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was assassinated, probably by Stalin himself (Vartavarian). Stalin used the death as a pretext to begin purging those he thought w...

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 ...

This essay is an explication of "Locked Ward: Newtown, Connecticut" by Rachel Loden. The writer bases this discussion on the assum...

This essay presents a character sketch of the narrator in "The ABC of Aerobics," a poem by Peter Meinke. Three pages in length, th...

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 two pages, the writer looks at "Tithonus". The theme of immortality is examined through looking at the poem's mechan...

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "Of Pruning and Production" by Isabella Southern. The poem's themes are gradually s...

How the male need to transform women into objects and possessions in order to control them existed in 19th century society is exam...

Suicide and self-negation as performance art are examined in a critical analysis of Sylvia Plath's 1962 poem, "Lady Lazarus" in a ...

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Alexie's poem, "At the Trial of Hamlet, Chicago, 1994". Several discussion questions ...

lingers, then erased, Wisdom grasped and then replaced With new wisdoms, no time for decay. Where is permanence? Useless Next to ...

a figurative level, the poet is inviting the reader to take his perspective, to figuratively "walk in his shoes" and, thereby, lea...

of its first publication in 1845, Edgar Allan Poes poem "The Raven" has been an element in American cultural influencing the publi...

is an ancient collection of philosophical principles presented in a poetic fashion. It has been maintained and circulated since th...

poetry is to use an economy of language to express ideas that are more complex than the concrete images and words that convey them...

cannot hear the falconer;/ Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" (Yeats 1-3). The narrator then speaks of how anarchy has bee...

so-called loved ones seem to have gathered expecting to witness something memorably catastrophic, almost as if they seek to be ent...

optimistic poet beyond this interpretation of his most famous work, which causes the work to stand out in a questionable way. Inde...

dew that falls at night as weeping for the demise of day, "For thou must die" (Herbert line 4). The second stanza focuses on the...

of recurrence and an admonishment not to expect recurrence immediately draws the reader in. The poet them goes on to describe "the...

haiku poem Blasts of light, motion, Tortured vision, endless beauty, Lead to new understanding. Vincent van Gogh painted The Sta...

the very antithesis of natural ("fleshly" or "bodily") love. Similarly, Taylor reframes the natural death of a wasp in the cold as...

a whole" (Yu 380). These natural images are used to open each stanza, as Yu notes that there are "three tetrasyllabic stanzas of f...

mention that the catch, which is that his throat will be so sore that he will want ice cream. The lies are then contrasted against...

each. An allegory, while closely associated with symbols or symbolism, is a unique literary element in that everything within the...

more joyful than creation itself. Then he adds: "Light out of darkness! full of doubt I stand, / Whether I should repent me now of...

or how one human engages another. Frost is merely using nature as a setting, a natural setting, that emphasizes choices that human...

power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...

his disposal beyond his huge physical size. It would seem no human could be safe against this creature that could easily pierce o...

somewhere hes never gone before and that the woman (lets assume for this exercise that the beloved is his wife) is able to enclose...