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The Second Coming by Yeats

that second coming, beginning with a sense of hope, but finished with a sense of fear or dread: "The Second Coming! Hardly are tho...

Longfellow, Whitman and Dickinson

A 5 page paper which examines one poem from Longfellow, Whitman, and Dickinson. The poems examined are The poets, and their poems,...

Yeats’ The Second Coming

that may speak of a lack of hope or direction. The reader does not really need to know what the poem is...

Carl Sandburg’s Chicago

the later part of the 19th century, who witnessed much of Chicagos history. He saw it in the early days of the 20th century when w...

Shelley’s Ozymandias

the poem involves the power of antiquities, of ancient history and of those relics that are left behind after someones time and er...

Wordsworth & Hardy/Perspectives on Nature

First and foremost, the Thrush is seen by this Romantic poet in heroic terms, as a male facing the storm of the public world in or...

Langston Hughes’ Theme for English B

that everything he says is truth and thus at this point his analyzing is only supporting that truth. He assumes, or infers...

Beowulf

(VII). In this he is telling Beowulf that he had many apparently noble men claiming they would get rid of the beast but they drank...

The Dinner Party by Amy Lowell

11). After this section the dinner party clearly moves to the Drawing-Room wherein a woman who sits with fire reflecting her jewel...

Piercy: “The Secretary Chant”

a "reject button" and she is pregnant with a Xerox machine (Piercy). The last lines of the poem give the reader the point: "File m...

Robert Frost: “Mending Wall”

But it also tells of the two neighbors who work to repair the wall together: they set a specific day and time to do so (Frost, 200...

A New England Tradition: Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall”

they are lifting boulders and at others, they only have to worry about shifting small stones (Frost). The main thing is, they are ...

Poetic Analysis of Jane Kenyon's 'Happiness'

appreciate what it means to feel happy? The two most vivid images in this poem are religious in nature and are quite significant ...

Douglas Robertson's Wake Up Australia

however, and we begin to feel that the poem will clearly focus on some political argument. He then introduces the word "white" ...

A Review of the Poem As Watchers Hang Upon the East

A 4 page review and explanation of the poem by Emily Dickinson. 3 sources....

Walcott's A Far Cry from Africa

this there are opposites that indicate the narrator is confused and lost and in something of a frenzy to find some balance, and id...

Symbolism in 'The Second Coming' by William Butler Yeats

of Spiritus Mundi" (Yeats, 1920). "Spiritus Mundi" can be translated as the "Spirit of the Universe" which Yeats saw as holding i...

The Depiction of Troy in The Iliad and in Film

is not identified as a goddess except for when a servant speaks to Achilles about the legends that have begun to be spun concernin...

'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost

To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was ...

'Answering the Unanswerable' by Nancy Willard Analyzed

It does not love flesh. It leaves a ring of cold in the wound." On the surface of this particular stanza,...

William Blake’s The Garden of Love

his unique nature he was, during his lifetime, "generally dismissed as an eccentric during his lifetime" although "posterity redis...

Whitman: "Song of Myself"

except "en-masse" (Morace). Whitman refers to equality again in Section 5 when he says "...all the men ever born are also my brot...

Death in Jorge Manrique's 'Coplas'

different than the perspectives of the world at the time. Near the beginning of Manriques poem he states, "Let none be self-delud...

Pablo Neruda: Walking Around

being a man./ And it happens that I walk into tailorshops and movie/ houses/ dried up, waterproof, like a swan made of felt/ steer...

Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz”

often simply a reality that was accepted as part of life. It did not necessarily make people angry or bitter or resentful in a con...

Analyzing the 1863 Poem 'My Life Had Stood - A Loaded Gun' by Emily Dickinson

In five pages the symbolism of master and slave is applied to the destructive marital relationship described in the poem....

Poetic Analysis of 'The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner' by Randall Jarrell

ball turret was a plexiglass sphere set into the belly of a B-17 or B-24 [bomber], and inhabited by two .50 caliber machine-guns a...

Poetic Works of Emily Dickinson

In five pages some of Emily Dickinson's poems that celebrate her passion for nature are examined....

'Biographia Literaria' of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In four pages the conformity or nonconformity of Coleridge's prose in this poem is compared with the sonnet's and epic poem's trad...

The Flea vs. To a Coy Mistress

Donne takes a similar view in that he feels the ladys insistence on being concerned about honor is highly illogical, but he goes a...