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time she was thirty years old. In Victorian England, it was normal for girls to marry young, and Mary Ann was unusual in that she ...

In four pages this paper examines how emotional alienation is thematically developed by T.S. Eliot in this 1919 poem through image...

Song is an aging man who longs for love, particularly courtly love that fits with his expectations of both women and love....

a shared, antagonistic experience, and in the process radicalized poetry. This is attributed to Ciardi and di Prima, who brought w...

First, there is the surface level, that he was walking and had to decide which path to take to get to his destination. But at a mu...

This essay offers an analystical discussion of Browning's most famous poem, My Last Duchess. The writer discusses the dramatic si...

a merely incidental afterthought of a wise kings domestic policy, but rather it was central to his over purpose--"as much a part o...

important at all. The theme is war itself, the suffering, the realities that many simply ignore. And, perhaps most importantly, in...

a child and she was a child/In this kingdom by the sea" (lines 7-8). These lines, as do the opening lines of the poem, establish a...

it is essentially the duty of this narrator. Beowulf is a man who sees his duty as that which involves risking his life. He goes...

trees carry with them the promise of spring and new growth, new beginnings, which is evocative of the fact that the two children s...

farmer/is first selectman in our village;/shes in her dotage" (lines 4-6). As these lines indicate, the poem is in free verse. B...

intended and his mother, she bites her hand in frustration in "inexpressible rage and desire" (Jones and Jones, nd, p. 13). During...

appreciate what it means to feel happy? The two most vivid images in this poem are religious in nature and are quite significant ...

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...

is not identified as a goddess except for when a servant speaks to Achilles about the legends that have begun to be spun concernin...

To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was ...

the perceived flaws in their models and so alters their appearance to fit their ideal image. Rossetti seems to find this appalling...

In four pages the conformity or nonconformity of Coleridge's prose in this poem is compared with the sonnet's and epic poem's trad...

Donne takes a similar view in that he feels the ladys insistence on being concerned about honor is highly illogical, but he goes a...

ball turret was a plexiglass sphere set into the belly of a B-17 or B-24 [bomber], and inhabited by two .50 caliber machine-guns a...

the first place, and what do his "fond regrets" concern? He does not tell us, but merely goes on describing his walk with...

the Berlin wall. And we also know that there will be just a "touch" of whimsy about the poem, when it begins with "something ther...

thinks of the woods as property, more then as just a part of the vast natural world. To him, this lovely wood is part of the man-m...

A 5 page paper which examines one poem from Longfellow, Whitman, and Dickinson. The poems examined are The poets, and their poems,...

Walt Whitmans Song of Myself is a poem that is not necessarily about any one particular thing, not possessed of one single theme o...

focuses on four poems that all deal with grief. In "Stairway to Heaven" by Joaquin G. Rubio; "Dont Forget About Me!" by Jenny Gord...

This essay discusses Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz," and Robert Hayden's poem "Those Winter Sundays." Both poems pertain to...