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Term Papers on Poetry and Poets
Bryon's "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage": The Byronic Hero
Number of words: 984 - Number of pages: 4.... from his father's castle and
exploring nature. Bruce Wayne on the other hand invents himself a new identity
that differs in every way from the preset mold into which he was born.
In the fourth stanza Harold tells us that Childe Harold is unhappy and
upset with the society around him. ÒThen loathed he in his native land to dwell,
which seemed to him more lone than Eremite's sad cell.Ó Childe Harold is
extremely miserable with the societyin which he is forced to live. He feels so
isolated that he compares his life to that of a hermit's. Stanza ten reads Ò .....
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Elizabeth Bishop And Her Poem "Filling Station"
Number of words: 973 - Number of pages: 4.... sound around the
mouth that physically spreads the oil sound around the passage. An
interesting seepage can also be clearly seen when looking specifically at
the words "oil-soaked", "oil-permeated" and "grease-impregnated". These
words connect the [oi] in oily with the word following it and heighten the
spreading of the sound. Moreover, when studying the [oi] atmosphere
throughout the poem the [oi] in doily and embroidered seems to particularly
stand out. The oozing of the grease in the filling station moves to each
new stanza with the mention of these words: .....
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"A Dream Within A Dream"
Number of words: 503 - Number of pages: 2.... they creep
through my fingers . . .
O God! Can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
In the first stanza of his poem, Poe is speaking to a person who has seen him through some rough times. He is trying to convince her as well as himself that his life has not changed through the years. He questions the realness and significance of the everyday events of life and finally concludes that they are unimportant and superficial. "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
The second stanza takes on a more despairing tone. His air of carelessness .....
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"The Ruined Maid” By Thomas Hardy
Number of words: 511 - Number of pages: 2.... and so she looks up with jealousy to her friend who has managed to change and to become a part of a higher society “high compa-ny” (11). Far more, there is a reference to not-knowing melancholy, and yet she defends that with “one’s pretty lively when ruined” (20), which contradicts with the melancholy tone of the poem, to some extent.
The recall of the conversation between the two girls comes to a climax when the narrator describes her fantasies as being like the other girl, she says, “I wish I had feathers…delicate face and could strut about Town” (21,22). .....
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Sylvia Plath's Poetry: Feminine Perfection
Number of words: 885 - Number of pages: 4.... class parents in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. She published her first poem when she was eight. Her father's death in 1940 from gangrene ( the consequence of a diabetic condition that he refused to treat), Plath was only eight years old, this was the crucial event of her childhood. In her poem "Daddy" we see Plath's imaginative transformations of experience into myths where the figure of her Prussian father is transformed into an emblem for masculine authority.
"Every woman adores a fascist,
The boot in the face the brute
Brute heart of a brute like you .....
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Haughton: Am I A Gryphon Or A Queen?
Number of words: 700 - Number of pages: 3.... story for what it is, not trying to put too much interpretation into it. To them, I guess the interpretation of the story ruins the effect thus dulling the whole thing. And let’s not forget Mr. Haughton's Queens, the type who like to sit down and analyze the complete meaning of a book, ripping it apart page by page until they come into this complete feeling of self-actualization. Anyway, there are so many more types of reading styles out there, so many combinations. So the answer to the question as whether I am a Gryphon or a Queen, I would say neither but I .....
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Confessions In Rhyme: Poetry Analysis
Number of words: 1834 - Number of pages: 7.... what happened after the Rebellion, all reactions that became one. Everyone wants revenge!
Rebellion
The captain worked them day and night
for he had no mercy,
because of this they had a fight
though hungry and very thirsty.
In that fight two men had died
or at least it was thought to be
when they found out one was alive
they went on happily.
They tricked the captain and two of the crew
into thinking that Zachariah was dead,
but all that was thrown overboard
was some cloth in a hammock bed.
Because the captain thought he was dead
his secret was very big.
E .....
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Analysis Of Whitman's "Drum Taps" And "The Wound Dresser"
Number of words: 910 - Number of pages: 4.... must delve into his earlier works. In
the first poem of "Drum Taps", "First O Songs For A Prelude" the poem
indicates to the reader that Whitman is staunchly enthusiastic towards the
first battle:
The tumultuous escort, the ranks of policemen preceding,
clearing the way, The unpent enthusiasm, the wild cheers
of the crowd for their favorites…War! Be it weeks, months,
or years, an arm'd race is advancing to welcome it.
As we can see, like most Americans, Whitman was proud of the engagements to
come because at the time, war was only viewed by those who ha .....
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