Choose three poems and consider how far they support this view of her work. ... However, in this essay I shall explore this in further depth by looking at three poems: "A dream", "A Birthday" and one of the many poems entitled "Song", beginning "When I am dead, my dearest." ... In my opinion this poem has two main themes, both of which greatly contribute to the overall feeling of the poem. The first is the refusal to separate from each shown by the two pigeons in the poem. ... The second poem I shall explore is called "Song". ...

• Word Count: 2526
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In this section of the poem love is represented as a beautiful thing that can last forever. ... This shows a far less nave, and infinitely more shallow, interpretation of love than he describes at the poems beginning. ... Interestingly, this poem seems to show another aspect of love, apparently unintentionally. ... Overall, this poem, in my opinion at least, seems to show an extremely superficial idea of love, based entirely upon physical appearance and basic human lust. ... If this were the case then the poem could be more about an infatuation, which is an entirely different kind of love alto...

• Word Count: 1276
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The poem "Cousin Kate" depicts a story of a young cottage maiden caught up in the brutal temptations of love and passion that is later cast aside by a great lord of a greater social superiority. ... The power that men had in the Victorian period is presented through the relationships between characters in the poem, as the liberties that women had in this time were limited. ... Rossetti illustrates this poem in a first person narrative so that the narrator can address her questions and moan to Kate. ... One key element in the poem is the climactic points in which tension is built and reduced....

• Word Count: 777
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The poem, "Blues-, by Derek Walcott illustrates the close-mindedness of people: they cannot accept others unlike themselves. Through the poet's inventive and monosyllabic word choice, the poem's intense themes regarding the appalling truths of racism, the struggle of inner peace, and the innocence of youth emerge. ... In the poem the closest we come to knowing the race of the individual occurs when he labels himself as a "yellow nigger-. ... The intense conflict of racism in this poem reveals a startling truth about humanity: we see things not as they are, but as we are. ... ...

• Word Count: 595
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While Browning's poem is traditionally and conventionally a poem about love and admiration, Shakespeare rejoices the beauty of his lover beauty through time. A stark contrast can be observed as both poems focus on different elements of life, namely nature and religion, to facilitate in expressing their views about their loved ones. ... Noticeably, Browning repeats the phrase exactly seven times: perhaps representing the seven days of the week, expressing that she loves the addressee of her poem every day. ... Love, as a theme exists in poems, however differently, implying the many facets...

• Word Count: 1172
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In this poem Donne also uses the phrase, " a heaven like Mahomet's paradise - bringing in the religious language raises the level of reverence he holds for the woman's physical attributes, and so physical love itself. ... This poem is about quietly and peacefully saying goodbye to a lover, and what Donne is saying in these lines, is that lesser people who love, only love with the physical senses. ... This poem expresses a positive attitude toward both physical and spiritual love, expressing that both forms of love are needed to make a more complete love. We can see the shifting a...

• Word Count: 1081
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Unlike many of John Keats' other poems, he writes "La Belle Dame sans Merci" in a simple manner, without extensive explanations of surroundings. Keats establishes a straightforward time of late autumn and starts the poem with the encounter of the speaker with a very pale and miserable looking knight. ... Keats' emphasis on the last lines brings the reader to the beginning of the poem, when "the sedge is withered from the Lake and no birds sing" (47-48) and these last three stressed syllables sound like the last hit of the drum in a song, thus establishing a strong...

• Word Count: 1034
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Donne employs a unique pattern for four- fifths of his poems in this instance there are eight syllables per line; this permits changes in speed, tone, and a dictation of rhythm. The poem is in the context of a dramatic monologue or a conversation. ... Although it was common for the "poem to partake in the extensive tradition of erotic poems centred on flea's", and was not entirely innovative, it still seems odd that a base insect could be used as ordinary imagery of love. ... I think that another message within the context of this poem would be to allow all lovers to be free from the cons...

• Word Count: 1246
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In one poem he praises the feelings of love, "I can go out without my clothes, Naked in my shirt, For fine, true love will keep me safe From wintry blasts." ... He also does this within the same poem, "Tant ai mo cov ple de joya" (Bernart, p136). ... He never would have dreamed of belittling himself in his prose, the way Ventadorn does in one of his poems: "For all my songs aren't worth a jot, Nor my voltas, nor my melodies. ... In a number of his poems, he talks about keeping his measure, and just waiting a little longer for his loved one to respond to his affections. ...

• Word Count: 1140
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Essay Topic: An analysis of the ideological implication of Andrew Marvell's poem, "To His Coy Mistress", in respect to similar themes in William Shakespeare's Sonnets "18" and "73". There is an uncomfortable shallowness of the contextual nature of Andrew Marvell's poem, "To His Coy Mistress" that in some way separates it from several of William Shakespeare's sonnets. ... The first two parts of the poem provide descriptions of two separate worlds of opposition, creating a rather disorientating reaction. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The whole poem is simply an insult to a woman's demeanor and thrives off her uneducated social status. ... The evidence supporting the effect of figurative language, poetic form and carpe diem on the theme of insult and irrationality in Marvell's poem clearly puts the man at fault. ...

• Word Count: 917
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Throughout Homer's The Iliad, Hera's unwavering determination and resourcefulness from the poem's start to finish is a testament to the goddess's character. ... Even though women are portrayed as powerless throughout the poem, in this scene Hera proves that women, in fact, possess arguably the most potent qualities that can overpower even the most powerful of gods. ...

• Word Count: 939
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the poem Nikki-Rosa by Nikki, the narrator reflects back on her youthful life which was full of poverty but full of happiness at the same time. ... In kitty's poem "a Chinese banquet: for the one who was not invited", the narrator receives no support from her mother and neither does her mother offer a listening ear to what the narrator has to say. ...

• Word Count: 1143
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although there are many practical reasons to think about why it is important for me to learn to write well, I also have strong motives to believe that learning to do it help people to get a more developed emotional intelligence. For instance, to do well on class papers or get a better job are some o...

• Word Count: 486
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In sonnet 141 (CXLI), Shakespeare speaks again of physical and emotional aspects of the persona's lover, however this sonnet differs in that the woman's physical appearance and ways of conduct are not appealing at all to the persona. From the start of the first quatrain, the persona declares his l...

• Word Count: 692
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the poem, Hell is shown as nine circles of suffering depending on what you did and serves as different levels of punishment and along in this journey, Dante understands the soul towards God along with the Inferno describing the nine circles of hell being Lucifer, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud, and treasury as he explores hell and meets different people along the way. ...

• Word Count: 1077
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His literature works written over 400 years ago, have survived the challenge of time, so much so that Shakespeare's plays, sonnets and poems are still considered to this day an integral facet within the study of culture, society and language. ...

• Word Count: 1880
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate