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Women's Search for Independence in 3 Works: Finding Happiness

This essay discusses 3 works: which are a poem by Gwendolyn Brook, "The Beam Eaters"; a short story by Kate Chopin, "The Story of ...

"A Subaltern's Love Song" - Post-Colonial Symbolism

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "A Subaltern's Love Song" by Betjeman. Symbols of post-colonial significance are de...

Donne and Marvell on Seduction

This essay analyzes Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" and John Donne's "The Flea" and offers the writer's reaction to these a...

"Goblin Market" Interpretations

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at "Goblin Market". Social and Biblical interpretations are presented for the poem. Pap...

Societal Criticism, Browning and Swift

This essay pertains to Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," published in 1729, and Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess, Ferra...

Modernist Approaches in 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot

modernist writing was meant as a contrast to the traditional approach in that it could recognize how fast the world was changing a...

Readings on Family Reunion Theme

generation, perceiving life and important family relationships very differently. They do not come from the same position, in terms...

'Song to a Waitress' by Aron Kessbury

demand. Kessbury does not employ rhyme in this stanza. In fact, he only employs rhyme once in the poem, in the last two lines, w...

'Song of Myself,' 'When I Read the Book,' and 'One's Self I Sing' by Walt Whitman

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

Analysis of 'Ode on Melancholy' and 'To Autumn' by John Keats

Age of Reason: Experiencing the Poetry of Wordsworth and Keats). In this poem Keats also brings sounds into play in a very power...

'Salut au Monde!' by Walt Whitman

are structured in the form of questions, which are subsequently answered throughout the poem (Holloway 147-148). His declaration ...

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The House of Fame' and its Dream Sequence

it will portray a bizarre but, perhaps, epic journey. But determining what connections may exist between all the elements of the d...

Symbolism Analysis of Gwendolyn Brooks' 'The Life of Lincoln'

In three pages this paper analyzes the symbolism of Gwendolyn Brooks' poem 'The Life of Lincoln.' One source is cited in the bibl...

Literature about the Blues and Jazz

where responses were made, which in turn may also be seen to have cross overs with gospel music. The aspect in which blues...

Chaucer, Beowulf, and Lifestyles

rural lifestyle. Lacey and Danziger comment that the popular image of the medieval hall, with its rush-covered floor and central f...

Emily Dickinson's 'I Dwell in Possibility' (#657)

Throughout this we see that she is presenting the reader with a look at nature, as well as manmade structures, clearly indicating ...

'First Follow Nature and 'An Essay on Criticism' by Alexander Pope

writes in lines 11 through 14: "In Poets as true Genius is but rare, / True Taste as seldom is the Critics share; / Both must alik...

Setting in 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Raven' and 'The Oval Portrait' by Edgar Allan Poe

tales. While "The Oval Portrait" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are distinctive in setting they share certain simil...

'Eyes That Last I Saw in Tears' by T.S. Eliot

is seeing the eyes in the present, which is "Here in deaths dream kingdom." Again, alliteration, this time with /d/, makes the lin...

Homer and the Old Testament

holds the Greeks captive in his cave, into allowing them to escape by first blinding his one eye while he sleeps. However, Odysseu...

Comparison Between John Keats' 'On Seeing the Elgin Marbles' and 'Ozymandias' by Percy Bysshe Shelley

human rulers answers to the sands of time. The message: Power is temporary. Nature is forever. This is a common theme among Roma...

Form and Structure of Emily Dickinson's Poetry

the last line which states the following: "Ah, what sagacity perished here!" (Dickinson 1-3, 11). This is a poem that is obviou...

Analyzing Sylvia Plath's Poetic Voice

scared woman. While she is now grown and teetering on the brink of emotional despair, she recalls both the idolatry and anger of ...

Live Burial Theme in Edgar Allan Poe's Writings

stupor, Montressor begins to wall him in...alive. As Fortunato begins to sober up and realize what is going on he begins to scream...

Shades of Anger, Rafeef Ziadah

This paper offers a summary, analysis and background information on Rafeef Ziadah's poem "Shades of Anger," which expresses the po...

Poetic Comparison of Robert Frost's 'Meeting and Passing,' 'The Road Not Taken,' and 'An Old Man's Winter Night'

it was / That brought him to that creaking room was age. / He stood with barrels round him -- at a loss. / And having scared the c...

Robert Frost and Life Lessons

This essay pertains to the poetry of Robert Frost and discusses two poems: "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy...

Thematic Analysis of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'

lifted, they decided that it had been the bird that caused the fog and they praised the Mariner for seeing through it all. Then, h...

Feminist Critique of Robert Browning's 'Porphyria's Lover'

her own hair so that she will remain his forever, and be forever trapped in that role of loving him completely. It...

Robert Lowell and Bob Dylan

began to write what came to be called "confessional poetry," which is defined as "an undisguised exposure of painful personal even...