abbey - Notes

In a paper of one page, the writer looks at Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey. A brief explanation is given of several themes invoked in ...

"Home Burial" by Robert Frost

This essay presents a comprehensive overview of the poem that analyzes its content and draws on scholarly opinion as substantiatio...

The White Man's Burden - An Examination

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Kipling's "White Man's Burden". The poem is placed in an historical context. Paper ...

"A Subaltern's Love Song" - Post-Colonial Symbolism

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "A Subaltern's Love Song" by Betjeman. Symbols of post-colonial significance are de...

Donne and Marvell on Seduction

This essay analyzes Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" and John Donne's "The Flea" and offers the writer's reaction to these a...

Langston Hughes, Identification with America

This essay analyzes two poems by Hughes, "Theme for English B" and "Let America Be America Again." The writer asserts that "Theme"...

"The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point" Analysis

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Browning's "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point". Short essay responses to discuss...

Objectifying Male Dominance Over the Female in "My Last Duchess" and "Porphyria's Lover" by Robert Browning

How the male need to transform women into objects and possessions in order to control them existed in 19th century society is exam...

"Lady Lazarus", Performance Art, and Suicide

Suicide and self-negation as performance art are examined in a critical analysis of Sylvia Plath's 1962 poem, "Lady Lazarus" in a ...