|
Poem Essays and Term Papers
Ceremonies In "The Waste Land"Ceremonies are prevalent throughout T.S. Eliot's poem "The Waste Land". Eliot relies on literary contrasts to illustrate the specific values of meaningful, effectual rituals of primitive society in contrast to the meaningless, broken, sham rituals of the modern day. These contrasts serve to ...
|  Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 1243 - Pages: 5 |
Dulce Est Decrum EstIn the poem, 'Dulce Et Decorum Est' by Wilfred Owen, the social climate of the World War I era is reflected through the poet's use of vivid imagery and poetic techniques. The poem itself presents an a blunt impression of the world through its linking of ideas and language in its text. The poem ...
| | Save Paper - Free Paper - Words: 1742 - Pages: 7 |
Kubla Khan -“Kubla Khan” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a poem about the creative powers of the poetic mind. Through the use of vivid imagery Coleridge reproduces a paradise-like vision of the landscape and kingdom created by Kubla Khan. The poem changes to the 1st person narrative and the ...
| | Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 1171 - Pages: 5 |
William Butler Yeatswas the major figure in the cultural revolution which developed from the strong nationalistic movement at the end of the 19th century. He dominated the writings of a generation. He established forms and themes which came to be considered as the norms for writers of his generation.
Yeats was ...
| | Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 2895 - Pages: 11 |
John Donne And The Psychology Of DeathThe seventeenth-century poet John Donne has gone down in the history of popular culture for three lines: “No man is an island,” “Ask not for whom the bell tolls -- it tolls for thee”, and the opening of a poem called “Death be not proud”. This last came from a collection of Donne’s poems which ...
| | Save Paper - Free Paper - Words: 1572 - Pages: 6 |
A Search For Identity in Un Trip through the Mind JailA Search for Identity
The childhood of a person will always be remembered, and will affect them as they grow older. The lifestyle we have as children determines whether we have a positive or negative impact as adults towards society. This is evident in the poem, “Un Trip through the Mind Jail.” ...
| | Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 1022 - Pages: 4 |
Literary ElementsThe Devil and Tom Walker
Tom Walker is a man who loves and cherishes money more so than his wife. One day, he ends up talking a walk in a swamp and starts a conversation with the Devil, who in the story is referred to as “Old Scratch.” The devil ends up striking a deal with Tom Walker. Old ...
| | Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 1433 - Pages: 6 |
Comparison Between John Keats and Charles Simic's PoemsComparison and contrast of two poetic exemplifications of aesthetic theories: John Keats' "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" and Charles Simic's "Stone"
In both of these poems, one written during the Romantic era of English letters, the other a modern expression of poetic and personal ...
| | Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 1781 - Pages: 7 |
Depiction of Courtly Love in Shakespeare, Marlowe, Donne, and JonsonThe Renaissance was an interesting time in literature because many of the writers of this time were experimenting with new techniques based upon medieval ideas. While writers of the Renaissance were concerned with conventional notions, they were also heavily influenced by Humanism. M. H. Abrams ...
| | Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 1567 - Pages: 6 |
Similarities And Variations In The Writings Of Dickinson And LawrenceAlthough Emily Elizabeth Dickinson and David Herbert Lawrence lived and
wrote during two different times, and in different parts of the world, their
poetry contains many similarities. At the time Dickinson was being laid to rest
in Massachusetts, Lawrence was born in Nottingham, England. Also, ...
| | Save Paper - Free Paper - Words: 833 - Pages: 4 |
Langston HughesNature and the Human Soul: The Shackles of Freedom and Kate Chopin use nature in several dimensions to demonstrate the powerful struggles and burdens of human life. Throughout Kate Chopin^s The Awakening and several of ^ poems, the sweeping imagery of the beauty and power of nature demonstrates ...
| | Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 1889 - Pages: 7 |
The Author Of Her BookIn "The Author to Her Book," Bradstreet is awash in indecision and internal conflicts over the merits and shortfalls of her creative abilities and the book that she produced. This elaborate internal struggle between pride and shame is manifested through a painstaking conceit in which she ...
| | Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 657 - Pages: 3 |
Edgar Allan Poe: Reflection Of His Pessimistic Moods In His WorkThroughout literature, an author's works almost always reflect their
mood and character. Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer whose short stories
and poems reflected his pessimistic moods. One of Poe's poems, "The Raven," is
about a raven that flies into the home of a sad and lonely man. This ...
| | Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 398 - Pages: 2 |
Never Lose HopeWilliam Blake, born on November 28, 1757, in London is one of the greatest English poets. His work is studied today all over the world. One of Blake’s poems, “The Chimney Sweeper”, shows many signs of immortality. In this poem, immortality can only be reached by maintaining hope in a hopeless ...
| | Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 1147 - Pages: 5 |
The Last Day Of The YearIn the poem “,” Annette Von Droste-Hülshoff uses imagery and references to God to express the coming of the end of the year. The poem, however, seems to reflect the impending freedom of women from a patriarchal society. This poem’s imagery and outside references suggest that it ...
| | Save Paper - Free Paper - Words: 750 - Pages: 3 |
Robert Hunterhad his poetic beginnings in the Palo Alto, CA coffeehouse scene in the mid-sixties. It was there that he began writing poetry and found his future song writing partner Jerry Garcia.
Although Hunter had been writing poetry for several years, his career did not begin in earnest until 1967, when ...
| | Save Paper - Free Paper - Words: 2441 - Pages: 9 |
Song For SimeonIn the poem "A ," T.S. Eliot uses ambiguity and religious allusion to convey decay and death of the old order to make room for modernity. Examining the imagery in the poem and the tone used allows for a better idea of what the speaker's attitude is toward these changes, and perhaps a hint of how ...
| | Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 1269 - Pages: 5 |
Langston Hughesis considered by many readers to be the most significant black poet of the twentieth century. He is described as ³...the beloved author of poems steeped in the richness of African American culture, poems that exude Hughes¹s affection for black Americans across all divisions of region, class, and ...
| | Save Paper - Free Paper - Words: 1304 - Pages: 5 |
|
|
