The author commonly draws on the theme of comparing the old and new life of Negro race. The migration caused a shift in history because it has changed how the Negro is viewed by the [...]
The monologue in the poem clearly expresses the emotions of the narrator, and the details that the author mentions complement the idea of the main character's opinion on the topics touched upon.
She is a star I cannot find in constellations, One who understands her pain not less than mine, The one I love beyond my world, For in the next world, I would want Isabella Abreu [...]
For instance, rhyme refers to the recurrence of syllables in a poem and is not present in Whitman's verses. Both authors use figurative language to imply that their minds differ from the others, as Whitman [...]
The moment where the spirit says that "and I sail from the spirit shore to scan" or "where the weaving of that strong cord began" is still looking more like a lovely story about the [...]
Patroclus is always beside Achilles to support him in the saddest moments and the moments of his rage. This loyalty shows that the friendship of Achilles and Patroclus was a perfect relationship as seen by [...]
The significance of Iliad and Odyssey in the modern world can be explained by the fact that they are the first ancient epics, which have survived to this day.
On balance, the discursive nature of the poem lends itself to a discovery guided by the author via repetition and comparison, and the air of playfulness pervades the first part of it.
In "Habitual" by Nate Marshall, as the title implies, the poem describes the psychological issues of habits that construct human lives. The narrator opens the poem with the expressions of controversial existence.
The speaker in this poem urges people not to fear death, as has been the tradition. Essentially, the poem also notes the essence of the family as a vital social theme.
To be a child again one would need to shed details Till the heart found itself dressed in the coat with a hood.
The author narrates the poem in a monotonous manner, allowing the reader to feel their own emotions on the issue presented in the text.
Although the poet initially represents the wheelbarrow as a rather dull and unimaginative thing, he later on shows that it, in fact, can serve a larger purpose, which cements the theme of the magic of [...]
In The Poem of the Cid, there are three foremost themes, which can be outlined as follows: a) The theme of Spaniards indulging in the armed struggle with Moors for the purpose of reclaiming Spanish [...]
In the 21st century, the population of the planet has grown so rapidly that management technologies and the achievements of psychology are used to convince people.
The speaker communicates with the neighbor by continually questioning the legitimacy of the wall. First, the poem is written in the form of a short story where the speaker recounts one remarkable event in his [...]
In this story, Voltaire wanted his audience to question the church's monopoly over moral issues in the face of her hypocrisy, critique the system of giving objects like jewels monetary value, assess the usefulness of [...]
For Kitty, it was in a growing sense of homosexuality as well as a rebellion against the constricting accepted occupational goals open to her gender.
The poem is a description of the speaker's feelings and desires to only have the lover to herself. Sappho wrote the poem to express feelings to the lover, who cannot return the love as he [...]
The book's central motif is the adventurous journey, the complete transformation of the king of Ithaca from the Trojan battle.
From the point of view of the author of the poem, the heroism of Odysseus lies in the fact that he remains faithful to his homeland, the island of Ithaca, nothing scares him in achieving [...]
In whole, the syntactical structure of the verse and its stanza forms do not coincide, as the final line of septet is logically connected with the first line of quatrain.
Claude McKay was a poet of Jamaican descent who took one of the leading roles in the Harlem Renaissance.
A girl's shoe got stuck on the steps he had covered with glue and he went out looking for her. Cinderella fit into the shoe and got married to the prince.
As for the format, the example of these two sonnets demonstrates one of the main differences in the Italian and English traditions.
The historical question to be addressed in the poem will be linked to the role masses and individuals played in the war.
One of the most remarkable aspects of the book written by Liu is the development of the doctrine "poetry as exploration of worlds and of language".
The topic that will be discussed in the feature story is the mission of a modern female poet in the United States.
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost creates a very vivid and realistic picture of the forest. The first line familiarizes the reader with the fact that the area is known to the person stopping. This could mean that it is either a friend or someone they simply know of. It is […]
This piece of literature is not a work of so to say, an eternal value that can be explained by the transient nature of the life experience addressed in it.
In the book, the writer introduces the work of the poet and pays tribute to her. In the heart of the book, the writer introduces the reader to the most interesting works of the poet.
