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Langston Hughes, Identification with America

This essay analyzes two poems by Hughes, "Theme for English B" and "Let America Be America Again." The writer asserts that "Theme"...

"The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point" Analysis

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Browning's "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point". Short essay responses to discuss...

Robert Frost and Life Lessons

This essay pertains to the poetry of Robert Frost and discusses two poems: "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy...

Shades of Anger, Rafeef Ziadah

This paper offers a summary, analysis and background information on Rafeef Ziadah's poem "Shades of Anger," which expresses the po...

Rudyard Kipling's "If" and Othello

This essay pertains to Shakespeare's "Othello" and Rudyard Kipling's poem "If-," which lists various qualities that are required t...

Mythology and Iliad, Aeneid

This research paper/essay discusses the "Iliad" and the "Aeneid" as two epic poems that mirror the values of Greek and Roman socie...

Women's Search for Independence in 3 Works: Finding Happiness

This essay discusses 3 works: which are a poem by Gwendolyn Brook, "The Beam Eaters"; a short story by Kate Chopin, "The Story of ...

Homer's Iliad, Questions

This essay answers three question. The first pertains to the arguments presented to Achilles on why he should fight, the second li...

Romanticism and Lord Byron

shivering in the gale/ The bark unfurls her snowy sail/ And whistling oer the bending mast/Loud sings n high the freshning blast" ...

Death and Poetic Attitudes of Davis, Thomas, and Donne

people pity the dead, not Death itself. In the end Donnes message is that there is little reason to fear death and that in the end...

'Cosmos' of Parmenides

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the two parts of the poem by Parmenides, 'The Way of Truth' and 'The Way of Mortal Opinions'...

A Critique of Robert Frost's 'Acquainted with the Night'

about having gone out in rain and back again, which represents sorrow and tears. In other words, he has seen many people pass away...

Slavery and Phillis Wheatley's 'To the University of Cambridge, in New England' and Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

as, first of all knows her place, and, secondly was divinely inspired. In the antebellum era, it was illegal for slaves to be tau...

Greek Culture and 'The Iliad' by Homer

occurs near the end of the conflict. These two warriors fight over who has the greater claim to a captive woman who is also the d...

Maya Angelou's 'And Still I Rise'

in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt...

Fear as a Recurring Theme in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

Feminist Theory and 'The Rape of the Lock' by Alexander Pope

women should be admired for their inner qualities, rather than their outward beauty. However, it is nevertheless true that Pope im...

Comparing 'The Lamb' and 'The Tyger' by William Blake

the very truth of human nature -- which is why they are often painful to accept. Indeed, his work represents all that is the huma...

Poe's The Raven

but was kicked out due to his gambling debts (Liukkonen). As a result, John Allan would disown him (Liukkonen). It was in 1826 tha...

Frost and Lennon/McCartney - A Poetic Comparison

in insular imaginary games the whole way. The narrator suggests that the two of them stop rebuilding the wall and question for onc...

John Donne’s Flea

also says that the flea is swollen with their blood (there is a strong suggestion here of the way male and female genitalia swell ...

Homer, The Iliad and Death

original adventure stories; Indiana Jones has nothing on Odysseus, Achilles, Ajax and the rest of the characters who struggled on ...

Literature and Dangerous Male Cultural Socialization

now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...

Beat Poetry and the Expression of Counterculture Values

Lawrence Ferlinghetti are quite different from one another. Ginsbergs long and sprawling lines certainly look nothing like Snyders...

A Thematic Analysis of Lovelace's "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars"

her, reluctantly, to maintain these values. This argument is grounded in 17th century ideals of chivalry and courtly honor, ideals...

Art of James Magee

accompanying poem begins, "Juans ax aches/His tracks lead backwards." The alliteration, assonance and consonance of his word choic...

Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe

1836 he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year old cousin and went to Philadelphia to edit Burtons Gentlemans Magazine, to which he c...

Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold

misery" (lines 17-18). By the fourth stanza, the positive attitude of the first lines is completely gone, as the speaker compares ...

DRUG ADDICTION AND CULTURAL REFERENCES IN HAYDEN’S “SOLEDAD”

Dust, in 1940 (Robert Hayden). Accolades and awards followed (including being the first African-American to be named Poet Laureate...

Mending Wall by Robert Frost

reader feels privy to the inner reflections of the narrative voice, as he engages in the task of "walking the line" (line 13) and ...