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'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe

of similar words and create definitive alliteration that supports the flow of the work. Alliteration of the words "love" and "li...

Influence of Death in the Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe

In six pages the ways in which Poe's poems 'Lenore,' 'The Raven,' 'Annabel Lee,' and 'To Helen' are influenced by the deaths of th...

Edgar Allan Poe's Life Reflected in His Art

from school describing in the most graphic terms fights and accidents he had witnessed: "I saw the arm afterwards -- it was really...

Death and the Works of Emily Dickinson

This paper examines Dickinson's positive thoughts regarding death. The author discusses five of Dickinson's poems. This nine pag...

Transcendentalist Emily Dickinson

her mid-twenties Dickinson was on her way to becoming a total recluse. Although she did not discourage visitors, she literally nev...

'Because I Could Not Stop For Death' by Emily Dickinson

In three pages this poem by Emily Dickinson is analyzed in terms of personification, message, and theme along with other literary ...

'I Send Two Sunsets' by Emily Dickinson

In four pages this poem is explicated and analyzed. There are 4 sources cited in the bibliography....

'I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed' by Emily Dickinson

In four pages this poem by Emily Dickinson is explicated and analyzed. There is no bibliography included....

'The Soul Selects Her Own Society' by Emily Dickinson

just a few words (McConnell). The first stanza shows the thesis. The soul or the individual person is sovereign in deciding who ...

'A Bird Came Down the Walk' by Emily Dickinson

In five pages this poem is examined in a consideration of figurative language, imagery, and tone. There are no other sources list...

Poetic Success of Richard Cory by Robinson and Success is Counted Sweetest by Dickinson

In six pages this paper analyzes success within the contexts of these poems. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Imagery in 'Mirror' by Sylvia Plath

the word, exact, which, when in reference to herself is in opposition to her general style of writing. She writes in symbolic lan...

Irony in Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson

In five pages Robinson's poem is analyzed in terms of the poet's use of irony as a way of revealing how a wealthy man's life can b...

How the Poetic Works of Robert Frost Reflect the Poet's Life

years old, he decided to change his life. Selling his farm and quitting his job, he moved to England to pursue a career as a poet....

Prejudice in Education Confronted by Langston Hughes and Toni Cade Bambara

In five pages education and its prejudices are captured in the poem 'Theme for English B.' and the short story 'The Lesson.' Ther...

Divine Power and 'The Iliad' by Homer

on Mount Olympus, where the gods lived. As the Iliad opens, the Trojan War has actually been going on for nine years, but the figh...

How Virgil's 'Aeneid' Influences 'The Waste Land' by T.S. Eliot\

In twelve pages this paper presents a comparative analysis of 'Aeneid' by Virgil and 'The Waste Land' by T.S. Eliot in order to de...

Death Perspectives of Leo Tolstoy and Dylan Thomas

This paper contrasts the death perspectives articulated by Dylan Thomas in the poem 'Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night' with t...

'Beowulf' and Family Ties

In five pages the bonds of kinship and family as represented in this classic Medieval poem are discussed. One source is cited in ...

The Way in Which Sundiata and Beowulf Present Heroism

The writer compares and contrasts the Old English poem Beowulf with Sundiata, which is an African epic. The writer argues that whi...

King Lear, Beowulf, the Concepts of Kingship and Hero's Downfall

In five pages these literary characters are contrasted and compared in terms of their deaths with the concept of kingship and what...

Comparing and Contrasting Achilles and Beowulf

The writer compares and contrasts Achilles, a hero from Greek mythology, with Beowulf, the hero of the Old English epic poem. The ...

A Summary of The Song of Roland (Chanson de Roland)

it is possible that the poet telling "The Song of Roland" was using the character of Charlemagne to represent Christianity as it m...

'Michael Robartes and the Dancer' by Irish Poet William Butler Yeats

poem despite the metaphysical airs assumed by Michael Robartes. In this poem, Yeats expresses the concept that can be concisely ...

Medieval Poets on Love

wide range of emotions. Sir Thomas Wyatt, the Elder (1503-1542), was a pioneer of the English sonnet, which was a variation of th...

William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Colonialism, and Irish Identity

In eight pages this paper discusses how colonialism has shaped Irish identity in a comparative analysis of some poems by W.B. Yeat...

'Old Photograph of the Future' by Robert Penn Warren

In five pages this poem by Robert Penn Warren is analyzed. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Poetic Contrast of Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock' and John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'

In five pages this paper discusses the poets and the poems in this contrasting poetic analysis. Three sources are cited in the bi...

Adam's Fall and the Reasons Presented in Paradise Lost by John Milton

In three pages this paper discusses Milton's reasons for writing this epic poem and the sympathy generated for Adam and Eve that r...

Satan in Paradise Lost by John Milton

In five pages this paper analyzes the characterization as Satan in the epic poem Paradise Lost as a reflection of the righteous co...