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The Poet Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson

means nothing when they are unable to see beyond what is before them to the heart of the art and the beauty of its simple being. T...

Meaning of the Lyrics 'America the Beautiful' by Poet Katherine Lee Bates

(Nash 12C). At the time of her composition, Bates had traveled to Colorado with an expedition to climb up the 14,000-foot-plus Pik...

Medieval Poets on Love

wide range of emotions. Sir Thomas Wyatt, the Elder (1503-1542), was a pioneer of the English sonnet, which was a variation of th...

'Michael Robartes and the Dancer' by Irish Poet William Butler Yeats

poem despite the metaphysical airs assumed by Michael Robartes. In this poem, Yeats expresses the concept that can be concisely ...

Love Poetry and Poets Purdy, Johnson, Browning, Hardy, Lewis, and Marlowe

In seven pages this paper examines what constitutes 'love poetry' in a consideration of the poetic works of Purdy, Johnson, Browni...

Classic Literary Poets, Searchers, Lovers, and Heroes

In six pages this paper examines these character genres and how they occasionally have coincided or overlapped throughout literary...

British Poet Philip Larkin and 3 of His Poems

In five pages this essay analyzes the theme of loneliness as it is presented in 'The Whitsun Weddings,' 'Toad's Revisited,' and 'M...

'Poet of the Dark Room' Photographer Man Ray

In twenty four pages this report examines the artistry of avant garde photographer Man Ray who was dubbed as the 'poet of the dark...

Tang Dynasty Poet Bai Juyi

In a paper consisting of five pages Chinese golden age of poetry was the Tang Dynasty and no one shone more brightly than the prol...

Biography of Poet Siegfried Sassoon

In five pages this paper discusses the life of poet Siegfried Sassoon with his experiences in the First World War among the topics...

Romanticism's Dark Side and French Poet Charles Baudelaire

In five pages this research paper explores how Baudelaire unlike his Romantic contemporaries Shelley, Wordsworth, and Keats probed...

Life and Work of Poet Robinson Jeffers

In five pages Robertson Jeffers' life and work are discussed and include poems 'Ave Caesar' and 'Science.' Six sources are cited ...

Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Emily Dickinson and the Connection Between Poet, Nature, Body, and Soul

In five pages this report compares and contrasts William Butler Yeats' 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' and Emily Dickinson's '#632' i...

Society, Reality, and Poets of the Romantic Era

In twenty pages this paper discusses the poets and the poetry that characterized the Romantic Era of the end of the 18th century i...

More to Poet Ted Hughes Than Being the Husband of Sylvia Plath

In ten pages this paper discusses the poetry of Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate of England until his 1998 death at age sixty eight. Six...

Themes/Anne Bradstreet

A 4 page essay that analyzes 4 poems by Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672), Puritan poet and writer, as well as a devoted wife and loving...

Romantic Poetry

A 4 page essay that discusses examples of Romantic verse. In the early nineteenth century, artists rebelled against restrictions o...

Dante’s Inferno & Humanism

must take a stand against evil and live according to ideals rather than simply from a myopic focus on personal needs. In Canto 2...

Dante’s Inferno/Canto XX

because pity carries with it the connotation that divinely imposed punishment is less than just. He tells Dante to lift his eyes a...

Shakespeare/Sonnet 73

spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next fou...

Langston Hughes: Work and Worldview

the dawns were / young. / I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to / sleep. / I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyram...

Eavan Boland/Fever

5-8). This juxtaposition of images connects the fever of illness to the fever of lust, which leads into the third stanza and its s...

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...

Melinda Sordino and Maya Angelou

allows the reader to read approximately 10 pages, enough to get the "flavor" of the authors writing. Here, she blends humor with a...

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...

THE RELIGIOUS PHILOSPHY OF WILLIAM BLAKE

was raised a Catholic, he was christened in St. James Church (Eaves et al). During his childhood, Blake was surrounded by visions ...

W.B. Yeats/An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...

Article Analysis: The Poetics of Anne Finch by Jennifer Keith

friendship is not defined per se but exemplified by a series of mimetic actions in which one person takes anothers place or lends ...

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,...

Death in Emily Dickinson’s Poem ‘Because I Could Not Stop for Death (712)’ and Robert Frost’s ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’

turn brown; leaves drop from the trees in late autumn; butterflies soar for a short span of time; predatory animals kill their pre...