This possesses a problem for the fact that maybe the initial meaning of the poem would not be attained by all of the readers. ... This makes it hard for me to relate or learn from the poem because I feel that Pope is comparing small superficial qualities like beauty to bigger more meaningful things such as self-pride and intelligence. ... Being able to relate to the issues in the poem yet not being able to relate to the characters makes for a lengthy and tedious story line. Yet the manner is which the poem is written is well organized and allows for easy reading and following. Although I d...

• Word Count: 473
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In my paper, I will use these two poems to explain a number of strategies that had utilization by the Victorians to treat women and their sexuality. ... In the poem, Tennyson utilizes both the exterior and interior space to illustrate the idea of an isolated woman. ... In various ways, the poem "The Lady of Shalott" emphasized on the idea of the restrained woman in the Victorian Age. Even though the title of the poem alludes to the fact that it will center upon the woman character, Tennyson places emphasis on the natural surroundings of the poem. ... Although Tennyson places the sett...

• Word Count: 3387
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Amanda Portefield writes that "while Bradstreet's poems testify to her dependency on her husband, to her feelings of insufficiency without him, and to her worship of the potency he represented, they also reflect her power to establish the context of his authority and her efforts to control his behavior."" ... Jane Donahue Eberwein is one critic who points to generic debates about women in developing an alternative to both submissive and subversive readings of some of her gender poems like "The Prologue,"" insisting that this poem is best read as "consistently ironic, inviting both male an...

• Word Count: 886
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Amanda Portefield writes that "while Bradstreet's poems testify to her dependency on her husband, to her feelings of insufficiency without him, and to her worship of the potency he represented, they also reflect her power to establish the context of his authority and her efforts to control his behavior."" ... Jane Donahue Eberwein is one critic who points to generic debates about women in developing an alternative to both submissive and subversive readings of some of her gender poems like "The Prologue,"" insisting that this poem is best read as "consistently ironic, inviting both male an...

• Word Count: 887
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although a man, the poem's subject possesses feminine charms superior to a woman, with "An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling" (5). ... The painful duality of the speaker's muse is loudly echoed in Shakespeare's structural choices for the poem. ... Sonnets in particular were used for professing love to female lovers and paramours, yet this poem professes adoration of a man. ... However, the true heart of the poem lies in the curiosity of its meter, which suffers like our subject with the constraining repercussions of excess. ... Indeed, the meter sets t...

• Word Count: 1124
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the poem, "Anonymous, Gilgamesh", the role of Gilgamesh, at the very first sight of him, is one who possesses the characteristics of beauty, strength, and the ability to do greatness for his city, Uruk. ... Gilgamesh is an epic poem of love, but contains grief that has a real change on his character, which causes him to have major flaws in his life as a ruler, which results in a cruel treatment upon the citizens that he reigns over. ...

• Word Count: 600
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The self-awareness Bradstreet had of her ability to write and it's implications for other women manifests at times in her poems, such as in her poem "In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth of Happy Memory:" Now say, have women worth, or have they none? ... (Bradstreet 44) These lines betray the subtle sarcasm apparent in several of Bradstreet's poems. ... In her poem "Prologue" Anne Bradstreet argues unmistakably in favor of female intellect, and challenges the views of the day that women couldn't write: I am obnoxious to each carping ton...

• Word Count: 2469
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Sylvia Plath became known as a feminist writer through her poems that exposed patriarchal oppression. In her poem titled "Lady Lazarus," Plath exploits the viciousness of her male dominator as he makes a spectacle of repeatedly pulling her back to life after her suicide attempts. ... By writing this poem, Plath points out how her entire existence is controlled by a man. ... Within "Lady Lazarus", Sylvia Plath presents an opposite depiction of the patriarchal female gender role by posing the woman within this poem directly against her oppressor as opposed to remaining cheerful...

• Word Count: 2160
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She advocates for women's freedom from the career of being a housewife and strives to make more of herself as a writer, and by promoting herself in her own works by encouraging that her books and poem be bought, she breaks down the stereotype that women can not only simply yearn for more than what they have given to them, but do whatever is in their power to achieve it. ... In Lanyer's poem "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum", which she says came from divine intuition before she even wrote the poem, she argues the facts that women where looked down upon because of their responsibili...

• Word Count: 1037
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"The Epic of Gilgamesh" an collection of old Sumerian poems, is filled with the dramatic interactions of gods and men, rulers and peasants, humans and beasts, and men and women. ... Such a prospect reveals much information about Gilgamesh, the setting of the poems. ...

• Word Count: 1389
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Men have always found ways to control women. In both "Female Circumcision: Rite of Passage or Violation of Rights? " (Althaus) and "Footbinding " (Fairbank) the authors explain two especially gruesome methods of female mutilation that have been and still are used to dominate women. Female circumcisi...

• Word Count: 894
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Through their writings, Fuller and Bradstreet expressed their opinions about equality of the sexes and religious tension in their prose and poems so that their readers would finally understand what women in a world full of men are actually reflecting upon. ... In her long poem, "Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666,"" Bradstreet relies heavily on her relationship with God as she depicts how God affects every aspect of her life. ...

• Word Count: 1980
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When looking at the similarities between Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and As You Like It, the most obvious connections lie in the manner in which the two main female roles both disguise themselves as men within the plays. But with an even deeper look into this phenomenon one can begin to see that th...

• Word Count: 1484
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate