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Literary Analysis of the Poem Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson (976 words, 2 pages)

Throughout the history of human kind, there have existed a significant number of poets, who did not care to write about happy things. Rather, they concerned themselves with unpleasant and sinister concepts, such as death. Fascination and personification of death has become a common theme in poetry, but very few ... Read More

An Analysis of Satan’s Commentary in John Milton’s Epic Poem Paradise Lost (1459 words, 3 pages)

We shall be free we may reign secure, and in my choyce To reign is worth ambition though in Hell" (Book I, 257-61). He also tells them that they "Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n" (Book I, 255). This inspiring speech is directed by Satan to ... Read More

A Comparison of Two Feminist Poems: The River-Merchant’s Wife vs. To Elsie (1676 words, 2 pages)

Analysis is going to be on the two poems The River-Merchant's Wife by Pound and To Elsie by Williams Carlos. Williams defined a new idea of what feminist poetry could be. Pound as a poet adopts another persona, that of a young woman in the poem the river-merchants wife. On ... Read More

An Understanding of a Sonnet and Analysis of the Poem 116 (338 words, 1 pages)

A sonnet is a poem that has fourteen lines. One of the major types of sonnets in the history of poetry is the series of sonnets that were written by William Shakespeare. These sonnets have distinct features that distinguish them from other sonnets. One of the major characteristics of these ... Read More

An Analysis of Poetic Irony and Tones in Different Poems by Various Poets (418 words, 1 pages)

The understanding of a poets life affects how he handles most of his or her works. Through reading the life history of a poet, an individual is in a better position in understanding what a poet would mainly be talking about in his or her poems. For example, in Annabel ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem Because I Could not Stop Death by Emily Dickinson (2080 words, 3 pages)

Death is the end to ones life it is tragic, terrifying but in the end, it is inevitable. Everyone fears death some do not speak about it and others do not fear that it will come. Emily Dicksons poem Because I Could Not Stop Death and Andre Dubus short story, ... Read More

An Analysis and Introduction to the Artists in the Society and the Two Poems The Griesly Wife and Spring and Fall (1441 words, 2 pages)

IntroductionArtists derive their work of art from the society in which they live. They are members of these societies, and they get their inspiration from the society. However, various artists express their works differently, and they choose the forms to give their works. Therefore, works of literatures come in different ... Read More

Describing My Life from Fleur Adcock’s Literary Creation in the Poem “Weathering” (905 words, 2 pages)

If I had not been acquainted with Fleur Adcocks literary creation, I bet my life would not have been full-fledged. I acknowledge her poem Weathering as a stepping stone to my blissfully created love life, because I once realized that all that glitters is not gold. In my late teens, ... Read More

An Analysis of the Representation of the Theme of Race and Ethnicity in the Short Story “The Welcome Table” and the Poem Child of the Americans by Morales (556 words, 1 pages)

Morales (1986) and Walker (1970) represent the theme of race and ethnicity in the short story The Welcome Table and the poem Child of the Americans by Morales. The themes often contradict as practiced by different communities. How does ethnicity and race represent a category of social inequality and injustices ... Read More

A Description of Imagery about the Structure of the Poem (310 words, 1 pages)

The structure of the poem is mainly incorporated in the crucial context of Keatss imagery, even though the poet did not evidently label it as such. Imagery in the poem is related to all our bodily feelings such as vision, taste, touch, smell and hearing. The author combines different senses ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Ten Poems to Last a Lifetime (595 words, 1 pages)

Roger Housden (2004), in his book Ten Poems to Last a Lifetime, lists and comments on the poems that created such impacts on his life that they remain indelibly etched in his soul. The first surprise is that, contrary to the title, eleven books are listed instead of ten. The ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem Road Not Taken (1071 words, 2 pages)

The poem Road Not Taken is about the life of human beings. It talks about critical choices that we make and the impacts that they have in our lives. As human beings, there are times when we have to make very tough choices.The Road Not Taken is a title that ... Read More

A Difference Between Poems and Verses (360 words, 1 pages)

Personally, I feel that there is a difference between a poem and a verse. An illustration is that a verse comes in a much simpler way as opposed to the complex nature that a poem entails. Verses are characterized, by their, as lack of prose with or without any poetic ... Read More

An Analysis of Daddy, a Poem by Sylvia Plath (854 words, 1 pages)

Daddy is a poem written by an American poet called Sylvia Plath in 1962. Nevertheless, the poem was published posthumously in 1965. So powerful is the style and form of Daddy that it has called for critical review by different critics. The poem is about a young woman subjected to ... Read More

An Analysis of The Rock, a Poem by T.S. Eliot (413 words, 1 pages)

Analysis of T.S. Elliots The RockWe were asked to analyze T.S. Elliots poem The Rock based upon these three questions1.Where is the Life we have lost in living? 2.Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? 3.Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?Very few of Elliots poems ... Read More

An Analysis of the Conflict of Agamemnon and Achilles in the Iliad, an Epic Poem by Homer (1073 words, 2 pages)

