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center of the work is that which relates to length and depth. This is the longest poem in the work and it is a poem that deeply an...

in colonial America and grew impressively after the Revolution, with ship production centering on the East River (NY Maritime Cult...

the natural surroundings, with the death of a powerful man. More often than not we, as human beings, keep memories of such powerfu...

. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has...

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

With the plain-speaking simplicity that was his trademark, Whitman constructed this poem in such a rhythmic way that it could be s...

printers apprentice and then went on to work as a journeyman printer and a teacher (Books and Writers). Following that period of...

drug addict living a life very similar to Sonnys. : "Thats right, he said quickly, aint nothing you can do. Cant much help old Son...

12, Whitman was indoctrinated in the printers trade (AAP). It was at this time that he fell in love with words, and began to read ...

and insights as previous nature poets and against the threat of a materialism that seems to be viewed as a destructive force capab...

tells his readers to "undrape," because, to him, no one is guilty of shame or worthy of being discarded (line 145). Everyone and e...

now" (Whitman, 2005). Clearly, this illustrates his belief that heaven and hell are right here on earth, which was a very controv...

Whitmans, just that the ones being examined do not examine that same sort of subject matter. In Whitmans The Ox-Tamer the poet s...

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

This is not to say that the influence of European authors was not discernible in the work of these authors. For example, Melvill...

also what was happening in the world at-large. For example, OBrien relates the ideological thrust of Cinderella to the perceived...

for her considerable work and success as the CEO of eBay. However, Whitman was not always a part of this international internet ph...

that a womans association with a man is what defined women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet, Emily was le...

however, this relationship can also be shown by examining three representative poems: specifically, "The Wind begun to knead the ...

61). Symbolism is the use of one thing to stand for or suggest another; a falling leaf to symbolize death, for example. And langua...

to the reader the non-literal meaning of his poem With figurative language, Frost includes specific characters into this poem. ...

is he doesnt necessarily find much of anything on the final journey. Though he finally adapts himself back to humanity following h...

it becomes docile, perhaps nothing, without the power of men. It waits at its stable to be ridden once more. We see how she relate...

his moment in nature (Wakefield 354). But while the first stanza ends the implied assumption that the poet need not concern hims...

are only 4-6 lines in length. "Contemplations" begins as what we might call a nature poem, describing the way in which the sun lig...

Dickinson wrote numerous poems and many times enclosed those original poems in letters which she wrote to friends. She wasnt reco...

To an admiring Bog! (846). The subject matter features a person who feels inwardly lonely who does not wish to advertise h...

that in the process of dying Dickinson believed there were senses, and perhaps there were senses upon death as well. But that sens...

held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...

that both of these individuals were perhaps depressed, at least a few times in their lives, and thus their work examined the darke...