Essays 241 - 270
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these poems in an analysis of each poet's voice and how it is influenced by imager...
has been to continuously "climb" up the socioeconomic ladder in a culture that is set against her. She advises her son, not to gi...
road that was not as well traveled. The grass being green and not trampled tells the reader that few people coming to that crossro...
In five pages the spiritual aspects of Lorna Goodison's poetry are the focus of this analysis of the symbolism, language, and styl...
each. An allegory, while closely associated with symbols or symbolism, is a unique literary element in that everything within the...
power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...
In five pages this paper presents a critical analysis of Sylvia Plath's poem 'Lady Lazarus.' Four pages are cited in the bibliogr...
human emotions or actions to nature or inanimate objects. Porphyrias Lover (Robert Browning) We might label this dramatic monolo...
In one page this essay analyzes Dickinson's poem in terms of symbolism, imagery, and theme with an evaluation of her employment of...
This research paper/essay discusses parallel themes in three works: Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet' and his poem "The ...
In five pages this essay considers the poem from several different interpretations. One source is cited in the bibliography....
a good face." His voice is directly personal as he enumerates the many faults of "thy Flavia." He reminds the man who would marry...
questions rather than declarative sentences. Also Hansen (2002) points out that the tentative "maybe," which is part of this sole...
Chicago are? Who knows?" Yet, there are evocative images that conjure images of the people that live there -- workers with big sho...
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...
poem despite the metaphysical airs assumed by Michael Robartes. In this poem, Yeats expresses the concept that can be concisely ...
/ So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep" (lines 3-4 11290). In the next stanza a small boy is upset because all of his hair h...
seemed inseparable. A true friend, in other words, wishes for another person the highest possible good. This sort of friendship i...
17). While this image is certainly chilling, the overall tone of the poem is one of "civility," which is actually expressed in lin...
serves to draw the readers attention to this word and give it added emphasis. They break up the lines in such a way that mimics th...
(line 5). As this illustrates, the second stanza builds the tension even further as this comment intimates that this death is par...
questions Gods intentions. The capitalization of "He" suggests an allusion to Christ, whose suffering, both mentally and physica...
romantic poetry it that the emphasis was always on emotions, rather than reason. William Wordsworth, a fellow Romantic, defined "g...
This research paper/essay offers a detailed explication of a poem written by Robert Bly in 1981 entitled My Father's Wedding. The ...
the title. The alliteration between "caffeinated" and "concrete" emphasizes the rolling rhythm of the line. The reference to caffe...
use of cadences, rhythms, repetitions and events or actions that may take place within the poem. Also, it can be said that tone is...
a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...
traumatic experience that the narrator has been through could very well be death. It is interesting to not the way that Dickinson ...
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...