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Mythological Poems Compared, 2004.
Compares and discusses ?Venus and Adonis? by William Shakespeare and ?Hero and Leander? by Christopher Marlowe.
3,652 words (approx. 14.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 70.95
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The poems ?Venus and Adonis?, by William Shakespeare, and ?Hero and Leander?, by Christopher Marlowe, are more than erotic poems with an added mythological element. Both poems explore unorthodox attitudes and personalities, as well as put a humorous spin on mythological tales. The paper shows that the poems have different messages about love; however, despite their outcomes, both poems end in tragedy. The paper examines the similarities and differences between the poems.
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"Another similarity between the two poems is the amount of lust that each author has intentionally embedded. For instance, Shakespeare has added the scene of the two horses that scamper off into the woods to mate in Venus and Adonis. This scene serves as a mirror in relation to Venus? pursuing Adonis. While Venus is tempting Adonis is every way she can imagine, Adonis? stallion ?leaps? and ?bounds? (Shakespeare 107) for a jennet. Shakespeare even says that the horse excelled a ?common one? (293), insinuating that Venus is quite unlike any mortal. The horse is very aggressive in his approach, as is Venus in her pursue of Adonis. However, as the horses romp off into the woods, Venus was ?red and hot as coals of glowing fire,/Adonis is ?red for shame, but frosty in desire? (35-6)."
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The Mythological World of Wallace Stevens, 2002.
This paper looks at the poems of Wallace Stevens, analyzing Stevens? mythological construct.
2,928 words (approx. 11.7 pages), 9 sources, MLA, £ 59.95
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The writer explores the question of whether Stevens? poetry is located in the realm of imagination or in reality, or attempting to balance somewhere in between. According to the paper, Stevens creates a kind of mythology in each of his poems which centers around refined symbols. The paper looks at these poems, discussing the symbols and how they are effective.
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"Before we can understand what Stevens? mythological construct is, we must first explore what it is not. Recognizing that the crisis of faith today may be as result of the fact that our myths are no longer credible, Stevens searches ?to find nobility in things as they are, uncrowned by myths or gods? (Weston 61), which is to say that he finds neither consolation nor enlightenment in conventional mythologies, religious traditions, or cultural histories. Indeed, such dependence on the past threatens the mind seeking to relate itself to the world of the present, and Stevens strives ?to clear away all that intervenes between the perceiving mind and the world as presently perceived? (Borroff 3). According to Stevens, we must guard ourselves against the past to avoid being vulnerable to it. For example, Stevens writes in ?The Pure Good of Theory,? ?Malformed, the world was paradise malformed . . . / . . . the solar chariot is junk? (Collected 332), showing that ?even though it is no longer believed in, the ancient myth of the sun-god may interpose itself between us and the sun, and the names and legends of the constellations may similarly obscure the stars? (Borroff 3). Thus, the power of myth today is a destructive tendency to eclipse reality."
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Death in Robert Frost?s Poems, 2002.
A focus on the theme of death. The poems analyzed are: ?Home Burial,? ?After Apple- picking,? and ?Fire and Ice.?
1,434 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 0 sources, £ 32.95
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Robert Frost, an American poet, has a group of poems that use the theme of death. Three of these poems are analyzed as examples of Frost?s dark meditation-themed poems, with death the primary focus of the poem narrative. However, despite the similarities in theme in these poems, Frost uses various kinds of situations and concepts of death for the subjects of each poem. This paper discusses the theme of death in the following manner: The discussion of fear and sorrow of death in ?Home Burial,? the fear of death because of unaccomplished tasks here on earth in the poem ?After Apple-Picking,? and life after death in the poem ?Fire and Ice.? Passages from the poems are used as evidence of the themes.
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"The poem ?Home Burial? illustrates the grief and sorrow that a couple feels and experiences after they had lost their child. The poem is a dialogue between the man and the woman, who are also arguing with each other over the death of their child despite the fact that they grieve (especially the woman) and felt sorrow over the death of the young child. The first part of the poem started with the man asking his wife what she?s doing, and the woman displaying a look of fear. In this part of the poem, one would think that the woman is afraid of the dead, especially since they?re in a graveyard. However, a further scrutiny of their dialogue will reveal that the woman is actually afraid of the man, and she?s afraid because the man had caught her in the act of looking over an object, which is actually the ?mound,? wherein her dead child had been buried. The part wherein the man asked the woman about what she?s doing/looking at, and the discovery of the ?mound? where the woman?s child lies gave out a sorrowful cry from the woman: ?Don?t, don?t, don?t, don?t.? The reiteration of the ?don?ts? is Frost's way of expressing the woman?s grief and inability to accept her child?s death. Further into the poem, the conflict between the two, and the woman?s anger on her husband gave out as she pointed the blame to the man for his somewhat indifferent behavior about their child?s death: ?You can?t because you don?t know how/ If you had any feelings, you that dug/ With your own hand how could you??his little grave?? This accusing statement by the woman shows how she was unable to accept her child?s death. Also, the man?s gradually developing fear about the woman?s condition (too much sorrow and grief) had made him also feel fear in a different way, and he acknowledges his wife?s accusations in an effort to calm her and relieve her of her sorrow (towards the child) and grief (towards him). The poem finds resolution in a very uncomfortable and sad way, and the couple does not reach the point of reconciliation when the poem neared its end. In fact, the woman was in the act of leaving the man behind, leaving the man whom she thinks is totally indifferent and does not share with her the sorrow that she feels over their child?s death. The man becomes powerless and defeated, as his wife had left him despite his threats and protests."
