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Design by Robert Frost

They are simply animals doing what they do and creating a balance in the world, another aspect of duality for without opposites th...

Emily Dickinson's Poems 341 and 465 Compared and Contrastd

power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...

Communities and Their Members

of community is under discussion. When asked if members of the community "look like you," its likely that the discussion centers ...

Comparing poems by Atwood and Smith

also differences in style. Smith, for example, uses less alliteration than Atwood, and his short, clipped lines emphasize and isol...

Symbolism, Theme and Perspective in Two Poems

has grown deep like rivers" (line 4). Setting the line off by itself emphasizes its significance, as it ties the narrator directly...

A Comparison, Poe and Longfellow

Psalm of Life" and Edgar Allan Poes "Sonnet-To Science" address the way that each poet perceived life and the reality of their era...

"Helas" and the Victorian Hypocrisy

by comparing his own life to a "twice-written scroll", bearing marks from both a pursuit of intellectual virtues, and a pursuit of...

Goblin Market - Found Poem

In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at found poetry. Rossetti's "Goblin Market" is used to construct a found poem with fem...

Tintern Abbey - Notes

In a paper of one page, the writer looks at Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey. A brief explanation is given of several themes invoked in ...

Revolution Themes in 'Marriage of Heaven and Hell' by William Blake

he falls from grace these divide from him. One of those identities is called Luvah, which was the part responsible for emotion and...

Analyzing 'Your Dog Dies' by Raymond Carver'

is perhaps the first experience they will have when they lose someone very close. The poem goes on: "you feel bad about it/ you fe...

Thematic Analysis of 'The Lamb' and 'The Tyger' Poems by William Blake

A relevant phrase in literature that relates to the overall concept of good versus evil in Blakes work is that of the human...

Gunther/Death Be Not Proud

A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...

Prejudice in Education Confronted by Langston Hughes and Toni Cade Bambara

In five pages education and its prejudices are captured in the poem 'Theme for English B.' and the short story 'The Lesson.' Ther...

Langston Hughes' African American Poetry

In six pages this paper examines Langston Hughes' African American poetry and the common theme that is interwoven in poems like 'H...

Emily Dickinson's Life and Influences oh Her Poetry

This paper looks at ways in which Dickinson defined life through her poetry. The author identifies common themes in her work and ...

'The Odyssey' by Homer, the Book of Genesis, Retribution and Faith

In a paper consisting of six pages this paper examines how the themes of faith anf retribution are reprsented in the 'Noah and the...

Death and the Works of Emily Dickinson

Donoghue has aptly observed that "of her religious faith virtually anything may be said, with some show of evidence. She may be r...

Imagination and Love in On Love by Alain de Botton and Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

In twenty four pages this report contrasts and compares the themes of love and imagination as depicted in these works and also com...

Narrative of 'Mending Wall' by Robert Frost

In five pages this paper presents a brief biography of Robert Frost and then presents an analysis of the narrative poem 'Mending W...

Comparison of Poems 'To the Evening Star' by William Blake and 'It is a Beauteous Evening' by William Wordsworth

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these poems in an analysis of each poet's voice and how it is influenced by imager...

Poetic Analysis of Robert Frost's 'The Road Not Taken'

a world of what might have been is not healthy. Therefore, he is suggesting that when one determines a course of action, that one ...

Derek Walcott's 'Omeros' Theoretically Studied

spiritual awakening. CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EPIC POEM: Epic poems all share similar characteristics which define them as such. Fo...

Jane Kenyon's 'Depression in Winter'

seems to add to the depression, the unhappiness that the narrator is speaking of because there is a sense of futility in trying to...

Depictions of Nature in the Poetry of Dickinson and Frost

action so that the reader can easily imagine its intensity. It is a strikingly vivid image. Likewise, Frost is famous for his im...

Robert Frost

but the presence of Winter coming on is clearly a powerful element, or theme, in the poem as the narrator illustrates how he is re...

Close Reading and Analysis: “Blues Spiritual for Mammy Prater”

a fa?ade that represents him at his best. But Mammy Prater apparently did none of this. Instead, "she waited until the technique...

Poetry of John Keats and Lawlessness

In eight pages this paper examines how lawlessness is thematically expressed by John Keats in his 'Robin Hood' poem and how this ...

Donna Masini's Poetry

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the free verse and sexuality, relationships, and family themes featured in 3 of Do...

'The Bishop Orders His Tomb At St. Praxed's Church' by Robert Browning

In five pages this poetic analyzes what makes the poem Victorian in a consideration of style, tone, allegory, and theme. Three so...