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Essays 1681 - 1710

Crucible of Character by Etheridge

who felt that the school needed to deal with admissions differently. When he presents Hughes poem, however, he is presenting it as...

Pablo Neruda: A Soldier Sleeps

But, the poem examines the life and struggles of a soldier as he lays sleeping, and clearly bloodied and examining his cause. It s...

The Sea Is History by Derek Walcott

title, the fact that he notes how the sea is history immediately makes the reader wonder. They may wonder about how the ocean is r...

Eavan Boland/Fever

5-8). This juxtaposition of images connects the fever of illness to the fever of lust, which leads into the third stanza and its s...

Supplication in "The Iliad"

its absolutely necessary, but then he wants something in return, because if he does lose her its a matter of honor. Achilles tries...

Browning and Spera

various admirers which she held in just as much regard as anything she received from him-including the title. Furthermore, she fli...

Gwendolyn Brooks/Old Black Woman, Homeless & Indistinct

as if she did not exist. They tune her out, just as they do other unsightly aspects of urban living. No one sees the cigarette but...

Gift Giving in Homer's Odyssey

he will gild her horns as part of the sacrifice (Homer). Such sacrifices were meant as "gifts" to the gods, which were designed to...

Images of Nursing

when nurses are needed the most, which is when we are ill (line 12). This is when "Nurses come through, with their care and goodwi...

John Milton/Paradise Lost

of the monarchy due to his support of the Commonwealth (John Milton). Married three times, he spent his later years dictating to h...

Strand: The Garden

Strand, a critic by the name of Carl Singleton is not. He characterized Strands poetry as "entirely characteristic of the age in w...

Edward Taylor and Anne Bradstreet: Love

My Dear and Loving Husband" and "In Reference To Her Children 23 June, 1659" as well as Taylors "My Spouse" and "Upon Wedlock, and...

Aztec Poetry

in the way the political world was playing out in the conquest. And clearly he argues that the poetry was never simple. This seems...

The Unknown Citizen by Auden

to "enjoy" whatever society had to offer, or whatever society insisted on the citizen possessing in order to follow the norm. Th...

4 Essays, Antigone, Bible Verses

about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...

Analysis: Monologue for an Onion

the layers will not reveal any great secrets. And that appears to be breaking the examiners heart. The reader should keep in mind...

Angelou: “Phenomenal Woman”

When she heard about the murder, she "fell silent and did not speak for five years" (Bloom). She began to speak once more when she...

Elegies: The Wife’s Lament and The Seafarer

loss of an individual, perhaps most commonly the death of an individual. But, with the English tradition of the elegy there is als...

Beowulf, Christian Influences

As these examples illustrate, there are instances where there are definite Christian allusions in the text. Furthermore, at the be...

Two Passages from “The Iliad”

book, Ares is battling Diomedes; he thrusts at him but Athena knocks his spear away and Diomedes stabs the god. Ares flies up to O...

Robert Frost

but the presence of Winter coming on is clearly a powerful element, or theme, in the poem as the narrator illustrates how he is re...

Immortality in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson

that in the process of dying Dickinson believed there were senses, and perhaps there were senses upon death as well. But that sens...

Langston Hughes: “I, Too, Sing America”

the more tolerant cities of the north, where there was both work and opportunity (Rowen and Brunner). Nearly three-quarters of a m...

O. Henry/Gift of the Magi

being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...

Symbolism in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"

/ Arrayed of the Round Table rightful brothers ... / the feast was in force full fifteen days" (37-39, 44). They are celebrating t...

The Function of Religion in Dante's "Inferno"

which he lived when he says that the poem is not the result of Dantes inner contemplation, "it is rooted in the immediate Christia...

Plunkett's History in "Omeros"

readers, the reference will be obvious, but for young people for whom the Second World War and its atrocities seem unreal, it may ...

Homecoming in "Omeros"

to understand his culture and find his place in it; its not surprising that his poems speak to his experience and his characters f...

The Human Cost of Katrina

and trash everywhere (Ainsworth). To her right is her grandson, dressed in blue short and a white t-shirt; he appears to be about ...

Close Reading and Analysis: “Blues Spiritual for Mammy Prater”

a fa?ade that represents him at his best. But Mammy Prater apparently did none of this. Instead, "she waited until the technique...