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Mary Oliver?s Poems, 2004.
This paper analyzes Mary Oliver?s poems, ?Seven White Butterflies" and "West Wind 2?, and includes the entire poems as the sources.
1,230 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 28.95
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This paper explains that Mary Oliver, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, like most Romantic poets, creates a boundary between nature and man and attempts to explain through examples. The author points out that, in her poems, ?Seven White Butterflies? and ?West Wind 2?, the poet demonstrates that humans need to learn from nature a life free from struggle for materialism or dejection. The paper relates that, in ?Seven White Butterflies?, the butterflies represent nature as always being free from threats because nature enables them with the wisdom to extricate themselves from captivity or death.
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"As far as rhythm in "West Wind 2" is concerned, Oliver seems to adopt a style that is free from any formal rhythm. This is what makes "West Wind 2" even more interesting because in four stanzas she manages to first establish trust as evidence in these words "Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without/any doubt, I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me" and then delves straight to the issue of cautioning the youth. There is no formal rhyme or rhythm to the terms used yet one gets the distinct image of a boat rower's dilemma rowing downstream. And the last line, in one smooth stanza, she presents and, at the same time, advises the youth what to do. This gives the finality of the obvious and the reason why she wants to caution one in the first place. Unlike in the poem "Seven White Butterflies", she does stick to syntax but no rhythm is established."
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The Definition of Womanhood through Five Poems, 2001.
An analysis of five poems with the theme of womanhood.
2,930 words (approx. 11.7 pages), 5 sources, £ 59.95
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This paper is an anthology analysis: a collection of poems bound together by a common theme---womanhood. The five poems are womanhood poems written by Erica Jong, Maya Angelou, Anne Sexton, Genny Lim and Elma Mitchell. All the poems talk about womanhood and the differing perspectives of what a woman really is. After selecting these poems, the author analyzes them and relates the common threads they share as well as the differences.
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"The first poem is ?Phenomenal Woman? by Maya Angelou. ?Phenomenal Woman? explores the enigma of womanhood at the most basic level---- a woman?s natural charm. After all, this continues to be a puzzle for all of us. What makes a woman click? What makes her so special? Angelou pieces the puzzle together through her poem. Her view on this puzzle is this: the appeal of women does not necessarily come from appearances. It goes deeper than that. In the first stanza, she says, ?Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. / I?m not cute or built to suit a fashion model?s size.? With these lines, she contradicts the age-old myth that women have to be externally beautifully to have that certain factor. ?It?s in the reach of my arms,? she says, ?The span of my hips, / The stride of my step, / The curl of my lips.? If you think about it, these are universal attributes of women. What makes the difference, however, is the confidence that all these features present. The ?stride,? the ?span? of the hips: these are all features of confidence."
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Donald Justice's "New and Selected Poems", 2008.
A review of the poetry book "New and Selected Poems" by Donald Justice.
1,353 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 31.95
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This paper analyzes a selection of poems by Donald Justice. Most of the poems that the writer analyzes are in the villanelle format and the writer suggests that it is the required repetition of this format that brings out the emotion of the poem. The writer also notes that Justice's poems pay attention to the detail of craft and work with restrained expertise. The writer further discusses a few poems in detail, and points out that even though we find Donald Justice's poems objective and admirable, they are lacking in self as if he is standing on the outside of them.
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"Upon reading Donald Justice's book New and Selected Poems, I am reminded of Eudora Welty's quote, "Virtuosity, unless it moves the heart, goes at the head of the whole parade to dust." Justice's poems work with restrained expertise. The poems pay attention to the detail of craft, but the detachment of feeling in the verse leaves out the passion of poetry."
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Anglo-Saxon Poems Compared, 2005.
Compares two poems from the Anglo-Saxon era.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 4 sources, £ 61.95
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This paper discusses, analyzes and compares two poems from the Anglo-Saxon era. The poems include "The Wife's Lament" and "Wulf and Eadwacer". Each piece of literature is representative of society and culture more than five thousand years ago. Both poems are written from a narrative perspective of a woman mourning the absence of her husband. The poems also depict how woman were owned, controlled and repressed."
