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Walt Whitman and the Influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson

In six pages the influence of Emerson upon Whitman's poetry is examined with the primary focus being 'Song of Myself' and poetic l...

Orpheus Vision in the Poetry of John Milton

towards his music. Perhaps what Orpheus is best known for his ill-fated marriage to the nymph Eurydice. Soon after the wedding...

William Blake, George Eliot, and Children

In five pages this report considers how children are used in the poetry of William Blake and in George Eliot's Silas Marner. Ther...

Gypsy Song Analysis of Matthew Lewis' Gothic Novel The Monk

In two pages this paper examines how poetry functions within the novel by Matthew Lewis. There are no other sources listed....

Andrei Tarkovsky's Cinematic Poetry

This in-depth research paper puts forth the argument that the films of director Andrei Tarkovsky are best seen as cinematic poetry...

Edith Wharton's Life, Writings, and Men

to ask her to marry him, but he remained her closest and most enduring friend throughout his life. Strangely, however, it was not...

Poetry Defined

This paper defines poetry and considers its development and various structures in four pages with Ogden Nash and Emily Dickinson's...

Poetry of 'Come Talk to Me' by Songwriter Peter Gabriel

In four pages this paper discusses how these song lyrics by Peter Gabriel can be regarded as poetry that is independent from the m...

Survival of Native Americans and the Importance of Memory

In five pages this paper examines the importance of memory to the Native American cultural experience in a consideration of memory...

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 ...

How the Poetic Works of Robert Frost Reflect the Poet's Life

years old, he decided to change his life. Selling his farm and quitting his job, he moved to England to pursue a career as a poet....

Life and Poems of Emily Dickinson

In ten pages this paper considers the poet and her poetry in terms of her preferred themes and life as a recluse. Ten sources are...

Early Culture of West Africa

This paper compares the Native American culture with the culture of West Africa in an overview of sculpture, dance, music, poetry,...

American Revolutionary War Poet Philip Freneau

In six pages the patriot poetry of Philip Freneau is discussed with the life of the poet also examined. There are 3 sources cited...

The Life and Works of W.H. Auden

In a paper that consists of ten pages the life and poetry of British poet W.H. Auden. Eleven sources are cited in the bibliograph...

The World is Too Much With Us by Wordsworth

and that in the poems, he tried to transform these incidents and situations by way of his imagination and present them in a manner...

Art is Imitating Life in Thomas Hardy's Poetry

awhile as an architect before devoting himself to literature as a full-time vocation. He married in 1874, and within ten years, t...

Civil War Poetry of Walt Whitman

to Leaves of Grass-certainly more perfect as a work of art, being adjusted in all its proportions . . . But I am perhaps mainly sa...

Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Transcendentalism

on other writers who were to follow them. However, just as Emerson did not express his philosophy in the same way as Thoreau, foll...

Beat Generation Poetry of Bob Kaufman

In eight pages Bob Kaufman and his poetry are examined and despite the fact that he was the least well known of all the 'Beat' poe...

Galway Kinnell's Life and Poetry

In three pages this research paper examines the life and poetry of Galway Kinnel with an explication of 'When One Has Lived a Long...

Hellenistic Poetry and Epigrams

In six pages this essay considers the epigrams featured in Hellenistic poetry particularly in regards to the employment of wit and...

Death, God, and Holocaust Survivors' Attitudes

bear. For example, most of those survivors interviewed by Schindler, Spiegel, and Malachi (1992) expressed their almost desperate...

Historical Reflection of Black Literature and Poetry

In five pages the slavery chants continue to reverberate as they connect black literature and poetry past and present. Five sourc...

Negative Capability Theory and John Keats

In five pages this research paper examines the negative capability theory of John Keats as it is reflected in his poetry with his ...

Negative Capability Concept in the Poetry of John Keats

In two pages this research paper considers how negative capability is featured in the poetry of John Keats. Four sources are cite...

Critical Evaluations of Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley

In six pages this paper examines changing critical assessments of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poetry from past to present in a consider...

Romanticism in the Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

In eight pages this paper discusses Emerson's poetry not for its original thinking but for the philosophical crossroads his works ...

T.S. Eliot's Anti Semitic Poetry

that Eliot was a highly bigoted individual as both a racist and an anti-Semitic. According to Julius, Eliot was the type of artis...

Children and Parents in British Society and Songs of Innocence by William Blake

In five pages this paper considers how children with parents and without are compared in the social commentary featured in this co...