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King Lear, Beowulf, the Concepts of Kingship and Hero's Downfall

In five pages these literary characters are contrasted and compared in terms of their deaths with the concept of kingship and what...

Comparing and Contrasting Achilles and Beowulf

The writer compares and contrasts Achilles, a hero from Greek mythology, with Beowulf, the hero of the Old English epic poem. The ...

A Summary of The Song of Roland (Chanson de Roland)

it is possible that the poet telling "The Song of Roland" was using the character of Charlemagne to represent Christianity as it m...

Growing Up in Gwendolyn Brooks' Poetry

In six pages this paper examines how the growing up experience is presented in an explication of Gwendolyn Brooks' poems 'The Ball...

Three Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks

In five pages a trio of poems by Gwendolyn Brooks including 'Corners on the Curving Sky,' 'When you have forgotten Sunday: The Lov...

Poetic Reality in the Works of Gwendolyn Brooks and Langston Hughes

In seven pages this paper discusses the poems 'We Real Cool, The Pool Players. Seven at the Golden Shovel' by Gwendolyn Brooks and...

2 Poems by Langston Hughes

In five pages 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' and 'Dream Deferred' poems of Langston Hughes are compared in a discussion of brutal re...

Homosexuality and Other Prevalent Themes in Federico Garcia Lorca's Works

This paper examines the works of the Twentieth Century Spanish Poet, Federico Garcia Lorca. The author discusses how two of Lorca...

Anne Bradstreet’s “The Prologue”

presents the understanding of how she will write what she knows, what is particular to her and her experiences and perceptions, st...

"A Far Cry from Africa"

Latino, classical and contemporary" (Bixby, 2000). His later work reveal a man "who has learned his craft from the European tradit...

The Gods of the Iliad and the Bhagavad-Gita

without specifically worrying about success or failure, "they cannot be stained by action" (Harrison, 1996). Hearing this, Arjuna ...

Pablo Neruda: A Soldier Sleeps

But, the poem examines the life and struggles of a soldier as he lays sleeping, and clearly bloodied and examining his cause. It s...

Sandburg: Three Poems

says Sandburg, none of that matters; what matters is that the grass will eventually cover up the battlefields, the dead, the blood...

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...

"For the Union Dead"

confuse free verse with sloppiness. The tone of the poem ("tone" can best be understood as the attitude the speaker has toward his...

Materialism: Sen and Sand

does not have a job people envision him as a beggar. But, at the same time there is an understanding that he is doing a Holy mans ...

"Hugh Selwyn Mauberley"

However, the meaning is obscure and the student will have to pursue the tranlsation with more sophisticated tools than are availab...

A Poem on "Hamlet"

the best relationship to use in the poem. Hamlets relationship with Gertrude, his mother, is even more problematic, because he tu...

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...

Aztec Poetry

in the way the political world was playing out in the conquest. And clearly he argues that the poetry was never simple. This seems...

Crucible of Character by Etheridge

who felt that the school needed to deal with admissions differently. When he presents Hughes poem, however, he is presenting it as...

Thom Gunn: "A Map of the City"

has what might be considered a god-like perspective. That puts him in a place where he can not only look at the city, but judge it...

Poems: Hughes and Eliot

powerful and intense poem, in relationship to the struggles of the African American people, that it has been adapted into song (Af...

Explication: "Scenes from the Playroom"

latest goldfish gamely swims" (Gwynn). The ink will poison the fish, but the worst part of it is that this is only the "latest" in...

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Comparison/Contrast

the condition of oppression and restrictive realities. This is the symbolic premise of the poem. From this perspective the African...

Robert Browning's Anti-Victorian Sentiments in Fra Lippo Lippi

In a paper consisting of 9 pages the anti Victorian sentiments that are expressed with great subtlety throughout the poem in terms...

Spiritual Journey of Dante's 'Inferno'

The development of the journey motif throughout the poem and how it serves as an allegory for spiritual growth are discussed in a ...

Beowulf

While there is a sense of pride, it is not an arrogant pride or a pride that is only involved in self for Beowulf is proud of bein...

Love in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich

In five pages this paper analyzes the poems 'At a Bach Concert' and 'History' in an examination of how Adrienne Rich thematically ...

Strand: The Garden

Strand, a critic by the name of Carl Singleton is not. He characterized Strands poetry as "entirely characteristic of the age in w...