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Poetic Analysis of 'The Battle of Frogs and Mice'

for either side. However, even though the plot is simple, the way the poem is written is deliberately heroic, and is very much ...

'To An Athlete Dying Young' by A.E. Housman

has died. Beginning in the third stanza, the poet discusses the death and again addresses the deceased directly. He says the youn...

Maya Angelou/Caged Bird

was really blond, white and blue-eyed (Angelou 4). This feeling on Angelous part is highly related to the restrictions on black fr...

The Wife of Bath and the Love Poems of Sappho and Catullus

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

Definition of an American and Homelessness

91). The first threatening wave of homelessness swept America between the years 1820 and 1860, when more than five million immigr...

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...

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...

The Bean Eater vs. Old Couple, Comparison

is stating the most depressing facts that seem obvious to them. However, as the poem ends we see an understanding of the gentle an...

Poetic Comparison of John Keats's 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer' and William Wordsworth's 'Lines Composed upon Westminster Bridge'

relating it to their own life experiences through the powers of imagination (Minahan 38). Two works that characterize the creativ...

Ancient Poems and Love Songs of Egypt and China Compared on Love and Sex Attitudes

war songs, marriage songs and love songs among many more. Throughout the ages, the poems came to known as not merely an example of...

Poetry and the Concepts of Sovereignty and Ancestry

how the poet views his own culture: eternal, ancient and worthy of great awe, respect and wonder. "As ulu grows branches for lea...

Poets R.S. Thomas and John Betjeman on Nature and the Modern World

and soul) are in a fight for their own survival and right to exist, and that the simple things in life, those things that really c...

Emily Dickinson's 'I Years Had Been From Home'

clue which would support this idea might be the first few lines where she discusses returning to a previously held thought, idea, ...

'Dance' and the Painting by Matisse and Poem by Natalie Safir

hilltop is now shown as much as it is suggested by two rounded green shapes in the lower half of the painting. The dancers barely ...

The Theme of Identity in Derek Walcott's Omeros

the chariot that Hector bought. . . . Each row was a divan of furred leopardskin. . . . te...

Agard"s 'Listen Mr. Oxford,' William Carlos Williams' 'Impromptu', and Language Codes

in with her family and in order for them not to feel inferior or uncomfortable around her(Mellix 315). However, when Mellix found ...

Poetic Spiders

seems to be making a statement about independence of spirit, but an involvement with mankind. "I markd where on a little promontor...

Alice Cary's 'The West Country' Poem

"The West Country" from an operative structure standpoint, it is perhaps even more useful to analyze this poem from a thematic sta...

Comparative Analysis of the Poems 'Tintern Abbey' and 'The Thorn' by William Wordsworth

does the reader surmise that the author is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Wordsworth write...

"Goblin Market" Interpretations

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at "Goblin Market". Social and Biblical interpretations are presented for the poem. Pap...

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...

John Keats, "Ode to Psyche" and "Eve of St. Agnes"

This essay pertains to "Ode to Psyche" and "The Eve of St. Agnes" by John Keats, and compares the two poems. Five pages in length...

William Blake’s Poems

being presented. The narrator states how "The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,/ Thousands of little boys and ...

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...

Yusef Komunyakaa's Poetry

loss and redemption. If one were to move deeper into the meanings of both poems, or on an emotional, cognitive tour of the poem, ...

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...

Snake by Lawrence and The Fish by Bishop

in relationship to these voices, fear is likely the reason a person does kill a snake. The narrator watches as the snake drinks a...

Female Characters and Ancient Texts

is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...

"We Be Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara, and "Shiloh" by Bobbie Ann Mason and the American Dream

The thematic representation of the American dream in two literary genres (1 poem and 2 short stories) is discussed in 9 pages. Th...

2 Poems by Roman Poet Catullus

unconquerable by time. Nevertheless, as their love is as fallible and mortal as they are, poem 11 shows the depth of Catullus pa...