Poet Research Papers Samples For Students

Introduction

Philip Freneau’s To Sir Toby chronicles on the slavery experienced on the Caribbean islands. This is because the residents undergo suffering in the hands of the slave masters at the landmass. Freneau applies vivid imagery and expressive language to portray inhuman practices by slave owners. The poet tries to discourage this habit by condemning the actions of the slave masters. For instance, he opposes slavery on every level from acquisition of people as possessions, to labelling them, to brutalizing them like animals. As a result, the poem is useful as it serves as a passionate work about the wrongs of ...

A. Bibliographical research about Robert Frost

1. Childhood and youth of Robert Frost
2. Life twists in later years

B. Career challenges and achievements

1. First steps in literary world
2. Poetry keyline and poetic achievements
C. Writing style and attitudes of Robert Frost
1. Style and peculiar features
2. Major themes
D. Poem presentation
III. Conclusion
Being a renowned American poet, Robert Lee Frost is an eminent figure in the literary world and a distinguished artist with a profound oeuvre of remarkable masterpieces, remembered, nurtured and admired to this date. His life and artistic legacy raise a particular interest and urge to investigate his life story and fundamental factors ...

The Daffodils, also known as ‘I wandered lonely as cloud’, is one of William Wordsworth’s best known poems. It is also possibly one of the most mysterious ones in terms of its meaning and what the great poet was truly implying through this simple, melodious work. Traditional analysts have approached it as a straight forward reflection on nature, a poet’s description of a sight that moved his heart in more ways than he had realized at the time. However, I believe that the poem has much deeper meaning than one first perceives. Wordsworth has made a remarkable statement on human nature, ...

Death has been a recurrent theme in Emily Dickinson’s poems. In the poem, Because I Could Not Stop for Death, too the poet weaves the words to portray the somber inevitability of human life. She uses symbolism throughout her work to create the ambience. The poet utilizes the character of Death in this poem as an extended metaphor. The poem goes on to delve deep into the nature of real death—the greatest truth of human nature. In this poem, the poet describes death as the final destination of life and explores symbolically how death caressingly guides one through ...

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Set in the backdrop of the freedom marches that used to recur in Birmingham, Alabama, against racial segregation, the poem “Ballad of Birmingham” is a simple and direct account of the 1963 bombing at 16th street baptist church that killed 4 young girls and injured many others (history, 2016). Instead of seeking the support of refined poetic words to make this portrayal exquisite, Dudley Randall had opted simplicity over complexity to reach out to as many readers as possible. Using the rhythmic flow of a ballad (generally referred to as Ballad meter) the poet has made the poem worthy ...

The human perception of the world makes the most vivid changes in human minds in the moment of complete unity between the nature of self and the nature of outer. Those who managed to feel this integrity within their beings could never step aside and remain muted. From this very moment, they devote their existence to life, nature, nation, and people. Mostly, their whole life is marked by a constant fight for freedom. Not only do they want to help themselves, but also they try to convey a crucial message of fundamental needs of the society they live in. Their voices “ ...

This paper throws a light on the life of the famous American poet, Anne Sexton. The paper discusses her personal life, career life, her style of writing poetries and reviews she has received with the period of time on her poems.

Anne Sexton’s Personal Life:

Anne Gray Harvey Sexton was a famous poet and playwright of her time. She was born in Newton, Massachusetts. Her father was Ralph Harvey who was a successful woolen manufacturer. Her mother was Mary Gray Staples. She was an unwanted third daughter in the family. She was raised in a middle-class environment. Her life remained uneasy due to the fact that her ...

On the surface, the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight appears to be a simple tale of a knight who accepts a difficult quest and, fulfilling it, returns to the court at Camelot, victorious. However, upon further exploration of the poem, much about its meaning becomes increasingly ambiguous. For example, the poem’s fourteenth century poet could have had a very different intent concerning ideas of chivalry and temptation than a modern reader may assume after reading the poem. Literary scholars argue over the meaning of Sir Gawain in terms of ideas about chivalry, temptation, the role of women, and the place of ...