In the following paper, three characters from the works of literature considered during this mid-term will be addressed with a purpose of making an analysis of reasons for their bitter feelings and offering suggestions to [...]
Omar Sabbagh provides a more positive view of the people and poet. The title of the poem, Vital, describe the differences and the agreements or love existing between a father and the author. The author depicts the need for proper parental treatment desired by the child. The palm tree metaphorically describes the author. The first […]
Written language is one of the most diverse and significant tools of communication that we have at the present. This type of medium is the most artistic branch of the written word.
In one of his most famous poems, Eliot captured the desperation of his contemporaries due to the immense and dramatic changes in the world at the beginning of XX century.
As Blue remarks, the best way to understand the essence of the poem is to read it with the same attention one typically gives to strangers' dialogue that one is trying to eavesdrop on.
At the beginning of the poem, Shelley depicts the outer manifestation of the remnants. The poem 'On a stupendous Leg' is beautiful in and of itself, but it is not 'Ozymandias'.
The melancholic and resentful tone in My Papa's Waltz is a striking message of the author to his own father. And the empty room is most likely a sign of passed away relatives.
The Divine Comedy presents three aspects of objective reality such as personal drama of the poet, the story of humanity and the structure of the universe.
The two poems "Child of the Americas" and "To live in the Borderlands means to you" are conservative in the way they express the cultural background of the persona.
The imagery in the beginning of the red brick building with many windows is not used for anything else, except as a name and a closure at the end.
Still it seems that the power of the sound as the one that gives birth to the word is the one of the utmost importance.
Art is a not only a tool used to reflect the happenings in a society, but it also reflects the feelings of the artist towards the society and towards themselves. Through the paintings of an [...]
It appears that Blake had a different perspective on the notion of divine law and order, as compared to that of Milton's.
We can being by comparing the use of irony in each poem."The Fish" is comprised mostly of descriptions of the fish that the speaker of the poem caught.
Though the main theme of the poem is derived from the Greek mythology and the plot is clear enough, critics have always been searching for a symbolic and psychological explanation of the poem's images.
This mindset is what assisted as the cornerstone for young men to reprimand dolls in the earlier periods. Why Boys Do not Play with Dolls is concentrated on the stereotypes of males and females.
Dickinson experienced a great amount of attachment towards the Civil War and her expression for the cause had been expressed through the expression of death in its spiritual and eternal nature.
The soldier is torn out of his "mother's sleep" that is the state of peace and he faces the reality of war in the belly of his fighter jet aircraft.
The poem The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop reminded me that other animate creatures are able of feelings and have the right to live their lives on this planet.
A narrative poem is supposed to be a narration of a definite story in the form of a poem; it is a piece of literature where a plot of the story is more important than [...]
Then, the poet expresses the friendly stature of the ponies towards the poet and his companion. In spite of the above-mentioned similarities, both "A Blessing" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" share differences [...]
Both poems are written about the relationships between children and parents; however, Mother to Son poem is written from mother's perspective while Cross is written in form of a monologue of a son. The first [...]
Using strong and highly sensual imagery, Rich is able to pull her reader into the story of the poem, catching their attention with the details and then teasing them with a sense of the poem's [...]
This line also exposes her fear of social ridicule which is preventing her from doing all the things she would really like to do.
It is a fruit of the tree that is the poet's mind. There is always a great satisfaction in finding out the meaning of those poems, it's like you have climbed a tall tree and [...]
The same symbols of drums, which are present in the poem, show the reader that the war spirit is discussed, which wants to fight, but some doubts limit it.
In the title, the fear for everything unknown and unexpected is put into the sounds of somebody, knocking at the door.
The poem 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' written by Robert Frost, is considered to be one of the most prominent works of world literature; the poem is dedicated to the disclosure of nature [...]
The voice of a girl in Plath's poem and the voice of a man in Browning's one dramatize the plots and the setting of both.
In this respect, literature can be proud of the Romanticism and Victorian literature, because of their gradual framework and applicable emergence due to the significant events, such as the French Revolution, American Revolution, the defeat [...]
He tries to explain through the symbolic representation of the glowering sun in the month of May, that love is a feeling which is sure to get affected by the sun's rays through skin burn [...]
