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A Comparison of Christina Rossetti’s Poem a Birthday and Kate Chopin’s the Story of an Hour (1643 words, 3 pages)

Attitudes Towards Love in A Birthday and Story of an HourAttitudes Towards Love in "A Birthday and "The Story of an Hour"Christina Rossettis poem "A Birthday" and Kate Chopins short story "The Story of an Hour" present conflicting attitudes toward love. In particular the speaker in Rossettis poem is anticipating ... Read More

An Analysis of Three Different Poems by Sylvia Plath (3541 words, 6 pages)

Anayltical Essay on Three Poems by Sylvia PlathThis paper examines three poems by the American writer Sylvia Plath.IIntroductionSylvia Plath (1932-1963) is a completely original voice in American poetry. It is impossible to compare her to anyone she is unique. This paper explores three of her poems and tries to find ... Read More

A Comparative Analysis of Three Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1020 words, 2 pages)

Analysis of Three Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson Analysis of Three Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson Alfred Lord Tennyson, a Victorian poet, used characters from history and mythology for his poetry. Much of his poetry touches upon the subject of death and loneliness. For example, the Lady of Shallot dies ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem Madam and her Madam by Langston Hughes (367 words, 1 pages)

Analysis of Madam and her MadamAnalysis of "Madam and her Madam"The poem is setup in four line stanzas. Lines two and four of each stanza rhyme. In the first stanza Hughes uses a ironic tone. He establishes that the dislike is for work and not the person the work is ... Read More

An Analysis of Famous Poems Relating to Ethan Frome (528 words, 1 pages)

Analysis of Famous Poems Relating to Ethan Frome Analysis of Famous Poems Relating to Ethan FromePoems relate to many people in society. Two poems that relate to a character in a novel are Desert Places by Robert Frost and Mirage by Christina Rossetti they relate to the main character, Ethan ... Read More

The Use of Themes in Margaret Atwood’s Poem “This is a Photograph of Me” (640 words, 1 pages)

In poetry it is important for meanings and themes to be conveyed to us in a unique and interesting manner. Margaret Atwood uses many literary devices so the reader can really feel her poems and come to a greater understanding through her wonderful narrative voices. In the poem, This is ... Read More

A Description of Three Seduction Poems (2171 words, 3 pages)

During the 17th century, certain poets wrote poems with the specific purpose of persuading a woman to have sexual intercourse with them. Three of these seduction poems utilize several strategies to do this Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress," and Donne's "A Valediction Forbidden Mourning" and "The Flea." Some of ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem, Ethics by Linda Pastan (810 words, 1 pages)

In Linda Pastan's poem "Ethics," the speaker recounts a moral dilemma that her teacher would ask every fall, which has been haunting her for a long time. The question was "if there were a fire in a museum which would you save, a Rembrandt painting or an old woman who ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem, If by Alan Ware (632 words, 2 pages)

If By Alan Ware An Explication of the poem "If" written by Alan Ware Tuesday,November 2, 1999 English II (H) If If you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you If you can trust yourself when all mendoubt you, But make allowance ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem Hollow Men by T. S. Elliot (394 words, 1 pages)

Hollow Men By Eliot In T.S. Eliot's poem The Hollow Men, T.S. Eliot contrasts his straw-filledhollow men with the "lost violent souls" of Mr. Kurtz and Guy Fawkes.Mr. Kurtz is a character in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. T.S. Eliot issaying that it is better to have met death and ... Read More

A Comparison of Poems Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening and Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost (923 words, 3 pages)

Frost Poems Comparison Robert Frost's poems "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" and"Acquainted with the Night" seem to be ordinary poems at first glance, butafter an in depth look at these works and how they relate, they become muchmore. Frost seemed to keep a tone of mystery throughout each ... Read More

A Comparison of the Poems Breakings, Black Walnuts and My Papa’s Waltz (1323 words, 4 pages)

Father Poems In examining the four father poems, I chose to talk about"Breakings", "Black Walnuts", and "My Papa'sWaltz". In each of the three poems the speaker reminisces about memories hehas with his father that take place when the speaker was young. The three textsdiscuss the father's importance in the son's ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem, Ballad of Birmingham by Dudley Randall (957 words, 2 pages)

Explication Ballad Of BirminghamExplication Ballad of BirminghamIn 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 ... Read More

An Explication of William Blake’s Poem London (1536 words, 3 pages)

Explication Of William Blakes Poem LondonExplication of William Blakes LondonWilliam Blakes poem London takes a complex look at life in London, England during the late seventeen hundreds into the early eighteen hundreds as he lived and experienced it. Blakes use of ambiguous and double meaning words makes this poem both ... Read More

An Examination of the Poem 465 by Emily Dickinson (976 words, 3 pages)

Emily Dickinsons 465 Emily Dickinson in her poem 465, covers the subject of death in a way that Ihave not seen before. She delves right into the last sounds she heard when thenarrator died, which was a fly buzzing. The last actions of this world areconcluded by the assigning of ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of The Raven, a Poem by Edgar Allan Poe (683 words, 2 pages)

Edgar Allan Poe Literary AnalysisLiterary Analysis of The RavenbyPaul Heimel The life of Edgar Allan Poe was as morbid and melancholy as his works. After the abandonment by his father and the disturbing death of his mother, both prominent traveling actors, Edgar was reluctantly forced into orphanage. He was later ... Read More

