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Ship of State Metaphor in Book VI of Plato's The Republic

reaching true conclusions and therefore may use their knowledge of language and logic to confuse the average person on the issues ...

Death and Poetic Attitudes of Davis, Thomas, and Donne

people pity the dead, not Death itself. In the end Donnes message is that there is little reason to fear death and that in the end...

A Critique of Robert Frost's 'Acquainted with the Night'

about having gone out in rain and back again, which represents sorrow and tears. In other words, he has seen many people pass away...

Transferring 'A River Runs Through It' from Text to Celluloid

understand and come to terms with life as they know it. Their father is a small town minister. Fly fishing seems to be their only ...

Metaphors of Leadership

sees the gestalt, the large picture, who has natural insight into what will happen and acts to meet those future challenges before...

Metaphors and Language

and still love the book, the friendship. Friends can cry together over the hard parts, and love and laugh together in the fun. ...

Asians As They Are Depicted in The Legend of Miss Sasagawara by Hisaye Yamamoto and Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn

the mid-80s, and concentrates on the chaotic Seventies, in which martial law was firmly in place. Perhaps the books most memorabl...

'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost

To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was ...

Language, Critical Thinking, and Metaphor

because you allow someone else into the inner-most recesses of your mind. It is a process that resembles the way that eggs, milk a...

Happy Eyes Prose of Liz Rosenberg

form the personality of the poet as narrator. As the reader gets to know the narrative voice, it also becomes clear that a pervasi...

Poetic Analysis of Robert Frost's 'The Road Not Taken'

a world of what might have been is not healthy. Therefore, he is suggesting that when one determines a course of action, that one ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Post Sin Lack of Mortal Salvation in 'The Minister's Black Veil' and 'Young Goodman Brown'

(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...

Analysis of Sharon Olds' 'Rite of Passage'

stand around jostling, jockeying for place, small fights...

Julia's Petticoat by Herrick

effect that the petticoat has on the male observer in the garment itself, which the poet asserts "Sometimes twould pant, and sigh,...

'Time is Out of Joint' in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

before he sees the Ghost and receives his deadly mission. When the Ghost appears to him, Hamlet voices his apprehension as to th...

Analysis of the Poem 'The Horse and His Rider' by Joanna Baillie

In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...

'Big Black Car' by Lynn Emanuel

As Emanuel describes the interior of the car, and her reluctance to ride in it, she employs language that suggests that the car is...

Sisters' Metaphor and Ezekiel 23

(Larue). If Ezekiel had been exiled into Babylon, it can be argued that it would have been impossible for the author to...

Glorida Anzaldua's 1980 Letter to Women Writers of the Third World

concerning the proprietary message of mainstream society that writing is a privileged activity, that is, a white activity. Havin...

American Revolution and Family Metaphors

of England. It is not something that seemed fair and of course, the colonists had a restless, adventurous spirit and one that drov...

Poems of Emily Dickinson

Dickinson wrote numerous poems and many times enclosed those original poems in letters which she wrote to friends. She wasnt reco...

'Out Far Nor in Deep' by Robert Frost

at the water. Frosts poem builds an elaborate, extended metaphor based on his social phenomena. The people along the sand All tur...

Personal Narraive/2 Year RN to 4 Year RN

partners in the healthcare process. Through training and education, nurses learn to make decisions on multiple issues of patient c...

Barreca/Nighttime Fires

the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...

Nabokov & Use of Language

that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...

Marketing Metaphor of the Water Cycle

the ground, runs off the surface to creeks and streams, or evaporates back into the atmosphere to be carried to another destinatio...

The Use of an Affair as a Metaphor in Literature

the end get her into trouble with a loan shark. Eventually much of her and Charles property is confiscated. Her illicit affa...

Shakespeare's Sonnet 73 and Metaphor

is symbolic of life. Man hopefully lives a long, full life full of many experiences that culminate to form the "autumn" of the in...

Metaphors of the Body

rational level. In order to accomplish this task, the article informs the reader that the US plans to spend $3.5 billion to rebui...

Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and the Rain Metaphor

In five pages this paper discusses how death and separation are metaphorically represented by rain in Ernest Hemingway's A Farewel...