Essays 421 - 450
narrative voice relates how his mother died when he was quite young and his father sold him before he could cry "weep." In the Nor...
faun, so that he participates in the creation of the work (Betz, 1996). The faun cannot decide if he has been dreaming or not, but...
the deceased woman no longer has voluntary motion or sensory perception, but she is part of nature, which has sweeping grandeur in...
people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...
This 4 page paper gives an overview of the poem “To his Excellency General Washington”, by Phillis Wheatley. This paper includes h...
This essay presents a character sketch of the narrator in "The ABC of Aerobics," a poem by Peter Meinke. Three pages in length, th...
This essay is an explication of "Locked Ward: Newtown, Connecticut" by Rachel Loden. The writer bases this discussion on the assum...
This 4 page paper gives an overview of the element within the poem The Road not Taken. This paper includes irony, symbolism, repre...
In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at "Tithonus". The theme of immortality is examined through looking at the poem's mechan...
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 pertains to a Wilfred Owen's WWI poem that offers stark and vivid repudiation of the Latin phrase that it is sweet to ...
optimistic poet beyond this interpretation of his most famous work, which causes the work to stand out in a questionable way. Inde...
In the media today, it is possible to frequently see pundits and politicians bemoaning the state of society in regards to morality...
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...
An analysis of stanzas XIV and XV of this anonymous poem are consider in terms of their significance particularly regarding the re...
was staying in Venice. It was published by Moore in 1830, after Byrons death, in a text he edited, Letters and Journals of Lord By...
narrator is perhaps confused, perhaps trying to share an image and what that image, or group of images, may mean. The characters w...
was assassinated, probably by Stalin himself (Vartavarian). Stalin used the death as a pretext to begin purging those he thought w...
school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...
in seconds. He continues this catalog of things she is not by comparing the color of her lips to coral (coral is redder); compari...
half=way through the stanza, Angelou prefaces giving her reaction with the line "I say," which is followed by her lyrical descript...
monstrous creature Grendel, Grendels mother, and the dragon - it considers the impact of social obligations (loyalty to God and co...
more joyful than creation itself. Then he adds: "Light out of darkness! full of doubt I stand, / Whether I should repent me now of...
somewhere hes never gone before and that the woman (lets assume for this exercise that the beloved is his wife) is able to enclose...
kind. It is, or can be, a far more positive thought than the thought which is fear. When reading the poems, however,...
cannot hear the falconer;/ Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" (Yeats 1-3). The narrator then speaks of how anarchy has bee...
and be a part of it, she feels her connection with "everything" (line 11), which means she perceives the world in terms of connec...
poetry is to use an economy of language to express ideas that are more complex than the concrete images and words that convey them...