Essays 391 - 420
of mourning and regret, while singing the praises of something wondrous. I Came to buy a smile -- today (223) The first thing...
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...
line and the metaphor in the first, Dickinson employs all of the literary devices available, but, prefers, for the most part, to f...
3 pages and 1 source used. This paper provides an overview of Cathy Song's poem Chinatown. This paper outlines the viewpoint of ...
cannot afford to become too emotional over the huge of amount of dead bodies that require disposal. There are simply too many. It ...
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...
a feast of rejoicing, as well as to keep himself clean and well groomed; he is to cherish his children and his wife (Radcliffe PG)...
propelling them forward, as does the rhyme and the rhythm. The steady short-long cadence of the rhythm is, in this context, like a...
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...
In five pages Grace Nichol's poetry is examined in terms of the images of resistance and stereotypes they employ with a discussion...
The writer compares and analyzes the Song of Roland and Beowulf, two epic poems. The main focus of the paper is the death of the r...
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...
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...
Carolina, on July 22, 1967 at the age of 89. Although beloved during his lifetime, Sandburg remains a target of critical neglect ...
object and made it extraordinary: "the tomato offers/ its gift/ of fiery color/ and cool completeness" (82-85). Ode to a Storm: T...
opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...
until a water snake slithered by. Panicked and briefly forgetting about the traveler on his back, Puff-jaw dove, which threw the ...
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...
This 4 page paper gives an overview of the poem “To his Excellency General Washington”, by Phillis Wheatley. This paper includes h...
cannot hear the falconer;/ Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" (Yeats 1-3). The narrator then speaks of how anarchy has bee...
break all the rules and express his artistic vision in his own highly original way. This leads him to fame, fortune and freedom, w...
scanned text files, featured a scanned version Frank St. Vincents important exposition of the poem that was first published in Exp...
poetry is to use an economy of language to express ideas that are more complex than the concrete images and words that convey them...
The writer discusses the connection between the Old English epic poem Beowulf and today's rap culture. The writer argues that alth...
In six pages an explication of 'Annabel Lee' considers how the rhythm of the rhyme, word repetition, and setting/imagery articulat...
read into the poem a bit more and might surmise that this boy is rather insecure and needs his girl to be seen by others in a posi...