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Death of Abraham Lincoln and the Grief of Poet Walt Whitman

12, Whitman was indoctrinated in the printers trade (AAP). It was at this time that he fell in love with words, and began to read ...

Poet Robert Lowell's Troubled Life

In five pages this paper examines poet Robert Lowell's tortured life and his last days. Five sources are cited in the bibliograph...

Poet Thomas Gray's Life and Poetry

In seven pages this paper examines 18th century poet Thomas Gray's life, his profound poetic influence in his lifetime and his swi...

American Revolutionary War Poet Philip Freneau

In six pages the patriot poetry of Philip Freneau is discussed with the life of the poet also examined. There are 3 sources cited...

Peruvian Poet Cesar Vallejo

In ten pages this research paper examines the powerful prose of Cesar Vallejo. There are more than five sources cited in the bibl...

Romantic Poets Wordsworth and Blake

This sentiment is further echoed in London, in which Blake contends that all people have their own sadness and anguish inside, and...

Evil as Defined by 19th Century English Romantic Poet William Blake

abnegates any evil whatsoever. Blake seems to believe, as one can readily determine from a study of his other works, that evil is...

Romantic Poets and the Elements of the Archaic and Exotic

clearly the use of the archaic in the art piece itself, and its history, which presents us with sense of the exotic as well for th...

2 Papers on Romantic Poets

opens "Marriage" delivers a millenarian prophecy that identifies Christ, revolution and apocalypse and, in so doing, "satanizes" a...

Explication of 'London' by Poet William Blake

in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...

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...

Biography of 19th Century British Romantic Poet William Blake

begin studying engraving and it would be here that his genius would find a purchase. As a young man, some biographies state,...

Various Poets Appealing to the Ear

work. Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he ...

Poets Philip Larkin and Robert Frost

In ten pages this research essay compares and contrasts Philip Larkin's poem 'Church Going' and Robert Frost's poem 'The Wood pile...

Dead Poets Society Film

was no evidence of peeling paint on anything. Schools like Welton do exist in the United States. They are generally very clos...

Romantic Poetry

A 4 page essay that discusses examples of Romantic verse. In the early nineteenth century, artists rebelled against restrictions o...

Dante’s Inferno/Canto XX

because pity carries with it the connotation that divinely imposed punishment is less than just. He tells Dante to lift his eyes a...

Dante’s Inferno & Humanism

must take a stand against evil and live according to ideals rather than simply from a myopic focus on personal needs. In Canto 2...

Themes/Anne Bradstreet

A 4 page essay that analyzes 4 poems by Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672), Puritan poet and writer, as well as a devoted wife and loving...

Shakespeare/Sonnet 73

spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next fou...

Langston Hughes: Work and Worldview

the dawns were / young. / I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to / sleep. / I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyram...

Eavan Boland/Fever

5-8). This juxtaposition of images connects the fever of illness to the fever of lust, which leads into the third stanza and its s...

Wordsworth & Hardy/Perspectives on Nature

First and foremost, the Thrush is seen by this Romantic poet in heroic terms, as a male facing the storm of the public world in or...

Melinda Sordino and Maya Angelou

allows the reader to read approximately 10 pages, enough to get the "flavor" of the authors writing. Here, she blends humor with a...

Analysis: Emily Dickinson and Anne Bradstreet

are only 4-6 lines in length. "Contemplations" begins as what we might call a nature poem, describing the way in which the sun lig...

Comparative Poetic Explication of Death in Emily Dickinson’s “The Bustle in a House (#1078)” and Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”

in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,- The sweeping up the heart, And...

John Keats Deserves His Place in the Literary Canon

he was struck by the "ways in which evil and beauty, love and pain, aspiration and finitude, are not so much balanced as interwove...

W.B. Yeats/An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...

Article Analysis: The Poetics of Anne Finch by Jennifer Keith

friendship is not defined per se but exemplified by a series of mimetic actions in which one person takes anothers place or lends ...

Longfellow, Whitman and Dickinson

A 5 page paper which examines one poem from Longfellow, Whitman, and Dickinson. The poems examined are The poets, and their poems,...