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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 ...

Man's Insignificance in an Alexander Pope Poem

In a paper consisting of two pages the ways in which man is rendered insignificance within nature and the scheme of the universe a...

'The Good Man in Hell' Poem by Edward Muir

In four pages a poetic explication of this poem by Edward Muir is presented. There is no bibliography included....

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....

Music and Poems

played slightly louder, i.e. piano. The rhythm of the piece would be uniform 4/4 time, but the overall effect of the rhythm would...

Three Poems by Philip Arthur Larkin

this indicates, in this poem, Larkin perfectly catches the nature of a society that has no idea what awaits it. Previous battles w...

Emily Dickinson's Poems 435 and 632 Compared

Syllable from Sound --" (2509-2510). This poem considers the origin of reality, and true to her Transcendentalist beliefs, spec...

William Butler Yeats' Poem 'The Second Coming'

The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;" (Yeats PG). This describes the inner workings of...

Lord Byron's Poems and the Metaphors of Love and Fame

more likely that they will remember and personally value the days of their youth. Byron takes a strong stand in representing thi...

5 Poems Interpreted

observing children at their studies. However, the second stanza offers a sharp contrast to this opening, as Yeats states that he d...

2 Poems By Emily Dickinson

she is dead. This interpretation is substantiated in the next stanza when she describes hearing the mourners lift a box, which c...

The Symbolism of Heorot Hall in the Poem Beowulf

fulfills his part of the social bargain, which is to "give to young and old all that God has given him." Grendel who is describ...

'The Holdfast' Poem by George Herbert

"obey God; nor trust in him; nor confess that nothing is our own" (White 218). There is nothing, literally nothing, that the narra...

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...

Poem Analysis of the Chinese Book of Songs

In five pages this research paper presents an analysis of several poems found within the Chinese Book of Songs and also includes a...

Three Poems by William Blake

/ So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep" (lines 3-4 11290). In the next stanza a small boy is upset because all of his hair h...

2 Poems by T.S. Eliot

time she was thirty years old. In Victorian England, it was normal for girls to marry young, and Mary Ann was unusual in that she ...

Analysis of Robert Frost's Poem 'The Road Less Traveled'

point that poets are generally interested in consciousness and how the natural world might reveal it; personality is not the point...

Imagery in 4 Poems by Robert Frost

is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Frost writes only about things that are close to his hea...

Analyzing Twelve Poems

remains rigid. This poem presents us with a rhyme on every line, further adding to the structural content. We note the first fe...

E.M. Forster's Novel A Passage to India and Walt Whitman's Poem 'Passage to India' Analyzed

or sex. Thanks to technology, Whitman waxed poetic about an inspirational East-West cultural and intellectual exchange, with both...

Snow Poems Compared and Contrasted

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Bly and Djanikian all wrote famous poems dealing with snow. This analysis looks at Snowflakes by Longf...

Analysis of the Poem 'Old Photograph of the Future' by Robert Penn Warren

future in that image of a baby suggests the continuance of generations into the future. These themes are particularly suggested by...

Two Poems by William Wordsworth Compared

uses is "disturb." the author is clearly shaken by this presence of someone else. This "someone" is likely his sister with whom he...

Death in Korn's Song 'Alone I Break' and Robert Frost's Poem 'After Apple Picking'

like a walk in the park. The poem describes how tired a person can feel while working hard, and laboring at ones love. Though a mu...

A Reading of Emily Dickinson's Poem #632

serves to draw the readers attention to this word and give it added emphasis. They break up the lines in such a way that mimics th...

Death in 2 Poems by Seamus Heaney

(line 5). As this illustrates, the second stanza builds the tension even further as this comment intimates that this death is par...

Ancient Poems and Love Songs of Egypt and China Compared on Love and Sex Attitudes

war songs, marriage songs and love songs among many more. Throughout the ages, the poems came to known as not merely an example of...

Alice Cary's 'The West Country' Poem

"The West Country" from an operative structure standpoint, it is perhaps even more useful to analyze this poem from a thematic sta...

William Butler Yeats' Poems 'A Coat' and 'Ego Dominus Tuus'

and perhaps anything else this artistic individual had to offer, was taken and used by others. As a result, this individual decide...