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Song of Roland: Analyzing Laisses XIV and XV

An analysis of stanzas XIV and XV of this anonymous poem are consider in terms of their significance particularly regarding the re...

Four Poems, Summary and Analysis

This essay offers summary and analysis of four poems which begin by offering a comparison of two companion poems from Songs of Inn...

Bradstreet and Taylor: The Poetical Expression of Puritanical Values

the very antithesis of natural ("fleshly" or "bodily") love. Similarly, Taylor reframes the natural death of a wasp in the cold as...

Robert Frost: Ambiguity and Meaning

optimistic poet beyond this interpretation of his most famous work, which causes the work to stand out in a questionable way. Inde...

Nature Poems

lingers, then erased, Wisdom grasped and then replaced With new wisdoms, no time for decay. Where is permanence? Useless Next to ...

Ten Poems by Emily Dickinson

of mourning and regret, while singing the praises of something wondrous. I Came to buy a smile -- today (223) The first thing...

Analysis of Christina Rossetti's 'The Goblin's Market'

from these early stanzas that Lizzie is somewhat stronger - she is aware of the consequences of eating the forbidden fruit. It is ...

Emily Dickinson and the Poems of Fascicle Twenty-Eight

to discern the "inexhaustible richness of consciousness itself" (Wacker 16). In other words, the poetry in fascicle 28 presents ...

Social Commentary's Dark Side

In six pages this paper discusses the dark side of social commentary and how the writers reflect their respective societies in Tom...

Immortality and Tithonus

In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at "Tithonus". The theme of immortality is examined through looking at the poem's mechan...

"Boy at the Window" by Richard Wilbur

This essay offers analysis of "Boy at the Window" by Richard Wilbur. The writer focuses on the compelling nature of the poem's ima...

"The ABC of Aerobics" by Peter Meinke

This essay presents a character sketch of the narrator in "The ABC of Aerobics," a poem by Peter Meinke. Three pages in length, th...

"Locked Ward, Newtown, Connecticut by Rachel Loden

This essay is an explication of "Locked Ward: Newtown, Connecticut" by Rachel Loden. The writer bases this discussion on the assum...

"Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen

This essay pertains to a Wilfred Owen's WWI poem that offers stark and vivid repudiation of the Latin phrase that it is sweet to ...

Humor and Irony in the poems of Robert Frost

This essay focuses on the humor and Irony in Robert Frost's poems. The poems discussed are "Mending Wall," "Stopping by Woods on a...

Robert Frost's The Road not Taken: Oral Presentation

This 4 page paper gives an overview of the element within the poem The Road not Taken. This paper includes irony, symbolism, repre...

“To his Excellency General Washington” and American Liberty

This 4 page paper gives an overview of the poem “To his Excellency General Washington”, by Phillis Wheatley. This paper includes h...

'Patterns' by Amy Lowell

This paper consists of four pages and discusses the characterization of the speaker and the poem's connotation, rhythm, diction, a...

'Calm' by Loma Crozier

pause, heads tilted as if trying to hear someone softly...

Love According to Andrew Marvell and John Donne

In five pages love as represented by Andrew Marvell in his poem 'The Definition of Love' is compared and contrasted with the poem ...

Poetry by Hardy and Eliot

himself who willed that he should suffer (lines 5-8). In other words, Hardy pictures preferring a world such as the ancient Gre...

'This World is not Conclusion' by Emily Dickinson

question that cannot be logically answered "puzzles scholars," while perfectly ordinary people are able to accept it as it is, as ...

Meaning of 'Daddy' by Sylvia Plath

gangrenous toe that her father had to have amputated and which, later, led directly to his death (127). The image of the "Frisco s...

'Infant Joy' and 'Infant Sorrow' Poems by William Blake

on. The illustration serves to emphasize the overall theme of complete joy, which Blake implies is something that can be experienc...

Poems: Dickinson, Donne, Marvell, Parker, and Roethke

and taken blood from both. He tries to convince her that to give in to him, to give him herself, has been ultimately blessed by th...

Maya Angelou/Phenomenal Woman

half=way through the stanza, Angelou prefaces giving her reaction with the line "I say," which is followed by her lyrical descript...

W.B. Yeats/An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...

"I'm Nobody! Who Are You?": An Analysis of a Poem by Emily Dickinson

To an admiring Bog! (846). The subject matter features a person who feels inwardly lonely who does not wish to advertise h...

Teaching and Learning in Poetry

school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...

‘Requiem’ by Anna Akhmatova

was assassinated, probably by Stalin himself (Vartavarian). Stalin used the death as a pretext to begin purging those he thought w...