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because pity carries with it the connotation that divinely imposed punishment is less than just. He tells Dante to lift his eyes a...

Mines of gold/Or the riches that the East doth h old" (Bradstreet 5-6). Similarly, Browning begins her famous sonnet by writing th...

theme in that poets verse. Section 1 When Longfellow was born the nation was less than fifty years old. America was in the proce...

The writer argues that legends are stories that are likely to have their beginnings in fact, but over time, are added to and re-to...

love between two ordinary people: "Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it h...

While the couple is not married in the legal sense to each other (their bonds of matrimony are with others), it becomes obvious th...

the best relationship to use in the poem. Hamlets relationship with Gertrude, his mother, is even more problematic, because he tu...

powerful and intense poem, in relationship to the struggles of the African American people, that it has been adapted into song (Af...

my brain. Never show fear (Free verse) Animals and small children know when youre afraid. They growl and bite, or cry and fight ...

died. The poet feels that the entire world, in fact, should be in mourning as even "public doves" should have "crepe bows" around ...

expression in the sections of the poem where the persona deals with happy memories, and the sharpness and abruptness of those wher...

of sounds within any language, the speakers in a language community all feel that certain sounds either "the same" or "different" ...

for protection against the creature that has been terrorizing his subjects, Beowulf can hardly refuse. It is not simply because H...

This paper focuses on how death is treated in "Peter Pan" by J.M. Barrie, and then compares with the same theme in "Jim " and "Mat...

This paper offers two blog posts. One on "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and the other on "Sex without Love" by Sharon Olds....

In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at found poetry. Rossetti's "Goblin Market" is used to construct a found poem with fem...

has grown deep like rivers" (line 4). Setting the line off by itself emphasizes its significance, as it ties the narrator directly...

Comparing and contrasting the search for enlightenment in the works of Dante Alighieri and Hanshan in 4 pages. Primary sources on...

conflicts "as a woman and as a poet" (Barker 3). She manipulates thought patterns through her mastery of poetic structure, such a...

has overtaken their owners" (Bartleby.com). In many ways "The poem throws an interesting light on the close nature of the relation...

The reply that "John" gives begin the next stanza, which is "drive, he sd, for/ christs sake, look / out where yr going" (lines 10...

next lines are an old reference to the celebration of the Annunciation which the Orthodox Catholic Church practiced. For example, ...

of striving to attain immortality, just as Jesus himself did. Over and over again in our lives we are tested, and each choice we ...

that this is "Her hardest hue to hold." The budding of plants at this time in the early spring is the shortest part of the seas...

reflects both the poet and the readers changing perspectives that can only be achieved through a rational and nonprejudiced examin...

reached/ was you" (Brooks 2-8). In this the reader is subtly illustrating how society, white American society perhaps, has control...

and the "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes are both evocative and deeply beautiful poems. In each poem, the poet uses...

Im flesh" ((Komunyakaa 3-5). These lines illustrate that no matter how much time has passed since the Vietnam War this narrator ca...

of the least attractive aspects of a nations character. However, after a country has been a colony for a time, that state of being...

(Brooks 9-15). The narrator is illustrating how the reader, or listener, who is likely Black would not have believed them had they...