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'Cross' by Langston Hughes

her well" (lines 4-8). This substantiates the forgiveness and understanding that the speaker already has indicated towards his fat...

Poetry of Frank O'Hara

help keep me in New York against coercion/ but now Im happy for a time and interested" (OHara 1-8). This is sort of a free form...

'A Work of Artifice' by Marge Piercy

curlers, the hands you love to touch" (Piercy 75). a. The poem denotes cultural symbols. b. Symbols include bound feet an...

John Keats and Ernest Hemingway

desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....

Examination and Analysis of 'Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening' and 'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost

a poem that examines ones past and the choices made, as well as a poem that presents the narrator with two obvious choices. In a l...

Portrayal of Time in Works by Terence Davies and T.S. Eliot

his films. In so doing we look at one line from the film and two lines from Eliots poem. Lily states, "I thought that I could ma...

My Last Duchess/Robert Browning

as it relates to obsession and silent women. The poem begins, very pleasantly as the narrator seems to merely be giving the li...

'Big Black Car' by Lynn Emanuel

As Emanuel describes the interior of the car, and her reluctance to ride in it, she employs language that suggests that the car is...

'War is Kind' and 'A Mystery of Heroism' by Stephen Crane

in any real noble cause, he quickly succumbs to the realities that surround him, the bullets and the danger. This man has taken i...

'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell and Imagery

In the first half of the poem, Marvell describes time as he would have it if he could. He states, "Had we but world enough and tim...

Edwin Arlington Robinson's 'Richard Cory'

than they did many years ago, that people who appear happy and content are not always happy and content. Being wealthy and handsom...

'On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough' by John Milton

can start by noticing what occurs in the first stanza. Milton begins the work as follows: "Fairest flower no sooner blown but blas...

Comparison of Alfred LordTennyson's 'The Passing of Arthur' and 'Morte d'Arthur'

In 12 pages these Tennyson poems are contrasted and compared. There are 12 sources cited in the bibliography....

'The Flea' by John Donne

In five pages religious satire, the notion of metaphysical conceit, argument, and metaphor are all considered within the context o...

Poetry and War

In five pages this paper mentions the poems 'To Lucasta' by Richard Lovelace and 'Dover Beach' by Matthew Arnold in this contrast ...

Unspeakable in Anna Akhmatova's 'Requiem' and Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares how human nature's 'unspeakable' dark side is portrayed in this poem and play. Fou...

'dandelions' by Deborah Austin

reader that the barrage has lasted all day yesterday and today with "deafening sight." This figurative language mixes sensory in...

Four Essays On Literature

This paper bundles four essays into one. In five pages the writer separately discusses specific questions regarding Eliot's The L...

'Snake' by D.H. Lawrence

In five pages this poem of D.H. Lawrence's is compared with a reader's first reaction as compared to second and third readings tha...

Countee Cullen's 'Heritage' and African American Ancestry Perceptions

widely differing cultures. The very first line of "Heritage", a line that asks "What is Africa to me", reveals the nature of the ...

'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,' Justice and Mercy

In 7 pages this paper examines the concepts of justice and mercy as they are portrayed in this anonymous poem of the 14th century....

Poetically Viewing Women

In five pages Matthew Arnold's poem Dover Beach is compared with James Joyce's Araby and Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 to disccus the co...

Hecht's 'Dover Bitch' and Arnold's 'Dover Beach'

In a paper consisting of 5 pages these poems are compared and contrasted in terms of determining one's relationship to the other. ...

Michael Ondaatje's 'Elizabeth'

In five pages Ondaatje's depiction of the Virgin Queen Elizabeth I is examined within the context of his poem. There are no refer...

'Americana and the American Renaissance' by Wallace Stevens

In 5 pages this 1950 poem serves as a reflection on the American literary Renaissance characterized by Walt Whitman and Ralph Wald...

Sylvia Plath and Toni Morrison on the Self Actualization of Women

This paper examines the self actualization of women in an analysis of the poems 'Daddy' and 'Mirror' by Sylvia Plath and the novel...

Walt Whitman's Poetry and Timelessness

avails not, time nor place - distance avails not, I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations he...

Robert Frost's Irony and Humor

In 5 pages this paper discusses how Frost humorously employs irony in his poems 'The Secret Sits,' 'A Cloud Shadow,' 'Mending Wall...

'Thanatopsis' by William Cullen Bryant

In six pages this once influential poem is examined in terms of its celebration of nature's solace triumphing over death fears tha...