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with subjects such as science, as well as religion and morality (Bradstreet, Anne Dudley (1612?-1672)). "However, her best poems d...

savagery which slavery brought with it. Notice in this passage how the belles traits are given, then immediately juxtaposed with t...

In five pages this paper examines how Houston promotes drama and literature through theater and writers groups and considers their...

"I am the people, the mob." In this, we share a similar sentiment. However, your work expresses a much more accepting and optimist...

the gods high-heeled walking wounded" (pp. 239). She was born in Boston, the daughter of a university professor and one of his gra...

bottle we buy. All we have to do is look at the contents of most plastic bottles such as for shampoo, lotion, juices, and milk, an...

he foretold in this little piece written long before his name became a beloved household word"....

the sea, suggests a love of nature, as is evocative of natures beauty. Secondly, Sappho connected this image with memory, which su...

affected her personally. This is exemplified in her poem fragment that scholars have numbered 93. The poem begins with the injunc...

particular woman but does not possess her. Another may clearly see that the woman he describes is his. Regardless, however, of whe...

nonsense poem is to not try to understand it at all. In other words, reading the poem outloud, rather than reading it to oneself, ...

and regular stress would at first strike his reader with incredulous amazement. But he was hardly prepared for the storm of abuse ...

futility and anarchy (of) contemporary history": this is not to say that such a structure need be formal and stylised, only that i...

this as the focus changes from nature and subtly brings in the narrator: "I am too absent-spirited to count;/ The loneliness inclu...

beyond the confines of her era to see how future generations might view it. Her poetry speaks to many topics such as, love, loss,...

then of trust when most intense, hence, amid ills that vex and wrongs that crush our hearts -- if here the words of Holy Writ may ...

romantic poetry it that the emphasis was always on emotions, rather than reason. William Wordsworth, a fellow Romantic, defined "g...

particular values, and freedom from persecution by authorities for those views. One could say that the roots, as far as it can b...

afflicted with serious health issues, such as Graves disease and a thyroid disorder among others, and these caused her to become a...

we suppose that the nature of that is reciprocal, despite any lack of evidence (Barash). Furthermore, he argues that not only is ...

ones own inner feelings. Whitman had been raised by Quaker parents (Hood). His orientation to religion was centered around the i...

that in the summer of 1797, he retired in "ill health" to a "lonely farmhouse between Porlock and Linton" (231). Because of a "sli...

truth that was eventually revealed. While we may argue he could have looked for the truth, rather than running from it, thereby sp...

the end, ones heart may win over ones intellect. In Diane Ackermans poem, which may very well be a modern retelling of...

how the poet views his own culture: eternal, ancient and worthy of great awe, respect and wonder. "As ulu grows branches for lea...

Whitmans lyric style -- "A Noiseless Patient Spider." Although the subject of the poem is a lonely spider, the tone is formal, wh...

express themselves in ways that the majority could not. The poets role in part appears to be to get one to think outside of the bo...

sun, "a ribbon at a time" (35). By displaying one "ribbon" after another, Dickinson presented not just a story, but a complete cov...

$15 on the sale (Untermeyer). "His mother was proud, but the rest of the family were alarmed" (Untermeyer 4). Their alarm was well...

cities and the space of the regions in and out" (Spahr 6). The following paper examines how Spahr questions the reader, urging the...