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Suzanne Vega's Poem 'Playing'

their ultimate dream. And, the reference to the show indicates an imaginative perspective of life in general. There is an imaginat...

Religious Themes in the Butterfly Shaped Poem 'Easter Wings' by George Herbert

do with something more important than materiality. The poem goes on to complete the first set of wings as follows: "With Thee O le...

Underlying Themes of Various Poems

woods, peopled with the wild creatures of the forest, witches and all sort of magical folk, including Satan, himself. Tam stops to...

Four Poems by Sesshu Foster

the title. The alliteration between "caffeinated" and "concrete" emphasizes the rolling rhythm of the line. The reference to caffe...

Mary Robinson's Feminist Poem 'The Lamentation of Marie Antoinette'

Robinsons poem, Marie Antoinettes Lamentation, the language and the way in which she uses it conveys more than mere description, i...

Comparative Analysis of the Poems 'My Last Duchess' and 'Portrait of a Lady'

this woman is not pushy, but rather has very definite feelings for this man. She feels a connection with him that his self-possess...

Grace Nichol's Collection The Fat Black Woman's Poems

seems to address in her works include that of lost culture and a sense of longing to return to a time which is perceived to be mor...

Link Between Death Theme in His Poems and the Personal History of John Keats

and his first brush with death came at the age of eight, when his father, a livery-stableman by trade, died of a fractured skull a...

Emily Dickinson's Poem, After Great Pain

for someone who has received a serious emotional trauma, but also that this poem can be interpreted at in more than one way, at mo...

Emily Dickinson's Poems 435 and 632 Compared

Syllable from Sound --" (2509-2510). This poem considers the origin of reality, and true to her Transcendentalist beliefs, spec...

An Analysis of Three Frost Poems

calling him to "say good-bye" (line 10 Acquainted with the Night). The overall effect of the poem is one of stark loneliness and a...

Hating Allen Ginsberg's Poem 'America'

yourself with your atom bomb" (line 5). Even though it is easy to agree with Ginsbergs anti-war sentiment -- the consensus even...

Three Poems by Philip Arthur Larkin

this indicates, in this poem, Larkin perfectly catches the nature of a society that has no idea what awaits it. Previous battles w...

Music and Poems

played slightly louder, i.e. piano. The rhythm of the piece would be uniform 4/4 time, but the overall effect of the rhythm would...

Lord Byron's Poems and the Metaphors of Love and Fame

more likely that they will remember and personally value the days of their youth. Byron takes a strong stand in representing thi...

William Butler Yeats' Poem 'The Second Coming'

The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;" (Yeats PG). This describes the inner workings of...

'The Holdfast' Poem by George Herbert

"obey God; nor trust in him; nor confess that nothing is our own" (White 218). There is nothing, literally nothing, that the narra...

5 Poems Interpreted

observing children at their studies. However, the second stanza offers a sharp contrast to this opening, as Yeats states that he d...

Horrors of War in 2 Poems by Wilfred Owen

obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...

Old English Poem 'The Dream of the Rood'

In five pages this paper analyzes this poem within the context of English life during the 7th and 8th centuries and the relationsh...

Poems of Robert Frost and Robert Browning and Their Uses of Dramatic Monologue

In five pages the dramatic monologues featured in Frost's 'Stopping by Woods' and Browning's 'My Last Duchess' poems are compared....

How Robert Frost Depicts Alienation in Six of His Poems

This paper consists of six pages and reveals how familiar situations and places are used by the poet to reveal the alienation the ...

Personal Undertones in Frost's Poem, Fire and Ice

This paper examines Frost's short poem, Fire and Ice. The author examines themes of alienation and destruction, and argues that t...

Dickinson's Poem 'A Clock Stopped'

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Emily Dickinson's poem in terms of the poet's attitudes and feelings about time are analyzed. Th...

John Milton's and George Herbert's Christmas Poems

In a paper consisting of 7 pages Milton's 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' is compared with 'Christmas' by Herbert. There ar...

Two Poems of Stevens and Eliot

This 5 page paper compares and contrasts the poems Comedian as Letter C by Wallace Stevens and The Journey of the Magi by T.S. Eli...

The Use of Allegory and Symbolism in the Epic Poem Beowulf

Goldsmith, who sees Beowulf as being addressed to the "powerful" and designed to "warn them of the dangers attendant upon power" (...

American Experience in the Poems of Langston Hughes and Walt Whitman

In five pages this paper examines how unique aspects of the American experience are featured in the poems of Langston Hughes and W...

William Butler Yeats and 3 Poems on Time and Love

In five pages this report discusses how love and time are featured in the poems 'Adam's Curse,' 'O Do not Love too Long,' and 'Nev...

Emily Dickinson's Poem, After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes

This paper provides a reading of the Dickinson poem, 'After Great Pain a Formal Feeling Comes. The author contends that Dickinson...