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The Oppression of Women in Sylvia Plath’s Poem Daddy (705 words, 1 pages)

In the poem "Daddy", Sylvia Plath says that there are women who, due to early conditioning, find themselves without the tools to deal with oppressive and controlling men. They are left feeling helpless and hopeless. For some women, the struggle is never resolved, others take most of a lifetime. For ... Read More

A Discussion About Bruce Dawe’s Poems (700 words, 2 pages)

Discuss 2 of Dawe's poems which illustrates his belief that ordinary things in life are a good subject for poetry. Bruce Dawe poems illustrate his version of "ordinary". The poems I have studied of his work have been about life and how people deal with everyday living. Such poems as ... Read More

Lord Byron’s Inspiration in the Epic Poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1576 words, 2 pages)

He wrote the poem, you see the sightsThere are two images of the Rhineland embedded into the popular consciousness. The first is of a fairytale land filled with gothic castles, fine wines, angry dragons, benign Teutonic maidens and lush green pastures. The second is of a popular destination for coachloads ... Read More

Langston Hughes’s Idea of A “Dream Deferred” and the Place It Takes in His Poems (1736 words, 2 pages)

The poetry of Langston Hughes, the poet laureate of Harlem, is an effective commentary on the condition of blacks in America during the 20th Century. Hughes places particular emphasis on Harlem, a black area in New York that became a destination of many hopeful blacks in the first half of ... Read More

A Report on Wordsworth’s Lucy Poems (2125 words, 4 pages)

'On Wordsworth's Lucy'Tadeush NovakI must begin this short essay by outlining the main points of the debate about the "Lucy Poems." Wordsworth composed three of them late in 1798 and published them one after the other, each of them untitled, in the 1800, 1802, and 1805 Lyrical Ballads these were ... Read More

An Analysis of the Character of the Duke of Ferrara in the Poem, My Last Duchess by Robert Browning (484 words, 1 pages)

In Robert Browing s monologue My Last Duchess , the Duke of Ferrara is displaying the portrait of his late duchess to a servant. From the first two lines of the poem, we are given information that the duchess has passed away, Looking as if she were alive, therefor the ... Read More

A Look at the Theme of Searching For Beauty in Edgar Allan Poe’s Poems and Short Stories (1844 words, 3 pages)

Searching For BeautyEdgar Allan Poe is a man constantly searching for beauty to depart from the mental and moral ugliness in his life. This reflects in his the poetry and short stories. Poe sees evil as a major threat to himself and to man due to the fact that he ... Read More

Analysis of the Concept of Religion and Reality in Sunday Morning, Poem by American Modernist Poet Wallace Stevens (1767 words, 4 pages)

In Wallace Steven's poem, "Sunday Morning" the idea of religion as it relates to reality is explored through the mind of the older lady. It is not through the older lady's religious voice, but the voice of Atheism, in her mind, that the poem is narrated. The poem is a ... Read More

Critical Analysis of the Assisi, a Poem by Scottish Poet and Teacher Norman McCaig (1289 words, 3 pages)

AssisiCritical Evaluation-Assisi A poem that I have been studying recently is Assisi by Norman McCaig, which I found very interesting to read because it made a statement which relates to our world today even though the poem was wrote about thirty or forty years ago. The poem has lots of ... Read More

Analysis of Beowulf, an Old English Epic Poem (563 words, 2 pages)

BeowulfIn reading the epic Beowulf, one finds the changing ideals of the pagan belief andthe Christian belief of good triumphing over evil. At the time when Beowulf was written,stories were told in narrative poems through oral tradition. By oral tradition it was retoldto audiences throughout the years and finally written ... Read More

The Huge Misunderstanding of The Road Not Taken, Poem by American Poet Robert Frost (901 words, 2 pages)

The Real Road Not Taken If a person claims that Robert Frost s poem The Road Not Taken is a tremendous inspiration to them, they probably do not understand the poem as well as they think they do. The Road Not Taken could be one of the most misunderstood poems ... Read More

An Overview of the Poem Howl by Allen Ginsberg and the Concepts of Treatments for the Mentally Ill People in 20th Century (2925 words, 7 pages)

The Foetid Halls " wards of the madtowns of the East, Pilgrim State's, Rockland's and Greystones foetid halls" -Allen Ginsberg, "Howl" From the 1930's to the 1960's, early attempts to combine the psychiatric goals of restoring mental health with new advances in medical science would produce tragic results for many ... Read More

Interpretations of Once by the Pacific, a Poem by American Poet Robert Frost (606 words, 1 pages)

Interpretations of "Once by the Pacific"It is odd how even recent history can be an obscure and tangled mess of biased opinions and here-say. Yet the future can be vaguely foretold in a dark and simple poem. Robert Lee Frost was no doubt a magnificent poet. As the saying goes, ... Read More

An In-Depth Analysis of A Road Not Taken, a Poem by American Poet Robert Frost (836 words, 2 pages)

Robert Frost A Different OutlookThis has got to be among the best-known, most-often-misunderstood poems on the planet. It seems as if "The Road Not Taken" gets memorized without really being read. This is a type of poem that needs to be read with accuracy, not imagination. If you read the ... Read More

Analysis of A High-Toned old Christian Woman, a Poem by American modernist Poet Wallace Stevens (562 words, 1 pages)

