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'Variations on the Word Love' by Margaret Atwood

sell / it (lines 6-7). And, indeed, love sells well -- everything from cars to toothpaste -- filling whole magazines -- "you can /...

A Comparative Analysis of the Anonymous 'The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell(e)' and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Tale'

a temporary reprieve. She gave him one year and one day to determine what a woman desires. If he was able to successfully answer...

2 Poems by T.S. Eliot

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 ...

Lord Byron's Poems and the Metaphors of Love and Fame

more likely that they will remember and personally value the days of their youth. Byron takes a strong stand in representing thi...

'Troilus and Criseyde' by Geoffrey Chaucer and Love

In six pages this paper discusses how each character feels love differently within the context of this poem by Geoffrey Chaucer. ...

Relationships and Love in 'Porphyria's Lover' by Robert Browning and Othello by William Shakespeare

This paper contrasts and compares how relationships and love are thematically represented in Robert Browning's poem and William Sh...

Poe's Obsession with Beautiful Young Women Dying and the Influence of His Wife's Premature Death

In six pages this paper discusses how Edgar Allan Poe's obsession with young women dying was due to the premature death of his wif...

Women's Sexual and Social Roles in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and The Book of Margery Kempe

the individual characters of the story within the stories he was telling. In fact, Chaucer himself was a prime example of what was...

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...

"A Subaltern's Love Song" - Post-Colonial Symbolism

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "A Subaltern's Love Song" by Betjeman. Symbols of post-colonial significance are de...

Psychology of Love v. Hate

a murderer sees the violence that he perpetrates as his only means of salvaging his sense of self, of maintaining his pride (Gilli...

Lystra's "Searching The Heart" - Analysis

in what was historically thought of as a straitlaced society. Lystra (1996) - assistant professor at California State University ...

Shelley’s Ozymandias

the poem involves the power of antiquities, of ancient history and of those relics that are left behind after someones time and er...

Whitman: "Song of Myself"

except "en-masse" (Morace). Whitman refers to equality again in Section 5 when he says "...all the men ever born are also my brot...

Carl Sandburg’s Chicago

the later part of the 19th century, who witnessed much of Chicagos history. He saw it in the early days of the 20th century when w...

Beowulf

(VII). In this he is telling Beowulf that he had many apparently noble men claiming they would get rid of the beast but they drank...

Langston Hughes’ Theme for English B

that everything he says is truth and thus at this point his analyzing is only supporting that truth. He assumes, or infers...

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...

The Dinner Party by Amy Lowell

11). After this section the dinner party clearly moves to the Drawing-Room wherein a woman who sits with fire reflecting her jewel...

Greek Women and Women Today: A Discussion

Modern Women in such a conversation: "Even many women today are perhaps happy to allow men to take charge, make the money, and pla...

Piercy: “The Secretary Chant”

a "reject button" and she is pregnant with a Xerox machine (Piercy). The last lines of the poem give the reader the point: "File m...

Robert Frost: “Mending Wall”

But it also tells of the two neighbors who work to repair the wall together: they set a specific day and time to do so (Frost, 200...

A New England Tradition: Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall”

they are lifting boulders and at others, they only have to worry about shifting small stones (Frost). The main thing is, they are ...

DOUBLE STANDARD BY ELLEN WATKINS HARPER

girl, outcast, forlorn/as thrown her life away?"). But the poet is adamant that both parties, the man and the woman involved in th...

Martin Espada: Heart of Hunger and Imagine the Angels of Bread

could be brought to an end. Espada is really calling for a revolution: He says that "This is the year that squatters evict landlo...

Analysis of 4 poems by Robert Frost

imagery perfectly sums up the pressures modern age, as the narrator is too pressed for time to pause and appreciate nature more th...

"If" by Rudyard Kipling

1-2). Kiplings expertise with rhythm and word choice within the framework of the poems structure also constitute a feature that ...

Four Poems on Grief

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

Song of Myself

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

Yeats’ The Second Coming

that may speak of a lack of hope or direction. The reader does not really need to know what the poem is...