Essays 211 - 240
propelling them forward, as does the rhyme and the rhythm. The steady short-long cadence of the rhythm is, in this context, like a...
of his mind and spirit working in tandem to overcome natures obstacles as well as the more primitive creatures on the Earth. Frost...
argued that poetry is the expression of ones very soul, encompassing many emotions, feelings and desires that can range from one e...
lingers, then erased, Wisdom grasped and then replaced With new wisdoms, no time for decay. Where is permanence? Useless Next to ...
An analysis of stanzas XIV and XV of this anonymous poem are consider in terms of their significance particularly regarding the re...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Spenser's "Sonnet XXX". A mechanical analysis of the poem's devices is carried out,...
In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Alexie's poem, "At the Trial of Hamlet, Chicago, 1994". Several discussion questions ...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "Of Pruning and Production" by Isabella Southern. The poem's themes are gradually s...
of the Muse to introduce its tale: "Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story / of that man skilled in all ways of contendin...
In seven pages this paper analyzes the poem that asserts the spiritual themes of the poem are metaphorically portrayed by the trag...
apt description of reverie being that which is made up of a few simple things; and if those things are not available, well, reveri...
/ And every fair from fair sometimes declines, / By chance, or natures changing course untrimmd; / But thy eternal summer shall no...
cannot afford to become too emotional over the huge of amount of dead bodies that require disposal. There are simply too many. It ...
line and the metaphor in the first, Dickinson employs all of the literary devices available, but, prefers, for the most part, to f...
exploded out of me" (McKay on "If We Must Die"). Somewhat surprisingly, McKay elected to structure his impassioned contemporary p...
"After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes," "This is My Letter to the World," "I Had Been Hungry," and "They Shut Me Up in Prose,"...
A 5 page esay reviewing the Robert Frost poem. This paper comments on both the strengths and the weaknesses of the poem. 1 sourc...
The writer discusses the fact that in Beowulf, which is the oldest poem in English, many of Beowulf's enemies are non-humans. Thes...
lays dead. No individual has truly come to help him save for one youth, Wiglaf. In these particular lines we note the following: "...
the first great epic poems of English history is thought to have been written around the time of the first half of the 8th century...
from these early stanzas that Lizzie is somewhat stronger - she is aware of the consequences of eating the forbidden fruit. It is ...
of mourning and regret, while singing the praises of something wondrous. I Came to buy a smile -- today (223) The first thing...
at the same time the calmness of it all makes it quite dramatic. The narrator does not see the action as dramatic, however, and si...
to believe that his elevated social standing makes him actually superior to anyone else. This perception definitely includes his w...
Wheatleys poem begins, "Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,/ Taught my benighted soul to understand/ That theres a God, that...
God and religion for answers to life struggles in a sense. Bradstreets poem begins as she slowly comes to sink into the fact that ...
In five pages this poetic explicaton considers the poem's meaning and examines the usage of tone, wording, images, and also discus...
This 5 page paper is a line-by-line explication of the poem The Convergence of the Twain, by Thomas Hardy. The writer explores the...
smooth stone/ That overlays the pile; and, from a bag/ All white with flour, the dole of village dames,/ He drew his scraps and fr...
of life in our worldly form, of the power of the many mystical forces of our universe, and the concepts of reincarnation and life ...