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Poems: Hughes and Eliot

powerful and intense poem, in relationship to the struggles of the African American people, that it has been adapted into song (Af...

Huck, Emma & Asher Lev/Misfits

expected of young women in British society during this era. In Potoks novel, Asher Lev is a twentieth century boy raised in the Ha...

A Poem on "Hamlet"

the best relationship to use in the poem. Hamlets relationship with Gertrude, his mother, is even more problematic, because he tu...

The Wife of Bath and the Love Poems of Sappho and Catullus

While the couple is not married in the legal sense to each other (their bonds of matrimony are with others), it becomes obvious th...

Sandburg: Three Poems

says Sandburg, none of that matters; what matters is that the grass will eventually cover up the battlefields, the dead, the blood...

Jones & Moody/Known World

himself to be a benevolent master, and after his death, his wife Caldonia tries to uphold this legacy, the novel nevertheless show...

Emily Dickinson & Nature

"failed," not why she died (line 5). The conversation between these two deceased who died for their art continues "Until the Moss ...

Sylvia Plath, Mirror & Metaphors

topic was greatly on her mind. This can be discerned due to the fact that the poem is written as a riddle with "pregnancy" as the ...

Robert Frost/The Road Not Taken

of the forest as "yellow" tells the reader that the time of year is autumn. This signifies the time of life for the narrator. Fros...

Federico Garcia Lorca/Play Trilogy

intended and his mother, she bites her hand in frustration in "inexpressible rage and desire" (Jones and Jones, nd, p. 13). During...

Dante’s Inferno/Canto XX

because pity carries with it the connotation that divinely imposed punishment is less than just. He tells Dante to lift his eyes a...

Beowulf & Odysseus/Ancient Heroes

peers by acclamation rather than divine right. The thane is spoke of as a "giver of treasure in gladness" (Beowulf 46). In other w...

Dante's 9th Circle/A Contemporary Vision

household. As a teen, he became enthralled with Islam and converted. Lindh came to reject everything America stands for. By active...

Robert Frost's "Mending Wall" - Analysis

"I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once again. We keep th...

Anne Bradsreet/In Reference to Her Children, 23 June 1659

have learned to "fly" and to "sing," that is, that they have become responsible adults, capable of living and contributing to soci...

Browning's Last Duchess & Her Fatal Misstep

creating a believable psychological portrait based on this duke, which is largely considered to be accurate according to Renaissan...

Miracles of Our Lady (Milagros de Nuestra Senora) by Berceo

in miracle I, "The Chausuble of Saint Ildephonsus," Berceo, first of all, describes the piety, humility and service of the venerab...

Symbolism in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"

/ Arrayed of the Round Table rightful brothers ... / the feast was in force full fifteen days" (37-39, 44). They are celebrating t...

The Function of Religion in Dante's "Inferno"

which he lived when he says that the poem is not the result of Dantes inner contemplation, "it is rooted in the immediate Christia...

Shakespeare/Sonnet 73

spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next fou...

'Nothing is Lost' by Anne Ridler

a mystical quality that makes us think about what shes saying. Shes packed a lot of thought into a very few lines. The poem is par...

Personal Statement - What Children Mean To Me

day, children come to our classrooms. Some are more ready to learn than others, some are more excited about learning than others b...

Sherman Alexie’s On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City

time" (Alexie 34-36). This is a summation of the conflict of the modern Native, from the eyes of the narrator, today. It speaks of...

Out, Out by Robert Frost

the wood is in the air and one can see the beauty of the mountains if they only looked up. It is a beautiful image and one that cl...

'The Odyssey' by Homer and Identity

In sage debates...To save the state" (Homer Book I). The reader begins to see that Telemachus is not wise enough to be prepared fo...

William Wordsworth and Luigi Pirandello

director, "having created us alive, then no longer wished, or was he able, to put us materially into a work of art. And this, sir,...

Poetic Analysis of 'The Battle of Frogs and Mice'

for either side. However, even though the plot is simple, the way the poem is written is deliberately heroic, and is very much ...

'To An Athlete Dying Young' by A.E. Housman

has died. Beginning in the third stanza, the poet discusses the death and again addresses the deceased directly. He says the youn...

Los and Grief Expressed in Poetry

soon scaped worlds and fleshs rage" (Jonson 6-7). In this the reader sees a rationalization that almost seems to be envy as the na...

Advancing Age in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats

the "music" of nature and is part of a continuous cycle. This poem concludes "How can we know the dancer from the dance" (line 64)...