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Thematic Elements of Tragedy in Shakespeare's Macbeth

will be the real winner in the scheme. Macbeth talks to himself about his desire to murder. He is tortured by it, thinks...

Characteristics of John Donne's Poetry

In five pages this paper discusses the poetry of John Donne in a consideration of their various characteristics including the blen...

Love as a Theme In Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night

This paper examines the various ways in which Shakespeare utilizes love as a theme in his plays. The author discusses Midsummer N...

Themes in Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea and A Farewell to Arms

so closely related is dangerous for the reader. Its tempting to think that this is nothing more than Hemingway retelling events in...

Hidden Motives in The Scarlet Letter

a communitys judgment on one of its members. This paper discusses some of the issues raised by the novel. Discussion First, its n...

El Indio by Gregorio Lopez Y Fuentes

does not employ the use of obvious character names or recognizable places. Clearly, El Indio touches upon centuries of subj...

Themes in the Book of Ecclesiastes

In five pages this paper discusses the pessimism of the Book of Ecclesiastes in a consideration of its various themes. Four sourc...

Book Overview of Divided Legacy Volume III The Conflict Between Homeopathy and the American Medical Association

In five pages this text is considered in terms of overview, themes, and various resulting conflicts regarding alternative treatmen...

God, Man, and Morality in "Frankenstein"

as Victor envisioned but a hideous creature. If God created man in his own image then what does that say about Victors true nature...

Jorge Icaza's Huasipungo

In five pages Icaza's novel is analyzed in terms of the various concepts and themes presented within. There are no other sources ...

An Analysis of Fitzgerald's Work, Babylon Revisited

This paper analyzes various themes in Fitzgerald's, Babylon Revisited. This five page paper cites no additional sources....

Wordsworth/Solitary Reaper

on the beauty of the scene. The Romantics tended to be introspective, while also placing emphasis on beauty of everyday life, rath...

Christianity in Beowulf

has received a considerable amount of attention. Eighteenth century critics argued in favor of viewing the poem as fundamentally p...

Nature Poems

lingers, then erased, Wisdom grasped and then replaced With new wisdoms, no time for decay. Where is permanence? Useless Next to ...

God in a Technical Age, Arnold and Hopkins

In the media today, it is possible to frequently see pundits and politicians bemoaning the state of society in regards to morality...

Song of Roland: Analyzing Laisses XIV and XV

An analysis of stanzas XIV and XV of this anonymous poem are consider in terms of their significance particularly regarding the re...

"Boy at the Window" by Richard Wilbur

This essay offers analysis of "Boy at the Window" by Richard Wilbur. The writer focuses on the compelling nature of the poem's ima...

"The ABC of Aerobics" by Peter Meinke

This essay presents a character sketch of the narrator in "The ABC of Aerobics," a poem by Peter Meinke. Three pages in length, th...

"Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen

This essay pertains to a Wilfred Owen's WWI poem that offers stark and vivid repudiation of the Latin phrase that it is sweet to ...

Four Poems, Summary and Analysis

This essay offers summary and analysis of four poems which begin by offering a comparison of two companion poems from Songs of Inn...

"Locked Ward, Newtown, Connecticut by Rachel Loden

This essay is an explication of "Locked Ward: Newtown, Connecticut" by Rachel Loden. The writer bases this discussion on the assum...

Epic 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and the Use of Symbolism

of balance. The Knight carries the potential for both peace and war. They are intimately bound to one another, it should be said, ...

Robert Frost: Ambiguity and Meaning

optimistic poet beyond this interpretation of his most famous work, which causes the work to stand out in a questionable way. Inde...

The Culture of the Beowulf Poem

faith primarily in their thane and in "wyrd," which is a pagan reference to fate or destiny, according to Abrams, et al (1968). ...

Bradstreet and Taylor: The Poetical Expression of Puritanical Values

the very antithesis of natural ("fleshly" or "bodily") love. Similarly, Taylor reframes the natural death of a wasp in the cold as...

Humor and Irony in the poems of Robert Frost

This essay focuses on the humor and Irony in Robert Frost's poems. The poems discussed are "Mending Wall," "Stopping by Woods on a...

Robert Frost's The Road not Taken: Oral Presentation

This 4 page paper gives an overview of the element within the poem The Road not Taken. This paper includes irony, symbolism, repre...

“To his Excellency General Washington” and American Liberty

This 4 page paper gives an overview of the poem “To his Excellency General Washington”, by Phillis Wheatley. This paper includes h...

Phyllis Wheatley and Edward Taylor

Wheatleys poem begins, "Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,/ Taught my benighted soul to understand/ That theres a God, that...

Analysis of Poems by Wilfred Owen and Robert Browning

at the same time the calmness of it all makes it quite dramatic. The narrator does not see the action as dramatic, however, and si...