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'To Penhurst' by Ben Jonson

In two pages this paper discusses how Jonson's poem reveals the ideal English society in the Penhurst country estate. There is no...

Chaucer's Alter-Ego in the House of Fame.

An observational essay dealing with the protagonist of Chaucer's House of Fame, Geffrey. The author asserts that the work is a pa...

Irony in Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson

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...

Those Winter Sundays

and lonely offices?" (Hayden 13-14). All of this speaks of a childs ignorance and how children are simply children, ignora...

Parent/Child Responsibilities: Hayden’s Those Winter Sundays

about the circumstances of the household. An atmosphere of bitterness with bouts of anger is described. The recollection suggests ...

Children’s Perceptions of Adults

is presumably himself, as an adult, looking back at the things his father did for him. These are things that the child clearly nev...

Sublime and Subjective Romanticism in William Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey”:

natural sublime."2 As is common in the thematic development of the sublime in Romanticism, the sensation is one of rapture and on...

Eighteenth Century Analysis of Poems "Little Black Boy" by William Blake, "Holy Willie's Prayer" by Robert Burns, and "We Are Seven" by William Wordsworth

teachings of his devout mother. Through this relationship, he establishes his own identity as an African American, and comes to r...

Overview of the History of Racism

owners rationalized the enslavement of Africans based on the perception that they were heathen, rather than on differences in skin...

Objectifying Male Dominance Over the Female in "My Last Duchess" and "Porphyria's Lover" by Robert Browning

How the male need to transform women into objects and possessions in order to control them existed in 19th century society is exam...

DRUG ADDICTION AND CULTURAL REFERENCES IN HAYDEN’S “SOLEDAD”

Dust, in 1940 (Robert Hayden). Accolades and awards followed (including being the first African-American to be named Poet Laureate...

Browning and Spera

various admirers which she held in just as much regard as anything she received from him-including the title. Furthermore, she fli...

"For the Union Dead"

confuse free verse with sloppiness. The tone of the poem ("tone" can best be understood as the attitude the speaker has toward his...

Robert Louis Stevenson and Shel Silverstein: Child Poetry

Good Play" the poem is far more simplistic in relationship to how children think and play as the poems narrator states, "We built ...

My Last Duchess/Robert Browning

as it relates to obsession and silent women. The poem begins, very pleasantly as the narrator seems to merely be giving the li...

'Sonnet 54' in Amoretti by Edmund Spenser

that all the pageants play,/Disguysing diversly my troubled wits" (lines 3-4). The poet narrator is the "star" of all the "pageant...

'War is Kind' and 'A Mystery of Heroism' by Stephen Crane

in any real noble cause, he quickly succumbs to the realities that surround him, the bullets and the danger. This man has taken i...

'Andrea del Sarto; by Robert Browning

and lust perhaps. She is an object to be worshipped and talked about, but not a woman who is given a voice. Throughout this poe...

Robert Phillips' 'Running on Empty'

experience it for himself. As a teenager I would drive Fathers Chevrolet cross-country, given me...

Robert Browning's Poetry and Religion

try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...

Greek Culture and 'The Iliad' by Homer

occurs near the end of the conflict. These two warriors fight over who has the greater claim to a captive woman who is also the d...

External v. Internal Characterization in Creative Writing

looking at the world through the narrow slats of a locker. Chris forced himself to look at the man standing in the next cell, the ...

Feminist Critique of Robert Browning's 'Porphyria's Lover'

her own hair so that she will remain his forever, and be forever trapped in that role of loving him completely. It...

Robert Lowell and Bob Dylan

began to write what came to be called "confessional poetry," which is defined as "an undisguised exposure of painful personal even...

Christian Dogma in Beowulf

one true God. As this suggests, biblical allusions are plentiful in the Old English epic, particularly in regards to the Old Test...

Societal Criticism, Browning and Swift

This essay pertains to Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," published in 1729, and Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess, Ferra...

What Can Therapists Say About Patients

There are numerous regulations and codes that mandate and/or guide the mental health professional on the subject of confidentialit...

Edward Taylor and Anne Bradstreet Poetic Comparision

God and religion for answers to life struggles in a sense. Bradstreets poem begins as she slowly comes to sink into the fact that ...

Phyllis Wheatley and Edward Taylor

Wheatleys poem begins, "Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,/ Taught my benighted soul to understand/ That theres a God, that...

Robert Browning's 'My Last Duchess'

to believe that his elevated social standing makes him actually superior to anyone else. This perception definitely includes his w...