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In eleven pages the transition from Romanticism into contemporary Realism is analyzed in a comparison of the similarities and diff...

In eight pages this paper discusses the theme of hypocrisy as it is portrayed in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire part...

In seven pages this paper examines what constitutes 'love poetry' in a consideration of the poetic works of Purdy, Johnson, Browni...

severity of the Bricks grief at Skippers death causes his relatives to speculate, but this is dispelled in the crucial scene that...

In fifty pages this research paper examines the artistry and mysticism represented by William Blake. Eighteen sources are cited i...

Encyclopedia, 5th edition, and notes that irony is: ". . . figure of speech in which what is stated is not what is meant. The user...

for a spiritual thinker, body and soul. In "The Good Morrow," Donne immediately established what critic Susannah B. Mintz refers ...

five senses; "whatever the truth may be" (Ballis). In the "Proverbs from Hell", the Devil speaks wise statements in regards to t...

is mocking our hopes, and at the same time the teasing promise of Spring is false. With the coming of this Spring we can also envi...

renewal [is] not exercised" (Harding 42). Blake wrote, "Earth raisd up her head / From the darkness dread and drear. / Her light...

as the vital key, where one sings to their beloved in life and after death, supporting themselves within a delicate and austere sc...

view of the Christian belief system. In the Christian system of belief, it is the other way around. Good and evil are both active ...

the placement of the poem, offers the reader a sense of innocence and childhood as well as purity. The poem begins with...

take on religion and his faith which would later lead to his renouncing the Catholic Church (Jokinen). In many ways Donne ...

business without impertinence" (Shaw). He has never exhausted his store of "spiritual enthusiasm and sympathetic emotion," qualiti...

Thames, in the opening lines which state, "I wander thro each charterd street,/ Near where the charterd Thames does flow,/ And mar...

This essay pertains to Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" and Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" and how each play hand...

of love that was ever or should ever be intended to last a lifetime. Romantic love should eventually give way to a deeper type of ...

the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...

emphasis on "mind-forged" shows that these are mental attitudes rather than physical chains, but their effect on human freedom is ...

on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of t...

on. The illustration serves to emphasize the overall theme of complete joy, which Blake implies is something that can be experienc...

wealthy children, for the focus is on the fact that their faces are clean and their clothes are relatively powerful earth tones. T...

context changes and it seems more logical given the tone of the rest of the poem. Thus, the word as is reflective of the way that ...

is self-contradictory" (Davies 86). As envisioned by William Blake, God is not to blame for the good and evil in the world becaus...

as opposed to being naturally inherited. This poem typifies the poems that are included in Blakes, Songs of Innocence, in...

despair associated with poverty, class distinctions, and opportunities for individuals to ever rise above their "place." The Dif...

of striving to attain immortality, just as Jesus himself did. Over and over again in our lives we are tested, and each choice we ...

Mines of gold/Or the riches that the East doth h old" (Bradstreet 5-6). Similarly, Browning begins her famous sonnet by writing th...

pain and trying to find herself as she divorces herself mentally from her poor beginnings when she was married at fifteen to a hor...