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An Extended Response on Native American Literature Selection (629 words, 1 pages)

Extended response- Native American Selections Many of the selections that I read shared common themes as to the different technical methods that they used to prove their points. Of them, I liked the poems the best. I, of course, am impartial due to the fact that I am a poet ... Read More

An Analysis of Sonnet 55 by William Shakespeare (364 words, 1 pages)

Shakespeares Sonnet 55 expresses the importance of memories. When we think of memories we dont picture something physical in front of us we see a thought passing through our mind. By comparing memories to seemingly unbreakable things, Shakespeare forces the reader to recognize their longevity. The poet first compares human ... Read More

An Analysis of Dudley Randall’s Poem Ballad of Birmingham (942 words, 2 pages)

Explication Ballad of Birmingham In the poem Ballad of Birmingham, by Dudley Randall, many different things can be analyzed. The difference in the two translations one being a literal translation, telling the true meaning of the poem, and the other being a thematic translation, which tells the authors theme and ... Read More

An Analysis of Shelly’s Poem Ozymandias (1044 words, 2 pages)

The message or theme of the poem (sonnet) is that man is insignificant and his efforts are vein when compared to the forces of time and nature. The subject matter, diction, figures of speech, sound devices and structure used by shelly convey the idea of permanence and impermanence. To consider ... Read More

An Analysis of T. S. Elliot’s Poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (3925 words, 6 pages)

Lines 1-36 Summary J. Alfred Prufrock, a presumably middle-aged, intellectual, indecisive man, invites the reader along with him through the modern city. He describes the street scene and notes a social gathering of women discussing Renaissance artist Michelangelo. He describes yellow smoke and fog outside the house of the gathering, ... Read More

A Comparison of the Walt Whitman’s and Emily Dickinson’s Poetry (813 words, 1 pages)

"Walt Whitman in contrast to Emily Dickinson" Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were both great American poets of the 19th century. Aside from this, however, the two had very few in common. Without even going into their almost polar opposite personal lives, and concentrating solely upon their writings, one can ... Read More

A Biography of Emily Dickinson and Characteristics of Her Poetry (1289 words, 3 pages)

Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson is known as one of the greatest poets of all time, writing 1,775 brief poems in her lifetime! She is famous for her vast sense of style and theme. Author David Porter said, by mapping the themes in a poets oeuvre we seek in a standard ... Read More

A Review of of Emily Bronte’s Literary Accomplishments (381 words, 1 pages)

Emily Bronte Over Christmas break I commenced on reading a novel by Emily Bronte, her romantic masterpiece "Wuthering Heights." This novel was a passionate love story of two people, Heathcliff and Catherine, and their doomed love and revenge relationship. This story was made believable by her vivid story telling. After ... Read More

Elizabeth Bishop a Poet as a Delicate Ethnographer (1400 words, 3 pages)

Anne Shifrer Utah State University Logan, Utah 84322-3200 Elizabeth Bishop as Delicate Ethnographer I've spent many satisfying moments gazing on the dust jacket of the recently published collection of Elizabeth Bishop's letters with its reproduction of one of her watercolors, wildflowers in a bucket arranged with artful artlessness. This grand ... Read More

Analysis of the Poem Eldorado by Edgar Allan Poe (699 words, 1 pages)

In the poem Eldorado, the poet conveys the romantic attitude of following ones passions to the very end, even throughout all circumstances. From a realists point of view, when times become challenging or success is unlikely, it is wiser to give up and stop wasting time. A romantic, however, views ... Read More

Main Themes in the Poems of E. E. Cummings (336 words, 1 pages)

The thematic concerns of Cummings's poetry included satiric, anti-war pieces, celebrated loners, lovers and nonconformists he wrote poems in which he extolled love, nature, individualism, and freedom Cummings remains one of the best-known and best-loved poets of the twentieth century. He is remembered for his celebration of love and nature ... Read More

Edgar Allan Poe: The Master of the Short Story Form (1194 words, 4 pages)

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, known as a poet and critic but most famous as the "master of the short-story form" ( Edgar Allan Poe), especially tales of the "mysterious and macabre" ( Edgar Allan Poe). The literary merits of Poe's writings have been debated since his death, ... Read More

E. T. A. Hoffmann: His Life and Dreams (2016 words, 3 pages)

E.T.A. Hoffmann His Life, His Dreams.... E.T.A. Hoffmann, often also called the Ghost Hoffmann, was one of the important writers and artist of the romantic era in Europe. He was a genius, who had the ability to write, compose and draw with his own characteristics and to catch the attention ... Read More

An Argument in Favor of the Medical Use of Marijuana (549 words, 1 pages)

Although possessing a medicinal value and therapeutic uses for body ailments such as multiple sclerosis, glaucoma and anxiety, exaggerated marijuana abuse is harmful to the body and legalizing the drug would pose negative effects upon public health and well-being. The main argument of pro-legislators of Marijuana is that of its ... Read More

Satirized Ideals of Renaissance Humanism in Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (716 words, 1 pages)

Selling His Soul to Make a Point In Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe has vividly drawn up the character of an intelligent, learned man tragically seduced by the lure of power greater than he was mortally meant to have. The character of Dr. Faustus is, in conception, an ideal of humanism, ... Read More

