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Analysis of 'Dulce et Decorum Est' by Wilfred Owen

behind. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!--An ecstasy of fumbling Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, But someone still was yelling out...

Rudyard Kipling's Language and the Novel Kim

Kiplings earliest works were first poems and ballads. The sense of rhythm, it can be said, is found in the book, Kim. The sentence...

Shakespeare/Sonnets 73 and 130

and Shakespeares use of metaphor achieves his purpose very well, particularly in the lines that refer to comparing a ladys breath ...

Parodying the Knight in Song of Roland and Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso

of knight. He was the kings representative in battle, and his role as the protector of freedom was assumed with honor and uncompro...

The Effects of Violent Lyrics on Aggressive Thoughts and Feelings

topic are the musical genres of heavy metal and rap. The term heavy metal was initially featured in the lyrics of the Steppenwolf...

Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself and Explication

actually ever addressed. The author states, for example, towards the beginning of the article, how "No gesture of style so prono...

Comparative Analysis of Poems by Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Langston Hughes

likens the process of death to an innocuous fly buzzing. In other words, instead of being a mysterious occurrence, it is a proces...

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...

So It Goes: Vonnegut and Death

one critic notes it does not matter if many are killed or one very close personal individual was killed, the truth was that "so it...

Karen Carpenter’s On Top of the World and Christian Faith

Karen when she sang it, but she did not write the lyrics or the song and as such they are not "directly reflective" of personal ex...

Country Joe McDonald: “I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die Rag”

in Vietnam, but rather than get out of it, its going to call on young Americans to save the day. We see this today, where instead ...

Two Views of War: Jomini and Clausewitz

and strategic; if the army occupies temporary positions along this line, they will be "strategic positions."4 When the army meets...

The Divergence of Country and Folk Music? ?

music brought to the country by Anglo-Celtic immigrants (Malone, 1968, 1). This music was tremendously influenced, however, by Af...

WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS AS A METAPHOR

and dedication to his single goal, he was able to afford two of them; Old Dan (the "brawn" of the duo) and Little Ann (the "brains...

DEATH POEMS AND "SONG OF A DARK GIRL"

who has lost her lover in the south. We can assume this came from a lynching (as evidenced by the reference to "Dixie," which lync...

Marley and Me/True meaning

child who was very, very much wanted, previously in the film, scenes featuring John and Jenny have shown them thrilled over her pr...

European Difficulties to Transform from Pagan to Christian in the Poems "Song of Roland" and "Beowulf"

paganism was not about to go quietly, even though the poet describes the protagonist as a gift that, "God, in His mercy, has sent....

The Tropics in New York

considering they are the only words that are linked/combined with dashes, which clearly emphasizes their metaphorical nature. Rill...

Canterbury Tales and The Song of Roland

should control the entire known world and so the theme of religion, and the power of religious men, was not questioned in The Song...

Song of Myself

Walt Whitmans Song of Myself is a poem that is not necessarily about any one particular thing, not possessed of one single theme o...

Inaugural Speech of Nelson Mandela and Verdi's Radames

In six pages this song performance from the Verdi opera Aida is compared to Nelson Mandela's inaugural speech. Five sources are c...

Literature of China and Women

In five pages this paper analyzes the Tang and Song dynasties' literature in terms of women's roles and also considers the post 75...

Chinese Tradition and Womanhood

women played as mothers, servants, and leaders, even reflecting upon local leadership and the definition of matriarchal social seg...

Arguing Against Tabloid Press and Media Compromise

In sixteen pages this research paper charges the media with compromising its position with manipulating the public trust by reinfo...

Sexuality

In five pages this paper discusses the significance of sexuality in a consideration of the concepts of Friedrich Nietzsche, the wr...

American Labor Songs and Bruce Springsteen

In seven pages the ways in which Springsteen's songs contributed to the American labor movement are explored with the shifting foc...

Concepts of Beauty in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon

This 6 page paper discusses the way in which Toni Morrison considers women's self-esteem issues in her novel Song of Solomon. The ...

The Development of Milkman Dead's Character in Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

This 8 page paper discusses the development of the character of Milkman Dead in Toni Morrison's novel Song of Solomon. The writer ...

Milkman Dead as a Classic Hero in Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

This 6 page paper argues that Milkman Dead, a character in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, can be described as a classic hero. Th...

Myth in Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

This 6 page paper analyzes Toni Morrison's novel Song of Solomon and argues that it can be seen as a modern day myth in which a ma...