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Lorna Goodison's Selected Poems

In five pages the spiritual aspects of Lorna Goodison's poetry are the focus of this analysis of the symbolism, language, and styl...

'A Noiseless Patient Spider' by Walt Whitman and 'A Spider Sewed At Night' by Emily Dickinson

In three pages these two poems are contrasted and compared. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Edgar Allan Poe Major Motifs

In five pages this paper examines the motifs Edgar Allan Poe frequently used in this analysis of the short stories 'The Black Cat'...

'Helen Todd My Birth Name' by Sandra McPherson Explicated

beyond the obvious. Characteristically reminiscent of the very essence of the authors literary interpretation, the poem reflects ...

Emily Dickinson's Life and Influences oh Her Poetry

This paper looks at ways in which Dickinson defined life through her poetry. The author identifies common themes in her work and ...

The Tropics in New York

considering they are the only words that are linked/combined with dashes, which clearly emphasizes their metaphorical nature. Rill...

Kipling and Kincaid/Perspectives on Colonialism

the Victorians was their sense of social responsibility. Unfortunately, that sense of responsibility was self-righteous and obsess...

Comparing poems by Atwood and Smith

also differences in style. Smith, for example, uses less alliteration than Atwood, and his short, clipped lines emphasize and isol...

Blake’s London

Thames, in the opening lines which state, "I wander thro each charterd street,/ Near where the charterd Thames does flow,/ And mar...

Maya Angelou: Million Man March

in spite of that, is often hopeful, even joyous. This paper explicates her poem "Million Man March." Discussion The theme of the ...

Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

what might be a darker meaning to the poem. The last two lines are repeated ("And miles to go before I sleep") so that the reader...

A Poem by Wislawa Szymborska

has planted a bomb. He sees a woman in a yellow jacket go in, then a man in dark glasses comes out; then two men in jeans talk for...

Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe

1836 he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year old cousin and went to Philadelphia to edit Burtons Gentlemans Magazine, to which he c...

Art of James Magee

accompanying poem begins, "Juans ax aches/His tracks lead backwards." The alliteration, assonance and consonance of his word choic...

A Thematic Analysis of Lovelace's "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars"

her, reluctantly, to maintain these values. This argument is grounded in 17th century ideals of chivalry and courtly honor, ideals...

Frost and Lennon/McCartney - A Poetic Comparison

in insular imaginary games the whole way. The narrator suggests that the two of them stop rebuilding the wall and question for onc...

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 ...

Taoist Poetry: A Photographic Analysis

is an ancient collection of philosophical principles presented in a poetic fashion. It has been maintained and circulated since th...

Comparison of Birkerts' "Brown Loafers"/Rector's "Handmade Shoes"

too swollen to wear an expensive pair of Italian loafers, he presents them to Birkerts, who, initially, wears them, as they looked...

Overview of Book of Songs

a whole" (Yu 380). These natural images are used to open each stanza, as Yu notes that there are "three tetrasyllabic stanzas of f...

Analysis of The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh

haiku poem Blasts of light, motion, Tortured vision, endless beauty, Lead to new understanding. Vincent van Gogh painted The Sta...

"Do Not Expect Again a Phoenix Hour" by C Day Lewis

of recurrence and an admonishment not to expect recurrence immediately draws the reader in. The poet them goes on to describe "the...

Weston and Eliot

how it results in the wasting of the land, which results from the hero failing to ask the right questions (Weston 18). The theme...

"Helas" and the Victorian Hypocrisy

by comparing his own life to a "twice-written scroll", bearing marks from both a pursuit of intellectual virtues, and a pursuit of...

"The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point" Analysis

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Browning's "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point". Short essay responses to discuss...

Innocence and Experience in Blake's Poem

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Blake's The Chimney Sweeper. The Innocence and Experience versions of the poem are ...

W.H. Auden's 'The Unknown Citizen' and William Blake's 'The Chimney Sweeper'

In three pages this comparative poetic analysis considers the meaning achieved through metaphors in each poem. There are no other...

Human Conflict and Faith in William Blake's 'Introduction,' William Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey' and Alfred Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'

poetic boundaries; not only does the reader surmise that the author is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the ...

Death in Walt Whitman's 'Darest Thou Now O Soul,' Emily Dickinson's 'Because I Could Not Stop for Death,' and Christina Rossetti's 'Up Hill'

Glossary of Literary Terms) by exposing opposite truths, as it relates to her perception of death. Retaining ones dignity i...

Romantic Relationships and the Humanism of the Renaissance

In eight pages this paper discusses the gender and sociopolitical implications of the romantic relationships depicted in The Faeri...