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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 ...

Lines 2860-2879 of Beowulf

lays dead. No individual has truly come to help him save for one youth, Wiglaf. In these particular lines we note the following: "...

A Discussion of Christian Elements in the Epic Poem Beowulf, and in the Character of Beowulf Himself

the first great epic poems of English history is thought to have been written around the time of the first half of the 8th century...

Possessive Love in Browning's Poetry

This research paper addresses the theme of posessive love in two poems by Robert Browning, My Last Duchess and Porphyria's Lover....

Analysis of Poems by Wilfred Owen and Robert Browning

at the same time the calmness of it all makes it quite dramatic. The narrator does not see the action as dramatic, however, and si...

Wordsworth/A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal

the deceased woman no longer has voluntary motion or sensory perception, but she is part of nature, which has sweeping grandeur in...

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...

'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 ...

Explication of 'London' by Poet William Blake

in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...

'Before I Knocked' by Dylan Thomas

is connected (18 poems, 1934, 2004). This colored his religious orientation and is evident in the religious symbolism in "Before I...

'First Follow Nature and 'An Essay on Criticism' by Alexander Pope

writes in lines 11 through 14: "In Poets as true Genius is but rare, / True Taste as seldom is the Critics share; / Both must alik...

'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost

In three pages this paper presents an explication of each poetic stanza with particular emphasis upon the last and also discusses ...

'The Bishop Orders His Tomb At St. Praxed's Church' by Robert Browning

In five pages this poetic analyzes what makes the poem Victorian in a consideration of style, tone, allegory, and theme. Three so...

Water Symbolism in The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

everything has been parched almost to nonexistence. The stanza closes with a line from a German translation of Tristan and Isolde,...

'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night' by Dylan Thomas

derives from the fact that it seems as if it had a familiar or conventional meaning. One might be tempted to try a nonliteral int...

Poetic Contrast of Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock' and John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'

In five pages this paper discusses the poets and the poems in this contrasting poetic analysis. Three sources are cited in the bi...

War and Its Futility as Conveyed by Poetry

In five pages this paper analyzes war's futility in a comparative poetic analysis of 'Poor Man' and 'WPA.'...

Death Themes in Robert Frost's Poetry

'Home Burial' and 'The Death of the Hired Man' are the focus of this analysis of death themes in the poetry of Robert Frost consis...

Robert Frost's 'Now Close the Windows'

theme (including any symbolism and imagery), and the technical aspects of rhythm, rhyme, and meter. Frost tended to use both categ...

'Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot

merely an attendant. Prufrock states, "No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;/Am an attendant loud, one that will do/To ...

Portrayal of Families in Robert Frost's 'Home Burial' and John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation

imaginative young man. Initially, Ouisa and Flan are entertaining and doing their best to suck up to South African businessman, ...

'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages 'The Raven' is subjected to a poetic explication and a thesis that Poe's life is reflected in this haunting poem. T...

Robert Frost's Irony and Humor

In 5 pages this paper discusses how Frost humorously employs irony in his poems 'The Secret Sits,' 'A Cloud Shadow,' 'Mending Wall...

Robert Frost's Poetry and Suicide

In 5 pages this paper discusses the poet's bouts of depression and thoughts of suicide as reflected in the poems 'Acquainted with ...

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...

African American Writers/On Each Other

"this beautiful/and terrible thing," which human beings find as "needful a air" and as "usable as earth," will finally belong to b...

Frost and Longfellow

theme in that poets verse. Section 1 When Longfellow was born the nation was less than fifty years old. America was in the proce...

Frost and Keats

went outside to sit under a tree where there was a nightingale, only to write a poem about it (Ode to a Nightingale). In the poem ...

Poetry from New England and the Midwest

American poets, whose poems sometimes evoke similar feelings in a reader, and at other times are completely dissimilar. This paper...

The Poetry of Robert Frost: A Tonal and Thematic Analysis

Robert Frost is highly regarded as a master poet. His ability to explore complex social and cultural issues by using rural everyda...