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Death of Abraham Lincoln and the Grief of Poet Walt Whitman

12, Whitman was indoctrinated in the printers trade (AAP). It was at this time that he fell in love with words, and began to read ...

'Blackberry Sweet' by Dudley Randall

devices not only within the line in which it occurs, but also between lines. Also in regards to these lines, while the poet refe...

Romantic Era Poetry and the Conflict of Man versus Nature

of what we have learned to accept in more recent times. That we are but one race of creatures that has existed for only a short t...

'The Anagram' by John Donne

a good face." His voice is directly personal as he enumerates the many faults of "thy Flavia." He reminds the man who would marry...

'Design' by Robert Frost

In about eight pages this essay discusses the life and works of poet Robert Frost and also presents a poetic explication of 'Desig...

Audience and Works by Dante Alighieri and Homer

In five pages this essay considers the audience and poet relationship as represented in 'The Divine Comedy' by Dante and 'The Odys...

Comments on a Book for Ministers

This essay presents reflections and discussions about different sections of a book entitled "The Pastor As A Minor Poet" by M. Cra...

Maxence Fermine's Snow

This essay pertain to a Japanese novel that charts the evolution of a young poet in achieving perfection within this craft. The wr...

Giovanni and the Literary Canon

African American poet of extraordinary power, skill and insight who is extremely deserving of inclusion in the American literary c...

Homer's World, Similarities and Difference with Present Day

This essay pertains to "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" by Homer, the ancient Greek poet and the worldview and cultural values that a...

Dickinson's "Much madness" and Eliot's "Prufrock"

This essay offers analysis and a comparison of T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" with Emily Dickinson's "Much ma...

Hero and Leander/Marlowe

of the youth that generate that this assessment, that is, his pleasant smile, his eyes, etc. There is a allusion to Narcissus, who...

God in a Technical Age, Arnold and Hopkins

In the media today, it is possible to frequently see pundits and politicians bemoaning the state of society in regards to morality...

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 ...

Ovid's Metamorphoses/Concept of Art, Poet

her sisters husband and how he had cut out her tongue to keep silent and a prisoner (Ovid BkVI:571-619). Those characters who as...

Marvell/To His Coy Mistress

20). The lyricism and imagery in this opening section are romantic, seductive and certain to appeal to the ego of any woman. Howev...

Lord Byron, We'll Go No More A-Roving

was staying in Venice. It was published by Moore in 1830, after Byrons death, in a text he edited, Letters and Journals of Lord By...

The Life and Works of Emma Lazarus

in American culture, despite her pro-immigration sentiments, which were directly opposed to the anti-immigration public feeling of...

Wordsworth & Hardy/Perspectives on Nature

First and foremost, the Thrush is seen by this Romantic poet in heroic terms, as a male facing the storm of the public world in or...

A.E. Housman/An Athlete Dying Young

and comments that the young man was "smart" to "slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay" (lines 9-10). Housman the...

Interpretations of First and Second Generation Romantic Poets A Chance Encounter

In a paper consisting of 7 pages an examination of the first and second generation Romantic poets is presented. A fictional descr...

A Letter from Waldo Frank to Carl Sandburg

"I am the people, the mob." In this, we share a similar sentiment. However, your work expresses a much more accepting and optimist...

Romantic Poetry

A 4 page essay that discusses examples of Romantic verse. In the early nineteenth century, artists rebelled against restrictions o...

Themes/Anne Bradstreet

A 4 page essay that analyzes 4 poems by Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672), Puritan poet and writer, as well as a devoted wife and loving...

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...

Dante’s Inferno & Humanism

must take a stand against evil and live according to ideals rather than simply from a myopic focus on personal needs. In Canto 2...

Emerson and Thoreau and the War in Iraq

personality was bolder and more action-oriented than Emersons. He was far more progressive and activist than Emerson on the anti-s...

Narrator in Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man

1994, p. 15). That really is his biggest problem: he is seeking answers to the problem of being black in America, but hes lookin...

Ellison’s Invisible Man and Blindness

lays the foundation for invisibility and blindness in the novel and clearly illustrates how the narrator understands that he too i...

The Killer Car: The Chevrolet Corvair

to develop the car and solve the problems, but its clear that they wanted to make as much money as possible quickly. And that led ...