SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Explication of the Poem The Angel by William Blake

Essays 571 - 600

Poetic Portrayals of Icarus's Fall

the tale of Icarus. We do know that Auden visited the sixteenth century painting by Peter Breughel when it was displayed in the M...

Second Treatise on Government by John Locke

he means a state of equality, in which no one person possesses authority over another, and all people are free to live as they ple...

Social Role of Poets

express themselves in ways that the majority could not. The poets role in part appears to be to get one to think outside of the bo...

John Locke on Working and the Working Condition of Ned Williams in Stud Terkel's Working

Ned Williams It becomes quite obvious in looking at the story of Ned Williams that he was searching for nothing of value in his ...

Poetic Analysis of 'The Wood Pile' by Robert Frost

stresses and also spondaic emphasis on the phrase "this years snow." Still other lines mix and match rhythm patterns so that the o...

Romans I, 24th through 27th Verses

action that the people indulged in completely by their own volition, which puts a new slant on the described behavior; and, also c...

Richard Wilbur's Poem 'Love Calls Us to the Things of This World'

the soul from the confines of the earth and into the far reaches of the heavens. In its spiritual form the soul is no longer conf...

'Nineteen' by Elizabeth Alexander

gives the poem an intimate feel, as if the narrator is confessing youthful transgressions to a friend. "That summer in Culpepper, ...

'Early Snow' by Mary Oliver

nature in which the numbers play a role. She writes, "I thought of dried leaves/drifting spate after spate/out of the forests/th...

Emily Dickinson's 'Publication is the Auction'

womens education and his ultimate hostility towards female intellectualism influenced his daughters choice of secular isolation to...

Analysis of Sharon Olds' 'Rite of Passage'

stand around jostling, jockeying for place, small fights...

Analysis of T.S. Eliot's Poem 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'

sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...

Eliezer Ben Rafael's Jewish Identities

Many disagreed on issues of conversion, or how one becomes a practioner of the Jewish faith. For example, the Orthodox believers p...

Iron Giant Cartoon, Humanity, Personal Choices, and the Philosophies of David Hume, William Blake, and John Locke

giant metal man falling into the sea. Hogarth is the only one that believes him and rushes away to search in likely places for the...

Analysis of Emily Dickinson's Poem 712

wanted the poem to leave a profound impression; for that reason, it is subject to the interpretation of the individual. I...

Of Mice and Men, Take Two

mini-series The Stand, for which he won a SAG award, and he also received an Oscar in 1995 for Best Supporting Actor in the film F...

An Exploration of 'Sonny's Blues' by James Baldwin

deal of depth. Sonny is put in jail and one can imagine that growth takes place there. While it seems that this would occur, and t...

'Let America Be America Again' by Langston Hughes

In five pages this paper presents a poetic explication of the work by Langston Hughes in a discussion of what exactly 'land of the...

'The Solitary Reaper' by William Wordsworth Explicated

elements used by the author. The work begins as follows: BEHOLD her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reapi...

'Nothing Gold Can Stay' by Robert Frost

understands that youth and life cannot remain, for "nothing gold can stay." Metaphor When we take the poem in its entirety, and...

A Citizen Kane Cinematic Analysis

lost prior to being sent from his home (1995). The camera is suddenly outside focusing on smoke rising form the chimney and then ...

Closing Passage of Le Pere Goriot by Honore Balzac

formula for success. Eugenes aristocratic name soon opens some doors for him. Madame Beausant is a member of high society and a ...

Overview of Game Theory

end up doing the same thing after person A figures out what B is doing. If Person A does not have a dominant strategy, then if B ...

Romantic Literature and Nature

is treated differently by each, though each would agree that nature is a force unto itself, capable of both nurture and destructio...

Charlotte Smith's 'Written at the Close of Spring'

May new buds and flowers shall bring; (I)/ Ah! why has happiness--no second Spring? (I)" (Smith 1-14). As we can note, at least...

'Dinner Guest Me' by Langston Hughes

reflect an attitude of equality instead of segregation between blacks and whites; however, inasmuch as much as humanity has succes...

Galway Kinnell's Life and Poetry

In three pages this research paper examines the life and poetry of Galway Kinnel with an explication of 'When One Has Lived a Long...

Domesticity in 'Washing Sheets in July' by Jane Gentry Vance

goes outside to hang her sheets, and her own thin, strong hands which will soon be smoothing her own sheets on the line. Vance mov...

John Donne's Poem 'The Flea'

In six pages a poetic summary and explication of John Donne's 'The Flea' are presented. There are no other sources included....

'Those Who Know' by Marcus Garvey

In five pages a poetic explication of this work by Marcus Garvey is presented. Three other sources are cited in the bibliography....