YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :American Poetry Contribution of Walt Whitman
Essays 391 - 420
those around them, as if they were now removed from all responsibility to those around them. She seems to call them dead before th...
despair associated with poverty, class distinctions, and opportunities for individuals to ever rise above their "place." The Dif...
of striving to attain immortality, just as Jesus himself did. Over and over again in our lives we are tested, and each choice we ...
In five pages this research paper discusses Kahlil Gibran's works and the influence of Romanticism upon 20th century Romantic poet...
is, of course, contrary to the view of the Christian belief system. In the Christian system of belief, it is the other way around....
clearly the use of the archaic in the art piece itself, and its history, which presents us with sense of the exotic as well for th...
obvious characteristically reminiscent of the common themes of life, love and landscape, as well as the not-so-happy aspects of hu...
opens "Marriage" delivers a millenarian prophecy that identifies Christ, revolution and apocalypse and, in so doing, "satanizes" a...
As Tom was a sleeping he had such a sight!/ That thousands of sweepers Dick, Joe, Ned, & Jack,/ Were all of them lockd up in coffi...
a sufferer from mental illness, which may have been triggered at least in part by her fathers death during her childhood....
much that it has immeasurably been altered. Who was Socrates and why was he so influential? Socrates was a Greek philosopher who ...
the end, ones heart may win over ones intellect. In Diane Ackermans poem, which may very well be a modern retelling of...
that its bizarre poetic form could also be attributed to Ginsbergs love of jazz music. The coffeehouses which reached their popul...
Before actually describing the art and poetry that came out of detainees from Angel Island, a look at the locations history would ...
the expense of building the latest craze in architecture -- "...to punish awkward pride,/ Bids Bubo build, and send him such a gu...
poem continues and discusses how life was once perhaps simple for these soldiers, but all innocence is past: "Their flowers the te...
sort of heroic quest, or the heroic person trapped and confined by societys dictates or the citys walls. This is evident in ...
and spiritual war is evident in the quote, "Faith is a fine invention for gentlemen who see; But microscopes are prudent in an eme...
book include the black struggle (Becerra). Giovanni writes about her happy childhood with the work "Nikki-Rosa" (Becerra). Chi...
politics of the New Democratic Party of Canada after the Second World War, and she maintained a feminist perspective throughout he...
context changes and it seems more logical given the tone of the rest of the poem. Thus, the word as is reflective of the way that ...
Dancers illustrates throughout the various poems, the Armenian experience of community. This community is not made up of relatives...
previous era and so many would experiment with free verse and would place special emphasis on the exploration of human feelings an...
honest. He not only explores the evil of the Holocaust from the victims perspective, but also from the viewpoint of the ordinary G...
as perhaps a Jew. This presents us with imagery, symbolic references, to the confused state of Plath in terms of her own identity....
were searching for food, and clouds that possess swords. In addition, in terms of form or structure, this poem possesses lines ...
help keep me in New York against coercion/ but now Im happy for a time and interested" (OHara 1-8). This is sort of a free form...
her, hearing her cough and moan, witnessing her tears at the knowledge that she must soon leave them... the mothers despair and an...
letter dated February 17, 1903, Rilke warns the young poet that Things arent all so tangible and sayable as people would usually ...
looked at the human experience through natures eyes. The landscape was Roethkes own life, and his experiences were the word pictu...