Essays 181 - 210
has to "face the men of the time" and "think about war," in order to "construct a new stage" (Of Modern Poetry...Stevens). What St...
The very nature of such a situation requires that the primary character survive that which the reader is not sure he or she could ...
Hunt conveys her message in a type of rapid New York "urban speak," which is specifically intended to jolt the readers passivity. ...
to its logical conclusion, reasoning, that there was nothing in the power of humanity capable of effecting personal salvation. The...
examined in several of his later animal poems the themes of survival and the mystery and destructiveness of the cosmos" (Anonymous...
was someone who, as Derek Walcott classified him, was ". . . the icon of Yankee values, the smell of wood smoke, the sparkle of de...
see how he views war - both admiring the bravery of the soldiers while also acknowledging their certain death. There is evidence ...
they all present us with an obsessive narrator. The examination of the poems also illustrates how Browning presents us with women ...
Other Poems, and the poem Dreams, which was referenced above, is contained in this book (Misery is Manifold). His second book of ...
ability to allow us the opportunity to interpret the rational through the concrete forms presented in art. Hegel believed that ...
sort of heroic quest, or the heroic person trapped and confined by societys dictates or the citys walls. This is evident in ...
To understand this powerful poem we must recognize a small bit of the history of the Holocaust. After coming into power and invad...
and spiritual war is evident in the quote, "Faith is a fine invention for gentlemen who see; But microscopes are prudent in an eme...
poem continues and discusses how life was once perhaps simple for these soldiers, but all innocence is past: "Their flowers the te...
that its bizarre poetic form could also be attributed to Ginsbergs love of jazz music. The coffeehouses which reached their popul...
Before actually describing the art and poetry that came out of detainees from Angel Island, a look at the locations history would ...
In seven pages this paper discusses Robert Frost's nature poetry in terms of what it has to say about humanity. Six sources are c...
lessons of life the Great Depression had imposed upon my Father, but this was a new twist to a very tired story. The impact of the...
In nine pages this paper analyzes the poetry of John Donne and John Milton in terms of the metaphysical aspects of each poet's wor...
In six pages this paper analyzes some examples of irony and humor found in Caribbean poetry. Three sources are cited in the bibli...
In seven pages this paper examines what constitutes 'love poetry' in a consideration of the poetic works of Purdy, Johnson, Browni...
of publicly responding to criticisms over his exclusion of Owen that Yeats made the remark in question (Rusche, 2010). His primary...
$15 on the sale (Untermeyer). "His mother was proud, but the rest of the family were alarmed" (Untermeyer 4). Their alarm was well...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti are quite different from one another. Ginsbergs long and sprawling lines certainly look nothing like Snyders...
even to the edge of doom" (Shakespeare 9-12). In the end he claims that if he is wrong then he never wrote and no man ever loved. ...
nonsense poem is to not try to understand it at all. In other words, reading the poem outloud, rather than reading it to oneself, ...
particular woman but does not possess her. Another may clearly see that the woman he describes is his. Regardless, however, of whe...
afflicted with serious health issues, such as Graves disease and a thyroid disorder among others, and these caused her to become a...
Fourth, while previous generations of poets felt that poetry should address noble or epic topics, the Romantics glorified the bea...
particular values, and freedom from persecution by authorities for those views. One could say that the roots, as far as it can b...