YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :To Penhurst Poem by Ben Jonson
Essays 211 - 240
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "Of Pruning and Production" by Isabella Southern. The poem's themes are gradually s...
An analysis of stanzas XIV and XV of this anonymous poem are consider in terms of their significance particularly regarding the re...
In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at "Tithonus". The theme of immortality is examined through looking at the poem's mechan...
This essay offers analysis of "Boy at the Window" by Richard Wilbur. The writer focuses on the compelling nature of the poem's ima...
This essay presents a character sketch of the narrator in "The ABC of Aerobics," a poem by Peter Meinke. Three pages in length, th...
This essay is an explication of "Locked Ward: Newtown, Connecticut" by Rachel Loden. The writer bases this discussion on the assum...
This essay pertains to a Wilfred Owen's WWI poem that offers stark and vivid repudiation of the Latin phrase that it is sweet to ...
This 4 page paper gives an overview of the element within the poem The Road not Taken. This paper includes irony, symbolism, repre...
This essay focuses on the humor and Irony in Robert Frost's poems. The poems discussed are "Mending Wall," "Stopping by Woods on a...
This essay offers summary and analysis of four poems which begin by offering a comparison of two companion poems from Songs of Inn...
This 4 page paper gives an overview of the poem “To his Excellency General Washington”, by Phillis Wheatley. This paper includes h...
readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...
on the beauty of the scene. The Romantics tended to be introspective, while also placing emphasis on beauty of everyday life, rath...
has received a considerable amount of attention. Eighteenth century critics argued in favor of viewing the poem as fundamentally p...
opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...
until a water snake slithered by. Panicked and briefly forgetting about the traveler on his back, Puff-jaw dove, which threw the ...
1). Using this metaphor, he goes on to say that Science "alterest all things with thy peering eyes," which preys upon his poets h...
God and religion for answers to life struggles in a sense. Bradstreets poem begins as she slowly comes to sink into the fact that ...
Wheatleys poem begins, "Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,/ Taught my benighted soul to understand/ That theres a God, that...
on. The illustration serves to emphasize the overall theme of complete joy, which Blake implies is something that can be experienc...
In ten pages this research essay compares and contrasts Philip Larkin's poem 'Church Going' and Robert Frost's poem 'The Wood pile...
evening. Then there is nighttime. In this poem, the last thing that occurs is that the baby is put into bed with his mother. There...
line assures us that we are in this world" (Ogilvie et al.). There is a very relaxed, yet very introspective, tone to the lines as...
at the same time the calmness of it all makes it quite dramatic. The narrator does not see the action as dramatic, however, and si...
to believe that his elevated social standing makes him actually superior to anyone else. This perception definitely includes his w...
envision more positive feelings) a human being can better come into contact with their nature, their creative side, their truths w...
his moment in nature (Wakefield 354). But while the first stanza ends the implied assumption that the poet need not concern hims...
or how one human engages another. Frost is merely using nature as a setting, a natural setting, that emphasizes choices that human...
mention that the catch, which is that his throat will be so sore that he will want ice cream. The lies are then contrasted against...
more joyful than creation itself. Then he adds: "Light out of darkness! full of doubt I stand, / Whether I should repent me now of...