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'The Tyger' by William Blake

been requisite in order to create the gentle, trusting lamb. The narrator never states that the Tyger is evil, but he indic...

Analysis: The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy

This 6 page paper is a detailed explication of Thomas Hardy's poem, The Darkling Thrush. The writer argues that Hardy is using na...

'The Good Man in Hell' Poem by Edward Muir

In four pages a poetic explication of this poem by Edward Muir is presented. There is no bibliography included....

Meaning of the Poem 'The Second Coming' by William Butler Yeats II

would be needed if the creature were simply to be taken as male), is female--as the focus on the "slow thighs" suggests--as well a...

'Leda and the Swan' by W.B. Yeats

An explication of William Butler Yeats' poem 'Leda and the Swan' includes analysis of allusion, situation, character, and tone con...

Growing Up in Gwendolyn Brooks' Poetry

In six pages this paper examines how the growing up experience is presented in an explication of Gwendolyn Brooks' poems 'The Ball...

'As Imperceptibly As Grief' by Emily Dickinson

In three pages this paper provides an explication of Emily Dickinson's poem. There are no other sources listed....

'The Soul Selects Her Own Society' by Emily Dickinson

just a few words (McConnell). The first stanza shows the thesis. The soul or the individual person is sovereign in deciding who ...

Explication of 'Mending Wall' by Robert Frost

In five pages this paper presents an explication of the poem 'Mending Wall' that focuses upon its primary themes. Eight sources a...

'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost

In three pages this paper presents an explication of each poetic stanza with particular emphasis upon the last and also discusses ...

'Woodchucks' by Maxine Kumin

little bit of cyanide gas, and awake to begin eating the farmers vegetables. The verbs used to describe what the woodchucks did t...

My Last Duchess by Robert Browning

This essay offers an analystical discussion of Browning's most famous poem, My Last Duchess. The writer discusses the dramatic si...

Female's Changing Role in the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

In fifteen pages women's roles are contrasted as they relate to the Hemingway short stories 'A Canary for One,' 'Che Ti Dice La Pa...

Critical Employment Essays

was until the next outburst took place before he implemented any particular strategies. Gerald would not disappoint his new manag...

Comparing Poems about War to Beowulf

it is essentially the duty of this narrator. Beowulf is a man who sees his duty as that which involves risking his life. He goes...

Mahfouz's Arabian Nights and Days and Jean Paul Sartre's No Exit

with the outside world, and the way in which one presents oneself: the desire for this constructed image of the self to be perceiv...

'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost

To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was ...

The Depiction of Troy in The Iliad and in Film

is not identified as a goddess except for when a servant speaks to Achilles about the legends that have begun to be spun concernin...

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...

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...

Two Poems, Childhood Memories of Father

This essay discusses Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz," and Robert Hayden's poem "Those Winter Sundays." Both poems pertain to...

Longfellow, Whitman and Dickinson

A 5 page paper which examines one poem from Longfellow, Whitman, and Dickinson. The poems examined are The poets, and their poems,...

Poetic Analysis of Jane Kenyon's 'Happiness'

appreciate what it means to feel happy? The two most vivid images in this poem are religious in nature and are quite significant ...

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...

Poetic Analysis of 'The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner' by Randall Jarrell

ball turret was a plexiglass sphere set into the belly of a B-17 or B-24 [bomber], and inhabited by two .50 caliber machine-guns a...

Meaning and Life

In five pages the eternal question of whether or not life has meaning is examined with the alternative of if it does not then why ...

Being, Becoming, and the Theory of Forms by Plato

or reflections of a separate world of independently existing, eternal, and unchanging entities called "forms" or "ideas." Ordinary...

The Flea vs. To a Coy Mistress

Donne takes a similar view in that he feels the ladys insistence on being concerned about honor is highly illogical, but he goes a...

'Biographia Literaria' of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In four pages the conformity or nonconformity of Coleridge's prose in this poem is compared with the sonnet's and epic poem's trad...

Human Nature and the Views of Friedrich Nietzsche

In five pages this paper examines human nature from the perspective of Friedrich Nietzsche's 'eternal recurrence' theory with cont...