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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...

"The Scarlet Letter" and the Subversion of Puritanism

the entire monologue with a sense of poetics, inviting one to study the words more deeply in search of a hidden meaning. This idea...

"The Great Gatsby" and the Pursuit of Hollow Dreams

value into ultimately empty goals; this is indicated by the comparison of Gatsbys quest for Daisy with the "American dream" itself...

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 ...

Great Expectations - An Analysis of Themes

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at Great Expectations. Explications of quotes are used to give insights into themes. P...

Foucault and Arendt - A Reconciliation

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at Arendt and Foucault. An explication is made which reconciles their basic philosophie...

Four Poems, Summary and Analysis

This essay offers summary and analysis of four poems which begin by offering a comparison of two companion poems from Songs of Inn...

“How to Write the Great American Indian Novel” by Alexie

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Alexie’s “How to Write the Great American Indian Novel”. An explication is carried ...

"Locked Ward, Newtown, Connecticut by Rachel Loden

This essay is an explication of "Locked Ward: Newtown, Connecticut" by Rachel Loden. The writer bases this discussion on the assum...

'Woodchucks' by Maxine Kumin

little bit of cyanide gas, and awake to begin eating the farmers vegetables. The verbs used to describe what the woodchucks did t...

'The Good Man in Hell' Poem by Edward Muir

In four pages a poetic explication of this poem by Edward Muir is presented. There is no bibliography included....

'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe

In seven pages this poetic explication reveals how Poe was able to achieve his morbid atmosphere through the literary elements of ...

'As Imperceptibly As Grief' by Emily Dickinson

In three pages this paper provides an explication of Emily Dickinson's poem. There are no other sources listed....

'The Soul Selects Her Own Society' by Emily Dickinson

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

Structural Analysis of 'Sonnet 72' by Sir Philip Sidney

In five pages Astrophel and Stella by Sir Philip Sidney is the focus of this analysis of 'Sonnet 72' that includes a poetic explic...

Analysis: The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy

This 6 page paper is a detailed explication of Thomas Hardy's poem, The Darkling Thrush. The writer argues that Hardy is using na...

'Devolution of the Nude' by Lynne McMahon

In five pages this paper presents an explication of 'Devolution of the Nude' by Lynne McMahon. There is no bibliography included....

Meaning of the Poem 'The Second Coming' by William Butler Yeats II

would be needed if the creature were simply to be taken as male), is female--as the focus on the "slow thighs" suggests--as well a...

'Leda and the Swan' by W.B. Yeats

An explication of William Butler Yeats' poem 'Leda and the Swan' includes analysis of allusion, situation, character, and tone con...

John Donne's Poem 'The Flea'

In six pages a poetic summary and explication of John Donne's 'The Flea' are presented. There are no other sources included....

'Those Who Know' by Marcus Garvey

In five pages a poetic explication of this work by Marcus Garvey is presented. Three other sources are cited in the bibliography....

William Blake's Poem 'The Little Black Boy'

In three pages this paper presents a thematic explication of this William Blake poem as it portrays lacking worth, faith, and inno...

'The Fish' by Elizabeth Bishop

An explication of 'The Fish' consists of four pages and discusses how animals are dominated unfairly by man. There are no other s...

Galway Kinnell's Life and Poetry

In three pages this research paper examines the life and poetry of Galway Kinnel with an explication of 'When One Has Lived a Long...

Domesticity in 'Washing Sheets in July' by Jane Gentry Vance

goes outside to hang her sheets, and her own thin, strong hands which will soon be smoothing her own sheets on the line. Vance mov...

Sphinx of Senwosret II at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art III

An explication of this sculpture featured at New York's Met is presented in a paper consisting of five pages. Three sources are c...

'Coloredness' in the Poem Theme for English B by Langston Hughes

In five pages a poetic explication of Theme for English B examines how 'coloredness' is represented by poet Langston Hughes. Two ...

Growing Up in Gwendolyn Brooks' Poetry

In six pages this paper examines how the growing up experience is presented in an explication of Gwendolyn Brooks' poems 'The Ball...

Robert Burns's 'To A Mouse' and Destiny

In three pages the theme of destiny is probed in this poetic explication. There are no other sources used and there is a FREE 1 p...

Analyzing 'These Yet to be United States' by Maya Angelou

A line by line poetic explication is offered in this paper consisting of five pages. There are four sources cited in the bibliogr...