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Essays 1831 - 1860
This essay analyzes two poems by Hughes, "Theme for English B" and "Let America Be America Again." The writer asserts that "Theme"...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Browning's "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point". Short essay responses to discuss...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "A Subaltern's Love Song" by Betjeman. Symbols of post-colonial significance are de...
This essay analyzes Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" and John Donne's "The Flea" and offers the writer's reaction to these a...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Kipling's "White Man's Burden". The poem is placed in an historical context. Paper ...
How the male need to transform women into objects and possessions in order to control them existed in 19th century society is exam...
Suicide and self-negation as performance art are examined in a critical analysis of Sylvia Plath's 1962 poem, "Lady Lazarus" in a ...
Psalm of Life" and Edgar Allan Poes "Sonnet-To Science" address the way that each poet perceived life and the reality of their era...
by comparing his own life to a "twice-written scroll", bearing marks from both a pursuit of intellectual virtues, and a pursuit of...
a figurative level, the poet is inviting the reader to take his perspective, to figuratively "walk in his shoes" and, thereby, lea...
this became the most well known poem by Hughes and appeared in his first volume of poetry, The Weary Blues, which was published in...
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how it results in the wasting of the land, which results from the hero failing to ask the right questions (Weston 18). The theme...
a whole" (Yu 380). These natural images are used to open each stanza, as Yu notes that there are "three tetrasyllabic stanzas of f...
of recurrence and an admonishment not to expect recurrence immediately draws the reader in. The poet them goes on to describe "the...
haiku poem Blasts of light, motion, Tortured vision, endless beauty, Lead to new understanding. Vincent van Gogh painted The Sta...
shared her names (Cisneros, 1987). This places a poetic emphasis on the lack of personal efficacious power women experienced in th...
too swollen to wear an expensive pair of Italian loafers, he presents them to Birkerts, who, initially, wears them, as they looked...
dew that falls at night as weeping for the demise of day, "For thou must die" (Herbert line 4). The second stanza focuses on the...
Dust, in 1940 (Robert Hayden). Accolades and awards followed (including being the first African-American to be named Poet Laureate...
reader feels privy to the inner reflections of the narrative voice, as he engages in the task of "walking the line" (line 13) and ...
Song is an aging man who longs for love, particularly courtly love that fits with his expectations of both women and love....
other words, Wordsworth bemoans the materialistic nature of his society, which is a feature of Western society that continues into...
so-called loved ones seem to have gathered expecting to witness something memorably catastrophic, almost as if they seek to be ent...
things in daily life that he does. Despite this, he and his classmates have a lot in common: they all need to sleep, drink and e...
misery" (lines 17-18). By the fourth stanza, the positive attitude of the first lines is completely gone, as the speaker compares ...
Francis tried to resume his former practices and his old life, and briefly considered a military career, but the call to a religio...
and to help win over his coy mistress" (Reiff, 2002, p. 196). The first person pronouns "vary between the singular, which emphasiz...
$15 on the sale (Untermeyer). "His mother was proud, but the rest of the family were alarmed" (Untermeyer 4). Their alarm was well...
and she wishes that she were "wife to a better man" (Homer Book VI). Through Helens eyes and, also, through Homers portrayal of He...