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Analysis of T.S. Eliot's Poem 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'

sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...

“How to Write the Great American Indian Novel” by Alexie

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Alexie’s “How to Write the Great American Indian Novel”. An explication is carried ...

"Locked Ward, Newtown, Connecticut by Rachel Loden

This essay is an explication of "Locked Ward: Newtown, Connecticut" by Rachel Loden. The writer bases this discussion on the assum...

Great Expectations - An Analysis of Themes

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at Great Expectations. Explications of quotes are used to give insights into themes. P...

Foucault and Arendt - A Reconciliation

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at Arendt and Foucault. An explication is made which reconciles their basic philosophie...

Four Poems, Summary and Analysis

This essay offers summary and analysis of four poems which begin by offering a comparison of two companion poems from Songs of Inn...

Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ

un-natural cause is this new concept of God (Nietzsche). This God is a "God who demands - in place of a God who helps, who devises...

Robert Frost/"Home Burial"

As this suggests, this psychologically complex poem portrays a pivotal exchange between two people who are trying to cope with los...

Eliot: “Conversation Galante”

is an odd remark. She picks up on it and asks if hes referring to her as being vacuous and he says no, "it is I who am inane" (Eli...

Gary Soto/”Oranges”

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

Significance of the Snake in Zora Neale Hurston’s Short Story, ‘Sweat’

on charming it much as he believes he has charmed most of the towns women, and confining Delia to the home for years is comparable...

Denis Diderot/Rameau's Nephew

as being different sides of the authors true character and argues that in "literature as in life, we must choose" (Brans 437). T...

Maya Angelou/Phenomenal Woman

half=way through the stanza, Angelou prefaces giving her reaction with the line "I say," which is followed by her lyrical descript...

Ezra Pound, "A Virginal"

levels. First of all, a virginal is an early form of the harpsichord that was a preferred instrument among young ladies during the...

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...

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...

Poe/Annabel Lee

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...

'Out Far Nor in Deep' by Robert Frost

at the water. Frosts poem builds an elaborate, extended metaphor based on his social phenomena. The people along the sand All tur...

'Sonny's Blues' A Short Story by James Baldwin

why he became an addict; he also express great uncertainty about his life after hes released from prison (Class lecture on "Sonnys...

Stanzas Seven through Fourteen of 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman

tells his readers to "undrape," because, to him, no one is guilty of shame or worthy of being discarded (line 145). Everyone and e...

Explication of the Poems 'God's Grandeur' by Gerard Manley Hopkins and 'The World is Too Much With Us' by William Wordsworth

So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the s...

Barreca/Nighttime Fires

the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...

H.C. Barrett's Article 'Rhetorical Analysis Differentiating Electronic Portfolios and Online Assessment Management Systems'

in the literature, making it difficult for research to validate the pedagogy" (Barrett). It is her basic purpose in writing this p...

Francisco de Quevedo/Sonnet 478

hope for ever having his love requited has evaporated, but he persists in his quest regardless because it has become too late to b...

Lord Jim and Gentleman Brown

up his life in payment of his guilt (Conrad, 2007) The questions we want to consider are these: Why did Jim jump from the Patna? ...

1956's Roth House

property and outside of that a berm of round river stones. Roundness is the theme that catches the eye on approach to The Roth Hou...

Depression in Teens

depression from time to time (Types and Causes of Depression). Another type of depression is bipolar disorder, which is also refe...

English Lit Questions in 9 short papers

long to feel him next to my skin, next to my heart, which is surely his rightful place. I bare my shoulder and hold him to my brea...

Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

In five pages this essay summarizes and provides a review of this text by Joseph Campbell. Two sources are cited in the bibliogra...

Fiction or Truth in the Works of Joseph Wambaugh

flawed heroics. Wambaughs first nonfiction book, The Onion Field (1974), about two young cops fateful encounter with two young ro...