YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Overview of the Epic Poem Beowulf
Essays 271 - 300
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...
This essay focuses on the humor and Irony in Robert Frost's poems. The poems discussed are "Mending Wall," "Stopping by Woods on a...
to believe that his elevated social standing makes him actually superior to anyone else. This perception definitely includes his w...
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...
lingers, then erased, Wisdom grasped and then replaced With new wisdoms, no time for decay. Where is permanence? Useless Next to ...
the very antithesis of natural ("fleshly" or "bodily") love. Similarly, Taylor reframes the natural death of a wasp in the cold as...
poetry is to use an economy of language to express ideas that are more complex than the concrete images and words that convey them...
optimistic poet beyond this interpretation of his most famous work, which causes the work to stand out in a questionable way. Inde...
and be a part of it, she feels her connection with "everything" (line 11), which means she perceives the world in terms of connec...
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...
In six pages this paper discusses the dark side of social commentary and how the writers reflect their respective societies in Tom...
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...
This paper looks at Dickinson's views about and relationship with nature through a reading of several of her poems. The author lo...
In 5 pages this paper discusses how Wordsworth and Hopkins perceived nature as God-like and powerful in beauty with a consideratio...
In three pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of birds in Walt Whitman's poem 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' and ...
values within, England holds itself it is in less than positive light. Indeed, it can readily be argued that this is his right an...
In five pages Grace Nichol's poetry is examined in terms of the images of resistance and stereotypes they employ with a discussion...
exploded out of me" (McKay on "If We Must Die"). Somewhat surprisingly, McKay elected to structure his impassioned contemporary p...
In five pages love as represented by Andrew Marvell in his poem 'The Definition of Love' is compared and contrasted with the poem ...
In this essay containing five pages the symbolism and imagery similarities in Ammons' poems The Damned, Anxiety's Prosody, Kind, a...
In five pages this essay offers a contrast and comparison of Theodore Roethke's poems 'The Waking' and 'I Knew a Woman' and A.A. A...
This analysis consists of ten pages and considers the poem's relationship to the Romantic period and also compares and contasts th...
In three pages Bradstreet's poems are evaluated by metaphysical and neoclassical criteria to determine that her poems are predomin...
This paper consists of four pages and discusses the characterization of the speaker and the poem's connotation, rhythm, diction, a...