The Theme of Love in Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold (1350 words, 2 pages)

Dover Beach Beauty Hides Pain Poet, Matthew Arnold, presents a very real theme of love in his poem, Dover Beach. Where he creates a scene of beauty among the sea and shores, mixed with night and moonlight, he also is presenting us with the underlying misery, which is easily over ... Read More

The Theme of True Love in Sonnet 116 by Shakespeare and Forbidding Mourning by Donne (1158 words, 2 pages)

A Valediction Forbidding Mourning and Sonnet 116 are two of the most beautiful poems written on the subject of true love. Firstly, it is important to install boundaries on what true love is as defined by most conventional ideals. True love is the meeting of like minds where the love ... Read More

Does Freedom Require Virtue? An Analysis of the Writings of Sophocles, Plato and Augustine (612 words, 1 pages)

Does Freedom Require Virtue Throughout history poets such as Sophocles, Plato, and Augustine have discussed what it is to be a virtuous person. The question that many have asked is if freedom requires virtue. In my personal opinion I believe without virtue freedom would not be able to survive. A ... Read More

The Development of Claude Manet’s Artistic Motifs and Inspiration (1669 words, 3 pages)

At the time Manet began working, the generally accepted art was the official art of the Salon. His work can generally be described as part of the impressionist movement, which emerged from the works of Realist painters like Courbet and Millet. Paris itself was going through several great changes at ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poetry by Emily Dickinson (292 words, 1 pages)

Emily Dickinson's poetry displays a fange of perception and emotion that few poets have matched. not only does she approach her subjects in unique ways, but her use of language itself is hightly idiosyncratic. Her images startle by their unexpectedness and their supreme rightness as well. For her, death cna ... Read More

The Theme of Death in the Poems Crossing the Bar by Alfred Lord Tennyson and Up-Hill by Christina Rossetti (591 words, 2 pages)

Death is the reward of Life Life is considered, by some, to be a journey towards death and the great reward of afterlife. This traveling process is held in many different views and is expressed in numerous manners in literature. Two prominent Victorian poets who wrote on this topic were ... Read More

An Analysis of Mr. Keating the Primary Character in the Film Dead Poet Society (1831 words, 3 pages)

?I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.. I did not wish to live what was not life... nor did I whish to practice resignation... I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.? Henry David Thoreau used this as an ... Read More

The Origins and the Development of De-Stijl (the Style) Also Called Neoplasticism (2260 words, 4 pages)

De-Stijl(The Style),also called " Neoplasticism" is recognizable by the use of straight horizontal and vertical lines as well as the use of the primary colors red, yellow and blue. They also used the colors black, white and gray. It is a style that went back to the fundamental elements of ... Read More

The Tragic Hero in the Film Dead Poet’s Society (746 words, 2 pages)

Dead Poets as Tragic Drama The character Neil in Dead Poets Society is a good example of a tragic hero. He is a character that is controlled by his passionate nature and by an insatiable desire to act in the theatre, against the wishes of his authoritative father. Neil is ... Read More

A Biography of Dante Alighieri One of the Greatest Poets of the Middle Ages (1876 words, 6 pages)

Dante Alighieri, one of the greatest poets of the Middle Ages, was born in Florence, Italy on June 5, 1265. He was born to a middle-class Florentine family. At an early age he began to write poetry and became fascinated with lyrics. During his adolescence, Dante fell inlove with a ... Read More

A Poet by Accident, the Satires in Diary of a Church Mouse by John Betjeman (1139 words, 2 pages)

John Betjeman, an English poet, broadcaster and writer on architecture was born on 6th April 1906. One is tempted to say of Betjeman that he is an architect masque' and a poet by accident, for architecture has always been his chief preoccupation. He wrote many poems to do with Christianity. ... Read More

A Comparison of the Poems Mid Term Break and Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day (1488 words, 2 pages)

Comparison of 2 Poems Mid Term Break by Seamus Heaney and Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day by William Shakespeare Seamus Heaney was born in 1939 in a small agricultural town in county Derry. In 1957 he went to Queens University in Belfast where he studied literature. He ... Read More

Use of Allegory in D.H. Lawrence’s Poems Bavarian Gentians and Ship of Death (1587 words, 2 pages)

David Herbert Lawrence, an English novelist and poet ranked among the most influential and controversial literary figures of the twentieth century. Lawrence was born on September 11th, 1885, in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. He abandoned traditional poetic form and advocated the use of free verse. The two poems being discussed, "Bavarian Gentians" ... Read More

Pain and Misery in the Poems Dulce et Decorum est and Hymn Sung at the Completion of the Concorde Monument (576 words, 1 pages)

The poems Dulce et Decorum est, written by Wilfred Owen, and Hymn Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument written by Ralph Waldo Emerson are both about times of pain and misery yet the events in the poem and the view points of the authors are notably different in ... Read More

Different Perspectives of Eros in the Poems by Robert Bridges and Anne Stevenson (637 words, 1 pages)

Throughout these two poems "Eros" is revealed to the reader in two very different perspectives. The first poem by Robert Bridges portrays to the reader that Eros is a true god and that when it comes to love man is the one who suffers. In the second poem by Anne ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013