Robert Hass born in 1941 in San Francisco is a contemporary American poet and has more often been referred to as a California poet; because sometimes his poems tend to have a West Coast based aura and theme. This poet has been recognized as the most celebrated and widely read contemporary English poet. His works don’t only include original writings, but he is also known as a critic and translator for the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz and the Japanese haiku experts Issa, Buson and lastly Basho. His translation of Czeslaw Milosz from “Hymn” goes on to say: “There is no ...

James Mercer Langston Hughes, one of the most influenced writers, thinkers and poets of Harlem Renaissance was born on February, 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. It was that time of twentieth century when America was suffering from great political crisis because of the assassination of President William McKinley. Pathways to prosperity had opened its doors at the turn of twentieth century in America, but Hughes seriously felt that he and his other African-American fellows are excluded from these opportunities. They experienced extreme discrimination in education and employment. Hughes experienced a lonely and bad childhood which had a strong influence on his poetry. ...

Emily Dickinson is an original poet as she used her pen to challenge the existing conventions of poetry. Throughout her poems, Emily clearly experimented with a style of expression that moved away from the traditional styles of poetry and took on a unique style that made her speakers sharp-sighted observers who face the challenges of no escape from their societies. Additionally, Dickenson used her poems as a sword that would serve to liberate the speakers from the inescapable boundaries of the society. Clearly, Dickenson wrote poems that broke away from the traditional rules of poetry which challenged the narrow-minded ...

The poems, “Do Not Go Gently into That Night” by Dylan Thomas and “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickenson, deal with the theme of death. Both poets use figurative devices to compare and contrast their abstract views on death. Thomas rejects the idea of death, and implores his father to fight his impending death. On the other hand, the woman in Dickenson’s poem embraces death as she goes willingly into death’s embrace. In essence, there is no specific way to present poems that share the same theme. Each poet chooses unique ...

Importance of Love in Love is Not All and Since feeling is First

“Love” is probably the most frequent and debatable topic as being identified in the arena of poetry. The majority of the best and extremely renowned poets have presented expressed their thoughts regarding love by means of their poems. It is the actual reason that makes the poetry rich and unique. Many of the poets portray the same issue, but they convey its significance with an entirely different viewpoint. Every poet explains love through his unique style and communicates his emotions and concepts involving love in an entirely imaginative and impressive way. There is an example of two poems written ...

Research Paper

Selected article from a scholarly journal: Coleridge's "Kubla Khan": Creation of Genius or Addiction? By Karen Mahar
In this article, Mahar doubts the creative ability and imagination of Coleridge as expressed in the poem "Kubla Khan." In fact, the author believes that Coleridge’s creativity, in this poem, is not natural, but influenced by opium. Mahar begins by acknowledging the literary abilities and skills of Coleridge as a chief Romantic poet and theorist (Mahar 1). The author further acknowledges that Coleridge’s most famous poems, including Kubla Khan, combine great elements of lyric genius and fantasy; however, the imagination ...

Robert Frost provides an excellent example of a poet who experienced a long career, going from strength to strength. Accessible and down-to-earth, his work still continues to be popular today. Most readers can relate to his work as he focusses so accurately on human experience; his themes have not aged over the years and show no sign of aging in the future. Frost was an American poet who was respected for his portrayals of country life in New England, his grasp of conversational language, and his accurate poetry depicting commonplace people in ordinary positions.
Robert Frost was born on March ...

English

Li Bai, One of the World’s Greatest Poets
In the greater scheme of things, it’s very rare that a poet is published in multiple languages. We may hear of it a lot, especially if you study poetry, but it’s usually the same group of names, from roughly the same time periods; a select hundred or so poets from the last couple centuries. They come primarily from the Western Hemisphere, and primarily in the Western Hemisphere their poetry remains, no matter how great it is. I know it’s great, because I’ve gotten to experience it now that ...

A birthday party was given for Robert Frost when he turned eighty five years old. His publishers, Henry Holt and Company hosted a party on March 26, 1959. The guest speaker at the event was the essayist Louis Trilling. During the speech Trilling referred to Frost as “a terrifying poet.” This comment caused a controversy. In the April issue of The New York Times Book Review the columnist J. Donald Adams criticized Tilling for using that description of Robert Frost. Several people had their angry letters published.

