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Essays 181 - 210

Meaning of 'Daddy' by Sylvia Plath

gangrenous toe that her father had to have amputated and which, later, led directly to his death (127). The image of the "Frisco s...

Poets Philip Larkin and Robert Frost

In ten pages this research essay compares and contrasts Philip Larkin's poem 'Church Going' and Robert Frost's poem 'The Wood pile...

The Culture of the Beowulf Poem

faith primarily in their thane and in "wyrd," which is a pagan reference to fate or destiny, according to Abrams, et al (1968). ...

'Calm' by Loma Crozier

pause, heads tilted as if trying to hear someone softly...

Epic 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and the Use of Symbolism

of balance. The Knight carries the potential for both peace and war. They are intimately bound to one another, it should be said, ...

Poetry by Hardy and Eliot

himself who willed that he should suffer (lines 5-8). In other words, Hardy pictures preferring a world such as the ancient Gre...

Heaney and Hayden: Views of Isolation and Sacrifice

poetry is to use an economy of language to express ideas that are more complex than the concrete images and words that convey them...

Two Poems by Robert Frost

or how one human engages another. Frost is merely using nature as a setting, a natural setting, that emphasizes choices that human...

Explication of 2 poems by Martin Espada

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...

"I'm Nobody! Who Are You?": An Analysis of a Poem by Emily Dickinson

To an admiring Bog! (846). The subject matter features a person who feels inwardly lonely who does not wish to advertise h...

Lord Byron, We'll Go No More A-Roving

was staying in Venice. It was published by Moore in 1830, after Byrons death, in a text he edited, Letters and Journals of Lord By...

The Art of Indirection

in seconds. He continues this catalog of things she is not by comparing the color of her lips to coral (coral is redder); compari...

‘Requiem’ by Anna Akhmatova

was assassinated, probably by Stalin himself (Vartavarian). Stalin used the death as a pretext to begin purging those he thought w...

The Happy Fault in Paradise Lost

more joyful than creation itself. Then he adds: "Light out of darkness! full of doubt I stand, / Whether I should repent me now of...

Analysis of When Death Comes by Mary Oliver

and be a part of it, she feels her connection with "everything" (line 11), which means she perceives the world in terms of connec...

Travelled,gladly beyond by e.e. cummings

somewhere hes never gone before and that the woman (lets assume for this exercise that the beloved is his wife) is able to enclose...

Gabriela Mistral

kind. It is, or can be, a far more positive thought than the thought which is fear. When reading the poems, however,...

Gender in Beowulf

readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...

Christianity in Beowulf

has received a considerable amount of attention. Eighteenth century critics argued in favor of viewing the poem as fundamentally p...

Pablo Neruda: 4 Poems

object and made it extraordinary: "the tomato offers/ its gift/ of fiery color/ and cool completeness" (82-85). Ode to a Storm: T...

Wordsworth/Solitary Reaper

on the beauty of the scene. The Romantics tended to be introspective, while also placing emphasis on beauty of everyday life, rath...

Poems: Dickinson, Donne, Marvell, Parker, and Roethke

and taken blood from both. He tries to convince her that to give in to him, to give him herself, has been ultimately blessed by th...

Death/Injury in Poetry

narrator is perhaps confused, perhaps trying to share an image and what that image, or group of images, may mean. The characters w...

Maya Angelou/Phenomenal Woman

half=way through the stanza, Angelou prefaces giving her reaction with the line "I say," which is followed by her lyrical descript...

Analysis of Beowulf

monstrous creature Grendel, Grendels mother, and the dragon - it considers the impact of social obligations (loyalty to God and co...

Women: The Other

the point of their clothing which was powerfully restrictive. In this poem the narrator states, "Aunt Jennifers tigers prance ac...

Mallarme, Baudelaire and Goethe

faun, so that he participates in the creation of the work (Betz, 1996). The faun cannot decide if he has been dreaming or not, but...

Reactions to Various Poems

break all the rules and express his artistic vision in his own highly original way. This leads him to fame, fortune and freedom, w...

Wordsworth/A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal

the deceased woman no longer has voluntary motion or sensory perception, but she is part of nature, which has sweeping grandeur in...

Blake and Wordsworth

narrative voice relates how his mother died when he was quite young and his father sold him before he could cry "weep." In the Nor...