YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Lady of Shallot by Alfred Lord Tennyson and Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
Essays 151 - 180
an old man for the life he will soon be leaving and a world filled with evil and corruption. His description of the city is one of...
A.E. Housman. They are both young men who die before they age, before they have perhaps achieved a powerful greatness it would see...
of striving to attain immortality, just as Jesus himself did. Over and over again in our lives we are tested, and each choice we ...
Such a setting, she points out, simply added to the fear and accusations of witchcraft against innocent people (Jacobs). I...
shivering in the gale/ The bark unfurls her snowy sail/ And whistling oer the bending mast/Loud sings n high the freshning blast" ...
himself who willed that he should suffer (lines 5-8). In other words, Hardy pictures preferring a world such as the ancient Gre...
matter) of making any kind of respectable marriage. Yet she somehow manages to allow Genji into her heart. The lady, howev...
She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces through the room, She saw the water-lily bloom, She saw the helmet an...
a sufferer from mental illness, which may have been triggered at least in part by her fathers death during her childhood....
In five pages Sylvia Plath's poetry is considered in an analysis of reader experiences and how their tragic elements differ from t...
In six pages various aspects of the Victorian period such as changes and Tennyson's contributions are examined within the context ...
The ways in which Tennyson's poems 'The Palace of Art' and 'The Poet' express the poet's attitudes regarding politics, morality, a...
Goldings Lord of the Flies, for example, gives a view of civilised society which is by no means optimistic. He takes a group of ch...
at this simple, and brief examination, and bring into play the moral resources discussed by Jonathan Glover in "All About Evil." I...
In five pages these poets' visions of the next century are examined in a consideration of their respective works. Five sources ar...
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...
In three pages these two poems are contrasted and compared. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....
time, as well as giving rise by their death to the new life, the "stalwart heir who approaches" (Whitman 1) of the new America....
In 5 pages these influential 19th century authors are examined within the context of their writings 'Preface to Leaves of Grass,' ...
therefore sees the differences between the two as being "artificial" - Dickinson was reclusive, and ridden with doubt, whereas Whi...
the spider and it is true for man as well. Obviously, he doesnt actually say this specifically but he instead illustrates it thro...
1). Using this metaphor, he goes on to say that Science "alterest all things with thy peering eyes," which preys upon his poets h...
in California. The song opens by picturing a "dark desert highway" and the "Warm smell of colitas" (Felder, et al). "Colitas" is...
This essay provides analysis and discussion of Donovan's 1969s protest song, "The War Drags On." Seven pages in length, two source...
but other support metaphors are also created that emphasis the illusionary quality of attraction that deludes the singer into thi...
be a lover and an optimist. But we begin to see images of tension in the fact that he describes the evening sky spread out as "a p...
sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...
of the living (Schneider 834-835). In other words, someone in hell is only willing to expose his shameful state "to another of t...
man, a brave men, but still a relatively simple man who is not consumed with the desire to be more. He may be curious, even tempte...
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...