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'Nothing Gold Can Stay' by Robert Frost

understands that youth and life cannot remain, for "nothing gold can stay." Metaphor When we take the poem in its entirety, and...

Literary Tools in Jack London's Short Stories

life is at stake as the narrator expresses the fact that a man will actually freeze to death if he cannot get a fire going. The ...

War Concept and the 'Language of War'

Language. Orwell explains that in his time at least, political speech and writing were primarily done to defend the indefensible (...

Looking But Not Necessarily Seeing

restore eyesight that has been gone since early childhood, he is met with a conundrum of confusion and skewed interpretation that ...

Franco Zeffirelli's Cinematic Interpretation of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

the still city, which is bathed in ethereal morning light, the city is shrouded in fog. This is also symbolic, in that its white s...

3 Short Stories by Poe Analyzed

anxiety. It serves to house the blame for the narrators actions. And, in terms of imagery, the ending of this classic tale speaks ...

The Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko and Searching for Self

it is as much a story about the Earth as it is a story about the human characters that strive to seek resolution to the very real ...

Joseph Conrad's 'The Lagoon'

thinks the woman will die. Arsat is very sad and while he waits out the long night he begins to tell his friend about how he came ...

Literary Overview of 'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens

the commoners, Darnay renounces his title to the Evremonde Estate and goes back to England to live. He proposes to Lucie and she a...

Maya Angelou's Poem 'Woman Work'

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

Comparative Analysis of Octavio Paz and Leo Tolstoy

Octavio Pazs story, My Life with The Wave, is that a man falls in love with a wave from the ocean and brings it home to live with ...

'Ode to a Grecian Urn' and 'To Autumn' by John Keats

in the second stanza, as well as the final, "if gentle" confrontation in the last stanza (125). These vibrantly painted verbal ima...

War's Realities and Poetry

be born of patriotism and love for their country, as there are few things that would inspire the soldiers to put up with such bad ...

Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel

on her symptoms she has cancer. Soon, Hagar will be an angel. But, since she is such a tough old bird, difficult to those trying t...

Theme of The Great Grandmother by Nancy Hale

as life slips away alongside the wonderment borne of childhood is, perhaps, some of the most intense and illustrative of all Hales...

Poet and Poetry of Jimmy Santiago Baca

this book. Baca runs the gamut of emotions in this text that is true, but what the reader finds within Healing Earthquakes is onl...

Poetry and its Elements

a big messy bowl of goop. In the same way, the placement of words, especially in the poem, can be said to be very important. There...

Flannery O'Connor and Comedy

in complete truthfulness, "a man" (OConnor, 1972, p. 255). When the pair become hopelessly lost in Atlanta, they find themselv...

Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare Analyzed

/ And every fair from fair sometimes declines, / By chance, or natures changing course untrimmd; / But thy eternal summer shall no...

Gillian Clarke's 'Letter from a Far Country'

inner soul of a woman to be appreciated for the ways in which she makes the lives of her family easier and more pleasant. A native...

'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' Analyzed

the intent of the writer. Might he have an agenda hidden under the ghost story? At the same time, this is a classic supernatural t...

Analysis of 'Dulce et Decorum Est' by Wilfred Owen

behind. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!--An ecstasy of fumbling Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, But someone still was yelling out...

Hamlet and Images of Disease

a Denmark in decay, resulting from the marriage between Claudius and Gertrude, which enables the cunning brother to seize the thro...

Dylan Thomas's 'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night'

use of cadences, rhythms, repetitions and events or actions that may take place within the poem. Also, it can be said that tone is...

Analysis of Oresteia Trilogy by Aeschylus

Around, around, in airy rings, / They wheel with oarage of their wings" (Agamemnon, 2002). The image of the birds, circling over ...

'Inscriptions' by William Wordsworth

exploration of human feelings and emotions. In the poem, Inscriptions, to which the first lines are: HOPES what are they?--B...

Line Analysis of 'Every Sin is the Result of Collaboration'

accuse the owners son, Johnnie, of trying to kill him. Threatening to leave the hotel, the owner (Scully), convinces him that to g...

Second World War Torturing of US Prisoners of War by Japan

forgive and forget. It does however help to explore what happened in those camps in Japan during World War II. Although by and la...

Artistic Mood, Manic Depression and Touched with Fire by Kay Redfield Jamison

one in which her "periods of high enthusiasms, [were] ... short-lived and quickly burned itself out" (PG). In Touched with Fire...

Characters of Bolingbroke and Richard II Revealed in the Play by William Shakespeare

the treacherous feet" (III.2.14-16). Rather than action, Richard offers poetic interpretations of his situation. The tone and imag...