Does Trilling make a good point that Frost’s poems are terrifying? The poems will be ...

Analysis of the Shakespeare sonnets

The 1st seventeen Sonnets send a message to the poet close friend, he has an unknown identity, and he assumes that the friend exists. He is trying to convince the friend to make a move and start a family. The main aim is to install his beauty to the offspring’s that will be born as a result of marriage. The poet says that, “From the fairest creatures, from all beautiful creatures, we desire increase, we want offspring, riper, more ripe (1-10).
The major theme in the Shakespeare sonnets is Love; it conquers all the other themes. Apart from love, there are ...

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Introduction

Art, whether it is performing arts or the visual, has very reflective and philosophical result on the human mind. Art has inspired and shaped thousands of years of the society, as made obvious by the countless galleries, museums, venues and theaters around the whole world to the present day. The art affects each person in a different way, which is true exquisiteness of the art. The art is performed by the artists. The artists have used different mediums as a mode to influence opinion of the people all through the history, for both gracious and crooked reasons. ...

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Imagery in Ben Jonson’s “Song: To Celia”
Ben Jonson was one of the most popular poets of the Renaissance period in England, and he became famous during his lifetime and was awarded the title of the Poet Laureate of England. He remained remembered as a writer consistent in his inconsistency, and varying in his images as a Jacobean Jonson, Regency Jonson, and Romantic Jonson – a diverse and multi-dimensional product of his age (Lockwood 10). Though Jonson was most famous for his comedies and plays, such as Volpone or the Fox, The Alchemist, etc., he is also credited for writing lyrical ...

Much of James Langston Hughes’ work addresses the racial inequality in the United States of America at the beginning of the twentieth century. There are few writers who’s poetry relates this particular subject in such an eloquent and powerful fashion. The work is accessible to most readers, even those who have not experienced racism first-hand. In his three poems, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” “I, Too, Sing America,” and “Harlem,” James Langston Hughes explores the struggles through which African-Americans had to endure in the first half of the twentieth century to be considered equal to white American citizens. ...

The poet combines satire with various stylistic elements to explore the moral divide that reflected within the estates of the fourteenth century English society. For instance, the tower of truth is contrasted with the dungeon of immorality to provide a symbolic distinction between good and evil. The poet illustrates the satirical element in the lives of the different classes of people in this dream. For instance, the tramps and beggars are represented as pretenders whose bellies and bags are crammed with bread (Langland, 13). They are also described as gluttons who still aspire to a false sense of godliness. Hermits and ...

The multicultural society of today exerts pressure on the individuals living in the society to maintain and identify of themselves and live within the context of their class and culture. Today, one can identify at a number of levels and in a different sense, such ethnic, cultural, personal or social sense. As a result, it can lead to conflicting situations and conflict within one’s identity. While an individual’s class is predetermined by birth, he can still achieve a higher position in a capitalist society. Cultures continue to evolve and develop and because of technological advances, the Cultural ...

The two poems, Because I Could Not Stop for Death, by Emily Dickinson and Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, by Dylan Thomas deal with the theme of death. Each poem looks at death in different ways. Thomas does not accept death readily, but implores his father to hold on to life. On the other hand, Dickinson accepts death calmly. Both poets make use of figurative devices such as metaphors, personification and alliteration as they explore their opposing views of the concept of death.

Dickinson creates the feeling that death has compassion and creates a contrast in how ...

The Harlem renaissance is a cultural and artistic movement that changed the nature of African American literature and experience. The poetry of the movement was imbued with personal and third party political and social experiences. There is a raging debate on whether the movement was one of social and political propaganda or that of just the development of art. This paper builds on Du Bois’ assertion that all art is propaganda and should be treated as such. It also explores the claim that the movement was partly a modernist exploit that was aiming at creating a new form of art unique to the ...

