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A Review of George Gordon Byron’s Poem “And Thou Art Dead” (776 words, 3 pages)

The Love of Lord ByronThe Romantic era of the middle ages were filled with passionate works of art and poetry that many of us could learn from today. George Gordon Byron was a Romantic ComposerPoet who moved many peoples hearts with the famous poem, And Thou art dead, as Young ... Read More

The Poems of Emily Dickinson (828 words, 5 pages)

I was the slightest in the House I took the smallest Room At night, my little Lamp, and Book And one Geranium So stationed I could catch the mintThat never ceased to fall And just my Basket Let me think I'm sure That this was all I never spoke unless ... Read More

The Objectification of Women in Ben Jonson’s Poem On My First Daughter and the Anti-Patriarchal Portrayal of Eve in John Milton’s Poem Paradise Lost (900 words, 3 pages)

Women existing in a patriarchal society are never give the true respect or measure of worth that they are due. This can be seen permeating all aspects of life, from church doctrines to land ownership laws to marriage practices to art. In art, both as creators and as creations, women ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem “Birches” by Robert Frost (544 words, 3 pages)

Reaching For the Heavens From A BirchRobert Frost published Birches in 1916 and to this day it remains one of Frosts most anthologized pieces of work. Consisting of 59 lines the poem describes a man who passes by birch trees that appear to be bent. The speaker thinks back to ... Read More

The Effects of War on an Individual in the Poem The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy (335 words, 2 pages)

Criminals In WarIt is often difficult to talk about war due to the lasting impacts it may have on many soldiers. In The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy, he refers to war as quaint and curious (17). This presents many notions on how war can be interpreted and the ... Read More

The Idea of Death in the Poems The Black Snake and Traveling Through the Dark (1120 words, 4 pages)

Animal Lives vs. Human LivesThe two poems, The Black Snake by Mary Oliver and Traveling Through the Dark by William E. Stafford are two poems that interpret the idea of death in two differing views. Although the interpretations of the poems might differ in ways, both poems reach a similar ... Read More

The Use of the Subjective Term “Beauty” in the Poem, Iliad (2159 words, 7 pages)

Woman Most BeautifulBeauty is a subjective term. A poem is not beautiful in the same way that a woman is often, the word is used in a multitude of ways. Human beauty can be divided into three categories physical beauty, beauty of the mind, and beauty of the soul. In ... Read More

A Review of Billy Collins’ Two Poems “Building with Its Face Blown Off” and “Nostalgia” (837 words, 3 pages)

Billy CollinsPoetry can be used to express feelings of happiness, feelings of sorrow, and feelings of just plain serenity. Billy Collins' two poems "Building with Its Face Blown off and "Nostalgia are two great examples of how poetry uses words to show a complete picture of emotion. Billy Collins does ... Read More

An Analysis of the First Chapters of William Wordsworth’s Poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (341 words, 2 pages)

(4) William WordsworthI wandered lonely as a cloudIn the beginning of the poem, William Wordsworth feels loneliness, isolation and sadness. He walks without having any destination. He compares himself to a cloud that is alone in the sky above vales and hills. Clouds move without any destination and so does ... Read More

The Criticisms of Social Corruption and Oppression in William Blake’s Poem, The Chimney Sweeper (550 words, 3 pages)

(6) William BlakeThe Chimney SweeperBasically, the poem is a criticism of a widespread phenomenon of social corruption and oppression back to the 18th century in England. Orphan kids were obliged to work as Chimney Sweepers which is a dangerous job especially to kids aged 4-5 years. The poet starts by ... Read More

A Review of Emily Dickson’s Poem “My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close” (443 words, 2 pages)

(2) Emily DickensonMy life closed twice before its closeEmily Dickinson begins by announcing that she had two tragic events that felt like death for her "My life closed twice before its close"(1). She is still alive we can know that her physical death hasn't come yet. However, the losses that ... Read More

An Analysis of Septimus’ Character in the Poem Easter 1916 by William Butler Yeats (1632 words, 6 pages)

The Great War was one of the major conflicts that humanity has ever witnessed. It was the first time in which whole nations and not just little countries fought to death. In modern times these kinds of phenomena are approached from a moral point of view and always seen as ... Read More

The use of imagery in the poems Root Cellar by Theodore Roethke and The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop (1069 words, 4 pages)

Dark Roots Hunting and Decorated Fish GeneralsIf a picture paints a thousand words, what does a poem do? Poems are generally shorter than stories, which can paint scenes worth more than a thousand words, so how can an image-driven poem have any use at all? Poems are often condensed and ... Read More

The Subversive Idea of A Woman Improving Her Own Circumstances in the Poem the Ruined Maid (1098 words, 3 pages)

Examine the view that Hardyis subverting the idea of the ruined maid and showing us a young woman who has improved her circumstances (through selling sex).The Ruined Maid is a 19th Century poem written by Thomas Hardy. Hardy had interests in both purity and womanhood, and The Ruined Maid may ... Read More

Lord Byron’s Poem “She Walks In Beauty” Is a Poem About Inner Beauty (927 words, 2 pages)

Examine to what extent She Walks In Beauty focuses on female physical beautyInitially, Lord Byrons poem She Walks In Beauty is presented as a poem admiring the physical beauty of an unknown female at a party. However, as the poem progresses it becomes apparent that the speaker is admiring the ... Read More

A Review of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Poem “Truth” (1047 words, 3 pages)

