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From Snow and Rock, From Chaos by Hayden Carruth

In five pages this poetry collection by Hayden Carruth is analyzed. Six other sources are cited in the bibliography....

Poetic Depiction of Women

as if women were alien creatures, and not like men at all. In addition to looking at this the Lady of Shallot in particular, a st...

Poetry and Metaphor

is T.S. Eliots The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Through the adroit use of metaphor Eliot invites the reader to undertake a jo...

Death Poetry of Ted Hughes

examined in several of his later animal poems the themes of survival and the mystery and destructiveness of the cosmos" (Anonymous...

Comparison of Callimachean and Catullus Poetry

does seem that when analyzing genres, Callimachean poetry comes up quite often and seems to challenge the essence of the works. Wh...

Values, Virtues, and the Poetry of Robert Frost

was someone who, as Derek Walcott classified him, was ". . . the icon of Yankee values, the smell of wood smoke, the sparkle of de...

European Thinking, Change, and Poetry

a vase and ask of what the pictures speak: "Thou still unravishd bride of quietness, / Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,...

Confessional Poets and the 'Father Complex'

work, moreover, carries with it an element of purging oneself of the terrible things that must prowl in their memories and refuse ...

A Poetic Explication of 'The Paper' by Merwin

In one page the images and themes presented in this poem are discussed with the conclusion drawn that this excellent prose belies ...

Emily Dickinson's Poetry and Symbolism

apart from the literary establishment through concise and reticent and very powerful poems (McNair 146). Through her use of langua...

Female Bonds and the Poetry of Sappho

In two pages this paper examines women's relationships in the poetry of Sappho. There are no sources listed....

'The Temple' Poem by George Herbert

moral and religious instruction, Herbert includes an invitation to delve deeper in the "church" before beginning the next section....

Comparative Analysis of the Poetry of Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman

himself with a sense of timelessness. Each of the poets gives the reader a sense of a good friend explaining something with an at...

Historical Reflection of Black Literature and Poetry

In five pages the slavery chants continue to reverberate as they connect black literature and poetry past and present. Five sourc...

Beat Generation Poetry of Bob Kaufman

In eight pages Bob Kaufman and his poetry are examined and despite the fact that he was the least well known of all the 'Beat' poe...

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...

John Donne's Poetry and Themes of Love and Death

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

Characteristics of John Donne's Poetry

In five pages this paper discusses the poetry of John Donne in a consideration of their various characteristics including the blen...

The World is Too Much With Us by Wordsworth

and that in the poems, he tried to transform these incidents and situations by way of his imagination and present them in a manner...

Death, God, and Holocaust Survivors' Attitudes

bear. For example, most of those survivors interviewed by Schindler, Spiegel, and Malachi (1992) expressed their almost desperate...

Art is Imitating Life in Thomas Hardy's Poetry

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

Civil War Poetry of Walt Whitman

to Leaves of Grass-certainly more perfect as a work of art, being adjusted in all its proportions . . . But I am perhaps mainly sa...

Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Transcendentalism

on other writers who were to follow them. However, just as Emerson did not express his philosophy in the same way as Thoreau, foll...

Hellenistic Poetry and Epigrams

In six pages this essay considers the epigrams featured in Hellenistic poetry particularly in regards to the employment of wit and...

Poet Phyllis Wheatley and Her Impact

In five pages this paper discusses the impact of African American poet Phyllis Wheatley in a consideration of her life and her poe...

Jimmy Santiago Baca's Hispanic Native American Poetry

In five pages this paper examines Jimmy Santiago Baca's modern and totally unique style of poetry. Two sources are cited in the b...

Edgar Allan Poe's Writing Style Revealed in His Short Stories and Poetry

shows his endeavor in following a specific element of style that was all his own. Mood: for example in "The Fall of...

Aeneid vs. the Divine Comedy

The Aeneid of Virgil and Dante's The Divine Comedy are similar in style and format, both being produced by poets. This paper compa...

Classical Literature Identity Questions

In five pages this paper examines the definition of identity in the works of Euripides, Sophocles, Sappho's poetry, the Oresteia, ...

Opposition in William Blake's Poems

all three in a way that is distinct from all other "political appropriations" of the myth (Schock 445). As a new heaven is...