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'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...

Depictions of Nature in the Poetry of Dickinson and Frost

action so that the reader can easily imagine its intensity. It is a strikingly vivid image. Likewise, Frost is famous for his im...

''The Phoenix and the Turtle' by William Shakespeare

about 1594 onward it is believed that he played with a group of actors, however: "written records give little indication of the wa...

'Black Magic' by Dudley Randall

regards to both cherries and grapes. Her lips as "curved" like cherries and "full" like grape bunches, but they are "sweet" like ...

'Sometimes in Winter' by Linda Pastan and Imagery

632). Thus, it is evident that the use of images is advancing the theme of coping with death. Fragile faces indicates those ...

3 Women in Odysseus's Life in 'The Odyssey' by Homer

her part. What she didnt know was that Zeus was responsible for thwarting her attempts at consummating her relationship with Odys...

To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works by Phillis Wheatley

and how they are seen by Wheatley as almost heavenly. She is clearly amazed at the figures and the power within these figures. Thi...

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...

Jane Kenyon's 'Depression in Winter'

seems to add to the depression, the unhappiness that the narrator is speaking of because there is a sense of futility in trying to...

Fate and Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey'

and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and c...

A Poetic Explication of 'Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening' by Robert Frost

into the woods on such a cold, dark night. Is it merely to look at the scenery, or is there another more profound reason? In the...

Native Americans as Perceived by Walt Whitman

now" (Whitman, 2005). Clearly, this illustrates his belief that heaven and hell are right here on earth, which was a very controv...

'Wild Night Wild Nights' by Emily Dickinson and 'Earth! My Likeness' by Walt Whitman

of the key phrases in these lines is "Were I with thee," which indicates that the poet is not with her beloved. It is the fact th...

'The Telephone' and 'Mending Wall' by Robert Frost

gaps I mean,/ No one has seen them made or heard them made,/ But at spring mending-time we find them there" (Frost 9-11). In th...

Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Mythical Monsters

means by which to punish him for past indiscretions. Mans first instinct is to provide for his own preservation, to tend to his o...

William Cullen Bryant's 'The Prairies' and 'To a Waterfowl'

old and his first book at age 13 (Yarborough). In short, he was a prodigy who might have been destined for greater things, had he ...

Analysis of Carl Sandburg's Poetry

hobo before he was twenty, and even served a rotation in the Spanish-American War(Academy of Poets). This experience was...

'February Afternoon' by Edward Thomas

themes of love, this became the preferred style of World War I poets like Edward Thomas. One of his most poignant verses is "Febr...

An Analysis of The Epic Poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...

Metaphor Controlling

interesting to note, there are several distinctions of metaphors. According to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary (2002) metaph...

Poetry and its Elements

a big messy bowl of goop. In the same way, the placement of words, especially in the poem, can be said to be very important. There...

Argument in 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' by William Blake

one can tell that the Angels of Heaven are stoic, devoid of emotion, limited, and conformity. Blake, himself, makes an appearance ...

'Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot

merely an attendant. Prufrock states, "No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;/Am an attendant loud, one that will do/To ...

Old Age as Viewed by Eliot and Frost

his mind tends to wander, that he has forgotten that the boy who helped him a few years earlier is off at school. Mary explains ho...

The Heroism of Beowulf

turbulent in respect to British history ("Angelcynn" PG). It was a time when England was first created, and the time of King Arth...

Visions of Death in Emily Dickinson's Works

traumatic experience that the narrator has been through could very well be death. It is interesting to not the way that Dickinson ...

Romantic Era Poetry of John Keats

sort of heroic quest, or the heroic person trapped and confined by societys dictates or the citys walls. This is evident in ...

Robert Frost's Poetry and Darkness

see the secrecy, the sense of spying that is darkness, though not a darkness associated with nature, other than perhaps the nature...

Reviewing 'Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey' by William Wordsworth

This dissolution, first adverse, becomes a positive driving force which allows us to sway from crime, avarice and over-anxious car...

Gender Representations in 'The White Heron' by Sarah Orne Jewett

positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...