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lingers, then erased, Wisdom grasped and then replaced With new wisdoms, no time for decay. Where is permanence? Useless Next to ...

This essay presents a character sketch of the narrator in "The ABC of Aerobics," a poem by Peter Meinke. Three pages in length, th...

In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at "Tithonus". The theme of immortality is examined through looking at the poem's mechan...

This essay offers analysis of "Boy at the Window" by Richard Wilbur. The writer focuses on the compelling nature of the poem's ima...

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...

or how one human engages another. Frost is merely using nature as a setting, a natural setting, that emphasizes choices that human...

and be a part of it, she feels her connection with "everything" (line 11), which means she perceives the world in terms of connec...

somewhere hes never gone before and that the woman (lets assume for this exercise that the beloved is his wife) is able to enclose...

kind. It is, or can be, a far more positive thought than the thought which is fear. When reading the poems, however,...

optimistic poet beyond this interpretation of his most famous work, which causes the work to stand out in a questionable way. Inde...

the very antithesis of natural ("fleshly" or "bodily") love. Similarly, Taylor reframes the natural death of a wasp in the cold as...

has received a considerable amount of attention. Eighteenth century critics argued in favor of viewing the poem as fundamentally p...

readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...

opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...

job turns into one where Clarice is no longer just interviewing serial killers such as Lecter, but she is told to use Lecter to ga...

until a water snake slithered by. Panicked and briefly forgetting about the traveler on his back, Puff-jaw dove, which threw the ...

to believe that his elevated social standing makes him actually superior to anyone else. This perception definitely includes his w...

God and religion for answers to life struggles in a sense. Bradstreets poem begins as she slowly comes to sink into the fact that ...

Wheatleys poem begins, "Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,/ Taught my benighted soul to understand/ That theres a God, that...

at the same time the calmness of it all makes it quite dramatic. The narrator does not see the action as dramatic, however, and si...

people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...

scanned text files, featured a scanned version Frank St. Vincents important exposition of the poem that was first published in Exp...

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...

the point of their clothing which was powerfully restrictive. In this poem the narrator states, "Aunt Jennifers tigers prance ac...

break all the rules and express his artistic vision in his own highly original way. This leads him to fame, fortune and freedom, w...