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God in a Technical Age, Arnold and Hopkins

In the media today, it is possible to frequently see pundits and politicians bemoaning the state of society in regards to morality...

Dickinson's "Much madness" and Eliot's "Prufrock"

This essay offers analysis and a comparison of T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" with Emily Dickinson's "Much ma...

Langston Hughes: Work and Worldview

the dawns were / young. / I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to / sleep. / I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyram...

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...

Melinda Sordino and Maya Angelou

allows the reader to read approximately 10 pages, enough to get the "flavor" of the authors writing. Here, she blends humor with a...

Analysis: Emily Dickinson and Anne Bradstreet

are only 4-6 lines in length. "Contemplations" begins as what we might call a nature poem, describing the way in which the sun lig...

Literary Analysis of Wislawa Szymborska’s Poem ‘True Love’

love between two ordinary people: "Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it h...

Reactions to Various Poems

break all the rules and express his artistic vision in his own highly original way. This leads him to fame, fortune and freedom, w...

Treatment of Women/17th Century New England

sanctioned as proper for women, Bradstreets work did not go against the norms of Puritan society. However, they do often emphasize...

"A Far Cry from Africa"

Latino, classical and contemporary" (Bixby, 2000). His later work reveal a man "who has learned his craft from the European tradit...

Barreca/Nighttime Fires

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

'Rhine Boat Trip' by Irving Layton

of vivid imagery and haunting metaphor. There is also no punctuation, by design. According to literary critic Michael Greenstein...

Death Poetic Perspectives in the Works of Thomas, Donne, and Davis

shalt die"(Donne 812). In this poem, then, the literary devices used include personification, sonnet form, and irony. Irony is mo...

Emily Dickinson's Hardships

were very interesting, people probably would not like them because they were different. As such Emily decided at that point that s...

Maya Angelou's Poem 'Woman Work'

is left out: herself. "Shine on me, sunshine Rain on me, rain...

Performance Artist Genny Lim

in regards to information on the Internet and within journals, books and magazines. Because of Lims extensive reach in regards to ...

Nature's Role in 'Kubla Khan' and 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ancient Mariner is perhaps the greatest Romantic statement about the consequences of psychic separation of an isolated individual ...

Literature of the First World War, Dying, Mutilation, and Death

that the other poppy "I gave to you" (line 8). In the third stanza, Rosenberg writes that the "sandbags narrowed" (line 9). The t...

Maya Angelou's 'And Still I Rise'

in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt...

Death and Poetic Attitudes of Davis, Thomas, and Donne

people pity the dead, not Death itself. In the end Donnes message is that there is little reason to fear death and that in the end...

Lionel Trilling's 'Terrifying' Observation of Robert Frost

Frost as Terrifying In first examining how and why Frost is considered terrifying we must first understand that Trilling did not...

Early American Poetry

would end without seeing "half my days thats due" (line 13). This suggests that Bradstreet is giving birth in middle age, which s...

Friendship in Three Poems by Sappho

was such time as it was appropriate to say goodbye and release them to adult life as defined by that society. In this poem, Sapp...

'Inferno' by Dante Alighieri

is in line with Christian ideology. In Dantes interpretation of events, Hell is reserved for the pagans, again a tribute...

Irish Nationalism and Michael Collins, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, and Umberto Saba

Joyces brother, Stanislaus, records that in April of 1907, in a conversation with Joyce questioned, "Do you not think Ireland has...

Ancient Greece and Roles for Women as Portrayed by Homer

and also provided insight into the character when she brazenly broke with firmly held tradition. For example, in Homers Iliad and ...

Poetry and Metaphors

savagery which slavery brought with it. Notice in this passage how the belles traits are given, then immediately juxtaposed with t...

Communication and Poetry

the antiques she notes that "there was no need of love (Jennings). This appears to be a reflection of her most hidden needs and de...

Issues of Emotional Identification in Film

Hitchcocks movie, Vertigo. This whole movie is centered around one man and his inability to let go of an old love. The story, in b...

Phillis Wheatley's Poetry

the population in America at the time would have preferred to not know that a black woman was capable of such complex and abstract...