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'Kubla Khan' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

that in the summer of 1797, he retired in "ill health" to a "lonely farmhouse between Porlock and Linton" (231). Because of a "sli...

Nature Poetry of Robert Frost

In six pages this research paper analyzes how nature is used in Robert Frost's poems 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,' 'Mend...

Emily Dickinson's 'I Years Had Been From Home'

clue which would support this idea might be the first few lines where she discusses returning to a previously held thought, idea, ...

'Harlem' by Langston Hughes

questions rather than declarative sentences. Also Hansen (2002) points out that the tentative "maybe," which is part of this sole...

Alice Cary's 'The West Country' Poem

"The West Country" from an operative structure standpoint, it is perhaps even more useful to analyze this poem from a thematic sta...

Mary Robinson's Feminist Poem 'The Lamentation of Marie Antoinette'

Robinsons poem, Marie Antoinettes Lamentation, the language and the way in which she uses it conveys more than mere description, i...

'In An Artist Studio' by Christina Rossetti Explicated

the nude for an artist, or a class of artists, they become very modest when the session is over. Indeed, artist models are often q...

Whitman Poetic Comparison of A Noiseless Patient Spider, Drum Taps, and Song of Myself

for repetition and free flowing verse to express his ideas and was considered not only exceptional because of these elements but a...

A Reading of Emily Dickinson's Poem #632

serves to draw the readers attention to this word and give it added emphasis. They break up the lines in such a way that mimics th...

John Donne's Seventeenth Century Love Poetry

in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest ;...

Robert Frost's 'Now Close the Windows'

theme (including any symbolism and imagery), and the technical aspects of rhythm, rhyme, and meter. Frost tended to use both categ...

Four Poems by Sesshu Foster

the title. The alliteration between "caffeinated" and "concrete" emphasizes the rolling rhythm of the line. The reference to caffe...

Poetic Spiders

seems to be making a statement about independence of spirit, but an involvement with mankind. "I markd where on a little promontor...

'Don Juan' by Lord Byron

his own set of biases that he probably brought into the telling of the story, and it can be assumed that he did not have as good a...

'She Had Some Horses' by Joy Harjo

a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...

Gwendolyn Brooks - Truth

to extract the universal truth from this poem, it would have to be that human condition which asks mankind to be quite careful wha...

Imagery in Poetry by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Christina Rossetti

the bird with his crossbow. With this act, which apparently was motivated by pure blood-lust, the Mariner sins not only ag...

Petrarchan Love Poetry of Lady Mary Wroth and John Donne

The first lines of "The Canonization" read: "For Gods sake hold your tongue and leg me love/ Or chide my palsy, or my gout,/ My fi...

Fish Symbolism in Elizabeth Bishop's 'The Fish'

the perhaps an understanding of fate, on the part of the fish. We are further offered an understanding that the fish is old in the...

Analysis of Robert Frost's Poem 'Design'

holding a moth that it has caught. The spider holds it up. The flower, the spider, and the moth together represent life and death....

e.e. cummings' poem 'In Just'

are happy and playing and skipping and singing, that seems to make sense but is very lilting and nonsensical in many ways. This is...

'To An Athlete Dying Young' by A.E. Housman

has died. Beginning in the third stanza, the poet discusses the death and again addresses the deceased directly. He says the youn...

Los and Grief Expressed in Poetry

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...

Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself' and Religion

much that is god-like in human beings. It is humanity hes celebrating. Kuebrich believes "that Whitmans work is not only religio...

'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...

'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 ...

Robert Browning, Edgar Allan Poe, and Their Narrators' Unreliability

says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...

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...

Donne and Marvell on Seduction

This essay analyzes Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" and John Donne's "The Flea" and offers the writer's reaction to these a...

"Home Burial" by Robert Frost

This essay presents a comprehensive overview of the poem that analyzes its content and draws on scholarly opinion as substantiatio...