This poem is just right. ... If the poem is read just like it is written, line-by-line, then the poem makes very little sense. If one were to interpret this poem like most other poems it would cause a lot of confusion. ... Therefore, sentence structure within this poem is very important and a key factor in understanding the poem. ... Now that this portion of the poem has been unraveled, Soto makes a shift in the poem. ...

• Word Count: 1527
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

I find it particularly interesting when in the beginning of the poem she observes ! ... However, this poem is definitely not that conventional. ... The fact that this poem is written in sonnet form could perhaps mean that Harwood was trying to enhance the meaning of the poem by contrasting it with the traditional sonnet form. ... Within the first few lines of most of her poems we are struck with the graphic and distinct atmosphere of the whole poem. This is clearly seen in the poem "The Violets", a poem about a young girl who has slept the day away, and is very upset to find when she wakes...

• Word Count: 1594
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

We learn, by the end of the poem, that, in fact, he doesn't satisfy expectations. ... The world in which these poems are set is one of secularism and materialism. ... Eliot expresses these anxieties in both poems through the use of a range of symbols. ... Prufrock's self-perception is symbolised numerous times throughout the poem. ... The conclusion of both poems are incredibly important. ...

• Word Count: 1491
• Approx Pages: 6

Dickinson's powerful emotions can be perceived in poem 441, where she speaks of her own writings within her poetry. ... These poems also express her status of being a woman in a man's world. ... This playful poem touches on a theme often used by Bradstreet, discussing her poetry within her poetry. ... Poem 199 states: "This being comfort "then That other kind "was pain " But why compare? ... In Bradstreet's "The Prologue,"" she gives insights which forms a culmination of all her other poems. ...

• Word Count: 1953
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Yeats experienced marriage rejections from her over and over again, which resulted in a great contribution to Yeats's beautiful and sentimental poems. ... In Yeats's late poems, instead of merely depicting Gonne's physical beauty, he emphasized more on revealing the negative side of her extreme beauty. The female figure in Yeats's poems, mostly Maud Gonne in a central way, is endowed with extraordinary beauty and dominated power not only in terms of relationship with the male but also in Irish political events. ... The poem starts with the first rhetorical question: "...

• Word Count: 1252
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This is the second part of a poem written from the perspective of a man thinking of a woman he once loved, a decade after her wedding. From this poem we take out that in the 50's middle class women are beginning to make careers on their own without the help of a male figure. ... From the poem, it is perceived that the man seems to resent having not followed his heart toward the woman he loved. ... On page 632, Rich writes, "And there were all those poems about women, written by men: it seemed to be a given that men wrote poems and women frequently inhabited them. ... In poems, women w...

• Word Count: 1531
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In simpler terms it can be concluded that in this stanza of her poem, Bradstreet is stating how she is obnoxious to those who believe she should be doing the simple duties of a common woman. ... In this section of her poem she is placing a challenge on the Puritan ideal that women can't have a public voice since she is freely speaking her mind when it comes to what women can do during this time period. ... The specific quote is found within the first few lines of the poem and states, Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, who after birth didst by my side remain (Bradstreet 119). ....

• Word Count: 1702
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• 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
• Approx Pages: 9
• 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
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Of course the husband was never supposed to find out about his wife's love of another man, but in nearly all of the poems and lais the beloved was a married woman and the lover a married man. ... The idea of not being in love with the person but of being "in love with love- can certainly be applied to a lot of the poems and feelings present in the 13th through 17th centuries. ...

• Word Count: 1444
• Approx Pages: 6

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

Explore the presentation of the women in ""Much Ado About Nothing"". Shakespeare presents the women in ""Much Ado About Nothing"" according to their role and in time of the past time. They do not have control their own except Beatrice. They are four women in number and descried accor...

• Word Count: 1269
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899) conveys Edna Pontellier's rebellion against nineteenth-century American society's constrictions in feminine roles. The novel's emphasis on Edna's social awakening helps to illuminate societal expectations of women during this time period and the sacrifices they mus...

• Word Count: 1289
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

Chaucer's masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales, reflects a very opinionated view of manners and the behaviors of medieval women. Chaucer portrays two extremes of female conduct during this period through the characters of the Prioress and the Wife of Bath. Through the images and descriptions in the poe...

• Word Count: 1384
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

To Woolf that was "authentic" as it gets, when the towering Library, sparks the thought of Milton's and Thackerey's manuscripts; or similarly the dialogues of men and women, reminds her of poems by Tennyson and Rossetti. ...

• Word Count: 1477
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Michelle Norvell English 111, Donna Ladd Contrast essay- 2/11 The Proof that Men and Women are NOT Alike Men are a mystery to me, and no matter what anyone has said or proven, men and woman are not alike. They are different as night and day. Men think, act, and respond to life in obscure w...

• Word Count: 1333
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Here in the plays of William Shakespeare, poems of Edgar Allen Poe, the stories of Jonathan Swift and/or other predominantly male literary forms, that she encountered would she experience her first taste of true literary art. ...

• Word Count: 1471
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Graduate

WOMEN IN ANCIENT EGYPT Women in the ancient times of Egypt have been depicted in various ways according to different historical perspectives. Their role in marriage life has been discussed in different records thus leading to some different conclusions. It was thought that women had an equal posi...

• Word Count: 1560
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

-Source13 Noble women may have watched torments every lady had her favourite knight and the knights tried to impress the ladies by writing poems and songs for them, normally no relationships came out of this. ...

• Word Count: 1469
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

-Source13 Noble women may have watched torments every lady had her favourite knight and the knights tried to impress the ladies by writing poems and songs for them, normally no relationships came out of this. ...

• Word Count: 1860
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Abigail Adams was a unique woman because she had an education and an interest in politics. She learned how to read, write, and enjoyed reading especially poems. She did all of this at home. She was ahead of her time with many of her ideas. She opposed slavery and believed in equal education for boy...

• Word Count: 1735
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

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

American author Kate Chopin has written two published novels and over a hundred short stories. Most of her stories are set in her hometown of Louisiana and focus on the lives of women. Based on the literary criticisms researched, a lot Kate Chopin's works focused on female emancipation. The era she ...

• Word Count: 1852
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School