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Poem Explication: Convergence of the Twain by Thomas Hardy

This 5 page paper is a line-by-line explication of the poem The Convergence of the Twain, by Thomas Hardy. The writer explores the...

'The Lotos Eaters' by Alfred Tennyson

This analysis consists of ten pages and considers the poem's relationship to the Romantic period and also compares and contasts th...

Analysis: The Rock by Wallace Stevens

This 6 page paper analyzes Wallace Stevens' poem The Rock in terms of the way the poet discusses alternate realities. The writer a...

A Gilgamesh Analysis

a feast of rejoicing, as well as to keep himself clean and well groomed; he is to cherish his children and his wife (Radcliffe PG)...

Analysis of 'The Tyger' by William Blake

propelling them forward, as does the rhyme and the rhythm. The steady short-long cadence of the rhythm is, in this context, like a...

Romanticism in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins

argued that poetry is the expression of ones very soul, encompassing many emotions, feelings and desires that can range from one e...

Macabre Themes in the Works of Robert Frost

of his mind and spirit working in tandem to overcome natures obstacles as well as the more primitive creatures on the Earth. Frost...

Nature and the Poems of Emily Dickinson

This paper looks at Dickinson's views about and relationship with nature through a reading of several of her poems. The author lo...

Rap and the Rap Culture

The writer discusses the connection between the Old English epic poem Beowulf and today's rap culture. The writer argues that alth...

'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe

In six pages an explication of 'Annabel Lee' considers how the rhythm of the rhyme, word repetition, and setting/imagery articulat...

Ideology and 'Englishness'

values within, England holds itself it is in less than positive light. Indeed, it can readily be argued that this is his right an...

'Patterns' by Amy Lowell

This paper consists of four pages and discusses the characterization of the speaker and the poem's connotation, rhythm, diction, a...

Social Commentary's Dark Side

In six pages this paper discusses the dark side of social commentary and how the writers reflect their respective societies in Tom...

Wordsworth/Ode, Intimations of Immortality

he disavows his grief, which "does the season wrong" (line 26). It is spring, the "heart of May" (line 31), and Wordsworth will no...

Romantic Poetry

A 4 page essay that discusses examples of Romantic verse. In the early nineteenth century, artists rebelled against restrictions o...

Rhina Espaillat: Bilingual/Bilingüe

States when she was seven. Her poetry then is an attempt to reconcile the extremes that come from living in two cultures simultane...

Bilingual/Bilingüe - A Poem about Belonging

to the United States when she was seven. Her poetry then is an attempt to reconcile the extremes that come from living in two cult...

Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold

misery" (lines 17-18). By the fourth stanza, the positive attitude of the first lines is completely gone, as the speaker compares ...

Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock/Eliot

Song is an aging man who longs for love, particularly courtly love that fits with his expectations of both women and love....

"Handmade Shoes" by Liam Rector

a figurative level, the poet is inviting the reader to take his perspective, to figuratively "walk in his shoes" and, thereby, lea...

"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...

The Epic “Beowulf”

present Beowulf as a young hero, who is called upon by his fathers old friend King Hrothgar of Geatland, to defend his subjects ag...

Three Poets: Dickinson, Frost and Hughes

safe place: the dead are "untouched" beneath their rafters of satin and roofs of stone (Dickinson). They wait motionless for the r...

Comparative Analysis of Poems by Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Langston Hughes

likens the process of death to an innocuous fly buzzing. In other words, instead of being a mysterious occurrence, it is a proces...

Death and Poetic Attitudes of Davis, Thomas, and Donne

people pity the dead, not Death itself. In the end Donnes message is that there is little reason to fear death and that in the end...

Comparing 'The Lamb' and 'The Tyger' by William Blake

the very truth of human nature -- which is why they are often painful to accept. Indeed, his work represents all that is the huma...

Romanticism and Lord Byron

shivering in the gale/ The bark unfurls her snowy sail/ And whistling oer the bending mast/Loud sings n high the freshning blast" ...

Evil as Defined by 19th Century English Romantic Poet William Blake

abnegates any evil whatsoever. Blake seems to believe, as one can readily determine from a study of his other works, that evil is...

Emily Dickinson's Poem, 'My Life Had Stood-A Loaded Gun'

the title is clearly a powerful statement and use of words. Another critic dissects Dickinsons poem and offers the following: "The...

Summary and Tonal Analysis of 'Salvation' by Langston Hughes

oppression could flourish" (Langston Hughes 1902) - has a hard time realizing how religion serves any other purpose than to latch ...