YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :War Poems of Wilfred Owen
Essays 301 - 330
This essay is an explication of "Locked Ward: Newtown, Connecticut" by Rachel Loden. The writer bases this discussion on the assum...
This essay offers summary and analysis of four poems which begin by offering a comparison of two companion poems from Songs of Inn...
In the media today, it is possible to frequently see pundits and politicians bemoaning the state of society in regards to morality...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Spenser's "Sonnet XXX". A mechanical analysis of the poem's devices is carried out,...
In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Alexie's poem, "At the Trial of Hamlet, Chicago, 1994". Several discussion questions ...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "Of Pruning and Production" by Isabella Southern. The poem's themes are gradually s...
An analysis of stanzas XIV and XV of this anonymous poem are consider in terms of their significance particularly regarding the re...
of mourning and regret, while singing the praises of something wondrous. I Came to buy a smile -- today (223) The first thing...
lays dead. No individual has truly come to help him save for one youth, Wiglaf. In these particular lines we note the following: "...
the first great epic poems of English history is thought to have been written around the time of the first half of the 8th century...
faith primarily in their thane and in "wyrd," which is a pagan reference to fate or destiny, according to Abrams, et al (1968). ...
of balance. The Knight carries the potential for both peace and war. They are intimately bound to one another, it should be said, ...
himself who willed that he should suffer (lines 5-8). In other words, Hardy pictures preferring a world such as the ancient Gre...
until a water snake slithered by. Panicked and briefly forgetting about the traveler on his back, Puff-jaw dove, which threw the ...
pause, heads tilted as if trying to hear someone softly...
even to the edge of doom" (Shakespeare 9-12). In the end he claims that if he is wrong then he never wrote and no man ever loved. ...
half=way through the stanza, Angelou prefaces giving her reaction with the line "I say," which is followed by her lyrical descript...
monstrous creature Grendel, Grendels mother, and the dragon - it considers the impact of social obligations (loyalty to God and co...
and taken blood from both. He tries to convince her that to give in to him, to give him herself, has been ultimately blessed by th...
the point of their clothing which was powerfully restrictive. In this poem the narrator states, "Aunt Jennifers tigers prance ac...
narrative voice relates how his mother died when he was quite young and his father sold him before he could cry "weep." In the Nor...
scanned text files, featured a scanned version Frank St. Vincents important exposition of the poem that was first published in Exp...
break all the rules and express his artistic vision in his own highly original way. This leads him to fame, fortune and freedom, w...
the deceased woman no longer has voluntary motion or sensory perception, but she is part of nature, which has sweeping grandeur in...
object and made it extraordinary: "the tomato offers/ its gift/ of fiery color/ and cool completeness" (82-85). Ode to a Storm: T...
faun, so that he participates in the creation of the work (Betz, 1996). The faun cannot decide if he has been dreaming or not, but...
on the beauty of the scene. The Romantics tended to be introspective, while also placing emphasis on beauty of everyday life, rath...
has received a considerable amount of attention. Eighteenth century critics argued in favor of viewing the poem as fundamentally p...
opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...
readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...