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Immortality and Tithonus

In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at "Tithonus". The theme of immortality is examined through looking at the poem's mechan...

Gabriela Mistral

kind. It is, or can be, a far more positive thought than the thought which is fear. When reading the poems, however,...

Human Conflict and Faith in William Blake's 'Introduction,' William Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey' and Alfred Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'

poetic boundaries; not only does the reader surmise that the author is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the ...

Comparison Between Antigone and Othello

In six pages this paper compares the protagonists featured in the Oedipus Trilogy of Sophocles and Othello by William Shakespeare ...

The Depiction of Troy in The Iliad and in Film

is not identified as a goddess except for when a servant speaks to Achilles about the legends that have begun to be spun concernin...

Two Poems, Childhood Memories of Father

This essay discusses Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz," and Robert Hayden's poem "Those Winter Sundays." Both poems pertain to...

Similarities Between Two Works By Ferlinghetti and Frost

thinks of the woods as property, more then as just a part of the vast natural world. To him, this lovely wood is part of the man-m...

'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost

To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was ...

A Discussion of the poem Mending Wall by Robert Frost

the Berlin wall. And we also know that there will be just a "touch" of whimsy about the poem, when it begins with "something ther...

Christina Rossetti's 'In An Artist's Studio'

the perceived flaws in their models and so alters their appearance to fit their ideal image. Rossetti seems to find this appalling...

Song of Myself

Walt Whitmans Song of Myself is a poem that is not necessarily about any one particular thing, not possessed of one single theme o...

Four Poems on Grief

focuses on four poems that all deal with grief. In "Stairway to Heaven" by Joaquin G. Rubio; "Dont Forget About Me!" by Jenny Gord...

Poetic Analysis of Jane Kenyon's 'Happiness'

appreciate what it means to feel happy? The two most vivid images in this poem are religious in nature and are quite significant ...

Longfellow, Whitman and Dickinson

A 5 page paper which examines one poem from Longfellow, Whitman, and Dickinson. The poems examined are The poets, and their poems,...

Poetic Analysis of 'The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner' by Randall Jarrell

ball turret was a plexiglass sphere set into the belly of a B-17 or B-24 [bomber], and inhabited by two .50 caliber machine-guns a...

Three Poems by William Blake

/ So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep" (lines 3-4 11290). In the next stanza a small boy is upset because all of his hair h...

'Answering the Unanswerable' by Nancy Willard Analyzed

It does not love flesh. It leaves a ring of cold in the wound." On the surface of this particular stanza,...

Colonial Age and Wilderness Literature

sailers would pilfer to sell, give, or exchange with us, for money, sassafras, furs, or love...when they departed, there remained ...

Poems of William Blake and Theodicy

is self-contradictory" (Davies 86). As envisioned by William Blake, God is not to blame for the good and evil in the world becaus...

'Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931' by William Butler Yeats

the Irish countryside. Thoor Ballylee was Yeats famous summer home, and Coole Park refers to the nearby estate of Yeats life-long ...

Wilfred Owen/"Dulce et Decorum Est"

This essay pertains to Wilfred Owen's poem, which captures the horror of World War I. Five pages in length, seven sources are cite...

Heroic Greek Definition in 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' of Homer

In seven pages the classical Greek definition of hero as revealed in the epic poems of Homer is discussed....

Poetic Works of Emily Dickinson

In five pages some of Emily Dickinson's poems that celebrate her passion for nature are examined....

Douglas Robertson's Wake Up Australia

however, and we begin to feel that the poem will clearly focus on some political argument. He then introduces the word "white" ...

William Butler Yeats and 3 Poems on Time and Love

In five pages this report discusses how love and time are featured in the poems 'Adam's Curse,' 'O Do not Love too Long,' and 'Nev...

''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...

A Review of the Poem As Watchers Hang Upon the East

A 4 page review and explanation of the poem by Emily Dickinson. 3 sources....

Walcott's A Far Cry from Africa

this there are opposites that indicate the narrator is confused and lost and in something of a frenzy to find some balance, and id...

Advancing Age in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats

the "music" of nature and is part of a continuous cycle. This poem concludes "How can we know the dancer from the dance" (line 64)...

Death in Jorge Manrique's 'Coplas'

different than the perspectives of the world at the time. Near the beginning of Manriques poem he states, "Let none be self-delud...