Essays 31 - 60
This essay offers analysis of "Boy at the Window" by Richard Wilbur. The writer focuses on the compelling nature of the poem's ima...
This essay presents a character sketch of the narrator in "The ABC of Aerobics," a poem by Peter Meinke. Three pages in length, th...
on the beauty of the scene. The Romantics tended to be introspective, while also placing emphasis on beauty of everyday life, rath...
has received a considerable amount of attention. Eighteenth century critics argued in favor of viewing the poem as fundamentally p...
This essay offers summary and analysis of four poems which begin by offering a comparison of two companion poems from Songs of Inn...
This essay focuses on the humor and Irony in Robert Frost's poems. The poems discussed are "Mending Wall," "Stopping by Woods on a...
farmer/is first selectman in our village;/shes in her dotage" (lines 4-6). As these lines indicate, the poem is in free verse. B...
the fleetingness of time, but his imagery and argument are more nuanced and complex. He, first of all, advises his mistress that i...
what might be causing the narrators shame. Shame is generally associated with sexual urges. During Frosts lifetime, i.e., the fi...
A 5 page paper which examines one poem from Longfellow, Whitman, and Dickinson. The poems examined are The poets, and their poems,...
appreciate what it means to feel happy? The two most vivid images in this poem are religious in nature and are quite significant ...
the first place, and what do his "fond regrets" concern? He does not tell us, but merely goes on describing his walk with...
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 perceived flaws in their models and so alters their appearance to fit their ideal image. Rossetti seems to find this appalling...
Walt Whitmans Song of Myself is a poem that is not necessarily about any one particular thing, not possessed of one single theme o...
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...
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...
Donne takes a similar view in that he feels the ladys insistence on being concerned about honor is highly illogical, but he goes a...
is not identified as a goddess except for when a servant speaks to Achilles about the legends that have begun to be spun concernin...
thinks of the woods as property, more then as just a part of the vast natural world. To him, this lovely wood is part of the man-m...
the Berlin wall. And we also know that there will be just a "touch" of whimsy about the poem, when it begins with "something ther...
too swollen to wear an expensive pair of Italian loafers, he presents them to Birkerts, who, initially, wears them, as they looked...
The symmetry or balance represented by these two poems by William Blake is analyzed in a paper consisting of four pages....
In four pages this paper discusses how William Blake educates others on the gifts from God humans possess in his poem 'The Lamb.'...
This 4 page paper is a detailed explication of Thomas Hardy's poem Convergence of the Twain, which describes the Titanic sinking....
his poem and essentially relying on words that are descriptive and are simply part of his experience with nature. In this it is pe...
that second coming, beginning with a sense of hope, but finished with a sense of fear or dread: "The Second Coming! Hardly are tho...
has to be cut for the stove" (Wiles). When someone dies it does not mean they were not loved, and they are not missed, just becaus...
people have other people that they look up to in an envious manner, believing that someone elses life is far better than their own...
But it also tells of the two neighbors who work to repair the wall together: they set a specific day and time to do so (Frost, 200...