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Emily Dickinson's 'The Soul Selects Hew Own Society' and Imagery

keeping out all of the world that she does not desire to experience or see or meet. This is further emphasized by the third and fo...

Romantic Era British Poets

a specific time or age. While romanticism will be prominent in certain epochs, because in its essential characteristics it is a sp...

Spirituality in the Poetry of John Keats

as we do not think--We remain there a long while, and notwithstanding the doors of the second Chamber remain wide open, showing a ...

Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Religious Literary Devices

in a manner that was often regarded as blasphemous by her Puritan and Calvinist neighbors. Emily Dickinsons approach to poetry wa...

'Inferno' by Dante Alighieri and Gender

involving gender or related themes like romance and marriage. Yet, sex and love are highlights in the Inferno. Dante also writes o...

The Art of the 19th Century Poetic Manifesto

confused his contemporary readers, which often obscured from them his intent (Abrams 59). Therefore, neither Coleridge nor Blake ...

Donne and Marvell on Seduction

This essay analyzes Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" and John Donne's "The Flea" and offers the writer's reaction to these a...

Homer's World, Similarities and Difference with Present Day

This essay pertains to "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" by Homer, the ancient Greek poet and the worldview and cultural values that a...

Three Poems by Gary Soto, Nikki Giovanni, and William Blake

focus of the poem is on how the anger of the narrator as a corruptive influence that turns him into a murderer. As this illustrate...

Temporality and Lord Byron

and writers in his extensive travels (Lutz 23). Linking him to traditions that span back to Odysseus, Harold is essentially in sea...

Shades of Anger, Rafeef Ziadah

This paper offers a summary, analysis and background information on Rafeef Ziadah's poem "Shades of Anger," which expresses the po...

Informally Examining Romantic Poets and Poetry

unspoiled by either man or society? In "The Tiger," Blake appears to be pondering the marvels of the world while at the same time...

Cultural Influences Exerted by the Life and Art of Robert Frost

other poets of the time by rejecting modernism. As this poem demonstrates, Frost frequently drew his imagery from nature. While m...

Man's Nature in the Romantic Poetry of William Wordsworth and John Keats

quite different in their presentation and their material or focus of material. But, at the same time the words of darkness apparen...

John Keats' Odes

immersed in his indolence (Keats 9). These figures appear to be figures he envisions on an urn, evasive yet real figures that urge...

Poems for Children by Shel Silverstein and Robert Louis Stevenson

wide" (line 6) is empowering, freeing, and infinitely entertaining. From the time that his first book of verse for children was ...

Group Development in Films

and training in the group development process. Studying groups in the 1960s, Tuckman observed that groups of individuals transiti...

Olson and Whitman

the same as every other human being; there is really no other way to interpret the line "For every atom belonging to me as good be...

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Her Tone and Style

Convent of the Discalced Carmelites; however, this order proved to be too severe for her, as she became ill and left within three ...

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...

2 African American Poets/Cullen & Hughes

and "Dont you fall now-" (line 17)(Hughes 1255). She concludes by emphasizing the point that she is still going, still climbing, ...

Ezra Pound, "A Virginal"

levels. First of all, a virginal is an early form of the harpsichord that was a preferred instrument among young ladies during the...

Literary Analysis of Wislawa Szymborska’s Poem ‘True Love’

love between two ordinary people: "Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it h...

John Keats Deserves His Place in the Literary Canon

he was struck by the "ways in which evil and beauty, love and pain, aspiration and finitude, are not so much balanced as interwove...

Romantic Poets

his life with his sister and his wife and their children, and wrote his poetry. There is, however, focus in much critical assessme...

William Wordsworth’s Natural Imagery

to release the burthen of my own unnatural self and the wearying city days such as were not made for me" (Driver 48). The first li...

"A Far Cry from Africa"

Latino, classical and contemporary" (Bixby, 2000). His later work reveal a man "who has learned his craft from the European tradit...

Analysis of William Shakespeare’s Sonnets 18, 73, and 130

While he adhered to Petrarchs use of fourteen lines, Shakespeare constructed sonnets containing three quatrains and a couplet. Hi...

Analysis: Emily Dickinson and Anne Bradstreet

are only 4-6 lines in length. "Contemplations" begins as what we might call a nature poem, describing the way in which the sun lig...

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...