If one analyzes the various stages of English language and literature, it is clear that many English poets have influenced the growth of language.
What he remembers is the slaying of mankind to which he acknowledges that he has attained and reached that extent of fear, after which fear itself has remained trivial to him.
Paulette Hansel got used to read her poems in public in order to transfer her emotions and the mood of her poems to the people for them to understand the real sense of her art.
Eliot employs the so-called exhausted poetic mode for the purpose of showing the corruptive nature of adherence to social mimicry, which results in the spiritual blindness, the loss of the ability to the perceive the [...]
The ‘Iliad’ is one of the most admired and well-known poems worldwide. Its main idea covers several essential themes, one of which is hospitality.
It was through the literature that much of this expression came to the attention of the rest of the nation, enabling it to have the tremendous impact it did on its own as well as [...]
It acknowledged the interdependency of the masculine and the feminine or community values such as the earth and sky. Achebe's stories are also known to use proverbs that incorporate the values of the rural Igbo [...]
They accomplish this through expensive and sometimes dangerous plastic surgery, but the image of the mask is more important to them than the true health of the individual.
The epic poem serves to provide the transition between both worlds by linking the ideals of the Old Code to the ideals of the Christian belief system.
However, the topic of the poem remains almost the same as in the sonnet the cruelty of this world and necessity to gather all one's powers to resists it.
The beginning of the poem reveals the narrator's feelings toward Annabel Lee, determining the theme and the mood of the verse: "a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of Annabel Lee; [...]
If we match this to the last line of the poem, we see that he is "clinging" to his father's shirt as his father waltzes him off to bed.
The Divine Comedy, written by Italian writer Dante Alighieri between approximately 1308 and his death in 1321, is commonly regarded as the most well-known epic poem of Italian literature and is seen as one of [...]
Finally, her description of the man she married as the model of her father indicates his deep cruelty because he has a "love of the rack and the screw".
The thesis of this review of the poem Aunt Jennifer is that a strong theme for Rich is the belief in the socio-political and economic equality of women and men.
Before the first stanza, a flea has bitten the young man and then has jumped to the young woman and begun to bite her.
Ceramic production and the carving of the hardstones known collectively as jade are part of the earliest horizons of Chinese cultures in the Neolithic period, and the products of these activities have been made continuously [...]
The main similarity of pre-WWII period and the Innti generation is close attention to Irish language and folklore. During the pre-WWII period of time, anxiety and desperation dominated in Irish poetry.
The Puritan dogma of retrospection forced Bradstreet to explore her religious beliefs and reveal them in the poem Upon the Burning of Our House on July 10th, 1666.
This poem is written from the perspective of a man lying next to a woman in bed. Tonight, the song is a request: Write me a poem, please".
The functions of dreams in both works are studied by the researcher, their significance is underlined, differences and parallels between the usage of dreams in both works are established, the enduring values that the works [...]
In 1920, he had written literary journal "Selva Austral" under the pen name of Pablo Neruda, which he took on in memory of the Czechoslovak poet Jan Neruda.
We believe that the one to who the poem is addressed is a representative of the Western world, the author calls him/her like "you"; this person, going by the author, calls eating primitive.
Robert Hayden is probably one of the best known for his verses that discover and articulate the African-American practice, from the epoch of slavery, and the times of Civil War, up to the time he [...]
Judging by the sentiments involved in the poem, the lover could be someone as remote from him as a woman he rode in a carriage once, or even a spectator who came to see one [...]
The poem and painting chosen for the analysis in this paper belong to the works of the second group, that is the picture came to existence much earlier than the poem which, in its turn, [...]
Most noteworthy in this poem is the importance of the gunner to the mission and the cleaning of the turret after the gunner has died.
However, there is a hint, both here and toward the end of the poem, that, like the moon, the lover's body may not always be as open, available, and illuminating to him, thus the need [...]
In " The Aeneid," Virgil tells of the adventures of the hero of the Trojan war, Aeneas, who was destined by the gods to stay alive after the destruction of Troy to come to Italy [...]
