One conflict seen throughout Browning's poetry is one of spirituality. His poetry forms a spiritual timeline; it reveals his spiritual influences and opinions. ... The paper will explore Robert Browning's spiritual journey as is reflective in his poetry. ... Browning often traveled to the Flower's house to discuss music, poetry, and aethism (Irvine & Honan, 1974). ... Although there is no available poetry written before his first published work, Pauline, his early aethism is still reflected in his early poetry. ...

• Word Count: 2187
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Islamic Poetry: Poetry and music were seen as equal to Islamic and local bards or wandering minstrels were the keepers of popular oral verse tradition. ... Poetry to Muslims was important in there worship and came second to the Quran. Sufi Poetry: Sufi poetry was founded by followers of Muhammad who wanted to practice a meditative religious life that of Christian and Buddhist. ... The poetry portrays nontraditional religious experiences in life. ...

• Word Count: 1861
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

In an interesting twist on Paine's argument utilizing Aristotle's ideal on poetics, Paine claims that the imagery in the books supposedly written by Prophets is actually poetry. It meets all of the requirements, including being fictitious, extravagant and not fitting within any other category of form than poetry. ... However, he says, the book does not claim itself to be a work of poetry. ...

• Word Count: 1321
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate