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'Big Black Car' by Lynn Emanuel

As Emanuel describes the interior of the car, and her reluctance to ride in it, she employs language that suggests that the car is...

Portrayal of Time in Works by Terence Davies and T.S. Eliot

his films. In so doing we look at one line from the film and two lines from Eliots poem. Lily states, "I thought that I could ma...

John Keats and Ernest Hemingway

desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....

Homer's 'The Iliad' and Achilles' Shield

of mortal men exceeding fair" (18.490). The image of "two cities" mirrors the basic plot of the Iliad, which is a ten-year-long ...

'Blackberry Sweet' by Dudley Randall

devices not only within the line in which it occurs, but also between lines. Also in regards to these lines, while the poet refe...

Depictions of Nature in the Poetry of Dickinson and Frost

action so that the reader can easily imagine its intensity. It is a strikingly vivid image. Likewise, Frost is famous for his im...

''The Phoenix and the Turtle' by William Shakespeare

about 1594 onward it is believed that he played with a group of actors, however: "written records give little indication of the wa...

'Black Magic' by Dudley Randall

regards to both cherries and grapes. Her lips as "curved" like cherries and "full" like grape bunches, but they are "sweet" like ...

Analysis of the Poem 'The Elixir' by George Herbert

to see, And what I do in anything, To do it as for thee:" (311) In the next stanza, Herbert comments on mans desire for perfectio...

Nature Imagery in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston and William Wordsworth

are not representative of nature and he finds refreshment and nourishment in his memories, and now in his seeing nature again. ...

'Smile' in the Poetry of Robert Browning and Dorothy Parker

the Duchess to show pleasure. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Wheneer I passed her, but who passed without Much the same smile? Th...

'Dialogue between the Soul and the Body' by Andrew Marvell

the Body, that is, as the force that gives the Body motion and life. However, Marvell stipulates in parenthesis that "(A fever cou...

t.s. eliot's 'The Waste Land' and Maud Ellmann's 'A Sphinx Without a Secret'

itself and thus establish its own limits" (261). This, necessarily, involves the collapse of boundaries, which can be "sexual, nat...

Robert Browning, Edgar Allan Poe, and Their Narrators' Unreliability

says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...

3 Poems by Robert Frost

that is the shortest day of the year; we can feel the cold, the deep silence of the woods during a snowfall, the solitude and the ...

Berceo's Poem about Mary, Miracles of Our Lady

The writer examines the 13th century poem Milagros de Nuestra Senora (Miracles of Our Lady). The writer describes it as a series o...

'Poem (As the Cat)' by William Carlos Williams

denying that this characterizes his lexicon and poetic style ("William" 9). Considering this, the first question that the reader...

Pedro Salinas' Razon de Amor

woman. The narrator states, for example, "If the skies illuminate/ trasluces of paradise,/ islands of color of ed?n,/ it is that i...

Emily Dickinson's Poem, I'm Wife- I've Finished That

educated, and grew up in a house that was essentially filled with political and intellectual stimulation. "All the Dickinson men w...

'Nothing is Lost' by Anne Ridler

a mystical quality that makes us think about what shes saying. Shes packed a lot of thought into a very few lines. The poem is par...

Poems for Children by Shel Silverstein and Robert Louis Stevenson

wide" (line 6) is empowering, freeing, and infinitely entertaining. From the time that his first book of verse for children was ...

'Anonymous A Ballad' by Sir Patrick Spence

ask that pauses and changes in tone come into play for it is clearly set out in a very smooth rhythm. In many ways this establishe...

'The Bait' by John Donne

lover on the edge of being lost. Donne promises that lover that if she abides with the callers wished she will be rewarded with g...

Passage Analysis from John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'

Adam is astounded by the plethora of life, beauty and vast expanse of nature to which he is bearing witness. While Raphael assert...

Thematic Analysis of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'

lifted, they decided that it had been the bird that caused the fog and they praised the Mariner for seeing through it all. Then, h...

Ben Jonson's 'A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces' Explicated

narrator restores the sight of the Greek love god Cupid, and he subsequently flees (Donaldson 154): "And (withal) I did untie / Ev...

'The Battle of Maldon' and the Characteristics of Old and Modern English

lost" (The Battle of Maldon: Introduction). In this battle, which involved the Vikings and the leader Anlaf tried to land ashore...

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...

'The Odyssey' by Homer and Females, Mortal and Divine

all of the kingdoms riches and power for themselves. The problem is Odysseuss only son, who is the natural successor to the throne...

'Ballad of Birmingham' by Dudley Randall

hope. The mothers wise voice could be seen to be the voice of experience, conservative ways, of hope seasoned with hard times. The...