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'Drowned Man of Esthwaite' by William Wordsworth

This Wordsworth poem is considered in six pages, considering the poet's childhood experiences in the prose about a drowned man and...

Analysis of 'She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways' by William Wordsworth

This paper presents an analysis of the poet's feelings for a young woman as expressed in William Wordsworth's 'She Dwelt Among the...

Emily Dickinson's Poetry and Themes of Nature and Death

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the ways in which the poet's views of nature and death are represented in such poems as 'Twas jus...

Andrew Marvell's Poem 'To His Coy Mistress'

The thesis argued in this five page poetic analysis is that the message that the lady should put her concerns about extramarital s...

Analysis of Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks

In five pages this paper analyzes Gwendolyn Brooks' poems including 'We Real Cool' and 'Kitchenette Building' in a consideration o...

'God's Grandeur' by Gerard Manley Hopkins

In 5 pages this poem featuring nature is analyzed in terms of how it represents the poet's Catholicism. There are 5 sources cited...

Pedro Pietri's Poetry

that this crisis of space and language has been most deeply problematized, and yet where a possible alternative lies for these wri...

'Sonnet XIX' by John Milton

In six pages this paper discusses how Milton reveals his value to his Creator through verse in a consideration of such techniques ...

Transitional Figure Petrarch

In nine pages this paper discusses how Petrarch provides the Medieval to Renaissance transition and examines the poet's letters an...

Influence of Death in the Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe

In six pages the ways in which Poe's poems 'Lenore,' 'The Raven,' 'Annabel Lee,' and 'To Helen' are influenced by the deaths of th...

'The Soul Selects Her Own Society' by Emily Dickinson

just a few words (McConnell). The first stanza shows the thesis. The soul or the individual person is sovereign in deciding who ...

Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Crisis in Poetry

In six pages this paper examines how poetry can be used to express a poet's crisis in 'Lady Lazarus' by Sylvia Plath and 'My Life ...

Irony in Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson

In five pages Robinson's poem is analyzed in terms of the poet's use of irony as a way of revealing how a wealthy man's life can b...

Poetry of John Keats and Lawlessness

In eight pages this paper examines how lawlessness is thematically expressed by John Keats in his 'Robin Hood' poem and how this ...

Loss of Light and 'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night' by Dylan Thomas

In four pages this paper argues that the poet's uses of 'light' involve loss of life in terms of the fighting for life and grief o...

Analysis of 'Under Milk Wood' by Dylan Thomas

In three pages this poem is analyzed in its depiction of loving women, the life cycle, death's inevitability, and the loss of inno...

Dylan Thomas's 'Fern Hill' and Revisiting Childhood

In five pages this poem is analyzed in terms of the poet's employment of imagery and the reasons for its complexity. Two sources ...

Songs of Experience by William Blake

This paper considers how the poet's life was negatively impacted by religion and circumstances as revealed in his collection of po...

Emily Dickinson's 'The Soul Selects Hew Own Society' and Imagery

keeping out all of the world that she does not desire to experience or see or meet. This is further emphasized by the third and fo...

Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Religious Literary Devices

in a manner that was often regarded as blasphemous by her Puritan and Calvinist neighbors. Emily Dickinsons approach to poetry wa...

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...

Informally Examining Romantic Poets and Poetry

unspoiled by either man or society? In "The Tiger," Blake appears to be pondering the marvels of the world while at the same time...

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...

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...

'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...

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...

Biographical Profile of Philip Arthur Larkin

is said that much great poetry and other works of art are born of great pain. This may certainly have been the case in Arthur Lark...