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Term Papers on Poetry and Poets
Allowing Evil To Triumph
Number of words: 716 - Number of pages: 3.... men did not
attempt to stop the evil. As a consequence for this lack of action, each
person was killed because he serves the Hangman best. The way in which the
good served the Hangman was by letting the evil triumph over the town. If
a group had attempted to stop the Hangman, he could have possibly been
stopped. Because only one person attempted to stop the evil, those who
kept quiet were killed for helping the Hangman without realizing it. If
the good men do nothing and make no attempt to halt the evil, then the evil
will triumph as a result of this lack .....
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Poem: The Fate Of Hamlet
Number of words: 121 - Number of pages: 1.... Claudius’s last breath.
In the turmoil of all this.
His true affection for Ophelia found no bliss.
He could never share his thoughts,
Revenge made him overwrought.
All this pain caused him to plot,
He made the plan to end his lot.
But this scheme avenging death,
Took also Hamlet’s last breath.
Hamlet should have taken heed,
And become king indeed.
He never had a chance in Shakespheare’s plan,
A tragic hero, just another great dead man. .....
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Anne Bradstreet’s Expression Of Anger
Number of words: 288 - Number of pages: 2.... of her life. Anne Bradstreet’s poem
An Author to Her Book explains Bradstreet’s anger towards her brother-in-
law for publishingher personal poetry without her permission. In this poem
Bradstreet uses a combination of a metaphore, a paradox, and other literary
devices to express her anger.
Bradstreet expresses her anger mostly through the extended
metaphore which flows throughout the poem. This extended metaphore
compares Bradstreet’s poetry to an ill-formed child. “Thou ill-formed
offspring of my feeble brain,/ Who after birth didst by my side remain,/
Till snatched from thence by friends, less wise .....
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Differences In "Ode On Grecian Urn" And "Sailing To Byzantium"
Number of words: 528 - Number of pages: 2.... hit you in the face start off these lines. It
talks about old becoming young and birds and trees. This makes you think of
spring and vegetation and animals and life. Yates uses vivified examples such as
"An Aged Man is but a patty thing, a tattered coat upon a stick." (9,10) Yates
is describing a scarecrow or what you might call death. He also talks about a
maniacal bird in lines thirty and thirty-one. This is something that isn't dying
and will go on forever. These two images life and death help insure the
complexity of these poems.
The images of life a .....
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Analysis Of The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam
Number of words: 1449 - Number of pages: 6.... Bird of Time has but a little way/ To flutter-and
the bird is on the Wing." The entire ninth stanza describes the summer
month "that brings the Rose" taking "Jamshyd and Kaikobad away", and so
forth and so on ad nauseum. Again, in the fifty-third stanza: "You gaze
To-Day, while You are You-how then/ Tomorrow, You when shall be You no
more?" The poet seems to be in an incredible hurry to get this life going
before some cosmic deadline comes due, and more than willing to encourage
any of the laiety he encounters in the course of the poem to do the same.
Ano .....
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Beowulf And Hrothgar: Anglo-Saxon Ideal Code Of Conduct
Number of words: 578 - Number of pages: 3.... generosity to everyone.
This generosity can be seen towards Beowulf, when the king gives his thanks
for the heroic deeds of the warrior. Hrothgar rewards Beowulf with
priceless material as he says to the warrior, “You shall lack no earthly
riches I can offer you.” The people of the land also trust their king, who
holds a strong belief in God. In the scene where Hrothgar celebrates
Grendel's death, he holds the monsters hand as he says, “Let us give thanks
at once to God Almighty for this sight.” The followers of the king both
respect and trust their ruler .....
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Barbie Doll: An Analysis
Number of words: 729 - Number of pages: 3.... it marks the beginning of the character's downfall. With one comment from a classmate, all her beauty, intelligence and all that she believed to be slowly faded under the standards of society.
In the second paragraph, her true identity & characteristics are further described in more detail. She had everything a "normal" happy girl could have; yet she didn't meet the norms of society. She was not what society expected a girl to look like so she slowly became a victim of society's expectations. As is mentioned in the second to last line of paragraph 2, she "went .....
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The Fish By Elizabeth Bishop: Gone Fishin'
Number of words: 935 - Number of pages: 4.... for the captive. Bishop then goes on to clearly
illustrate what she means by "wallpaper": "shapes like full-blown roses /
stained and lost through age." She uses another simile here paired with
descriptive phrases, and these effectively depict a personal image of the fish.
She uses the familiar "wallpaper" comparison because it is something the
readers can relate to their own lives. Also the "ancient wallpaper" analogy can
refer to the fish's age. Although faded and aged he withstood the test of time,
like the wallp aper. Bishop uses highly descriptive w .....
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