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"Around the third century, three Germanic tribes -- the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes -- migrated from other areas of Europe to England as part of a general movement of Germanic peoples who conquered much of Europe, including Rome itself (Gordon 111). During that time, the Celts (or Britons) inhabited England, and they continued to be the dominant people in Scotland and Ireland for several years to come (Harris 205). After the invasion of England, the Anglo-Saxons became the dominant people in the country. They brought along their Anglo-Saxon language (i.e., Old English) and a strong literary tradition that included oral poetry, which was spoken or sung. The Anglo-Saxon Era began in 450 A.D. and ended around 1066 AD (Harris 204)."
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An Analysis of Four Poems, 2004.
Considers the work of two poets, Gerard Manley Hopkins and W.B. Yeats, and analyzes two poems from each poet.
4,717 words (approx. 18.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 84.95
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This paper describes and compares the form, style, poetic techniques, and effectiveness of four poems. The poems, Hopkins's ?As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame? and ?Carrion Comfort? , and Yeats's ?An Irish Airman Foresees his Death? and ?Sailing to Byzantium?, are considered in detail, and their strengths and weaknesses are described. In addition, the poems are rated as either effective or ineffective.
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"This first line describes a strong wind removing the chaff from the wheat, so the grain can be seen. This represents how the suffering may have been positive, in that it pushed away the outer layer to reveal the poet?s good character. The poet then asks who he should cheer. First, he wonders if he should cheer God when God has made him suffer. Then he wonders if he should cheer himself for enduring. The poet does not find an answer to this question, with the poem ending with him still wondering whether he can thank God for making him suffer. Considering that the entire poem is a narrative of the poet?s journey out of depression, there is a suggestion that at some point later in time the poet will resolve this issue and manage to look back thankfully on what has happened. Overall then, this is a poem that offers hope."
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Sylvia Plath's poems, 2003.
Discusses tone in Sylvia Plath's poems "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus".
1,608 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, £ 36.95
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Confessional poets often write about their own personal experiences, without filtering painful emotions. One of the 1960s most influential confessional poets, Sylvia Plath, used the anger and grief that stemmed from her father?s death when she was only eight as the subject of many poems. This paper discusses tone in two of the most well-known Plath poems, ?Daddy? and ?Lady Lazarus,? in which she tackles her depression in very different ways. It shows how Plath?s word choice in both poems creates two opposing tones on similar subject matter. In ?Daddy,? Plath is clearly filled with bitterness and rage, but she is almost playful and sarcastic in ?Lady Lazarus.? The paper shows, too, how Plath channels her own personal world of suicidal escape in both poems, but she clearly changes tone in each by selecting words with specific meanings. Biographical information on Plath is also included.
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"Plath conveys this instability in her poem ?Daddy.? Written in 1962, twenty-two years after her father?s death and just one year before her suicide, ?Daddy? is not only an obvious cry for help but also a stream of unabashed rage toward the father who left her, the husband who betrayed her, and the circumstances that ultimately left her alone. Plath chooses words like ?Aryan eye,? ?swastika,? ?Fascist,? and ?devil? to associate with her father (?Daddy? 44, 46, 48, 54). All of these words conjure feelings of hatred and liken the father in the poem to someone like Adolf Hitler, a historical figure whose name is almost synonymous with oppression. This comparison is even more evident when Plath describes her father?s Hitleresque ?neat mustache? and ?bright blue? eyes (?Daddy? 43-44). Plath, as the speaker in ?Daddy,? calls herself a Jew and speaks from the perspective of an innocent who has been wrongly persecuted (?Daddy? 40)."
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Cynewulf's Signed Poems, 2008.
An analysis of Cynewulf's use of colophons in his four signed poems: "Juliana", "Christ II", "Elene", and "Fates".
1,221 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 16 sources, MLA, £ 28.95
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This paper analyzes Cynewulf's four signed poems. The paper specifically discusses the colophons of the signed poems and describes what they tell us about Cynewulf's poetic practice. The paper cites many examples from the four poems, "Juliana," "Christ II," "Elene" and "Fates" and shows how "Elene" differs from his other three signed poems.
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"Cynewulf's self-presentation is ambivalent. He is a sinner and distant from God. Yet he is not fully self-abasing. In Christ II he speaks of himself explicitly as a teacher of men, which he also does implicitly in the other poems, indicating that although he is sinful, he is at least knowledgeable about how a Christian ought to behave. And the act of writing, of educating people and asking their aid, is a deed that may eventually lead to his salvation. He takes credit for the majority of his writing rather than claiming it as divine inspiration. Only in Elene does he involve God in the poetic process. Finally, the very presence of the signatures and colophons indicate a strong sense of himself as a poet. He has worked his name into the poems in such a way that it cannot be removed without damaging the poem. And he has appended personal colophons to four poems in contrast to any of their original sources. Although he has failings as a man, Cynewulf conceives of his poetry as a means to salvation."
