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O. Henry/Gift of the Magi

being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...

Symbolism in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"

/ Arrayed of the Round Table rightful brothers ... / the feast was in force full fifteen days" (37-39, 44). They are celebrating t...

The Function of Religion in Dante's "Inferno"

which he lived when he says that the poem is not the result of Dantes inner contemplation, "it is rooted in the immediate Christia...

Karr’s A Blessing from My Sixteen Years’ Son

ring, and how he is seemingly unscathed with no broken bones or scars (Karr 20-21). She notes how "Someday soon, the tether/ will ...

Personal Statement - What Children Mean To Me

day, children come to our classrooms. Some are more ready to learn than others, some are more excited about learning than others b...

Sherman Alexie’s On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City

time" (Alexie 34-36). This is a summation of the conflict of the modern Native, from the eyes of the narrator, today. It speaks of...

Out, Out by Robert Frost

the wood is in the air and one can see the beauty of the mountains if they only looked up. It is a beautiful image and one that cl...

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Comparison/Contrast

the condition of oppression and restrictive realities. This is the symbolic premise of the poem. From this perspective the African...

Explication: "Scenes from the Playroom"

latest goldfish gamely swims" (Gwynn). The ink will poison the fish, but the worst part of it is that this is only the "latest" in...

Beowulf

While there is a sense of pride, it is not an arrogant pride or a pride that is only involved in self for Beowulf is proud of bein...

'Here, Bullet' by Brian Turner

about being killed in war, or losing a friend in the war, but also how one can lose themselves to such a degree that death is the ...

'Nothing is Lost' by Anne Ridler

a mystical quality that makes us think about what shes saying. Shes packed a lot of thought into a very few lines. The poem is par...

'Childhood' by Maura Stanton

ceiling of my house where I could walk around in empty rooms all by myself"(Stanton). Everything in this place would be quie...

'My Papa's Waltz' by Theodore Roethke and Child Abuse

and bravery and excitement. They beg for it many times as they beg to be spun like an airplane or hung upside down. They trust the...

Definition of an American and Homelessness

91). The first threatening wave of homelessness swept America between the years 1820 and 1860, when more than five million immigr...

Culture in Alberto Rios's Nani and Marilyn Chin's Turtle Soup

the person who is coming home from work: Chin then directly enters into the conversation as an outside voice addressing the "Bab...

Human Soul's Journey in 'The Waste Land' by T.S. Eliot

trees will give no shelter and the crickets, no relief" (Wasteland by TS Eliot). When looking at this particular reference one c...

Derek Walcott's 'Omeros' Theoretically Studied

spiritual awakening. CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EPIC POEM: Epic poems all share similar characteristics which define them as such. Fo...

Poetic Analysis of Robert Frost's 'The Road Not Taken'

a world of what might have been is not healthy. Therefore, he is suggesting that when one determines a course of action, that one ...

'Before I Knocked' by Dylan Thomas

is connected (18 poems, 1934, 2004). This colored his religious orientation and is evident in the religious symbolism in "Before I...

Prufrock's Character in 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot

be a lover and an optimist. But we begin to see images of tension in the fact that he describes the evening sky spread out as "a p...

Hayden, Roethke, and Silverstein Compared

the euphemism waltz to indicate the routine beatings which occurred. Lastly, in Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden, another t...

'Paradise Lost' by John Milton and the Importance of Obedience and Freedom

to have stood, though free to fall" (Milton Book III). In this we see that Adam had the freedom to make a choice, and in that free...

Dissonance in AJM Smith's 'The Lonely Land'

certain that the reader has not missed the implication. Note that in the lines leading up to the "beauty of dissonance" th...

John Keats' 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'

the viewer. The next stanzas, however, bring the reader and the viewer, a more sobering message. In comparison to the characters ...

A.E. Houseman: To An Athlete Dying Young

won your town the race x / x /...

Emily Dickinson's 'The Soul Selects Hew Own Society' and Imagery

keeping out all of the world that she does not desire to experience or see or meet. This is further emphasized by the third and fo...

The Dead and the Living by Sharon Olds

suggests, there is often a political context to Olds observations. For example, in "The Death of Marilyn Monroe," Olds suggests ...

T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land' and the Contemporary World

world was worth living in. Interestingly enough, one critic indicates that this is where Eliot uses the symbolism of the Holy G...

Robert Browning's Dramatic Monologues in 'My Last Duchess' and 'Porphyria's Lover'

angry or even vengeful, but sedate and sullen. But, there is also the element of natural violence as well in the symbolic presence...