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Fame, Fate and Destiny in “Beowulf”

believes, would seal his everlasting fame (Irving 86). The poem championed Beowulfs desire for fame as a badge of honor: "In all ...

Poetic Explication of Robert Burns’ “A Red, Red Rose”

of four lines known as quatrains, and each stanza comprised of alternating iambs or an unstressed syllable immediately followed by...

Comparative Analysis of John Keats’ Poem ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ and Bob Dylan’s Song ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’

ship" (Dylan). Though phrased differently, each poet is illustrating how inspiration can take the artist away to different places...

Shakespeare/Sonnet 73

spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next fou...

Original Poem Patterned After Psalm 73

This three page original poem is inspired by psalm 73, but takes a present day perspective. No surces are cited....

Phenomenal Woman

this particular poem. In many ways it is a poem that illustrates how far she has come in relationship to her self confidence as on...

The Four Zoas by William Blake

of them all, the Sumerian Gilgamesh. Its not that Blake copied anyone, but his poem tends to evoke some of the same feelings in a ...

Marcella Durand and Her Vision of The Clocktower

after that mentions color; and then, finally, there is this: "Assisted by bells the next character enters" (Durand 83). Durand may...

The Host by Heyen

a leech, which is the "host" (Heyen 24). "They would grow together, if the snapper lived" (Heyen 25). In this one can well argue t...

Analysis of Carl Sandburg's Poetry

hobo before he was twenty, and even served a rotation in the Spanish-American War(Academy of Poets). This experience was...

'February Afternoon' by Edward Thomas

themes of love, this became the preferred style of World War I poets like Edward Thomas. One of his most poignant verses is "Febr...

'The Telephone' and 'Mending Wall' by Robert Frost

gaps I mean,/ No one has seen them made or heard them made,/ But at spring mending-time we find them there" (Frost 9-11). In th...

Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Mythical Monsters

means by which to punish him for past indiscretions. Mans first instinct is to provide for his own preservation, to tend to his o...

Old Age as Viewed by Eliot and Frost

his mind tends to wander, that he has forgotten that the boy who helped him a few years earlier is off at school. Mary explains ho...

William Cullen Bryant's 'The Prairies' and 'To a Waterfowl'

old and his first book at age 13 (Yarborough). In short, he was a prodigy who might have been destined for greater things, had he ...

'Wild Night Wild Nights' by Emily Dickinson and 'Earth! My Likeness' by Walt Whitman

of the key phrases in these lines is "Were I with thee," which indicates that the poet is not with her beloved. It is the fact th...

The Heroism of Beowulf

turbulent in respect to British history ("Angelcynn" PG). It was a time when England was first created, and the time of King Arth...

Poetry and its Elements

a big messy bowl of goop. In the same way, the placement of words, especially in the poem, can be said to be very important. There...

Argument in 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' by William Blake

one can tell that the Angels of Heaven are stoic, devoid of emotion, limited, and conformity. Blake, himself, makes an appearance ...

'Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot

merely an attendant. Prufrock states, "No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;/Am an attendant loud, one that will do/To ...

Comparing Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai with Homer's 'The Iliad'

heroic ideal of the young and noble combatant who appears to be destined to die at an early age on the battlefield. Achilleus is ...

Poetic Analysis of William Butler Yeats' 'Come Gather Round Me, Parnellites'

Indeed, it is these characteristics which may account for Yeats continuing appeal to readers who dont normally pay much attention ...

'The Flea' by John Donne, Meaning and Metaphor

imagery and emotional intensity alone, but by considering the social context that they grew out of and how they address it, a whol...

'Michael Robartes and the Dancer' by Irish Poet William Butler Yeats

poem despite the metaphysical airs assumed by Michael Robartes. In this poem, Yeats expresses the concept that can be concisely ...

'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages 'The Raven' is subjected to a poetic explication and a thesis that Poe's life is reflected in this haunting poem. T...

Comfort and Sorrow in Book of Songs

In five pages this paper examines how these poems evoke realization of social sorrows while also considering comfort through under...

Canadian Prairie Literature and Robert Kroetsch

In five pages this paper discusses the postmodernism and garrison mentality featured in the 'Seed Catalogue' poem by Robert Kroets...

Poetic Explication of John Keats' 'Ode to a Grecian Urn'

In five pages this poem is analyzed in terms of the narrator, symbols, images, figures of speech, and tone. Three other sources a...

Chivalry, the Heroic Conflict, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

In five pages this paper discusses the chivalric code and heroic conflicts within the context of this epic Medieval poem. Three o...

Metaphor in the Work of E. E. Cummings

This essay provides a reading of the classic Cummings' poem, "somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond." The aut...