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College Students and the Marketing of a Campus Poetry Night

In one page this essay discusses how to plan and promote a poetry night event on a college campus that includes a book signing and...

The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser and Apologie for Poetrie by Sir Philip Sidney

Faerie Queene." Too often, Spenser, as court poet, was dismissed for only creating a celebration of the grace of Queen Elizabeth ...

Renaissance Era Poetry as 'a Speaking Picture' Body of Work

In ten pages this 'speaking picture' approach to poetry during the Renaissance focuses upon the English poetry of Francis Quarles....

Political Practices, Women's Suffrage and Changes in California

5 pages and 8 sources used. This paper provides an overview of the political environment of California in the early 20th century ...

Poetry, Politics, and Leopold Sedar Senghor

In seven pages this research paper discusses how politics and poetry affected the Negritude philosophy and poetry of the first pr...

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...

Emily Dickinson's Attraction To Death

to a twentieth-century Existentialist philosopher, Ford opines, "Emily Dickinson felt great anxiety about death... She apparently...

Comparing Poetry Attitudes of Aristotle and Plato

things that are not concrete, but ideas. This type of thinking, the student could state, however, really puts a hold on empirical ...

Dreams and the Poetry of John Keats

poem is that while he had read Homer before encountering the Chapman translation, when he read Chapmans Homer, he felt the same th...

Robert Browning's Poetry and Women

they all present us with an obsessive narrator. The examination of the poems also illustrates how Browning presents us with women ...

Mortality in Epic of Gilgamesh

afterlife, gods and worship, adventure and achievement, and legacy. The gender roles and children depicted in The Epic of Gilgame...

Ancient Societies and Women in Sundiata and 'Beowulf'

himself was portrayed as the incarnate of evil, whose ravenous attacks on King Hrothgars subjects were nothing more than examples ...

Aphra Behn's Love Poetry of the Renaissance

In five pages this paper analyzes the social commentary featured in allusions to the physical love between women symbolized in Aph...

The Treatment of Women in Mythology

This 10 page paper examines the way writers have treated women in mythology. The writer examines The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Metamo...

Poetic Depiction of Women

as if women were alien creatures, and not like men at all. In addition to looking at this the Lady of Shallot in particular, a st...

Heroic Literary Symbolism

In six pages an analysis of the heroic symbolism in the epics 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,' 'Beowulf,' and 'Epic of Gilgamesh...

African Epics of Africa

In five pages the African epics Kemet, Afrocentricity, and Knowledge by Molefi Kete Asante and Sundiata An Epic of Old Mali by D....

Beowulf and Gilgamesh

In seven pages topics of general intent, good, evil, and heroism are related to the epic tales of 'Beowulf' and 'Epic of Gilgamesh...

Analysis of 3 Plots in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

of self-centeredness. The problem is simple: Mankind has completely lost his reverence that once existed toward one another, an e...

Forrest Gump and the Epic Genre

Forrest gave us a clear view of the concepts of loyalty and honesty between friends regardless of the turns of circumstance or the...

Works of Diane Wakoski and Alicia Ostriker's Remythologizing of Women

In 5 pages this paper discusses the ways in which these feminist authors show how women can reinvent their identities in a positiv...

Epic Hero Transformation in Greek Literature

In six pages this paper examines the transformation of the epic hero in ancient Greek literary works such as Euripides' Medea, Sop...

Feminist Perspectives in the Poetry of Bradstreet, Wheatley, and Dickinson

my pagan land,/ Taught my beknighted soul to understand/That theres a God" (Wheatley wheatley.html). Wheatleys struggle with the ...

Violence and How It is Glorified in 'The Iliad' by Homer

In eight pages this paper discusses the epic's glorification of violence in an analysis that also considers gender roles, human na...

Mulan, Within the Context of Early Chinese Poetry

Allen 6). This poem clearly indicates the focus of cultural focus on women that stresses their role in terms of sexual desire an...

Gilgamesh and Sumerian Religion

on having sex with every bride on her wedding night. It was an imperative belief in the ancient world that for society to exist, t...

John Donne

take on religion and his faith which would later lead to his renouncing the Catholic Church (Jokinen). In many ways Donne ...

'Women Poets of the Italian Renaissance'

is the goddess of earthly love; she goes back at least to the Greeks, who called her Aphrodite. In the second poem, the "King" ref...

Treatment of Women/17th Century New England

sanctioned as proper for women, Bradstreets work did not go against the norms of Puritan society. However, they do often emphasize...

Parzival/Honor in the Middle Ages

honorable combat and murders Ither by throwing a javelin into Ithers eye (Ash). A true knight would never have indulged in such a ...