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Romantic Era British Poets

a specific time or age. While romanticism will be prominent in certain epochs, because in its essential characteristics it is a sp...

Spirituality in the Poetry of John Keats

as we do not think--We remain there a long while, and notwithstanding the doors of the second Chamber remain wide open, showing a ...

Temporality and Lord Byron

and writers in his extensive travels (Lutz 23). Linking him to traditions that span back to Odysseus, Harold is essentially in sea...

Emily Dickinson's 'The Soul Selects Hew Own Society' and Imagery

keeping out all of the world that she does not desire to experience or see or meet. This is further emphasized by the third and fo...

'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost

certain meanings through word choices. For example, Frost uses the imagery of the forest to illustrate the "snags" we al...

'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...

Omeros by Derek Walcott and Character Identity

ignorant about its history. He is also a simple fisherman. The conflict in the story predominately revolves around Achille and Hec...

Biographical Profile of Philip Arthur Larkin

is said that much great poetry and other works of art are born of great pain. This may certainly have been the case in Arthur Lark...

'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 ...

Romanticism and Lord Byron

shivering in the gale/ The bark unfurls her snowy sail/ And whistling oer the bending mast/Loud sings n high the freshning blast" ...

Gerusalemme Liberata by Torquato Tasso

physical and emotional well being for the sake of his art. His erratic behavior became increasingly evident around 1575 when Tass...

Rhetorical Questions of John Donne in 'Holy Sonnet XVII' and 'Satire III'

Dutch, and darst thou lay/ Thee in ships wooden sepulchres, a prey/ To leaders rage, to storms, to shot, to dearth?/ Darst thou di...

Romantic Poets

his life with his sister and his wife and their children, and wrote his poetry. There is, however, focus in much critical assessme...

Angelou: “Phenomenal Woman”

When she heard about the murder, she "fell silent and did not speak for five years" (Bloom). She began to speak once more when she...

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...

Group Development in Films

and training in the group development process. Studying groups in the 1960s, Tuckman observed that groups of individuals transiti...

Giovanni and the Literary Canon

African American poet of extraordinary power, skill and insight who is extremely deserving of inclusion in the American literary c...

American Poetry

array of individuals that Whitman clearly associated himself with as perhaps an American. He states, "I am enamourd of growing out...

Shades of Anger, Rafeef Ziadah

This paper offers a summary, analysis and background information on Rafeef Ziadah's poem "Shades of Anger," which expresses the po...

A Comparison, Poe and Longfellow

Psalm of Life" and Edgar Allan Poes "Sonnet-To Science" address the way that each poet perceived life and the reality of their era...

Donne and Marvell on Seduction

This essay analyzes Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" and John Donne's "The Flea" and offers the writer's reaction to these a...

Frances E.W. Harper's Life and Work II

In nine pages this research paper considers this African American novelist, poet, and lecturer in terms of her life and work with ...

Works and Philosophy of Ezra Pound

trial for treason, and confined to a mental hospital in Washington, D.C. On his release in 1958, he returned to Italy, where he di...

Influence of Death in the Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe

In six pages the ways in which Poe's poems 'Lenore,' 'The Raven,' 'Annabel Lee,' and 'To Helen' are influenced by the deaths of th...

'The Soul Selects Her Own Society' by Emily Dickinson

just a few words (McConnell). The first stanza shows the thesis. The soul or the individual person is sovereign in deciding who ...

Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Crisis in Poetry

In six pages this paper examines how poetry can be used to express a poet's crisis in 'Lady Lazarus' by Sylvia Plath and 'My Life ...

Irony in Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson

In five pages Robinson's poem is analyzed in terms of the poet's use of irony as a way of revealing how a wealthy man's life can b...

'Sonnet XIX' by John Milton

In six pages this paper discusses how Milton reveals his value to his Creator through verse in a consideration of such techniques ...

Transitional Figure Petrarch

In nine pages this paper discusses how Petrarch provides the Medieval to Renaissance transition and examines the poet's letters an...

'To Lucasta' by Richard Lovelace

In two pages this essay analyzes this love poem in terms of the poet's descriptive language and its emotional attributes. There i...