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Analyzing 'To a Waterfowl' and 'Thanaptopsis' by William Cullen Bryant

In five pages the ways in which these poems represent the development of American literature and how they reflect the 19th century...

The Use of Allegory and Symbolism in the Epic Poem Beowulf

Goldsmith, who sees Beowulf as being addressed to the "powerful" and designed to "warn them of the dangers attendant upon power" (...

'Cinderella' by Anne Sexton

will come and the Prince will go. I will be the one left cleaning up after the horse. A long distance of meanings trotted out by...

'My Papa's Waltz' by Theodore Roethke

In five pages an analysis of this poem by Theodore Roethke is presented. There are no other sources listed....

Lazarus's The New Colossus

OUTLINE I. Introduction A. A poem called The New Colossus 1. Written by Emma Lazarus. 2. Written in 1883...

Original Poem Patterned After Psalm 73

This three page original poem is inspired by psalm 73, but takes a present day perspective. No surces are cited....

Whitman and Hughes’ Poetry

Whitmans, just that the ones being examined do not examine that same sort of subject matter. In Whitmans The Ox-Tamer the poet s...

Marcella Durand and Her Vision of The Clocktower

after that mentions color; and then, finally, there is this: "Assisted by bells the next character enters" (Durand 83). Durand may...

Wordsworth and Childhood

in many respects because they are so deeply connected, still, to that ethereal existence. Wordsworth then speaks of how "Shades ...

The Four Zoas by William Blake

of them all, the Sumerian Gilgamesh. Its not that Blake copied anyone, but his poem tends to evoke some of the same feelings in a ...

Immigrants: A Comparative Analysis of Poems by Robert Frost and Pat Mora

However, the ways in which his thoughts were organized are often ironic, and can generate more than one meaning. For example, is ...

Epic Hero Status of Odysseus in Homer’s “The Odyssey”

was time to allow Odysseus to return home. Should he be allowed to go back to Ithaka to be reunited with his wife Penelope and hi...

Fame, Fate and Destiny in “Beowulf”

believes, would seal his everlasting fame (Irving 86). The poem championed Beowulfs desire for fame as a badge of honor: "In all ...

The Eolian Harp

society tells her its wrong; however, she cant resist flirting with her lover or inviting him to kiss her again (though obviously ...

Tennyson: “Ulysses”

author or both; the last suggested interpretation is that "Ulysses is an Ancient Mariner who has never learned his lesson" (Landow...

Marvell/To His Coy Mistress

20). The lyricism and imagery in this opening section are romantic, seductive and certain to appeal to the ego of any woman. Howev...

Analyzing Poet Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art”

practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaste...

Poetic Explication of Robert Burns’ “A Red, Red Rose”

of four lines known as quatrains, and each stanza comprised of alternating iambs or an unstressed syllable immediately followed by...

'Before I Knocked' by Dylan Thomas

is connected (18 poems, 1934, 2004). This colored his religious orientation and is evident in the religious symbolism in "Before I...

Comparative Analysis of Four Poems by William Butler Yeats

the first two lines in each verse rhyme. The mood is one of absolute freedom, which stresses that the things that society values -...

3 Poems Analyzed for Content and Language

part of them." The "roasting" of Louie is stated as being symbolic, but Dickson describes a quite vivid scene that leads the read...

Ezra Pound, "A Virginal"

levels. First of all, a virginal is an early form of the harpsichord that was a preferred instrument among young ladies during the...

The Epic “Beowulf”

present Beowulf as a young hero, who is called upon by his fathers old friend King Hrothgar of Geatland, to defend his subjects ag...

Analysis of Raqing Bull

earning him an Academy Award (Raging Bull, 19950. De Niro made Jakes decline more believable by gaining 60 pounds over the course ...

Rich, Freire and Education

consider myself a failed woman and a failed poet, or to try to find some synthesis by which to understand what was happening to me...

Dissonance in AJM Smith's 'The Lonely Land'

certain that the reader has not missed the implication. Note that in the lines leading up to the "beauty of dissonance" th...

Yusef Komunyakaa's Poem 'Facing It'

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

Prufrock's Character in 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot

be a lover and an optimist. But we begin to see images of tension in the fact that he describes the evening sky spread out as "a p...

'Paradise Lost' by John Milton and the Importance of Obedience and Freedom

to have stood, though free to fall" (Milton Book III). In this we see that Adam had the freedom to make a choice, and in that free...

A.E. Houseman: To An Athlete Dying Young

won your town the race x / x /...