Essays 151 - 180
This essay pertains to Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," published in 1729, and Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess, Ferra...
This essay pertains to "Ode to Psyche" and "The Eve of St. Agnes" by John Keats, and compares the two poems. Five pages in length...
This essay pertains to Shakespeare's "Othello" and Rudyard Kipling's poem "If-," which lists various qualities that are required t...
This essay considers three of Langston Hughes's poems, "Harlem," "I, Too," and "Ballad of the Landlord" and argues that they are r...
of sophisticated readers to a gross injustice, which was the short, cruel life of a chimney sweeper. Unlike the modern myth -- a ...
use of cadences, rhythms, repetitions and events or actions that may take place within the poem. Also, it can be said that tone is...
speaks of breaking free, not only from oppression and prejudice, but also from those things that bind and keep one from achieving ...
sell / it (lines 6-7). And, indeed, love sells well -- everything from cars to toothpaste -- filling whole magazines -- "you can /...
In other words, to be a woman outside the accepted societal role for women is not to be a woman. As this indicates, any woman wh...
wide" (line 6) is empowering, freeing, and infinitely entertaining. From the time that his first book of verse for children was ...
since the Middle Ages as the models for literature at its grandest" (McDaniel 1-15pope.htm). It is a general consensus that Popes ...
of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...
see their beauty, and youth, start to fade. This idea is reiterated and emphasized in the second verse, which speaks of the suns q...
of Belindas bedroom, and how Ariel, her guardian sylph, awakens her. Pope describes the other sylphs that also guard Belinda and t...
themes of love, this became the preferred style of World War I poets like Edward Thomas. One of his most poignant verses is "Febr...
the "music" of nature and is part of a continuous cycle. This poem concludes "How can we know the dancer from the dance" (line 64)...
In five pages this essay ponders how religious faith in poetry represents the time periods in which it was composed in an examinat...
This essay provides a reading of the classic Cummings' poem, "somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond." The aut...
In five pages this essay analyzes the theme of loneliness as it is presented in 'The Whitsun Weddings,' 'Toad's Revisited,' and 'M...
In five pages this essay analyzes this poem and the impacts of connecting to a particular place on human relationships. There is ...
In eleven pages this essay explicates Keats' nineteenth century poem in a consideration of life experiences, language, and poetic ...
In five pages this essay examines William Wordsworth's poetic substance and form as represented by the poem 'The World is Too Much...
really saw his last wife as a person in her own right, but rather regarded her just one more beautiful "object" that he owned and ...
he will gild her horns as part of the sacrifice (Homer). Such sacrifices were meant as "gifts" to the gods, which were designed to...
of the monarchy due to his support of the Commonwealth (John Milton). Married three times, he spent his later years dictating to h...
was really blond, white and blue-eyed (Angelou 4). This feeling on Angelous part is highly related to the restrictions on black fr...
denying that this characterizes his lexicon and poetic style ("William" 9). Considering this, the first question that the reader...
In a paper consisting of 10 pages the aethetic, scientific, and sociopolitical influences on Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is considere...
This research paper/essay offers a detailed explication of a poem written by Robert Bly in 1981 entitled My Father's Wedding. The ...
In six pages this essay considers the series of poems in Brother and Sister by George Eliot in a discussion of two sonnets feature...