The Theme of Divinity in It’s a Beauteous Evening Calm and Free, a Poem by William Wordsworth (656 words, 1 pages)

Divinity In It's A Beauteous Evening Calm And FreeDivinity in It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and FreeDuring the late 17th and early 18th centuries the style of poetry changed drastically. Poets shifted their focus away from the audience and concentrated on the internal self. This created the expressive, lyric ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poems Desert Places and Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening (1455 words, 3 pages)

Desert Places And Stopping By Woods On A Snowy EveningLIT 115Poetry AssignmentDesert Places end of essay for referenceRobert Frost takes our imaginations to a journey through wintertime with his two poems Desert Places and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. Frost comes from a New England background and these ... Read More

An Essay on the Poem London by William Blake (1196 words, 2 pages)

Critical Appreciation Of William Blakes London22nd September 2000A Critical appreciation of William Blakes London.William Blake who lived in the latter half of the eighteenth century and the early part of the nineteenth century was a poet, a philosopher, a radical, an artist, and a great thinker who was able to ... Read More

An Analysis of Suicide Note, a Poem by Janice Mirikitani (655 words, 1 pages)

Contemplation The poem, "Suicide Note," by Janice Mirikitani, depicts an Asian-American female college student who committed suicide by jumping out of her dormitory window. Her last words, thoughts, and feelings were left behind in a suicide note, describing why this had to happen. This was a tragic accident that should ... Read More

A Comparison of Hero and Government in Beowulf, an Epic Poem and Oedipus Rex, a Play by Sophocles (508 words, 1 pages)

Comparison of Hero and Government in Beowulf and Oedipus Rex Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon folk epic written by an unknown author. It was written sometime during the eighth century. Oedipus Rex is an Ancient Greek tragedy written by the playwright Sophocles sometime around 430 BC. Although the two works were ... Read More

An Analysis of the Confusion of an Individual in Philip Larkin’s Poem Church Going (390 words, 2 pages)

"Church Going" In Philip Larkin's poem, "Church Going," Mr. Larkin depicts the confusion of an individual, the persona, who is compelled to enter the churches he sees on his bicycle rides. His problem is, that every time he comes away feeling as if he has wasted his time. Larkin uses ... Read More

The Treatment of Children in the Poem “Cry of the Children” (763 words, 1 pages)

Childhood And Treatment Of ChildrenChildhood and the Treatment of ChildrenChildren all over the world are treated differently at different times, during different centuries. Some children are raised by both of their parents in a good environment, with good conditions, and with a good education. Those kids are well taken care ... Read More

An Analysis of Carol Anne Duffy’s Poem “Adultery” (2204 words, 6 pages)

Carol Anne Duffy's AdulteryFORM AND STRUCTURECarol Anne Duffys poem Adultery is structured in a traditional andstraightforward way. It is comprised of eleven verses - each with the common fourlines, which consist of between four and nine words. This makes the poem notparticularly striking at the first look, before it is ... Read More

A Comparison Between Bryant Versus Dickinson in the Poem Because I Could Not Stop for Death and Thanatopsis (1384 words, 5 pages)

Bryant Vs DickinsonEmily Dickinson presents death in the poem Because I Could Not Stop for Death through the use of personification and the use of extended metaphor. William Cullen Bryant presents death through the use of the analogies in the poem Thanatopsis. Although each poet presents death differently, the meanings ... Read More

An Analysis of Beowulf”s Heroic Ideals in Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem (532 words, 1 pages)

Beowulf Is HeroicBeowulf Embodies Heroic Idealscritical (question1, p6In Beowulf the classic epic, Beowulf, the hero of the epic, and other major characters reflect heroic ideals and beliefs of courage, generosity, unquestioning loyalty and devotion. Courage is most evident throughout Beowulf Beowulf does not back down from any challenge that stands ... Read More

Analyzing Beowulf Ideals in the Epic Poem “Beowulf” (376 words, 1 pages)

Beowulf Ideals Ideals are standards of perfection or excellence. For the Anglo-Saxons of theDark Ages these ideals were loyalty, valor, unselfishness, and a sense ofjustice. Through Beowulf's journey we can see how he exhibits these ideals.The first of these ideals is loyalty, which Beowulf shows when he obeys hispeople's request ... Read More

An Analysis of Women Playing the Role of Peace-Keeper in the Poem Beowulf (678 words, 2 pages)

Beowulf And Women In the poem Beowulf the women play the role of peace-keepers at any cost. Amongthese women I will look closely at Wealhtheow, Grendel's mother and Hygd.Through all the women in Beowulf one can see a female perspective of honor,loyalty and social welfare. Wealhtheow is the picturesque queen. ... Read More

An Analysis of Christianity Versus Paganism in the Poem Beowulf in England (1158 words, 2 pages)

Beowulf - Christianity Vs. PaganismBeowulf-Christianity or PaganismBeowulf was written in England sometime in the 8th century. This provides us with an idea that the poem that was written during a time when the society was in the process of converted from paganism to Christianity. The Christian influences were combined with ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem Behold de Rib by James Weldon Johnson (3531 words, 5 pages)

Awakening EyesAwakening EyesWith few exceptions, our male dominated society has traditionally feared, repressed, and stymied the growth of women. As exemplified in history, man has always enjoyed a superior position. According to Genesis in the Old Testament, the fact that man was created first has led to the perception that ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013