Agamemnon vs. Achilles During the ancient Greek period the people believed that the gods lived on Mt. Olympus and could do whatever they wanted to. The leader of the gods was Zeus he was the most powerful god. The gods had the power to intervene with the mortal lives if ... Read More

An Analysis of the Futility of War in the Iliad, an Epic Poem by Homer (544 words, 1 pages)

Whether war is our only option to resolving problems in the world or not, there are many reasons why war is equally futile and heroic. All through history, men have been making amends and settling issues through acts of war. This is especially shown true in a book titled The ... Read More

An Analysis of Man vs. All in the Poem Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy (539 words, 1 pages)

Man Vs. AllIn society today, a child is born every five minutes. From that time on, the parents breing their children up with cretin values such as respect. Other values will be learned when the child grows older. Unfortunately, Society puts a big importance on beauty and that can create ... Read More

An Analysis of Array Vocabulary and Diction in the Poem Ode to Autumn by John Keats (507 words, 1 pages)

J. Keats utilizes a vast array of vocabulary and diction in Ode to autumn. Yet with these layers upon layers of vocabulary comes a disintegration of the rawest form of human being Emotion. Sometimes, the best form of emotion is a heartfelt prose without metaphors or imagery. It is a ... Read More

An Analysis of Legal Alien, a Poem by Pat Mora (454 words, 1 pages)

Legal AlienThe poem Legal Alien by Pat Mora is in the open poem form, it has no stanzas. It does have a few words that rhyme which are English (5) and Spanish (6) and also with Mexicans (14) and then with Americans (15). The poem also has rhythm, it is ... Read More

An Examination of the Poem, Girl by Jamaica Kincaid (1073 words, 2 pages)

Jamaica Kincaid- Girl The poem Girl by author Jamaica Kincaid shows love and family togetherness by creating microcosmic images of the way mothers raise their children in order to survive. Upon closer examination, the reader sees that the text is a string of images in Westerner Caribbean family practices. Jamaica ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem, Ethics by Linda Pastan (716 words, 1 pages)

The speaker in Linda Pastans poem Ethics addresses and investigates the moral dilemma that the teacher would present to the students every fall, focusing on the inability of the young to make well-informed decisions. The speaker remembers the question that has been bothering her for years if there were a ... Read More

The Immigrant Experience in the Poem, Crossing the Red Sea by Peter Skrzynecki (1110 words, 2 pages)

Peter SkrzyneckiCrossing the Red SeaThis poem captures the immigrant experience between the two worlds, leaving the homeland and towards the new world. The poet has deliberately structured the poem in five sections each with a number of stanzas to divide the different stages of the physical voyage. Section one describes ... Read More

An Analysis of the Iliad or the Poem of Force by Simone Weil (540 words, 1 pages)

Natures ForceSimone Weil, a French writer, explores the depth and motive of why and how we do the things we do. In this critical review, Weil elucidates the role of force in the Iliad. It is exceptionally difficult to put into words the meaning that Weil gives force. When she ... Read More

Comparing and Contrasting the Poems “First Love John Clare” and “Sex Without Love” (1042 words, 1 pages)

First Love John Clare and Sex Without Love , two poems written at different times, with connected themes but at the same time very different. First Love is a Lyrical poem written in the 18th century by John Clare and Sex Without Love is a more contemporary poem which was ... Read More

An Introduction to the Analysis of Quantom Chaos and Poems (326 words, 1 pages)

Cara Benson, Quantom Chaos Poems A Manifest(o)ation, BookThug, 2007, ISBN978-1-897388-14-3The first thing that jumps at you is the cover. On it a braiding of some sort is systematically unraveled until it is 4 strands of the same piece of, lets say, leather. That is what the reader is to do ... Read More

An Analysis of the Chinese Poem About Hopelessness for Soldiers in the War (1458 words, 2 pages)

In this poem, the poet describes a contemporary war which was more intense than those in the old days and the hopelessness for soldiers to come back from the war. When the speaker got the news that his friend, who saw service in that war, was coming back, he was ... Read More

A Poem for Jennifer Marla Tawana and Me by Sapphire (991 words, 1 pages)

A Poem for jennifer, marla, tawana, and me written by Sapphire, shows how she believes society judges and scrutinizes the lives of women who claim to be victimized by men. These women are made to relive the horrible ordeal over and over in order to convince the public that they ... Read More

An Analysis of Barbie Doll, a Poem by Marge Piercy (1388 words, 2 pages)

Short CompositionAnalysis of the poem Barbie Doll written by Marge Piercy (1973).This girlchild was born as usualAnd presented dolls that did pee-peeAnd miniature GE stoves and ironsAnd wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy.Then in the magic of puberty, a classmate saidYou have a great big nose and fat legs.She ... Read More

Unrestrained Thoughts in A Hot Noon in Malabar, a Poem by Kamala Das (889 words, 1 pages)

A Hot Noon In Malabar By Kamala Das (Evaluated By Ashique Siyad)Kamala Suraiya or better known as Kamala Das is a well known female Indian writer writing in English as well as Malayalam, her mother tongue.She is considered one of the outstanding Indian poets writing in English, although her popularity ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013