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"After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes," "This is My Letter to the World," "I Had Been Hungry," and "They Shut Me Up in Prose,"...

really saw his last wife as a person in her own right, but rather regarded her just one more beautiful "object" that he owned and ...

In seven pages this paper examines the epic 'Beowulf' in a consideration of the poetic oral tradition. Seven sources are cited in...

Friendship, within which the members each assumed classical pseudonyms. Katherine was known as Orinda," and in her "her poetry, sh...

poem. The rhyming pattern is alternately free form and occasional standard abab. It follows the pattern of iambic pentameter of ...

and might even change the future history for succeeding generations. He states that he remembers the Trail of Tears, yet qualifies...

The truths of our lives are such that we often see only a part for a time and perhaps even forever. Even those truths...

was the spirit of Zen, as he drew his imagery from the "taproots" of the earth, the presence of a moment (Hassain, 1995). The "su...

places her love at the basest level of daily life. She needs her love as she needs water to drink or air to breath. The love in fa...

In five pages this paper examines such events as the Dane's nation rise, attack of Heorot, hero's arrival in Heorot, Heorot feast,...

to immortality" (73). The Civil War was being fought during Dickinsons most fertile period of creativity, and the deaths of many ...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the Sharon Olds' poem 'Sex Without Love' with Raymond Carver's short story 'What W...

done about those who suffered, those simple cultural people who were victims of the civilized world (Castillo 40-45). This...

the "music" of nature and is part of a continuous cycle. This poem concludes "How can we know the dancer from the dance" (line 64)...

soon scaped worlds and fleshs rage" (Jonson 6-7). In this the reader sees a rationalization that almost seems to be envy as the na...

gap through which women continued to receive and even some praise from men in regards to their abilities as writers (Reichhold). ...

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

in tone, but still harbors the undercurrent that there is reason to dread. The poem describes the "soote" (sweet) season of spring...

selected one thing (one person, one book, she is not specific) and close her attention to all others. However, the "Soul" is not...

ethical judgements. While the students perhaps though that these old people are no longer young and can offer nothing of value to ...

action so that the reader can easily imagine its intensity. It is a strikingly vivid image. Likewise, Frost is famous for his im...

kingdom of heaven is similar to a field in which a man has sown good seed. The "good seed" are righteous people who will come to b...

Good Play" the poem is far more simplistic in relationship to how children think and play as the poems narrator states, "We built ...

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

Mines of gold/Or the riches that the East doth h old" (Bradstreet 5-6). Similarly, Browning begins her famous sonnet by writing th...

(Faulkner). In the story of Miss Brill one does not see her as a tradition of the people, a sort of monument to an Old South bec...

try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...

but his folk heritage as well. "Hughes made the spirituals, blues, and jazz the bases of his poetic expression. Hughes wrote, he c...

and symbolism. As Arnold embraces God along with the seas that the maker has created, he questions things. The church is often the...

this poem is that of the universal anguish of being bound and imprisoned, no matter what the age. And, in a very real sense he is ...