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Exploring Creative Thought

In five pages creative thought is explored in a contrast and comparison of Northrop Frye's The Motive for Metaphor and Jacob Brono...

2 Poems by Emily Dickinson

In five pages pain is examined within the context of the metaphors featured in Emily Dickinson's poems 'There is a pain so utter' ...

Paradox and Metaphor in 'Batter My Heart' by John Donne

In five pages this paper considers paradox and metaphor as each is represented in this poem by John Donne. There are no other sou...

Metaphor in Il Postino Film

In three pages the movie is summarized but its metaphor usages is the primary focus. There are no other sources listed....

Paley's 'Watchmaker' Argument

In a paper consisting of three pages the existence of God as it is presented in the 'Watchmaker' argument is critiqued with extens...

'Acquainted with the Night' by Robert Frost

In about four pages this paper explicates 'Acquainted with the Night' by Robert Frost in an analysis of such devices as rhyme sche...

'Birches' by Robert Frost

In five pages this paper discusses the metaphor of sexuality through the woods that is unique in a poem by Robert Frost. Five sou...

On Walden Pond by Ralph Waldo Emerson

to get rid of material goods as they do not matter. He uses a simile when he says "Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage...

Analysis: The Rock by Wallace Stevens

This 6 page paper analyzes Wallace Stevens' poem The Rock in terms of the way the poet discusses alternate realities. The writer a...

William Blake's Poems 'The Mill,' 'The Lamb,' and 'The Tyger'

In five pages these poems are analyzed in terms of how the poet employs metaphors or imagery. There are no other sources listed....

Damien by Herman Hesse

In four pages Damien is reviewed in a consideration of novel characteristics, meanings, metaphors, structure, character, and theme...

Writing and Observation

In six pages this essay discusses how observation can be artistically represented through skilled writing in a third person descri...

David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Symbolism and Metaphor

In 6 pages this paper compares these novels in a consideration of how each author employed symbolism and metaphor in their respect...

Experiences and Metaphors

In five pages this paper examines how personal experiences are conveyed through metaphor but also discusses the constraints of gra...

Mike Tyson and Rocky Marciano Comparied

In five pages this report compares these famous American boxer in terms of conjunctive adverbs, relative pronouns, simile, metapho...

Characters and Plot from Miller, O'Connor and Plath

audience must be moved by Willy Loman, a 63-year-old man who has become tired of chasing the ever-elusive American Dream, always f...

Metaphors and Symbolism in Children's Stories

help, grownups refuse to give it what it needs, and offer it instead what it detests. As a substitute for stories that bring suns...

Interpretation of a Passage in William Shakespeare's Othello

clear enough to demonstrate the fact that Iago no more wanted to amend his wrongdoing than he did avoid even further -- and inevit...

Creative Writing Exercise on Beating Hearts and Flowers

In five pages this exercise in creative writing explores the drama of a hospital room with the utilization of grammatical elements...

Two Views of War: Jomini and Clausewitz

and strategic; if the army occupies temporary positions along this line, they will be "strategic positions."4 When the army meets...

God's Relationship With Israel

(Dearman, 1998) and we often hear that phrase being used to describe the relationship between Israel and God. He was the living Go...

Fluoride: Overview

dental problems or cancer. So acute is this problem that in 2005 the EWG pushed for fluoride to be included in the National Toxic...

Comparative Analysis of Poems by Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Langston Hughes

likens the process of death to an innocuous fly buzzing. In other words, instead of being a mysterious occurrence, it is a proces...

Shakespeare/Sonnets 73 and 130

and Shakespeares use of metaphor achieves his purpose very well, particularly in the lines that refer to comparing a ladys breath ...

Use of Metaphor in Popular Songs

but other support metaphors are also created that emphasis the illusionary quality of attraction that deludes the singer into thi...

Poetic Explication of Robert Burns’ “A Red, Red Rose”

of four lines known as quatrains, and each stanza comprised of alternating iambs or an unstressed syllable immediately followed by...

Analysis: Monologue for an Onion

the layers will not reveal any great secrets. And that appears to be breaking the examiners heart. The reader should keep in mind...

The Significance of Metaphor

more mundane expressions. Baseball metaphors are very popular with men, and are also extremely common, so much so that they have...

“Tuesdays with Morrie”

began after breakfast. The subject was The Meaning of Life. It was taught from experience" (Albom, 1997, p. 1). Martins essay is...

Aspects of "Romeo and Juliet"

describing Tybalt, Mercutio "invoked the plague as a figure of speech, saying ... The pox of such antic, lisping, affecting phanta...