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16522 Poetry Comparison This four-page undergraduate paper analyzes the poems, ?My Papa?s Waltz? by Simon J. Ortiz and ?My Father?s Song? by Theodore Roethke. In his comparative analysis, the author notes that these poems are similar in a number of ways but also different, especially in the characterizations of the two fathers. One is sensitive and gentle, while the other is physical, boisterous in his affection, and seems to only be able to express his love for his son when he is under the influence of alcohol. The poems themselves differ in rhyme scheme but are thematically alike.
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16691 An Analysis of ?My Last Duchess?, by Robert Browning In this paper, we will analyze the poem ?My Last Duchess? written by Robert Browning. Through deconstruction the personality and character of the Duke, we will come to understand what the poet was trying to express, and possibly how this can reflect some timeless qualities of human nature. ?My Last Duchess? is an example of a dramatic monologue. A dramatic monologue is a kind of narrative poem in which one character speaks to one or more listeners whose replies are not given in the poem. The Duke is speaking to an envoy about his first wife who is apparently dead. From what he is telling him, one can conclude that he is arrogant, domineering, and very insecure about his relationship.
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16932 Attitudes Towards Fathers in Three 20th-Century Poems This paper examines in detail three poems about fathers by three 20th century poets: ?Bored? by Margaret Atwood, ?Those Winter Sundays? by Robert Hayden and ?My Papa?s Waltz? by Theodore Roethke. The paper illuminates similarities between the three poems, in that the child is depicted as passive, and the father as active but not necessarily expressive. The attitude towards fathers in these poems is one of unquestionable devotion, but also of regret that the time spent could not have, somehow, been better.
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20221 Across Borders of Time: Treatment of Love as a Theme in Shakespeare?s ?Sonnet 18 This 5-page undergraduate essay examines three authors? treatment of the theme of love across time. Specifically, this essay compares and contrasts the ways that Shakespeare?s ?Sonnet 18" (1609), Elizabeth Barrett Browning?s ?How Do I Love Thee?? (1850) and Denise Levertov?s ?Love Poem? (1978) negotiate the subject of love. This essay suggests that Barrett Browning?s and Shakespeare?s sonnets present a more rational and controlled depiction of love within contexts, while Levertov?s free verse poem depicts a vision of love which is allowed to include potentially controversial subjects, such as sexuality and religion. Barrett Browning?s Victorian poem concerns a listing of the possible ways to love someone, and ends with a declaration that love continues after death. Shakespeare?s Elizabethan sonnet considers comparing the love object to a summer?s day, but finds that such a comparison is problematic because of the changeability of summer. The poem concludes by noting that the speaker?s poem will immortalize the love object. Levertov?s poem uses suggests the things that the love object gives in their relationship. The three texts are obviously quite different in their treatments of their theme. All three love poems, however, suggest the links between love and nature, as well as love and transcendence.
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20326 Poetry Explication ? ?The World is too much With Us? This poem dramatizes the conflict between material possessions and nature, particularly man?s desire to pursue material wealth and in the course of this pursuit the losing of touch with nature, as man becomes consumed with this pursuit. The speaker is speaking from a grassland or meadow as he refers to ?standing on this pleasant lea? (line 11) overlooking the ocean. It?s a calm evening, with the moon shining above as the speaker refers to ?This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon, The winds that will be howling at all hours And are up-gather?d now like sleeping flowers.? (5-7) The speaker explains that despite the beauty in front of him, the hearts of mankind are not moved by it that mankind is too wrapped up in earning and buying material things a ?sordid boon?. (4) In the end, the speaker longs for a time when mankind was more in tune with nature, even if it meant that he would have to revert back to being ?A pagan suckled in a creed outworn.? (10) Then, he feels he could truly appreciate the wonder of nature before him. And return to the timelessness the reference to Proteus, in line 13 represents as ?the everlasting changes united with the ever-recurrent sameness of the sea.? (?Notes?)
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20471 ?The Tyger? and William Blake This three-page paper discusses the meaning of William Blake's poem, The Tyger. The Tyger asks questions that most people ask today. Why does God allow bad to happen. Why do events such as September 11th tragedy, cancer, violence, terrorism, and etc. happen? If God is good, then why does evil happen. A tiger waits to jump on its prey as often evil will jump on its prey. Life is not always all black and white, there are gray areas in life too.
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21644 "Holy Willie's Prayer": An Analysis of Romanticism This three page graduate essay examines the Robert Burns poem, "Holy Willie's Prayer." The author notes that this poem should be considered a work of Romantic poetry, for it features many of the definitive elements of Romanticism described by William Wordsworth in his ?Preface to Lyrical Ballads.? Wordsworth?s observation that Romantic poems must have a ?worthy purpose? and are products of ?the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings? is relevant to this analysis of ?Holy Willie?s Prayer? for it provides the criteria needed to evaluate the Romantic elements in Burns? poem.
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