Chaucer and TheTruth Geoffrey Chaucer's poem known as Truth detaches himself from the love-themed poems that are usually expressed within the Canterbury Tales. UnlikeThe Wife of Bath's tale, the topic of Truth contains a form of religiousexpression, with Chaucer acting as more of a philosopher in what the'truth' means. In ... Read More

A Brief Review of Billy Collins’ Poem Sonnet (462 words, 2 pages)

Sonnet by Billy Collins is a poem about a poem specifically, the fourteen line Petrarchan sonnet. His choices of loosely following the traditional form and rhythm of a sonnet, lack of rhyme, and use of a metaphor serve to satirize the writing and value of a sonnet. Collins begins the ... Read More

The Interpretation of Gwendolyn Brooks Poem “We Real Cool” (1231 words, 4 pages)

ENGL 20628 March 2016Interpretations of Death in PoetryWe Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks is short, but has a powerful message. Although each of the main lines is only three words long, it manages to paint a vivid portrait of a group of (presumably) young black men hanging out at a ... Read More

Nostalgia in the Poems of Both John Clare and “The California Poem” by Eleni Sikelianos (538 words, 2 pages)

Reading Response 2 Romanticism is characterized by feelings and explorations ofnostalgia, referring to a sentimental longing for a past time, one thatevokes usually positive memories. Nostalgia is a guiding force in the poemsof both John Clare and "The California Poem" by Eleni Sikelianos. The Actof Enclosure (1807) in particular heavily ... Read More

Describing the Tragic Hero in the Epic Poem, Paradise Lost (1324 words, 4 pages)

The tragic hero is a popular archetype of classic literature, generally referring to a character that embodies the qualities of a classic hero as well as a fatal flaw that dooms him to failure. In his epic poem Paradise Lost, John Milton illustrates Satan specifically as a tragic hero, which ... Read More

An Analysis of the Meaning Behind the Poems The Road Not Taken, My November Guest, and A Late Walk (1388 words, 4 pages)

There are many poems that have been written and every single one of them has their own meaning behind it and uses all different kinds of elements of poetry throughout them. Robert Frost is a great poet and three of his most famous poems, The Road Not Taken, My Novembers ... Read More

A Review of Wilfred Owen’s Poem, Dulce et Decorum Est (2154 words, 8 pages)

WWI Paper Draft OneIn the poem Dulce et Decorum Est written by Wilfred Owen, the audience is introduced to the horrifying experience of a gas attack in World War I. Owen goes into excruciating detail on every effect of the gas, and describes almost everything about the physical state of ... Read More

The Horrific Accounts of World War I in Wilfred Owen’s Poem, Dulce et Decorum Est (803 words, 3 pages)

Research Bonanza1 IntroductionIn the poem Dulce et Decorum Est written by Wilfred Owen, the reader is introduced to the horrifying experience of a gas attack in World War I. Owen goes into excruciating detail on the effects of the gas, describing almost everything that can be described about the physical ... Read More

A Review of Dylan Thomas’ Poem “Do not go gentle into that good night” (351 words, 1 pages)

Gently explicating that good nightDylan Thomas is writing something both generalized and severely personal about man facing his death when he writes Do not go gentle into that good night. Hes saying that death should not be quietly accepted, death should be fought. More importantly, life and all the experience ... Read More

A Review of Philip Levine’s Poem “You Can Have It” (808 words, 3 pages)

At Work With Philip Levine Philip Levine is an American writer of some renown, having won both aPulitzer Prize and a National Book Award during his career in the middle ofthe twentieth century. He wrote some of his most intense poems from afairly unique viewpoint in the world of literature ... Read More

A Review of Robert Frost’s Narrative Poem, The Road Not Taken (955 words, 5 pages)

Thesis Statement and Outline I. Introduction A. The Road Not Taken authored by Robert Frost 1. 1874-1963 2. 19th century American poetry and modernism 3. narrative poem II. Thesis Statement A. Frost seems to present stagy eminence in the classic impasse against a fork in the road and the pronouncement ... Read More

Looking at the mechanics of literary analysis which can be described as a tool that a reader uses to express the meaning and interpretation of the specific elements of a text. This essay will compare and contrast the poems Song of Lawino and song of Ocol, both written by Ugandan ... Read More

The Combination of Realism and Romanticism in Two Poems by Emily Dickinson: I Heard a Fly Buzz and Success Is Counted Sweetest (677 words, 3 pages)

Emily Dickinson, while not solely a romantic style poet, is best known as a romantic era poet whose poems are made distinct in the romantic category by frequently integrating them with realism. While unique in her own style, many of Dickinsons poems exemplify the Romantic Movement in American Literature.I Heard ... Read More

An Analysis of Sir Phillip Sydney’s Poem Thou Blind Man’s Mark (507 words, 2 pages)

Thou Blind Mans Mark AnalysisThe poem Thou Blind Mans Mark by Sir Phillip Sydney uses many poetic devices to further the message of the poem. The message of this poem is that desire leads a mortal mind to destruction and this message is effectively purveyed through the poetic devices of ... Read More

The Hypocrisy Women in Relationships Face in To Alexis in Answer to His Poem Against Fruition by Aphra Behn (1444 words, 6 pages)

In To Alexis in Answer to his Poem against Fruition by Aphra Behn, she responds to another poem, Mountains Essaywritten by Alexis. In his poem, Alexis identifies how difficult it is for men to have relationships. However, Aphra Behn eloquently dismisses his claims by highlighting the hypocrisy women in relationships ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013