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Comments on a Book for Ministers

This essay presents reflections and discussions about different sections of a book entitled "The Pastor As A Minor Poet" by M. Cra...

Maxence Fermine's Snow

This essay pertain to a Japanese novel that charts the evolution of a young poet in achieving perfection within this craft. The wr...

Dickinson's "Much madness" and Eliot's "Prufrock"

This essay offers analysis and a comparison of T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" with Emily Dickinson's "Much ma...

Thomas Carew - An Inductive Analysis

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Carew's "Celia Bleeding, to the Surgeon". Paradox and conceit are explained as tool...

God in a Technical Age, Arnold and Hopkins

In the media today, it is possible to frequently see pundits and politicians bemoaning the state of society in regards to morality...

American Society and the Impact of the African American Family

whole, and viewed the family structure as a divisive and prevalent force in the problem of social inequities and negative Black so...

Spiritual Fulfillment and Poetic Function

is, of course, contrary to the view of the Christian belief system. In the Christian system of belief, it is the other way around....

'Rhine Boat Trip' by Irving Layton

of vivid imagery and haunting metaphor. There is also no punctuation, by design. According to literary critic Michael Greenstein...

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...

Lionel Trilling's 'Terrifying' Observation of Robert Frost

Frost as Terrifying In first examining how and why Frost is considered terrifying we must first understand that Trilling did not...

Death Poetic Perspectives in the Works of Thomas, Donne, and Davis

shalt die"(Donne 812). In this poem, then, the literary devices used include personification, sonnet form, and irony. Irony is mo...

The Contribution to American History and Jewish American History by Henry Kissinger

a man of great power and a man who apparently worked within all sorts of cultures, working with China and then with Vietnam, earni...

Religious Poetry of the Victorian Age

those around them, as if they were now removed from all responsibility to those around them. She seems to call them dead before th...

Songs of Innocence and Experience by Robert Blake

works together one can see the romantic power of both innocence and experience as Blake addressed a changing world where human per...

T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land' and the Contemporary World

world was worth living in. Interestingly enough, one critic indicates that this is where Eliot uses the symbolism of the Holy G...

Transcendence of 'Routine' by Tom Wayman

a steadily-promoted deck officer on the Titanic" (Lancashire et al. "Philosophy"). This balanced perspective (positive and negativ...

Emily Dickinson's Hardships

were very interesting, people probably would not like them because they were different. As such Emily decided at that point that s...

North American Colonial Period, Native Americans and African Slaves

It was also based on the Europeans ability to see Africans as a source for slave labor. Africans who were captured and shipped to ...

Nature's Role in 'Kubla Khan' and 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ancient Mariner is perhaps the greatest Romantic statement about the consequences of psychic separation of an isolated individual ...

Literature of the First World War, Dying, Mutilation, and Death

that the other poppy "I gave to you" (line 8). In the third stanza, Rosenberg writes that the "sandbags narrowed" (line 9). The t...

Maya Angelou's 'And Still I Rise'

in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt...

Maya Angelou's Poem 'Woman Work'

is left out: herself. "Shine on me, sunshine Rain on me, rain...

Friendship in Three Poems by Sappho

was such time as it was appropriate to say goodbye and release them to adult life as defined by that society. In this poem, Sapp...

U.S. History and American Racism AMERICAN RACISM AND HISTORY

subconscious, if a man has intercourse with a women, he claims ownership of her. Likewise, in a larger world view, if the white ma...

American's Government Distrust and the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

acted on his own to kill the President (Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne, nd). They believe there is a very strong cover-up in this...

'Inferno' by Dante Alighieri

is in line with Christian ideology. In Dantes interpretation of events, Hell is reserved for the pagans, again a tribute...

Poetry and Metaphors

savagery which slavery brought with it. Notice in this passage how the belles traits are given, then immediately juxtaposed with t...

Ancient Greece and Roles for Women as Portrayed by Homer

and also provided insight into the character when she brazenly broke with firmly held tradition. For example, in Homers Iliad and ...

Irish Nationalism and Michael Collins, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, and Umberto Saba

Joyces brother, Stanislaus, records that in April of 1907, in a conversation with Joyce questioned, "Do you not think Ireland has...

War on Terrorism and the African American's Loyalty Paradox Response

was California Congresswoman, Barbara Lee who received death threats after she had the unmitigated courage to cast the only vote a...