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Friendship in Three Poems by Sappho

was such time as it was appropriate to say goodbye and release them to adult life as defined by that society. In this poem, Sapp...

Beauty and Friendship in 3 of Sappho's Poems

seemed inseparable. A true friend, in other words, wishes for another person the highest possible good. This sort of friendship i...

Romantic Aspects of 'Ode to a Nightingale' and 'Ode to a Grecian Urn' by John Keats

Keats diverges, in point, in the final influence of nature and the...

Life and Works of Nineteenth Century French Composer Cesar Franck

(1822-1890) was born in Liege where he also first studied as a piano virtuoso from 1830-1835. Franck first toured Belgium at the a...

Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, and Romanticism

Clearly, this excerpt from The Prelude, reveals Wordworths quest for self-exploration. This is the story of a journey - not just ...

'The Sun Rising' by John Donne

clearly seen in the following lines from Donnes poem: "Thy beams, so reverend and strong/ Why shouldst thou think?" (Donne 11-12)....

Characterization of the Lonely Hero in T.S. Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' and Thomas Mann's Death in Venice

the stern discipline of an active career" and these characteristics "had taken over the office of modeling these features. Behind ...

Christian Dogma in Beowulf

one true God. As this suggests, biblical allusions are plentiful in the Old English epic, particularly in regards to the Old Test...

'The Bait' by John Donne

lover on the edge of being lost. Donne promises that lover that if she abides with the callers wished she will be rewarded with g...

Feminist Critique of Robert Browning's 'Porphyria's Lover'

her own hair so that she will remain his forever, and be forever trapped in that role of loving him completely. It...

Robert Lowell and Bob Dylan

began to write what came to be called "confessional poetry," which is defined as "an undisguised exposure of painful personal even...

William Wordsworth and Geoffrey Chaucer

life was perhaps like in Medieval times. Looking at each individual story, however, would take a considerable amount of time an...

'When Lilacs Last in Dooryard Bloom'd' by Walt Whitman

the natural surroundings, with the death of a powerful man. More often than not we, as human beings, keep memories of such powerfu...

Passage Analysis from John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'

Adam is astounded by the plethora of life, beauty and vast expanse of nature to which he is bearing witness. While Raphael assert...

Thematic Analysis of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'

lifted, they decided that it had been the bird that caused the fog and they praised the Mariner for seeing through it all. Then, h...

Raymond Carver's Poems

to have a relationship. The narrator tells us that he loves his father, and indicates that he cant handle his alcohol either (hint...

"The last Night that She Lived:" An Analysis of Comprehending Death According to Emily Dickinson

so-called loved ones seem to have gathered expecting to witness something memorably catastrophic, almost as if they seek to be ent...

'The Road Not Taken' Poem by Robert Frost and a Line Analysis

of the word I is that the decision for anyones life is their own. This decision was not reached by conferring with any other soul ...

The World is Too Much with Us/William Wordsworth

other words, Wordsworth bemoans the materialistic nature of his society, which is a feature of Western society that continues into...

Poetic Comparison of John Keats's 'When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be' and William Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 29'

described as an "identity crisis" (Mulrooney 227). They are both seeking solitary solace in nature as they grapple with professio...

Feminist Theory and 'The Rape of the Lock' by Alexander Pope

women should be admired for their inner qualities, rather than their outward beauty. However, it is nevertheless true that Pope im...

Comparing 'The Lamb' and 'The Tyger' by William Blake

the very truth of human nature -- which is why they are often painful to accept. Indeed, his work represents all that is the huma...

The 'Sir Patrick Spence Poem

implication is that anything signed by the hand of the king carries the weight of law. Sir Spence has to obey. The letter arrives ...

'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and Setting

"Since this Britain was built by this baron great, / Bold boys bred there, in broils delighting, / That did their day many a deed ...

'The Starry Night' Poem by Anne Sexton and the Starry Night Painting by Vincent Van Gogh

viewing this painting this particular writer feels and thinks many things. There is a powerful boldness to the strokes, which are ...

Penelope's Suitors and Odysseus in 'The Odyssey' by Homer

He gains allies and waits for the right opportunity to enact justice. This also allows Homer to thoroughly document the wrongs per...

Use of the Word 'I' in 'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost

Road Not Taken" can be viewed as an evaluation of his decisions that the poet takes at midlife. Frost describes standing in a "ye...

'Ballad of Birmingham' by Dudley Randall

hope. The mothers wise voice could be seen to be the voice of experience, conservative ways, of hope seasoned with hard times. The...

Relationship Between Paris and Helen in Homer's 'The Iliad'

a whole. According to Hector, Paris has brought ruin on his people and has allowed his lust for women to drive him to insane actio...

'The Garden' by Andrew Marvell

role of the bees in Marvells poem "fits in with human experience, the reader most likely being familiar with the sharp pain of a b...