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'Sonnet 54' in Amoretti by Edmund Spenser

that all the pageants play,/Disguysing diversly my troubled wits" (lines 3-4). The poet narrator is the "star" of all the "pageant...

'Circular Ruins' by Jorge Borges

other hand, proposes that time is circular and events are cyclical. The old mystic who dreams is dreaming specifically to create...

Analysis of the Poem 'The Elixir' by George Herbert

to see, And what I do in anything, To do it as for thee:" (311) In the next stanza, Herbert comments on mans desire for perfectio...

'Black Magic' by Dudley Randall

regards to both cherries and grapes. Her lips as "curved" like cherries and "full" like grape bunches, but they are "sweet" like ...

Analysis of the Poem 'The Horse and His Rider' by Joanna Baillie

In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...

'Bushed' by Earle Birney

reiterates the point made in the first line, the destruction of his rainbow, was a significant event. Whatever this setback was, t...

'Dialogue between the Soul and the Body' by Andrew Marvell

the Body, that is, as the force that gives the Body motion and life. However, Marvell stipulates in parenthesis that "(A fever cou...

My Last Duchess/Robert Browning

as it relates to obsession and silent women. The poem begins, very pleasantly as the narrator seems to merely be giving the li...

'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...

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...

“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...

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...

Simple Eloquence of 'I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud' by William Wordsworth

a "crowd" and Wordsworth adds that they toss "their heads in a sprightly dance" (line 12). In other words, the poet is pictured as...

Barreca/Nighttime Fires

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare

"temperate" is not exactly a great complement. Therefore, Shakespeare adds to this in the next line stating that "rough" winds can...

Poetic Analysis of 'The Wood Pile' by Robert Frost

stresses and also spondaic emphasis on the phrase "this years snow." Still other lines mix and match rhythm patterns so that the o...

Analysis of the Poem 'Earth's Answer' by William Blake

renewal [is] not exercised" (Harding 42). Blake wrote, "Earth raisd up her head / From the darkness dread and drear. / Her light...

Richard Wilbur's Poem 'Love Calls Us to the Things of This World'

the soul from the confines of the earth and into the far reaches of the heavens. In its spiritual form the soul is no longer conf...