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Four Poems, Summary and Analysis

This essay offers summary and analysis of four poems which begin by offering a comparison of two companion poems from Songs of Inn...

"Locked Ward, Newtown, Connecticut by Rachel Loden

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

Maya Angelou/Phenomenal Woman

half=way through the stanza, Angelou prefaces giving her reaction with the line "I say," which is followed by her lyrical descript...

Analysis of When Death Comes by Mary Oliver

and be a part of it, she feels her connection with "everything" (line 11), which means she perceives the world in terms of connec...

Robert Lowell/Skunk Hour

farmer/is first selectman in our village;/shes in her dotage" (lines 4-6). As these lines indicate, the poem is in free verse. B...

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...

A.E. Housman/An Athlete Dying Young

and comments that the young man was "smart" to "slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay" (lines 9-10). Housman the...

God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembene

theme, in fact, throughout the book, as resentments continued to simmer). Peasants, for the most part, pretty much dont know they ...

The Physical Realm According to Rene Descartes

examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...

Robert Browning's Anti-Victorian Sentiments in Fra Lippo Lippi

In a paper consisting of 9 pages the anti Victorian sentiments that are expressed with great subtlety throughout the poem in terms...

First Meditation of Rene Descartes

Most people like an ordered existence. It makes them feel comfortable with the real uncertainty of life. Descartes made "doubt" a ...

Symbolism in Dickinson's 'I Am Ashamed-I Hide'

be a Bride --/ So late a Dowerless Girl -" (Dickinson 2-3). This indicates that she has nothing to offer, that she is a poor woman...

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...

Knowledge of God

A devout person will say that he or she "sees" "God in all things" (Hodges 101). This person is referring to an act of "intuitive ...

Afghanistan Development - Review And Recommendations

nations employ many Afghans. On April 29-30, 2007, Afghanistan held the Fourth Afghanistan Development Forum (ADF) in Kabul (Afg...

Explication of 2 poems by Martin Espada

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...

'Alysoun' Medieval Poem Explication

alliterative verse in the fourteenth century (Middle English Lyrics). However, beyond technical aspects of English poetry during...

Analysis of Walcott's The Light of the World

(Walcotts brother Roderick is a playwright). While young Derek was growing up and dipping into these books time and again, he foun...

Explication of Wilfred Owen's Anti War Poem 'Dulce Et Decorum Est'

In six pages this paper examines how poet Wilfred Owen portrayed sacrificing one's life for country in the antiwar poem 'Dulce Et ...

Richard Matheson's and H.G. Wells' Use of Science Fiction to Portray Alienation

In a paper consisting of 5 pages alienation as a theme are explored in Matheon's I Am Legend and in Wells' The Time Machine and Th...

Explication of the Poem 'The Angel' by William Blake

In three pages an explication of William Blake's 1789 poem 'The Angel' is presented in three pages. There are no other sources li...

The Cultural Eccentricity and Allure of the United States

This paper makes the assertion that the US has so much to offer people from around the world, that the image created by the US bre...

Writing and Speech in Novels by Camara Laye and Ousmane Sembene

In one page this paper examines Third World Africa in a contrast between written language and oral tradition as represented in G...

Muslims, Jews, and Christians View of Abraham

In a paper consisting of six pages the contention that conflicts throughout the world cannot be blamed on Abraham's separation fro...

Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes/Existence of God

conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...

Perillo/Dangerous Life

beginning of this stanza creates an image that says to the reader that the nature is hard; it "mows" you down. Society tries to im...

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...

Dante’s Inferno & Humanism

must take a stand against evil and live according to ideals rather than simply from a myopic focus on personal needs. In Canto 2...

Robert Frost/"Home Burial"

As this suggests, this psychologically complex poem portrays a pivotal exchange between two people who are trying to cope with los...

Eliot: “Conversation Galante”

is an odd remark. She picks up on it and asks if hes referring to her as being vacuous and he says no, "it is I who am inane" (Eli...