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Francois Villon's 'Testament' and the Theme of Death

In 10 pages this 15th century poem is examined in terms of its rather surprising modern treatment of death that was contrary to Ch...

Emily Dickinson's Life and Influences oh Her Poetry

This paper looks at ways in which Dickinson defined life through her poetry. The author identifies common themes in her work and ...

'The Odyssey' by Homer, the Book of Genesis, Retribution and Faith

In a paper consisting of six pages this paper examines how the themes of faith anf retribution are reprsented in the 'Noah and the...

Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'The Triumph of Life'

In six pages this paper selects an ending for this Percy Bysshe Shelley poem with a justification provided. One source is listed ...

The Antiwar Poetry of W.H. Auden

In a paper consisting of four pages the ways in which Auden relied upon early forms of poetic diction to express his modern antiwa...

'Sailing to Byzantium' by Poet William Butler Yeats

Symbolism and meaning are considered in this analysis of the poem 'Sailing to Byzantium' by W.B. Yeats in 5 pages. There are no o...

'Beowulf' and Christian Beliefs

emphatically Christian as in a tone mildly so" (125). John Niles has written that "Attempts to show a specific correlation betw...

'Before the Birth of One of Her Children' by Anne Bradshaw

a considerable bond of love between Bradstreet and her husband. It is because of this bond that when she mentions the possibility...

Narrative of 'Mending Wall' by Robert Frost

In five pages this paper presents a brief biography of Robert Frost and then presents an analysis of the narrative poem 'Mending W...

Edwin Arlington Robinson's 'Richard Cory'

than they did many years ago, that people who appear happy and content are not always happy and content. Being wealthy and handsom...

Examination and Analysis of 'Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening' and 'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost

a poem that examines ones past and the choices made, as well as a poem that presents the narrator with two obvious choices. In a l...

'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell and Imagery

In the first half of the poem, Marvell describes time as he would have it if he could. He states, "Had we but world enough and tim...

Portrayal of Time in Works by Terence Davies and T.S. Eliot

his films. In so doing we look at one line from the film and two lines from Eliots poem. Lily states, "I thought that I could ma...

John Keats and Ernest Hemingway

desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....

My Last Duchess/Robert Browning

as it relates to obsession and silent women. The poem begins, very pleasantly as the narrator seems to merely be giving the li...

'Dialogue between the Soul and the Body' by Andrew Marvell

the Body, that is, as the force that gives the Body motion and life. However, Marvell stipulates in parenthesis that "(A fever cou...

'Big Black Car' by Lynn Emanuel

As Emanuel describes the interior of the car, and her reluctance to ride in it, she employs language that suggests that the car is...

t.s. eliot's 'The Waste Land' and Maud Ellmann's 'A Sphinx Without a Secret'

itself and thus establish its own limits" (261). This, necessarily, involves the collapse of boundaries, which can be "sexual, nat...

Summary and Tonal Analysis of 'Salvation' by Langston Hughes

oppression could flourish" (Langston Hughes 1902) - has a hard time realizing how religion serves any other purpose than to latch ...

Intimacy, Love, and Sex

(Corey and Corey 180). For heterosexuals and homosexuals alike, "Love is elusive... a goal we rarely achieve and, when we do, fin...

William Wordsworth and Luigi Pirandello

director, "having created us alive, then no longer wished, or was he able, to put us materially into a work of art. And this, sir,...

Poetic Analysis of 'The Battle of Frogs and Mice'

for either side. However, even though the plot is simple, the way the poem is written is deliberately heroic, and is very much ...

Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself' and Religion

much that is god-like in human beings. It is humanity hes celebrating. Kuebrich believes "that Whitmans work is not only religio...

Nature Imagery in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston and William Wordsworth

are not representative of nature and he finds refreshment and nourishment in his memories, and now in his seeing nature again. ...

'Smile' in the Poetry of Robert Browning and Dorothy Parker

the Duchess to show pleasure. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Wheneer I passed her, but who passed without Much the same smile? Th...

Homer's 'The Iliad' and Achilles' Shield

of mortal men exceeding fair" (18.490). The image of "two cities" mirrors the basic plot of the Iliad, which is a ten-year-long ...

'Cross' by Langston Hughes

her well" (lines 4-8). This substantiates the forgiveness and understanding that the speaker already has indicated towards his fat...

'Boundless Moment' by Robert Frost

and real images, illustrating his understanding of how poetics could work, how placement of words, creating imagery and also a str...

Poetry of Frank O'Hara

help keep me in New York against coercion/ but now Im happy for a time and interested" (OHara 1-8). This is sort of a free form...

'A Work of Artifice' by Marge Piercy

curlers, the hands you love to touch" (Piercy 75). a. The poem denotes cultural symbols. b. Symbols include bound feet an...