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John Donne's 'The Flea' and Seduction Meanings

In five pages this paper examines the meaning of seduction within the context of this poem by John Donne. One source is cited in ...

'The Flea' by John Donne, Meaning and Metaphor

imagery and emotional intensity alone, but by considering the social context that they grew out of and how they address it, a whol...

John Donne’s Flea

also says that the flea is swollen with their blood (there is a strong suggestion here of the way male and female genitalia swell ...

John Donne

take on religion and his faith which would later lead to his renouncing the Catholic Church (Jokinen). In many ways Donne ...

John Donne and God

to its logical conclusion, reasoning, that there was nothing in the power of humanity capable of effecting personal salvation. The...

Andrew Marvell and John Donne's Neo Platonism

to be a tumultuous coupling that would inspire some of the greatest and most controversial works of Western prose. I. Neo-Platoni...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Emily Dickinson, Popular Music, and Death Fascination

17). While this image is certainly chilling, the overall tone of the poem is one of "civility," which is actually expressed in lin...

Poe/Annabel Lee

a child and she was a child/In this kingdom by the sea" (lines 7-8). These lines, as do the opening lines of the poem, establish a...

Wordsworth/A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal

the deceased woman no longer has voluntary motion or sensory perception, but she is part of nature, which has sweeping grandeur in...

W.B. Yeats/An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...

Development of English Literature from 'Beowulf' to Alexander Pope

very clear division between those who followed Christianity in the genuine way, and those who used it merely for their own advance...

Online Researching of John Donne's 17th Century Poetry

In eight pages this paper discusses how to conduct Internet research on this topic with a consideration of the websites to be used...

Characteristics of John Donne's Poetry

In five pages this paper discusses the poetry of John Donne in a consideration of their various characteristics including the blen...

John Donne's Sonnets Five and Eleven

In four pages this paper applies Stanley Archer's examination method to Sonnets 5 and 11 by John Donne. There are no other source...

Shakespeare/Sonnet 73

spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next fou...

Link Between Death Theme in His Poems and the Personal History of John Keats

and his first brush with death came at the age of eight, when his father, a livery-stableman by trade, died of a fractured skull a...

Poetry and Time

can one accept that time runs out and that everyone will die someday? After all, time is of the essence. How does one love, be hap...

John Keats, John Donne, and Robert Browning's Uses of Imagery

line in every stanza is shortened by two metric beats to create a sense of temporary suspension before the story continues (Abrams...

Analysis of 'Under Milk Wood' by Dylan Thomas

In three pages this poem is analyzed in its depiction of loving women, the life cycle, death's inevitability, and the loss of inno...

Death Perspectives of Leo Tolstoy and Dylan Thomas

This paper contrasts the death perspectives articulated by Dylan Thomas in the poem 'Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night' with t...

Emily Dickinson's Poetry and Themes of Nature and Death

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the ways in which the poet's views of nature and death are represented in such poems as 'Twas jus...

Emily Dickinson's Views on Death Expressed in Her Poetry

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Emily Dickinson's contention that one should live life to the fullest and not be constrained by f...

Death and the Works of Emily Dickinson

Donoghue has aptly observed that "of her religious faith virtually anything may be said, with some show of evidence. She may be r...

Literature and Nature Images

the hierarchy, to base matter, at its lowest level, with man and the natural world between the two, and Donnes commentary reflects...

Metaphysical Conceit in the Poetry of John Donne and George Herbert

In eleven pages the concept of 'metaphysical conceit' and how it is stressed in the poems of Herbert and Donne are discussed in th...

Visions of Death in Emily Dickinson's Works

traumatic experience that the narrator has been through could very well be death. It is interesting to not the way that Dickinson ...

Montaigne, Donne, Spencer on Repentance

bodie in salt water smarting sore, The filthy blots of sinne to washe away, So in short space, they did to health restore The man...

Love Poetically Approached by John Donne

for a spiritual thinker, body and soul. In "The Good Morrow," Donne immediately established what critic Susannah B. Mintz refers ...

'The Ecstasy' by John Donne

of the coming together of souls in the joint union that will create one soul. One of the things that makes the poem interesting ...