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The Study of Imagery in the Poem Loving From Vietnam to Zimbabwe by Janice Mirikitani (1305 words, 4 pages)

After reading Janice Mirikitani's poem "Loving from Vietnam to Zimbabwe" there is a profound amount of imagery used by Mirikitani that explains a reality of sex, love, and war. Mirikitani uses an interesting and unique format in the way she has written her poem. The "I" that Mirikitani uses is ... Read More

An Analysis of Seamus Heaney’s Poem Digging (1572 words, 4 pages)

Digging A poem by Seamus Heaney In this poem 'Digging' by Seamus Heaney, there is an element of ambiguity. The author writes this poem about a Father 'digging potatoes' - this however, is only on the surface. Underlying the true intention or meaning of the poem reveals the great admiration ... Read More

An Analysis of Robert Frost’s Poem After Apple-Picking (657 words, 1 pages)

Set in the evening of a late autumn day at the end of harvest time, Robert Frosts "After Apple-Picking" can be interpreted in two ways. The first is that the poem is an insight into Frosts thoughts on the triviality of life, especially his own. The second is that it ... Read More

An Analysis of Imagery in Walt Whitman’s Poems A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim, and I Heard a Learned Astronomer (1335 words, 3 pages)

Walt Whitmans poem A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim, sets the picture of a solider camp near a battlefield. (This was probably around the time when he served as a volunteer nurse and comforter in the army.) In line two Whitman wakes up early due to ... Read More

The Common Theme of the Vietnam War in Yusef Komunyakaa’s Poems (630 words, 1 pages)

The common theme in Yusef Komunyakaas poems is the Vietnam War. He focuses more on the experience of it, rather than the reasons for the war itself. In some of the poems, the issue of race was more evident than others. The race of all men was embraced in Camouflaging ... Read More

A Review of the Popular Anglo-Saxon Poem, Beowulf (1439 words, 2 pages)

Beowulf is a well-known Anglo-Saxon poem that has been in English classes around the United States for almost as long as there have been schools around. Beowulf is not an actual picture of historic Denmark, Geatland, or Sweden around 500 A.D., yet it is on a general view, a self-consistent ... Read More

The Effects and Emotions of War as Portrayed in the Poem “Grass” (929 words, 1 pages)

There is no single event that evokes more emotion than a war. It has the power to bring together a nation or tear at its very fabric. It has the power to give a nation its standing, as easily as it can take it away. It has the power to ... Read More

War Poetry: A Comparison of John McCrae’s and Sigfried Sassoon’s Poems (1065 words, 2 pages)

During a war people do not understand the pain, sacrifice, and hardship that the soldiers endure. Many are just interested with the outcome. Many questions asked are, Are we winning? as if it is a game they are watching. Propaganda is used to lure boys into the army and comfort ... Read More

An Analysis of The Road Not Taken, a Poem by Robert Frost (714 words, 1 pages)

All people are travelers, all choosing their paths on a map of their life. The great thing about man for Frost is that he has the power of standing still where he is. There is never a straight road there are always curves and turns in which one must encounter ... Read More

The Question of Decisions in the Poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost (576 words, 3 pages)

The Road Not TakenRobert FrostAn Analytical EssayBy Sue StuckerThe Road Not TakenBy Robert FrostTwo roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth ... Read More

An Overview of the Poem I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain by Emily Dickinson (690 words, 2 pages)

Emily Dickinsons poem entitled I felt a Funeral, in my Brain is directed towards a death in the speakers life. This death could have been a romantic love that had left him or her behind. It seems that they go through a type of struggle that is sort of bound ... Read More

An Analysis of the Lost Baby Poem by Lucille Clifton (2294 words, 3 pages)

The Lost Baby PoemIn Lucille Cliftons, The Lost Baby Poem, the poet displays a young mother who is full of regret and guilt for her child in which she had lost to death. There are many technical devices that express the poets intentions and how it all fits together within ... Read More

A Short Analysis of a Poem The Kubla Khan: or a Vision in a Dream by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (234 words, 1 pages)

The Kubla Khan or A Vision in a Dream By Samuel Taylor Coleridge.When the author dreamed about the content of this poem, he was in a lonely farm house, because he was sick. The doctor prescribed a drug that made him drowsy and fall into a profound sleep for a ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem The Iliad by Homer on the Subject of Trojan War (720 words, 2 pages)

He Wore Honor on His SleeveThe poem The Iliad written by Homer is the story of the tenth year of the Trojan War. It depicts the nobility and honor given to a slayer in warfare and the humanity that warriors show to the slain. It also illustrates the Greek code ... Read More

An Analysis of the Car Pollution Problem and an Overview of the Car Pollution Poem by Matthew and Simon (2410 words, 6 pages)

How long can the environment endure the gradual deterioration that is increasingly instigated through car pollution? There is a tremendous environmental impact on our society that impacts us in the most unpredicted ways, and Im going to share some suitable alternatives with you. Todays technology has presented several alternatives that ... Read More

An Overview of the Heroes in the Epic Poem The Iliad by Homer (1984 words, 3 pages)

