deliberations -- deeply thoughtful, philosophical ponderings -- about traveling through life and encountering troubling decisions, then asking questions vis-a-vis those decisions. Frost's "The Road Not Taken" turns out to be the road that was taken, although the speaker assures the reader that it was a tough decision. And in Rossetti's "Uphill" the speaker is unsure of the future but must keep traveling even though at the end of the journey the light is fading. Both poems embrace the confusion and even uncertainty about the future, and both are reflective of -- and in a real way they mirror -- how life moves along through time and why intelligent, thoughtful people can have fear of the future and can be troubled as to how and why the future will be kind or unkind to the individual.
Speakers

Poem One (Frost): Frost's speaker lets the reader know in the first stanza that he…...

Swammerdam
Byatt in the novel Possession succeeds brilliantly in the monumental technical achievement of creating a deeply layered romance in which two twentieth century literary scholars, Roland Michell and Maud Bailey, become themselves romantically involved as they investigate a startling connection between the two Victorian poets of whom they have made specialized study. Byatt's feat is an especially remarkable tour de force as she invents and adroitly interlaces the poetic works of both Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel LaMotte into her narrative. This essay will present a critical analysis of Ash's poem "Swammerdam" as it reveals it's intricate intratextual roles in the novel.

Randolph Henry Ash writes the poem "Swammerdam" during the period of time during which he and Christabel LaMotte are initiating the secret correspondence that will develop into the great passion of their lives. Byatt intends the reader to know that Ash aimed this poem specifically at Christabel as audience.…...

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Works Cited

Byatt, A.S. Possession. New York: Vintage International, 1990.

(accessed 8-2-02).

Thematic Analysis:
Irony and the Futility of Existence in the Poems of Stephen Crane and Louise Gluck

Both the poets Stephen Crane and Louise Gluck address themes of angst and despair in their works as can be seen in Crane's "Four Poems" and Gluck's "Snowdrops." However, while Crane addresses this theme in a humorous and ironic fashion, Gluck does so in a much more personal manner. Crane uses a sense of poetic distance between himself and the subject matter to make the topic more bearable while Gluck uses personal anecdotes and speaks with a world-weary voice of personal experience.

"Four Poems" unfolds in a series of short, disconnected anecdotes with a similar theme designed to underline the futility of human existence. The first poem depicts an imaginary dialogue between a man who clearly stands in for all of humanity and the universe:

A man said to the universe:

"Sir I exist!" ?

"However," replied the universe,…...

Shakespeare
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day

The explication of Shakespeare's sonnet, "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" has been done ad nauseum. A quick web search will pull up a million websites dedicated to Shakespearean sonnets, and each of these domains will have its own, slightly different interpretation and analysis of the oft-cited and much praised Sonnet 18. But the reality is the poem says what it says and while some will debate the finer points of the poem (the language, the historical relevance, the imagery, the themes, the dangling modifiers, etc.), the overall meaning is straightforward and easy to apprehend, especially when compared to some of the more unintelligible Shakespearean sonnets (number 108 comes to mind). So, what is the overall meaning of the poem? Allow me to answer that question by doing another, painstakingly banal, explication of "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day.

The…...

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Works Cited

Mabillard, Amanda. An Analysis of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18. Shakespeare Online. 2000.

(11/11/2011) <   >.http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/18detail.html 

Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. NY: Riverhead Books, 1998.

Noiseless Patient Spider
Read "A Noiseless Patient Spider." By Walt Whitman

Then list the repeated words from both parts of the poem

As indicated by the question, the poem is comprised of two fairly short paragraphs. There are two words that are obviously repeated in the first stanza and those would be "mark'd" and "filament." The words of the second stanza that stand out are "surrounded," "till" and "O my soul." "

Then, jot a note or two about why you think the poet used repetition.