Wallace Stevens and ReligionThis essay offers an explication of Wallace Stevens' poem "A High-Toned Old Christian Woman."Addressing A High-Toned Old Christian Woman, the speaker proposes poetry as the supreme fiction (line 1) rather than God or religion. Stevens considered religion as fictions, imaginative creations that made it possible for people ... Read More

An Overview of The Burning of the Leaves Poem by Robert Laurence Binyon (280 words, 2 pages)

The Burning of the Leaves1. The mist is described as weeping because it contains a dew like substance which is moist.2. The bonfire is a smouldering ruin in the way in which the leaves are burnt by a flame with remains of a glowing ash.3. The author calls the hollyhock ... Read More

An Analysis of Grendel’s Sorrow in Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem Beowulf (954 words, 2 pages)

Once upon a time many years ago there lived a monster in a cave. He was a hideous beast with green fur and yellow teeth. The townspeople feared him and would never approach his cave, he in turn would never venture out to the town for he new he was ... Read More

An Interpretation of The Forsaken, a Poem by Duncan Campbell (712 words, 2 pages)

Natalia StriginGK-LiteratureTask Interpretation of a poemDuncan Campbell Scott s poem The Forsaken deals with two stages in the life of a Chippewa women. The first part contains an episode when she is a young mother fighting her way through the wilderness of the north-land with her sick baby during a ... Read More

An Analysis of the Theme of War in Australian Poems (963 words, 2 pages)

Poetry AssignmentWar PoetryA popular theme for poets in the last century was war. Many famous poems were written about the two world wars, as well as the Korean and Vietnam wars. For my report I have chosen six poems, three by Wilfred Owen and three by Australian poets. Anthem for ... Read More

An Analysis of Beowulf, an Anglo Saxon Heroic Epic Poem (805 words, 2 pages)

Beowulf, the HeroThe epic poem Beowulf, which was told from generation to generation honoring modern Anglo-Saxon beliefs, describes a heroic man who saves a village in their time of need. By definition a hero is a man of exceptional quality. Exceptional quality doesnt even begin to describe the man that ... Read More

An Analysis of Naming of Parts, an Ambiguous Poem by Henry Reed (996 words, 2 pages)

Quinn English Naming of PartsHenry Reed s poem Naming of Parts is the definition of ambiguity. His work must be looked overcarefully and interpreted every which way before the reader can start to see all of the different possible meanings this poem may contain. The speakers are not the only ... Read More

An Introduction to the Analysis of a Poem about Trees (373 words, 3 pages)

TreesI think that I shall never seeA poem lovely as a tree.A tree whose hungry mouth is prestAgainst the earth's sweet flowing breastA tree that looks at God all day,And lifts her leafy arms to prayA tree that may in Summer wearA nest of robins in her hairUpon whose bosom ... Read More

A Commentary on Juggler, a Poem by Richard Wilbur (1748 words, 4 pages)

JugglerPoetry commentaryThis Poem is written by Richard Wilbur and it's tittle is "Juggler" as we can see. The subject of this poem is not very straight forward it has a deeper meaning which the reader has to search for and has to understand. The poem is basically talking about a ... Read More

An Overview of the Dreams Deferred, a Poem by Langston Hughes (834 words, 2 pages)

Dreams DeferredThe poem, A Dream Deferred, by Langston Hughes, accurately and descriptively portrays the attitudes of African American people during the mid 1900 s. Hughes expresses the possible responses of African Americans to their dreams being deferred by means of metaphors and similes. The first thing the reader needs to ... Read More

An Overview of the Sadness and Depression in the Poem The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy (841 words, 2 pages)

The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy is a poem written in December of the year 1900. This coincides with the themes of the poem itself, being a sadness and depression because it is the end of not only year, but also a century. However the poem is not all-negative, there ... Read More

An Overview of the Epic Poem About Troy in the Late Eighth or Early Seventh Century Before Christ, The Iliad by Homer (1787 words, 2 pages)

The Iliad is a poem divided into twenty-four books, about Troy, written in the late eighth or early seventh century B. C. by Homer. The saga is about the tenth year of a war between the Greeks and the Trojans, around 1200 B. C. , and takes place before the ... Read More

An Analysis of Beowulf, an Epic Anglo-Saxon Poem (1054 words, 2 pages)

The epic poem Beowulf describes the most heroic man of the Anglo-Saxon times. Beowulf is a hero in the eyes of his fellow men through his amazing physical strength. He is able to use his super-human physical strength and courage to put his people before himself. He encounters hideous monsters ... Read More

An Analysis of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, a Poem by T. S. Eliot (1593 words, 3 pages)

TS EliotThe love songIt is an examination of the pitiful outcast of a modern man--overeducated, well-spoken, irrational, and emotionally awkward. Prufrock, the poem's speaker, seems to be addressing a potential lover, with whom he would like to "force the moment to its crisis" by somehow fixing their relationship. But Prufrock ... Read More

An Overview of the Concept of the Faith in the Poems Bloody Men by Wendy Cope and Easter Wings by George Herbert (942 words, 2 pages)

Faith can be interpreted in various ways. One may rely on fate to help them succeed in life and to help them find true love. Yet one may have faith in God and let that faith bring them success in life. In the Poems Bloody Men by Wendy Cope and ... Read More

An Overview of the Poem Here Follow Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666 by Anne Bradstreet (409 words, 1 pages)

Anne Bradstreet wrote the poem Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666. Bradstreet was a Puritan who moved to America. She was the first person to publish poetry in the New World. The theme of this poem is that materials are worthless and the ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013