The modern world is dominated by technological influences that have seen a change in the lifestyle and behavior of man. A comparison is always made on how the day-to-day life of man is being influenced by the technological developments. This has different impacts on people depending on how they handle the changes. Observing the behavior displayed by man, one can only be amazed at the power of how technology has turned man from being a naturally social creature to a machine like individual. Robert frost is one of the modern poets who has observed the changing trend in man even with the ...

Romanticism is a historical era that began in the late 18th century. Its peak was around 1800 to 1850 when it had a massive influence in Europe. Romanticism is defined as an artistic and intellectual movement comprised of an individual's interest in nature and validation of high emotions and imaginations in expression. Romanticism was a rebellion against the established social classes and conventions. It was a movement established in search of personal freedom in terms of political and artistic elements. Romanticism in particular was a revolt against the age of enlightenment and a reaction to industrialization. Members of romanticism toiled to revive their history and ...

Birds have been applied in poetic imagery since time immemorial. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries apply birds in the same taste and scale. Ordinarily, the common thread in the use of birds is the position it assumes in the poetry. Birds tend to represent two contrasting yet essential matters. That is freedom and captivity. Free birds and their lives have been applied across the centuries’ poetry to represent freedom of the people, of the beauty of love and freedom. On the other hand, the same birds have been applied illustratively to show the concept of captivity. The latter applies ...

Abstract

Throughout history, women have had to struggle to make their voices heard in the public sphere. In many ancient societies, including China, patriarchy was the norm and women were forbidden to be a part of the outside world. Because of the influence of Confucianism and its strict social codes, women’s voices were silenced in history. However, this very social environment gave women a chance to express their feelings, often camouflaged, through poetry. As a result, Chinese literature has become a wonderful storehouse of women’s experiences during the rule of the Ming and Qing dynasties. This essay aims ...

John Donne’s poetry reflects a deep image of religious elements and most of his sonnets are the combination of both Catholic and Protestant. In “The Flea” and “Show Me Dear Christ” John Donne also uses religious imagery. He expresses in implicit way this tactic. HHHHis early poem “The Flea” implies the concept of sexual love; furthermore, it exemplifies unconventional metaphor by which the flea bites two lovers, who are compared on the basis of sex. Moreover, we see a woman trying to resist sexual advances. The speaker with the help of the flea was trying to convince her that the ...

This paper is aimed to give a brief outline of Edgar Poe’s life and a short analysis of one of his famous poems ‘Annabel Lee’ to trace the main peculiarities of the author’s style.
Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most prominent figures in the American romantic literature of the second half of the 19th century. Apart from being a critic, an editor and a poet, he is considered to be a founder of the short story in its modern form. Edgar Poe came from the family of professional actors, who died three years after the poet’s birth, and ...

Presentation and evaluation of three critical approaches to the poem ‘To His Coy Mistress’ by Andrew Marvell – Analysis of each one of these approaches according to the socio-historical context of the era in which each approach was developed – Reflections drawn upon these three approaches and personal conclusion upon their validity
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This research paper will present you with three critical approaches of the existing ones as far as the analysis and interpretation of the poem ‘To His Coy Mistress’ is concerned. The poem was written by Andrew Marvell in the 1650s, which is a literary period ‘ ...

“Seven Islands and a Metro” and “Bombay: Our City”

The United Nations reported in 2009 that by the year 2030, 41% of the population of India will reside in urban areas. Mumbai is one of one of the 20 largest cities in the world with a population of 2.21 billion in 2011. With almost twice the growth overall of the urban population, urban area slums are growing the most quickly (Reliancefoundation.org 2014). These types of housing conditions created by rapid population growth result in numerous problems: poor health conditions and more diseases, increased crime, lessened access to civic agencies, environmental degradation, increase in slum housing, and overcrowding. It is ...

Introduction

Ancient Greek literature refers to the kind of literature that was written in the language of Ancient Greece from the time of the earliest texts to the time of the rise of the empire of Byzantine. The period of Greek literature stretches from the time of Homer to the time of the rise of Alexander the Great (Highet p.2). Mycenaean was the earliest Greek writings written on clay tablets using the Linear B syllabus. The Greek literature was well defined into literary genres that had an essential proper organization with both metrics and dialect. The ancient Greek literature involved ...