In the case of "filament" that is clear a reference to the fact that an actual spider web is an array of many, many threads of spider silk. The use of "mark'd" is probably a reference to how significant this spider's practice is given its vast surroundings and how it continues about its business of spinning webs. In the second stanza, the focus on the vast space is…...

fall among the literary forms of history preservation alongside songs and other literary work. They were and still are a means of conveying the emotions and reactions that one has towards a particular situation. For instance, some poems are currently focused on wars, which might or might not have occurred; it all relies on the poet's preference. Other poems are quite simple and have dived deep into the subject of war, how it started, its causes, and the effects and repercussions of that particular battle whereas others seek to discuss means of avoiding wars. Hence, this paper shall briefly discuss the personal and collective responsibility in race torn Germany in orld ar Two. The poems, which were utilized for research on this topic were "Frozen Jews" by Avrom Sutzkever and "First they came ... " by Pastor Martin Nielmoller.
Historical Context

During the orld ars, Germany had its portion of wins…...

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Works Cited

Geary, Patrick J. Germany. 2016. 12 January 2016 .

Gleason, K. C. "The 'Holocaust' and the Failure of Allied and Jewish Responses: The Logic Of Disbelief." The Journal of Historical Review, Vol. 5, Nos. 2, 3, 4 (1984): 215-239.

Poem Hunter. Poems. n.d. 12 January 2015 .

Emily Dickinson's "After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes," and "Eagle Poem" by Joy Harjo.
After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes

Emily Dickinson is known for her ability -- through her poetry -- to recreate a feeling or an emotion that all humans feel at one time (albeit most individuals are not able to use appropriate language when a terribly hurtful or even excruciating event happens in life). In this poem she doesn't share with the reader exactly what happened to cause such distress in her life, but she doesn't have to share precisely what led to her poetic response, because the poem becomes universal. That is, anyone who has recently suffered a loss, or a tragic incident (someone died in a sudden terrible accident) can relate to Dickenson's poem because through metaphor, simile, irony, prosody (the rhythm of alliteration, for example) and imagery, the feeling is shared with the reader.

In…...

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Works Cited

Roberts, Edgar V., and Zweig, Robert. Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing:

Compact Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education. 2014.

Robert Frost speaker/persona poems. Comparing poems "Stopping Woods a Snowy Evening," "The Road Not Taken," "Acquainted Night." Argue prove position.
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1300-1600-word analytical essay arguing to prove the author Robert Frost did use the same speaker/persona in his poems. Comparing poems "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "The Road Not Taken," and "Acquainted with the Night." Argue to prove my position. Using reasonable evidence found mainly in the poems to make points credible. Underline the thesis in the introduction and the topic sentences in the body paragraphs. When possible use short summaries or paraphrases instead of quotes. Please follow MLA document style for manuscript, in-text citation and works cited.

Robert Frost's lyric poetry depends upon a first-person voice which maintains a consistency of tone even as the lyrics strain to push the concrete details of the verse into a kind of symbolically universal significance. Frost is, of course, well-known for his…...

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In conclusion, the style and concerns are so similar in each of these three poems that the speaker of each must be the same, and we can identify that speaker with an aesthetically-distanced and finely wrought version of Frost himself. If a reader who was otherwise acquainted with the work of Robert Frost -- but who did not know any of these three poems -- were to encounter them for the first time, I think it is safe to say that each of these poems could be confidently identified as Frost's work on the basis of internal factors alone which they share with his work overall. The formalism is a characteristic of Frost's poems everywhere, even in those which are not first-person lyrics. But it is the use of the late Romantic trope of the solitary wanderer -- familiar from earlier writers like Wordsworth, Rousseau, or Byron -- which links these three particular poems together, and it is the particular use of diction and imagery, as well as the obsessions that underlie each, which link them to each other. In each of these poems, Frost presents a consistent lyric voice which expresses the same type of personal solitary vision.

Bibliography.

Frost, Robert. The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged. Ed. Edward Connery Lathem. New York: Holt, 1979. Print.