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Emotional Turmoil in Pablo Neruda?s Poems in the ?Winter Garden?, 2002.
An examination of several poems from Pablo Neruda's collection.
1,740 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 0 sources, £ 39.95
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This paper discusses five poems extracted from the book, namely: ?Homecomings,? ?A Dog Has Died,? ?The Lost Ones Of The Forest,? ?The Ocean Calls,? and ?Many Thanks.? This paper analyzes each poem and discusses what underlying message each poem has for the reader. At the end of the analysis, the researcher establishes the stance that Pablo Neruda?s poems deeply reflect an individual?s emotional struggles, and Neruda voices out this feeling by personifying nature, making them almost life-like, and lets them participate and bear witness to these struggles. This thesis is also supported through an evaluative study of the poems, through a reflection and analysis of the content and flow of though of the poet.
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"The book ?Winter Garden? is a collection of poems that were found and published after Neruda?s death. Pablo Neruda, a pseudonym for Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, is a Chilean poet who is known for his poems that evokes political and social contemplation. He is also a Marxist, and always extends his massage (through his poems) the unjust treatment and struggles of hid fellow Chileans as they try to achieve social freedom and equality. In his collection of poems in the ?Winter Garden?, it is remarkable that much of the poems contemplate emotional struggle or turmoil, while depicting or associating these struggles with nature or any element in the environment. "
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Sylvia Plath?s Poems, 2002.
An analysis of the influence of popular culture in the poems ?The Thin People? and ?Mirror?.
1,725 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 38.95
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This paper discusses two poems by Sylvia Plath, and provides a thorough analysis of each poem. The paper focuses on the influence of popular culture in each of these works. These poems are discussed according to their significance as Plath?s extension of her thoughts on the culture of today?s world, that is, what are the trends, the preoccupations, and social issues that people face today. In particular, the poems show that society is too frivolous due to the high value it places on the ideals of thinness and beauty. The paper includes a brief history of Sylvia Plath.
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"Most works of literature reflects an individual?s culture and society, and it is evident that most of the literary works that were written by popular artists is seen to have traces of the kind of society and culture that artist had lived and encountered. Sylvia Plath is an example of a literary artist that illustrates in her poems a deep influence of the society she has grown up with. "
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Loss and Suffering in Anglo-Saxon Poems, 2004.
A comparative analysis of the Old English poems, "The Wife?s Lament" and "The Wanderer" .
2,428 words (approx. 9.7 pages), 0 sources, £ 51.95
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This paper examines how issues of loss and grief predominate in much of early English literature and how the lament and the elegy, poems which express deep grief or mourning, are frequent in Old English poetry. It looks at how these poems provide today?s reader with insight and a unique perception on the thoughts of sorrow and loss and how Anglo-Saxon culture perceived and dealt with death and exile. It explores how this issue of loss lies at the center of two poems in particular, "The Wife?s Lament" and "The Wanderer".
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"The Wife?s Lament is an excellent example of experienced loss. In this text, a woman lives in exile from her kin. Although there are several interpretations of the specifics of the woman?s grief, the one certain fact is the description she gives for her grief. This grief can be broken down into three key subjects. The first subject that must be considered is the actual words she uses. Although the text is a translation by Alfred David, it can be considered reasonably accurate in most word usage. The specific words used can tell us a great deal about not only this particular case, but of suffering in general. In addition the metaphors and symbolism that can be seen in the text provide us with a great deal of information regarding the medieval mindset."
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Elizabethan and Early Seventeenth Century Love Poems, 2008.
Compares the Elizabethan-era Christopher Marlowe's poem "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" and early seventeenth century John Donne's poem "The Flea".
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This paper explains that Elizabethan-era Christopher Marlowe's poem "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" and early seventeenth century John Donne's "The Flea" share the same theme of romantic love; however, these poems are intrinsically and distinctly different as were the periods in which they were written. The author points out that, though both poem's speakers seek to win over the object of their desire, the ways they go about convincing their love are strikingly different, their images of love are juxtaposed and their definitions and depictions of love completely contrary. The paper concludes that Marlowe's poem describes a romantic love affair, while the speaker in Donne's poem goes in a different direction: sexual gratification.
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'The role assigned to the man and woman of these two poems are quite different. In "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love", the speaker (the man) clearly adores his love, while the speaker of "The Flea" is, essentially, a flea himself. The role of the man in Marlowe's poem is to give gifts and praise and care for his love. The role of the man in Donne's poem is to attempt to persuade his love into having sex with him. The women are treated differently and have different roles as well. In Marlowe's poem, the woman is someone to be put on a pedestal that should be given the finest things nature can provide.'
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