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Modernist and Confessional Poets and the Place of "Personality" in Poetry

of dealing with this new and frightening situation (Modernism, 2002). The modernist poets had a much more disillusioned worldview ...

Songs of Innocence and Experience by Robert Blake

works together one can see the romantic power of both innocence and experience as Blake addressed a changing world where human per...

Religious Poetry of the Victorian Age

those around them, as if they were now removed from all responsibility to those around them. She seems to call them dead before th...

Social Role of Poets

express themselves in ways that the majority could not. The poets role in part appears to be to get one to think outside of the bo...

Informally Examining Romantic Poets and Poetry

unspoiled by either man or society? In "The Tiger," Blake appears to be pondering the marvels of the world while at the same time...

Comparing Blake's "Lamb" to Dickinson's "I heard a Fly buzz"

A 4 page essay that contrasts and compares these 2 poems. While William Blake, the eighteenth century British poet, and Emily Dick...

American Poetry

array of individuals that Whitman clearly associated himself with as perhaps an American. He states, "I am enamourd of growing out...

Poetry and Metaphors

savagery which slavery brought with it. Notice in this passage how the belles traits are given, then immediately juxtaposed with t...

Early American Poetry

would end without seeing "half my days thats due" (line 13). This suggests that Bradstreet is giving birth in middle age, which s...

Spiritual Fulfillment and Poetic Function

is, of course, contrary to the view of the Christian belief system. In the Christian system of belief, it is the other way around....

2 Papers on Romantic Poets

opens "Marriage" delivers a millenarian prophecy that identifies Christ, revolution and apocalypse and, in so doing, "satanizes" a...

Italian Poet Giuseppe Ungaretti

(Scire et. al., 2002). Ungarettis accomplishments would be numerous. He would start writing after joining the Italian ar...

Poetry and Carpe Diem

the end, ones heart may win over ones intellect. In Diane Ackermans poem, which may very well be a modern retelling of...

Truth in Poetry

truth that was eventually revealed. While we may argue he could have looked for the truth, rather than running from it, thereby sp...

Love Poetry and Poets Purdy, Johnson, Browning, Hardy, Lewis, and Marlowe

In seven pages this paper examines what constitutes 'love poetry' in a consideration of the poetic works of Purdy, Johnson, Browni...

Walt Whitman and the Influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson

In six pages the influence of Emerson upon Whitman's poetry is examined with the primary focus being 'Song of Myself' and poetic l...

Overview of Experimental Feminist Poetry

Hunt conveys her message in a type of rapid New York "urban speak," which is specifically intended to jolt the readers passivity. ...

Science and 19th Century Romanticism

In thirteen pages this paper discusses the romantic aspects of science and poetry in a consideration of the works by poets includi...

Choice and its Conundrums

Citizen." Lucille Clifton This is very much an "acceptance of choice" poem; or the "choosing for the sake of others" poem. It ...

Tang Dynasty Poet Bai Juyi

In a paper consisting of five pages Chinese golden age of poetry was the Tang Dynasty and no one shone more brightly than the prol...

Beat Generation Poetry of Bob Kaufman

In eight pages Bob Kaufman and his poetry are examined and despite the fact that he was the least well known of all the 'Beat' poe...

Poets and Poetry of the Renaissance

In ten pages this paper examines the poetic style that emerged during the Renaissance in a consideration of the works by John Donn...

Aeneid vs. the Divine Comedy

The Aeneid of Virgil and Dante's The Divine Comedy are similar in style and format, both being produced by poets. This paper compa...

Singing the Song of the People in African American Literature

her works dealt little with the condition of the slaves in America, and held mainly to classical poetical themes. She was an accom...

Poet Phyllis Wheatley and Her Impact

In five pages this paper discusses the impact of African American poet Phyllis Wheatley in a consideration of her life and her poe...

Attila Jozsef's Perched on Nothing's Branch

This poetry collection and the nihilism that is thematically expressed by poet Attila Jozsef are analyzed in four pages. There ar...

Society, Reality, and Poets of the Romantic Era

In twenty pages this paper discusses the poets and the poetry that characterized the Romantic Era of the end of the 18th century i...

Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Emily Dickinson and the Connection Between Poet, Nature, Body, and Soul

In five pages this report compares and contrasts William Butler Yeats' 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' and Emily Dickinson's '#632' i...

More to Poet Ted Hughes Than Being the Husband of Sylvia Plath

In ten pages this paper discusses the poetry of Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate of England until his 1998 death at age sixty eight. Six...

Emotion in the Modern Prose of Iain Crichton Smith

In six pages Scottish poet Iain Crichton Smith's life and art are examined as they involve the emotion of his poetry. Five source...