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Cultural Influences Exerted by the Life and Art of Robert Frost

other poets of the time by rejecting modernism. As this poem demonstrates, Frost frequently drew his imagery from nature. While m...

John Keats' Odes

immersed in his indolence (Keats 9). These figures appear to be figures he envisions on an urn, evasive yet real figures that urge...

Temporality and Lord Byron

and writers in his extensive travels (Lutz 23). Linking him to traditions that span back to Odysseus, Harold is essentially in sea...

Poems for Children by Shel Silverstein and Robert Louis Stevenson

wide" (line 6) is empowering, freeing, and infinitely entertaining. From the time that his first book of verse for children was ...

Omeros by Derek Walcott and Character Identity

ignorant about its history. He is also a simple fisherman. The conflict in the story predominately revolves around Achille and Hec...

Carpe Diem Poems by Herrick and Donne

sooner will his race be run, / And nearer hes to setting" (lines 7-8). In this manner, Herrick sets up an ever-increasing sense of...

'Eyes That Last I Saw in Tears' by T.S. Eliot

is seeing the eyes in the present, which is "Here in deaths dream kingdom." Again, alliteration, this time with /d/, makes the lin...

Gerusalemme Liberata by Torquato Tasso

physical and emotional well being for the sake of his art. His erratic behavior became increasingly evident around 1575 when Tass...

'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost

certain meanings through word choices. For example, Frost uses the imagery of the forest to illustrate the "snags" we al...

'The Bait' by John Donne

lover on the edge of being lost. Donne promises that lover that if she abides with the callers wished she will be rewarded with g...

'Kubla Khan' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

that in the summer of 1797, he retired in "ill health" to a "lonely farmhouse between Porlock and Linton" (231). Because of a "sli...

'She Had Some Horses' by Joy Harjo

a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...

Gender and Death in 4 Poems by Anne Sexton

In other words, to be a woman outside the accepted societal role for women is not to be a woman. As this indicates, any woman wh...

Sensory Imagery in 'Out, Out' by Robert Frost

In eight pages this research paper analyzes 'Out, Out' by Robert Frost with the focus being on the poet's use of sensory imagery. ...

Similarities Between Two Works By Ferlinghetti and Frost

thinks of the woods as property, more then as just a part of the vast natural world. To him, this lovely wood is part of the man-m...

'The Solitary Reaper' by William Wordsworth Explicated

elements used by the author. The work begins as follows: BEHOLD her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reapi...

Differences in Silence in Poetry of the East and West

was the spirit of Zen, as he drew his imagery from the "taproots" of the earth, the presence of a moment (Hassain, 1995). The "su...

Analysis of 'Desert Places' by Robert Frost

contemporaries, Frost sees no meaning in nature. It is simply emptiness. There is no God there, no Creator, just emptiness. In the...

John Milton and John Donne's Metaphysical Poetry

In nine pages this paper analyzes the poetry of John Donne and John Milton in terms of the metaphysical aspects of each poet's wor...

Comparison of Poets Cesar Vallejo and Pablo Neruda

In five pages Cesar Vallejo's 'Down to the Dregs' and an untitled Pablo Neruda poem are contrasted and compared in this analysis o...

Wilfred Owen's Depiction of Death in War in 'Dulce et Decorum Est'

In five pages this paper argues that the poet's message is in contradiction to the standard notion that dying for country is an he...

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman and its 1855 Preface

time, as well as giving rise by their death to the new life, the "stalwart heir who approaches" (Whitman 1) of the new America....

Rimbaud and Verlaine as Symbolist Poets

In six pages this paper analyzes Rimbaud's 'The Sleeper in the Valley' and Verlaine's 'The Art of Poetry' in terms of how each rep...

A Defense of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley

In five pages this research paper analyzes the arguments regarding poetry's value the Romantic poet makes including his observatio...

20th Century Glimpses in the 19th Century Poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

In five pages these poets' visions of the next century are examined in a consideration of their respective works. Five sources ar...

'The Performance' by James Dickey

In six pages an explication of this poem by James Dickey is presented including the poet's title selection. Two sources are cited...

Dickinson's Poem 'A Clock Stopped'

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Emily Dickinson's poem in terms of the poet's attitudes and feelings about time are analyzed. Th...

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 ...

'The Chimney Sweeper' by William Blake

In five pages the poet's language use is compared and contrasted in the two versions of 'The Chimney Sweep' that appear in Songs o...

'Sick on a Journey' by Basho

principles such as Sabi and Wabi, are contained in the Bashos last Haiku. By the title one immediately understands that something ...