Death in Robert Frost's Poems
Robert Frost was an American poet who was known for his literary works (poems) that depict the theme of "dark meditations" and psychological complexity in the subjects of his poem, according to an article by the web site Academy of American Poets (1997). The article's reference to Robert Frost's use of theme pertaining to 'dark meditations' will be discussed in this paper, as three poems from Frost will be analyzed in accordance to the said theme. The theme that this paper will focus on is the theme of death, and the poems that will be analyzed for this theme are the following: "Home Burial," "After Apple- picking," and "Fire and Ice." These poems are examples of Frost's dark meditation-themed poems, because all of these poems use the element of death as the primary focus of the narrative of the poem. However, despite the similarities in…...

Poetic Paraphrase of Two Poems of Early Death:
On the Death of Friends in Childhood" by Donald Justice and Ted Kossler's "A Child's Grave Marker"

To paraphrase a poem is to put the poem's essential, but figurative meaning into a clearer, concise, and more prosaic form. Some might deny that paraphrasing a poem can ever render the true meaning of a poem because poetic meaning, by definition, lies in the images chosen by the author, and the rhythms of language used to express that image. However, attempting to glean the philosophic truth and to tease out the construction of a poem, however imperfectly, can be useful for a student of poetry, even if the true greatness of the poem lies only within the text of the poem itself.

With this in mind, it may be said that both "On the Death of Friends in Childhood" by Donald Justice and Ted Kossler's "A Child's…...

Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman
Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night: The strange country of the night

Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman, a 2011 Newbery Honor-award winning poetry volume for children, combines factual prose with soaring poetry to demonstrate to young readers that the night is a strange and wondrous place. Long after the reader has gone to bed, a new world of animals creeps out into the woods to eat, play, and grow. Some of these creatures are terrifying; some of these creatures are timid. But what is most impressive about Sidman's work is the way that she grounds even her most fanciful poetry in facts about the animal's biology and actual living habits.

For example, I had never heard of a primrose moth until reading "Love Poem of the Primrose Moth." In the poem, the natural phenomenon…...

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Work Cited

Sidman, Joyce. Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night. Houghton Mifflin, 2010.

Robinson, hitman, And ordsworth
Poems are often vehicles of personal reflection and expression. Poets often write poetry to communicate their personal messages to the world. Edwin Arlington Robinson, alt hitman illiam, and ordsworth, are three poets who write messages for the world through their poetry. This paper will examine the theme, tone, and literary devices in the poems, "Richard Cory," and "Oh Captain! My Captain!" And "I andered Lonely as a Cloud."

These poems focus on themes of a serious nature. For example, Robinson's poem, "Richard Cory," we are presented with the subject of suicide committed by an individual that was rich and considered by the townspeople to be "everything/To make us wish that we were in his place" (Robinson 11-2). Richard Cory was a gentleman yet the town envied him because he was rich and "admirably schooled in every grace" (10). The poet also describes how the townspeople worked through the…...

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Works Cited

Robinson, Edwin Arlington. "Richard Cory." Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Kennedy, X.J., et al., eds. New York: Longman Publishers. 2002.

Whitman, Walt. "Oh Captain! My Captain." Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Kennedy, X.J., et al., eds. New York: Longman Publishers. 2002.

Wordsworth, William. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud." Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Kennedy, X.J., et al., eds. New York: Longman Publishers. 2002.

spread of Islamic culture came the spread of Arabic language all the way to Mesopotamia. The writer or writers of the Hanged Poems came from the extent and influence of Islam after 622 CE. From here the use of Arabic language in poetry became popular, seen in the Qu'ran, and places that demonstrated Islamic religion. The origins of the Hanged Poems comes from ka'aba, a temple in Mecca, central shrine of Islam, which possessed on its walls a variety of poems, "hanged" on the walls that show a different era and maybe reveals how or why some of the works are still mentioned and discussed today. Some of these "hanged poems," "The Poem of Imru- Ul- Quais" and "The Poem of Antar" were permitted to endure after the Muslim order was recognized because it provided valuable insight into the minds and lives of Muslims that lived in antiquity.
"The Poem…...

