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Use of Metaphor in Popular Songs

but other support metaphors are also created that emphasis the illusionary quality of attraction that deludes the singer into thi...

Hotel California and California History

in California. The song opens by picturing a "dark desert highway" and the "Warm smell of colitas" (Felder, et al). "Colitas" is...

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman and its 1855 Preface

time, as well as giving rise by their death to the new life, the "stalwart heir who approaches" (Whitman 1) of the new America....

20th Century Glimpses in the 19th Century Poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

In five pages these poets' visions of the next century are examined in a consideration of their respective works. Five sources ar...

Khalil Gibran and Love

In 5 pages this paper discusses how the Lebanese poet expresses love in terms of oneness and harmony in such works as 'Song of the...

Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson

In 5 pages these influential 19th century authors are examined within the context of their writings 'Preface to Leaves of Grass,' ...

Civil War and the Poetry of Walt Whitman

In five pages this paper discusses how Walt Whitman represented the Civil War in such poems as 'A March in the Ranks Hard Prest an...

'A Noiseless Patient Spider' by Walt Whitman and 'A Spider Sewed At Night' by Emily Dickinson

In three pages these two poems are contrasted and compared. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Poets Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, and Nature

the spider and it is true for man as well. Obviously, he doesnt actually say this specifically but he instead illustrates it thro...

Poets Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman

therefore sees the differences between the two as being "artificial" - Dickinson was reclusive, and ridden with doubt, whereas Whi...

Science According to the Poems of Walt Whitman and Edgar Allan Poe

1). Using this metaphor, he goes on to say that Science "alterest all things with thy peering eyes," which preys upon his poets h...

Compare and Contrast: Jazz by Toni Morrison and Black and Blue by Louis Armstrong

This 5 page paper compares and contrasts Toni Morrison's book Jazz with Louis Armstrong's song Black and Blue....

"The War Drags On" by Donovan

This essay provides analysis and discussion of Donovan's 1969s protest song, "The War Drags On." Seven pages in length, two source...

Changing the Structure of Wimpey

a number of independent units which were autonomous, creating a structure of a group of companies in which could be seen as most c...

An Analysis of Whitman's A Backward Glance over Traveled Roads

great exception may arise and disregard and overturn it"(Whitman 2003). This would seem to show a type of reflection on...

Religious, Cultural, and Historical Thematic Influences in the Writings of William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, and William Golding

for the Jews at that time. Lastly, William Golding in his novel "The Lord of the Flies" (1954) reveals the theme of the horrors of...

Poetry by Hardy and Eliot

himself who willed that he should suffer (lines 5-8). In other words, Hardy pictures preferring a world such as the ancient Gre...

For No One Song by The Beatles

as the composers of this song. This writer/tutor could find no references on the extent to which each composer contributed to thi...

Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'The Music of the Night' from Phantom of the Opera

from being too ominous. The Phantoms intent is to seduce Christine, not frighten her. The seductive mood is clearly indicated in t...

Unionized Environmental Productivity and Morale Improvements, Part II

In five pages this paper's second part examines work environments that are are unionized and the segmentations that exist that can...

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...

2 Very Different Popular Songs

holding this note, the music modulates to F and then back to C as the rest of the word is sung to descending tones. The rhythm is ...

'Canzoniere' by Petrarch

"It did not seem to me to be a time to guard myself / against Loves blows: so I went on / confident, unsuspecting; from that, my t...

Song Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore and its Relevance

The existence of threat likely holds the key. Sixty-four years later, rumors still fly about Franklin Roosevelts level of knowled...

'I Shot the Sheriff' by Bob Marley

is a wanted man being tracked down by the police, but that his guilt has already been decided. "They say that they want to bring m...

Song 'My Name is Luka' by Suzanne Vega

want to accept glib explanations for the signs of abuse because they do not want to feel that they have to get involved in a domes...

The Legacy of Billie Holiday

music, which she may have initially embraced as a kind of personal salvation.3 While male lovers would betray her, seductive jazz...

John Whitman's Star Wars Galaxy of Fear City of the Dead

handled with an injection, a concoction, invented by an android. The concoction puts them to death forever. The concoction is also...

'Infant Joy' and 'Infant Sorrow' Poems by William Blake

on. The illustration serves to emphasize the overall theme of complete joy, which Blake implies is something that can be experienc...

Analysis of Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by William Blake

wealthy children, for the focus is on the fact that their faces are clean and their clothes are relatively powerful earth tones. T...