In the epic poem, The Iliad, Homer describes a social occasion in which character's values, the values of that character's culture and the themes those values develop can be derived. The funeral games, held by Achilles in honor of his late friend Patroclus, is a perfect example of such an ... Read More

The Depiction of Love and a Woman in George Byron’s Poem “She Walks in Beauty” (1015 words, 2 pages)

"She Walks in Beauty"George Gordon Noel Byron's poem titled, "She Walks in Beauty," plainly put, is a love poem about a beautiful woman and all of her features. The poem follows a basic iambic tetrameter with an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable that allows for a rhythm to ... Read More

Choices Made in Robert Frost’s Poem The Road Not Taken (1035 words, 2 pages)

Choices made in The Road Not TakenEveryone is a traveler, choosing the roads to follow on the map of their continuous life. A straight path never leaves speaker with one sole direction on which to travel. Robert Frosts poem "The Road Not Taken" is about how the choices affect speakers ... Read More

An Analysis of Robert Frost’s Poem Mending Wall (1051 words, 2 pages)

During the twentieth century there were poets who revolutionized poetry such as T. S. Elliot and Ernest Hemingway. Of all the American poets in the twentieth century, there was not a poet that was more popular or established then Robert Frost. Robert Frost was the most influential poet in the ... Read More

Various Interpretations of Robert Frost’s Poem The Road Not Taken (791 words, 4 pages)

Everyone is a traveler, choosing the roads to follow on the map of their continuous journey, life. There is never a straight path that leaves one with but a sole direction in which to head. Regardless of the original message that Robert Frost had intended to convey, his poem, "The ... Read More

The Characterization of of the Speaker in Robert Frost’s Poem Two Tramp in Mud Time (1743 words, 2 pages)

The Characterization of the Speaker in Two Tramps in Mud Time.The speaker of Robert Frosts poem "Two Tramps in Mud Time" can be characterized as a passionate, wary, suspicious, insecure and rational and logical person who is intolerant of interference in his work. There is evidence present in the text ... Read More

A Review of Longfellow’s Poem “The Occultation of Orion” (739 words, 2 pages)

Orion "Down fell the red skin of the lionInto the river at his feet.His mighty club no longer beatThe forehead of the bull but heReeled as of yore beside the sea,When blinded by OenopionHe sought the blacksmith at his forge,And climbing up the narrow gorge,Fixed his blank eyes upon the ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Poem the Hollow Men by Eliot (1438 words, 2 pages)

Eliot starts his poem "The Hollow Men" with a quote from Joseph Conrads novel the Heart of Darkness. The line "Mistah Kurtz-he dead" refers to a Mr. Kurtz who was a European trader who had gone in the "the heart of darkness" by traveling into the central African jungle, with ... Read More

An Analysis of the Symbols’s Meaning in the Poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1484 words, 3 pages)

In this essay, I will be examining some of the symbols in Samuel Taylor Coleridges poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Symbols were very important in this poem. Without the symbols, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" would be simply a poem about an old mariner who is telling ... Read More

Analysis of Themes and Symbols in the Poems Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (686 words, 1 pages)

In "Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey", Wordsworth uses imagination to help him and others to live in the physical world peacefully. He recalls playing in Tintern Abbey, a forest nearby there and played in it when he was young. Now he comes back for different reasons. He ... Read More

Nature and the Human Soul The Shackles of Freedom Langston Hughes and Kate Chopin use nature in several dimensions to demonstrate the powerful struggles and burdens of human life. Throughout Kate Chopins The Awakening and several of Langston Hughes poems, the sweeping imagery of the beauty and power of nature ... Read More

An Analysis of the Topic of the Hardy’s Poems (339 words, 3 pages)

ESPECIALLY ... ... of Hardy's Poems as Seen through the characters" is a study concerning Hardy's capabilityof presenting irony of situation in his poetry. The analysis deals ... www.petra.ac.idenglishpetrastudentareafinalpaperletters sas-7-94.htm - 64k - Cached - Similar pagesPoetry term papers and more term papers - examples - 165- ... ... 5 ... Read More

A Review of the Poems Howl and Kaddish by Allen Ginsberg (2416 words, 3 pages)

As you read the first lines of "Howl" and "Kaddish", the overall tone of the poem hits you right in the face. Allen Ginsberg, the poet, presents these two poems as complaints and injustices. He justifies these complaints in the pages that follow. Ginsberg also uses several literary techniques in ... Read More

A Comparison of the Epic Poem The Song of Roland and the Literature of Ywain (2756 words, 4 pages)

When comparing the epic poem of The Song of Roland to the romantic literature of Ywain, the differences between the early medieval period and the high medieval period become evident. Both The Song of Roland and Ywain depicts the societies from which each story derives its fundamental characteristics. Through close ... Read More

A Plot Summary of Robert Herrick’s Poem “To the Virgins” (1280 words, 2 pages)

It is a blessing to those who live today that over the years men and women have written poetry. In some poetry have been words reminding those who read it of the wonderful world in which they breathe and the necessity to live life. One of the writers of such ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013