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

Dutch, and darst thou lay/ Thee in ships wooden sepulchres, a prey/ To leaders rage, to storms, to shot, to dearth?/ Darst thou di...

physical and emotional well being for the sake of his art. His erratic behavior became increasingly evident around 1575 when Tass...

is said that much great poetry and other works of art are born of great pain. This may certainly have been the case in Arthur Lark...

certain meanings through word choices. For example, Frost uses the imagery of the forest to illustrate the "snags" we al...

lover on the edge of being lost. Donne promises that lover that if she abides with the callers wished she will be rewarded with g...

is seeing the eyes in the present, which is "Here in deaths dream kingdom." Again, alliteration, this time with /d/, makes the lin...

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

sooner will his race be run, / And nearer hes to setting" (lines 7-8). In this manner, Herrick sets up an ever-increasing sense of...

ignorant about its history. He is also a simple fisherman. The conflict in the story predominately revolves around Achille and Hec...

unspoiled by either man or society? In "The Tiger," Blake appears to be pondering the marvels of the world while at the same time...

wide" (line 6) is empowering, freeing, and infinitely entertaining. From the time that his first book of verse for children was ...

other poets of the time by rejecting modernism. As this poem demonstrates, Frost frequently drew his imagery from nature. While m...

immersed in his indolence (Keats 9). These figures appear to be figures he envisions on an urn, evasive yet real figures that urge...

and writers in his extensive travels (Lutz 23). Linking him to traditions that span back to Odysseus, Harold is essentially in sea...

a specific time or age. While romanticism will be prominent in certain epochs, because in its essential characteristics it is a sp...

as we do not think--We remain there a long while, and notwithstanding the doors of the second Chamber remain wide open, showing a ...

keeping out all of the world that she does not desire to experience or see or meet. This is further emphasized by the third and fo...

In two pages this essay analyzes this love poem in terms of the poet's descriptive language and its emotional attributes. There i...

In six pages the ways in which Poe's poems 'Lenore,' 'The Raven,' 'Annabel Lee,' and 'To Helen' are influenced by the deaths of th...

just a few words (McConnell). The first stanza shows the thesis. The soul or the individual person is sovereign in deciding who ...

In six pages this paper examines how poetry can be used to express a poet's crisis in 'Lady Lazarus' by Sylvia Plath and 'My Life ...

In five pages Robinson's poem is analyzed in terms of the poet's use of irony as a way of revealing how a wealthy man's life can b...

awhile as an architect before devoting himself to literature as a full-time vocation. He married in 1874, and within ten years, t...

Although Paul Laurence Dunbar was born nearly a century after Wheatley's death, the two authors share common traits other than the...

In ten pages John Donne's poetry including 'Valediction Forbidding Mourning,' 'The Sunne Rising,' and 'The Anniversary' are exami...

In eight pages this paper examines how lawlessness is thematically expressed by John Keats in his 'Robin Hood' poem and how this ...

In four pages this paper argues that the poet's uses of 'light' involve loss of life in terms of the fighting for life and grief o...

In three pages this poem is analyzed in its depiction of loving women, the life cycle, death's inevitability, and the loss of inno...

In five pages this poem is analyzed in terms of the poet's employment of imagery and the reasons for its complexity. Two sources ...