The choice of words in the second stanza, the second last line, which reads "glowing at dusk, a shrouded welcome" is a further confirmation of the sorrow in the mind of the narrator.
In his sonnet, Shakespeare reflects the theme of time by mentioning various seasons of the year and comparing them to a girl's age and appearance.
"I am a riddle in nine syllables" this means that there are nine parts of the secret that the reader is supposed to discover; "An elephant, a ponderous house" here, the author is referring [...]
The main theme of the poem is the relief that death can bring to a man who is finally freed from all the hardships of life.
The similarity between them can be explained by the fact that each of the poems belongs to the hand of the same author; indeed, the choice of stylistic devices and formal elements of The First [...]
In the research article "Sweet silent thought: alliteration and resonance in poetry comprehension," the researchers were mainly interested in scrutinizing alliteration and how it generally functions as a memory cue during the process of poetry [...]
The descriptions of the scene demonstrate the extent of Negroes' poverty and level of unemployment as they play the pianos on the streets to attract sympathy from the passers-by.
What is of great interest to the author is the fact that she went above the expectation of many, even to the point of attaining classical education at Harvard. The author remains skeptical, and he [...]
In addition, use of Symbolism imagery and symbolism creates a better picture in audience mind, concerning the themes that the play covers; such as where dark is used to represent evil.
The citizens of the USA became familiar with the poet in the early sixties. I suppose that famous Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko is one of the most influential literary figures in the world.
The speaker is optimistic to go and face the rivals and although the chances of surviving the fight look minimal, he wants the group to die a noble death, a death that will be of [...]
The Song of my poem by Whitman is a centerpiece of the "Leaves of Grass" collection which became a kind of poetic manifesto of the author.
In the first section, the narrator depicts the serenity of a frosty night and lets the audience realize that the narrator is the author himself.
For instance, Retief and Cilliers argue that Book XI of The Odyssey largely shaped the perception of Hades, or the Greek land of the dead, as well as of the Ancient views on death and [...]
Andrea Gibson's poem "A Letter to White Queers, A Letter to Myself" is a fabulous example of passionate expression of the author's hatred towards those inglorious individuals who think that they are better than others [...]
The 11th book of the Odyssey tells about the trip of Odysseus to the Underworld. He expresses pity that Odysseus is also in the land of the dead and tells about his journey in Hades [...]
It is imperative to mention that the analysis of ancient works is incredibly important because it enhances the understanding of the traditions and values of the people."The Epic of Gilgamesh" is regarded as one of [...]
The most obvious way of assessing the extent to which Langston Hughes responded to the historical context of his race in his work is to assess his thematic concerns. Again, just like in "Cross," Hughes [...]
At the beginning of the poem, the first two lines introduce the bird, and the narrator describes it as the creature that continues singing "without the words".
In the initial edition, Whitman changed the first line to "the poem of the body", making it known that the intention was to appreciate the nature of the human body.
Even though the poem seems to puzzle the readers and looks like a mixture of incomprehensible thoughts, Eliot showed in it how a person perceives the world, referring to the stream of consciousness and focusing [...]
Rita uses the poems to outline her main challenges, which are reminiscent of the challenges, which faced aboriginals of her time. Rita uses the book to show her patience in an abusive marriage which she [...]
The central figure of any heroic epics is the character who represents the interests of his people and serves as the embodiment of the human qualities which are considered to be the best in their [...]
For these reasons, the majority of the works devoted to the given issue tend to demonstrate the horrors of war and factors that impacted people.
On the example of the selected poem, the author's style will be discussed through the lens of her perception of the world. Further, the scheme of the poem will be considered.
The characters of Enkidu and Gilgamesh, and in fact, all the characters of this poem, are not notable for logical or reasonable behavior that makes sense to modern readers.
The present paper will focus on one of his poems, "The Rio Grande," where the author concentrates on an internal question of the balance between life and death, happiness and sorrow.
The use of metaphors to emphasize particular points in relation to nature and an individual's surroundings is a hallmark of the work of Frost and, as such, it is not surprising that he utilizes the [...]
Moreover, the reader can understand the attitude with references to the changes in the poem's tone which is melancholic in the first lines and rather optimistic in the ending lines in order to represent my [...]