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The Civil Rights Era and its Impact upon African American Poetry

endured by Black People during various eras. Research I uncovered focuses much on the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Poets, an...

Singing the Song of the People in African American Literature

her works dealt little with the condition of the slaves in America, and held mainly to classical poetical themes. She was an accom...

American Literature Overview

In five pages this research paper examines American literature from the late 18th century through the 20th century with such autho...

Process of Poetry

has to "face the men of the time" and "think about war," in order to "construct a new stage" (Of Modern Poetry...Stevens). What St...

Joyce and Hughes/Loss in 2 Short Stories

OShay, the vice principal of the school, tells Nancy Lee that the scholarship was rescinded when the nominating committee learned ...

Sir Samuel Hughes

Expeditionary Force" (Masterliness, 2008). From the information presented thus far it would seem that many admired and res...

'Phaethon' by Ted Hughes

men would do, Phaethon does not listen. He is a youth and feels that he can take on anything in the world, or the heavens, and com...

"Mother To Son" - Reader Response Criticism

Hughes mother who says "So, boy, dont you turn back. Dont you set down on the steps. Cause you finds its kinder hard," mine was ...

Psychological Evaluation of Hughes

age 70. He was a legend as well as a mystery throughout his lifetime. He was a millionaire several times over as soon as he inheri...

The Breakfast Club/A View of Adolescence

"poor little rich girl or the princess," and is drive to school by her father in a BMW (The Breakfast Club, 1995). Allison is the ...

My Last Duchess by Robert Browning

This essay offers an analystical discussion of Browning's most famous poem, My Last Duchess. The writer discusses the dramatic si...

Poe/Annabel Lee

a child and she was a child/In this kingdom by the sea" (lines 7-8). These lines, as do the opening lines of the poem, establish a...

Gary Soto/”Oranges”

trees carry with them the promise of spring and new growth, new beginnings, which is evocative of the fact that the two children s...

Comparing Poems about War to Beowulf

it is essentially the duty of this narrator. Beowulf is a man who sees his duty as that which involves risking his life. He goes...

Robert Lowell/Skunk Hour

farmer/is first selectman in our village;/shes in her dotage" (lines 4-6). As these lines indicate, the poem is in free verse. B...

Longfellow, Whitman and Dickinson

A 5 page paper which examines one poem from Longfellow, Whitman, and Dickinson. The poems examined are The poets, and their poems,...

Poetic Analysis of Jane Kenyon's 'Happiness'

appreciate what it means to feel happy? The two most vivid images in this poem are religious in nature and are quite significant ...

Song of Myself

Walt Whitmans Song of Myself is a poem that is not necessarily about any one particular thing, not possessed of one single theme o...

Wordsworth & Hardy/Perspectives on Nature

First and foremost, the Thrush is seen by this Romantic poet in heroic terms, as a male facing the storm of the public world in or...

The Depiction of Troy in The Iliad and in Film

is not identified as a goddess except for when a servant speaks to Achilles about the legends that have begun to be spun concernin...

'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 ...

Christina Rossetti's 'In An Artist's Studio'

the perceived flaws in their models and so alters their appearance to fit their ideal image. Rossetti seems to find this appalling...

'Biographia Literaria' of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In four pages the conformity or nonconformity of Coleridge's prose in this poem is compared with the sonnet's and epic poem's trad...

The Flea vs. To a Coy Mistress

Donne takes a similar view in that he feels the ladys insistence on being concerned about honor is highly illogical, but he goes a...

Poetic Analysis of 'The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner' by Randall Jarrell

ball turret was a plexiglass sphere set into the belly of a B-17 or B-24 [bomber], and inhabited by two .50 caliber machine-guns a...

William Wordsworth's Poetry and the Themes of Grieving and Death

the first place, and what do his "fond regrets" concern? He does not tell us, but merely goes on describing his walk with...

Similarities Between Two Works By Ferlinghetti and Frost

thinks of the woods as property, more then as just a part of the vast natural world. To him, this lovely wood is part of the man-m...

A Discussion of the poem Mending Wall by Robert Frost

the Berlin wall. And we also know that there will be just a "touch" of whimsy about the poem, when it begins with "something ther...

Four Poems on Grief

focuses on four poems that all deal with grief. In "Stairway to Heaven" by Joaquin G. Rubio; "Dont Forget About Me!" by Jenny Gord...

Two Poems, Childhood Memories of Father

This essay discusses Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz," and Robert Hayden's poem "Those Winter Sundays." Both poems pertain to...