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Essays 601 - 630

Communication and Poetry

the antiques she notes that "there was no need of love (Jennings). This appears to be a reflection of her most hidden needs and de...

Personal Problems in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath

poetry as the stresses. It is because of this particular styling that syllabic poems most often contain no rhyme or uniform numbe...

Human Nature and the Poetry of Walt Whitman

this reveals his positive outlook toward the world and his own existence, and allows the reader some comprehension as to his value...

Nature Poetry of Robert Frost

In six pages this research paper analyzes how nature is used in Robert Frost's poems 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,' 'Mend...

Comparative Analysis of the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Alfred Lord Tennyson

4 sonnets by Browning. We discuss them separately and then provide a comparison and contrast of their works. Mariana Tennysons...

Nature in R.S. Thomas' Poetry

in a fight for their own survival and right to exist, and that the simple things in life, those things that really count for more,...

Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, and Their Poetry of Death

transcribe concerning the inevitable. One author notes that "The central theme arouses from Whitmans pantheistic view of life, fro...

Literature, Poetry, and Self Reliance

many ways Emersons views of self-reliance can be seen in the following excerpt from the work: "There is a time in every mans educa...

Gwen Harwood and her Poetry

(lines 3-4). It is clear that whatever aspirations that the woman had as a pianist have been supplanted by her role as a mother....

Tony Harrison's Poetry

however, abruptly introduce us into the world he is from and although the average reader will have no knowledge of the accuracy of...

Poetry of Natives

done about those who suffered, those simple cultural people who were victims of the civilized world (Castillo 40-45). This...

Advancing Age in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats

the "music" of nature and is part of a continuous cycle. This poem concludes "How can we know the dancer from the dance" (line 64)...

Los and Grief Expressed in Poetry

soon scaped worlds and fleshs rage" (Jonson 6-7). In this the reader sees a rationalization that almost seems to be envy as the na...

Early Literature and Poetry of China and Japan and Women

gap through which women continued to receive and even some praise from men in regards to their abilities as writers (Reichhold). ...

Comparisons of Poetry

another meaning. Graham is a poet that inhabits tensions. Most of her work pushes at somehow trying to reconcile the inconsistenc...

Sappho's Poetry, Homer's Epics, and Women

we mortals bear perforce, although we suffer; for they are much stronger than we. But now I will teach you clearly, telling you th...

Robert Browning's Poetry and Religion

try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...

Contemporary Thought Reflected in William Butler Yeats' Poetry

The allusion to Oscar Wildes epigram--What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities--...

Matthew Arnold's Poetry

and symbolism. As Arnold embraces God along with the seas that the maker has created, he questions things. The church is often the...

African American Experience in the Poetry of Langston Hughes

this poem is that of the universal anguish of being bound and imprisoned, no matter what the age. And, in a very real sense he is ...

Elitist Poetry of Langston Hughes

but his folk heritage as well. "Hughes made the spirituals, blues, and jazz the bases of his poetic expression. Hughes wrote, he c...

Irish Folklore in the Poetry of William Butler Yeats

strife. The folklore of the country became an important vehicle for recording that turmoil and strife and Yeats was a critical pl...

World and Self in Poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

selected one thing (one person, one book, she is not specific) and close her attention to all others. However, the "Soul" is not...

Time Perceptions in Poetry

in tone, but still harbors the undercurrent that there is reason to dread. The poem describes the "soote" (sweet) season of spring...

Death in Poetry

Death, /Into the mouth of Hell / Rode the six hundred" (Tennyson, 1870). Still another type of poem shows death as sheer horror: ...

Poetry and Politics

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

Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe

1836 he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year old cousin and went to Philadelphia to edit Burtons Gentlemans Magazine, to which he c...

Blake's Poetry: A Thematic Analysis

for its wealth of atmospheric detail and rich symbolism. This makes them attractive to literary critics because there is a great d...

Taoist Poetry: A Photographic Analysis

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

Yusef Komunyakaa's Poetry

loss and redemption. If one were to move deeper into the meanings of both poems, or on an emotional, cognitive tour of the poem, ...