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References

Fordham.edu. 2014. 'Internet History Sourcebooks Project'.  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/640hangedpoems.asp .

Linda Pastan's "Marks" and Marge Piercy's "The Secretary's Chant" use the medium of poetry to provide powerful social commentary. Their respective poems use vivid imagery to convey the constricted roles in which women find themselves: especially as wife, mother, and office aide. These roles are subservient and underappreciated. The women speakers in these poems receive no respect for their hard work. Although Pastan's and Piercy's poems focus on two different aspects of female roles, their poems both convey similar notions related to the subjugation and oppression of women.
Both "Marks" and "The Secretary's Chant" use metaphor to convey the central idea related to the oppression of women; for Pastan the metaphor is school grades; for Piercy the metaphor is office supplies. In "Marks," the speaker refers to the way her husband and children both grade her continually. She receives, for example, an "A" in "last night's supper," and a "B…...

This is seen in entitled "Negation," which is a play on words of the French word for 'Negro" and the English word meaning absence: "Le negre negated, meager, c'est moi:...My black face must preface murder for you." Clarke thus creates his own language as a medium of expressing his message over the course of Execution Poems, a blend of English, slang, African French patter. As well as clearly delineating the voices of his own and his cousins' voices, Clark also occasionally blurs them, as when he notes the fiction of the Geo and Rue he is creating in the poetic cycle, and the question remains as to whose "black face" he is referring to that is assumed to be a murderer -- his own face, or the face of his cousins.
Clarke strives to use the language of the street to give the reader a sense of 'place' and the…...

I. Introduction

A. Hook: Begin with an anecdote or quote that highlights the captivating intersection of poetry and music in Ireland.
B. Background: Provide a brief overview of the cultural and historical significance of both poetry and music in Ireland.
C. Thesis Statement: Clearly state your central argument about the unique relationship between poetry and music collaborations in Ireland.

II. Body Paragraph 1: Historical Collaborations

A. Discuss notable historical instances of poetry and music collaborations in Ireland.
B. Highlight collaborative forms like the Irish bardic tradition, aisling poems with musical accompaniment, and the fusion of traditional Irish music with 20th-century poetry.
C. Analyze the impact of these....

1. Oral tradition: Literature has its roots in the oral tradition, where stories, songs, and poems were passed down verbally from generation to generation, often through storytelling and recitation.

2. Written language: The development of written language enabled literature to be recorded and preserved in written form, allowing for more widespread distribution and longevity of literary works. This marked the transition from oral storytelling to written literature.
3. Cultural exchange: As societies began to interact and trade with one another, literature played a key role in facilitating cultural exchange. Through the sharing of stories, beliefs, and values, literature helped to bridge the....

Choosing Comparative Essay Topics

1. Literary Works:

Compare and contrast the themes and characters in two novels or plays by the same author.
Analyze the similarities and differences in the narrative structure, setting, and style of two short stories.
Discuss the different perspectives and interpretations presented in two poems on the same subject.

2. Historical Events:

Compare the causes and consequences of two major historical revolutions.
Analyze the similarities and differences in the strategies and tactics used by two military leaders during a particular war.
Discuss the impact of two different technological advancements on society.

3. Social Issues:

Compare and contrast the experiences....

1. The Evolution of the Hero Archetype in Literary History:

Explore the development of the hero archetype from ancient epics to modern literature.
Analyze how societal values and cultural influences have shaped the representation of heroes.
Discuss the impact of technology and globalization on the contemporary interpretation of heroism.

2. The Power of Symbolism in Literary Interpretation:

Investigate the significance of symbols in literature, examining their metaphorical and thematic implications.
Explore how symbols enrich characterization, plot development, and overall literary impact.
Discuss the various ways in which symbols reflect the cultural, social, or psychological context of a literary work.

3. The Role....