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Blake and Wordsworth

narrative voice relates how his mother died when he was quite young and his father sold him before he could cry "weep." In the Nor...

Poems That Reveal Joy Harjo's Life and Art

Reservation in Oklahoma. Harjo has retained the storytelling brilliance of her ancestors in her spiritually moving works, and t...

American Celebration in 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman

feeling his relationship with all other Americans. Uniquely American Most of Whitmans poetry illustrates what can be accu...

Characters of Helen and Annie in Ironweed by William Kennedy

This paper contrasts and compares these female characters and their life experiences described by William Kennedy in Ironweed in t...

Sylvia Plath's Poetry Experience

In five pages Sylvia Plath's poetry is considered in an analysis of reader experiences and how their tragic elements differ from t...

Overview of Modernism in Literature

In five pages literary modernism is defined and then illustrated in such works as James Joyce's 'The Dead' from Dubliners, 'The G...

Tone and Theme of William Blake's 'The Tyger' and 'The Lamb'

These 2 William Blake poems are compared in terms of theme, tone, and imagery in five pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliog...

Comparative Analysis of the Poetry of William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman

For example, in verse six, Whitman is ". . . Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms/strong and content I tra...

Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, and the Uses of Syntax and Language

cohesive literary glue that holds it all together. One of the ingredients of that glue is the use of language. His particular use ...

Comparing T.S. Eliot and William Shakespeare

accompanied by his son, Ferdinand, the heir to his throne; Antonio, the Duke of Milan; Sebastian, the brother of Alonzo; and Gonza...

Identity Searches in Literature

A.E. Housman. They are both young men who die before they age, before they have perhaps achieved a powerful greatness it would see...

Shakespeare and Vandross: Love

his lovers eyes he is saying, "When I look in your eyes/ There I see/ What all that a love should really be" (Vandross 24-26). He ...

Wordsworth & Hardy/Perspectives on Nature

First and foremost, the Thrush is seen by this Romantic poet in heroic terms, as a male facing the storm of the public world in or...

Angst of Modernity and Prufrock

This essay pertains to T.S. Eliot's "The Long Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and the theme of modernity and its affect on the human p...

Symbolism, Theme and Perspective in Two Poems

has grown deep like rivers" (line 4). Setting the line off by itself emphasizes its significance, as it ties the narrator directly...

Analyzing Twelve Poems

remains rigid. This poem presents us with a rhyme on every line, further adding to the structural content. We note the first fe...

Medieval Literature and Common Themes

is a serious offence. But Ganelon, the man who is held, has a friend who challenges his accuser to a match and the friend loses. T...

An Analysis of the Opening Chapter of Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon

This 5 page paper analyzes the first chapter of Song of Solomon, a novel by Toni Morrison. The writer suggests that in this openin...

Short Stories of Richard Wright

In five pages this paper discusses how social realities are depicted in the themes and characters of Richard Wright's short storie...

Songs of the Black Experience

a distinctly more female approach, as it openly deals with gender issues and missing womanhood. The author, herself, once remarke...

Guilt or Innocence in Robert Blake's Murder Case

is important for the student to realize how the inherent fallibility of first-hand testimony has been the focus of myriad debates,...

Flying Theme in Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

relationship with this woman. But after years, when he is in his early thirties, he loses interest and breaks off their relationsh...

Edith Wharton, Charles Dickens, and Charlotte Bronte on Experience and Innocence

In 5 pages the themes of innocence and experience as they are depicted in these Victorian and post Victorian literary works The Ho...

Theme of Death in Lord Alfred Tennyson's 'Song and John Donne's 'Holy Sonnet No. 10'

In 5 pages the thematic differences in which these two poems depict death are contrasted and compared with Donne's faith in sharp ...

Alienation Theme in 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot

In four pages this paper examines how emotional alienation is thematically developed by T.S. Eliot in this 1919 poem through image...

2 Perspectives on Italian Renaissance Humanism

In six pages this paper presents the argument that an adequate overview of the humanism of the Italian Renaissance can be achieved...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Humanism and Existentialism

whatever they become, defining their being through a projection of what they foresee of themselves in the future....

Child Labor and William Blake's Poetry

As Tom was a sleeping he had such a sight!/ That thousands of sweepers Dick, Joe, Ned, & Jack,/ Were all of them lockd up in coffi...

Explication of 'London' by Poet William Blake

in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...