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Carpe Diem Poems by Herrick and Donne

sooner will his race be run, / And nearer hes to setting" (lines 7-8). In this manner, Herrick sets up an ever-increasing sense of...

'Eyes That Last I Saw in Tears' by T.S. Eliot

is seeing the eyes in the present, which is "Here in deaths dream kingdom." Again, alliteration, this time with /d/, makes the lin...

Gerusalemme Liberata by Torquato Tasso

physical and emotional well being for the sake of his art. His erratic behavior became increasingly evident around 1575 when Tass...

'The Bait' by John Donne

lover on the edge of being lost. Donne promises that lover that if she abides with the callers wished she will be rewarded with g...

'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost

certain meanings through word choices. For example, Frost uses the imagery of the forest to illustrate the "snags" we al...

Biographical Profile of Philip Arthur Larkin

is said that much great poetry and other works of art are born of great pain. This may certainly have been the case in Arthur Lark...

'The Road Not Taken' Poem by Robert Frost and a Line Analysis

of the word I is that the decision for anyones life is their own. This decision was not reached by conferring with any other soul ...

Romanticism and Lord Byron

shivering in the gale/ The bark unfurls her snowy sail/ And whistling oer the bending mast/Loud sings n high the freshning blast" ...

Rhetorical Questions of John Donne in 'Holy Sonnet XVII' and 'Satire III'

Dutch, and darst thou lay/ Thee in ships wooden sepulchres, a prey/ To leaders rage, to storms, to shot, to dearth?/ Darst thou di...

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 ...

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...

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...

A Letter from Waldo Frank to Carl Sandburg

"I am the people, the mob." In this, we share a similar sentiment. However, your work expresses a much more accepting and optimist...

A.E. Housman/An Athlete Dying Young

and comments that the young man was "smart" to "slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay" (lines 9-10). Housman the...

Langston Hughes & Raymond Carver

sore" (line 4)? The structure of the poem asks a series of questions that, in themselves, suggest the answers, which are all found...

Interpretations of First and Second Generation Romantic Poets A Chance Encounter

In a paper consisting of 7 pages an examination of the first and second generation Romantic poets is presented. A fictional descr...

Island Leadership in Lord of the Flies by William Golding

natural leadership abilities. Ralph is intelligent. He appears to be well adjusted. He is athletic. It is Ralph that leads the...

Shattered Dreams in Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

such a time period, a concept that received a considerably varied mix of response from enthusiastic support to downright contempt....

Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

In eight pages this paper analyzes Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man in an overview that includes plot, setting, character, and backgr...

What Invisibility Means in Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

nineteenth century" (Ellison, 5). Since his white-dominated culture refuses to recognize him, refuses to acknowledge that he is a ...

Prologue of Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

In five pages this paper discusses the importance of the Prologue in Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. There is 1 source cited in t...

3 Operas Inspired by The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

the open air seems odd. And yet, the opera version gave Falstaff a swagger and an attitude that one suspects was close to the t...

Ideas of a 'Catch-22' in the Works of Kate Chopin, Ralph Ellison, Ernest Hemingway, and Joseph Heller

This paper examines how Joseph Heller's Catch 22 reflects the concepts featured in Kate Chopin's The Awakening, Ralph Ellison's In...

Public Citizen and Ralph Nader

In eighteen pages this paper considers Ralph Nader's consumer activism and discusses his late 1960s' founding of the Public Citize...

U.S., Social Corruption, and Morality on the Decline

In six pages this paper examines America's declining morality and also considers social corruption and the breakdown of the family...

A Fictional Conversation With Author Tom Peters

This paper provides a conversation between a professor Ralph Stacey and author Tom Peters. The author pays particular attention t...

Third Party Candidacies of Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan and Effects upon the Presidential Election of 2000 in Pennsylvania

In eight pages the presidential election of 2000 is examined in terms of the impact the candidacies of Pat Buchanan and Ralph Nade...

Twentieth Century Literature and What an 'American' Represents

This paper contrasts and compares different images of being an American in eight pages as represented in Toni Morrison's The Blues...

Heroic Narrator in Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man

In five pages this paper discusses the heroic attributes of the narrator in The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. Seven sources are...