Introduction

The ancient city of Troy is perhaps one of the cities that have generated waves of disputes over time, as to whether it has been an actual city or a legendary one. However, due to extensive archaeological research, Troy is a city that indeed existed, and maybe its remains do not bring back pictures of its old glorious days, yet, there is so much to learn from its passage through time. In greater detail:
Ancient Greek epic poet wrote in his infamous epic “The Iliad”: “Generations of men are like the leaves. In winter, winds blow them down to ...

Introduction

Sylvia Plath is one of the most admired and dynamic poet of the 20th Century. She was mostly known for her book the Bell jar which was a collection of poems. Her poetry represented a self loathing and disturbing stance that could probably have been prompted by the tough life she had led as a child and under the care of her authoritarian father. According to Biography.com (n.p), her poetry was “highly acclaimed” due to its “confessional style,” linking her to other confessional poets like Anne Sexton and Robert Lowell. This paper should present facts about Sylvia Plath’s early life, career ...

“The Unknown Citizen” is a poem written by W.H. Auden and depicts a period of significant negative changes in the history of United States. Several references within the poem make it rather obvious and easy to interpret that the target is in fact the Government, but is handled in a light hearted manner. The poem doesn’t attack the government or the bureaucrat directly, but instead uses a very modest and humorous tone to play off these matters (“X. J. Kennedy”).The history associated with this poem is complex and highlighted the distortion of what is obscure and public from those who are ...

In his three poems, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” “I, Too, Sing America,” and “Harlem,” James Langston Hughes explores the struggles through which African-Americans had to endure in the first half of the twentieth century to be considered equal to white American citizens.
James Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902, and died on 22, May, 1967. He was a central figure of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance (Langston). Hughes lived as an African-American, and experienced the racism that existed in America in the early twentieth century. However, despite his suffering, he retained love and compassion for all races ( ...

Intro

Emily Dickinson is an American poet, who is probably the most recognizable name in American poetry. Not much is known of her motivation regarding her poems as only 12 of the 1800 she had written were published during her life time and she left little in the way of explaining her thoughts regarding what she had written. What is known is that she did not think the majority of her poems were worth public consumption and had told her sister Lavinia (Vinnie) to dispose of them after her death. This was probably due to her poems being heavily altered ...

            About 200 million starlings from North America have nobody but one man to thank for their success: William Shakespeare. He improved tremendously from being just a novice from a little town, to a globally honored writer in London. During his short lifetime of 52 years, he completed 34 plays, 154 sonnets, and 4 poems. Also, Shakespeare created new words and phrases that are still used today in 21st century such as bloodsucking. After joining the Lord Chamberlain’s Men and beginning his writing and acting career, William Shakespeare became one of the most successful writers of all time and ...

It has been well documented that Emily Dickinson wrote poetry for herself and her friends, not for publication. Her expression, found in her poetry, is an expression of self, often conflated as thoughts entered her mind from multiple directions creating mature works that bent and formed new visions different and fuller than that original image at the beginning of each poem. Emily Dickinson’s reclusive nature is revealed in much of her poetry. It is in those written lines where she explores her world. Her work, relegated to letters to her friends, was from her soul and not meant ...

The Beat movement that was formed in the late 1940s in the United States and has gained acknowledgement in the 1950s is one of the most important and well-known literary trends that have been in the 20th century in the United States. Modern literary critics consider the beat generation in various guises and forms: as writers existentialists, immoral persons, romantic, apolitical people and bohemians; the most accurate, according to one of the researchers, is to consider the Beat Generation as a motto or symbol of the revolution of American morals.
This literary trend and the three most famous representative ...

The paper is devoted to the problem of ruining the site which is believed to be the ancient city of Troy. In particular, the paper studies historical archaeological evidence of the conflict resulting in the fall of the empire comparing it to mythological description of the war called Trojan in classical epics.
The legend of the Trojan War – the Bronze Age severe conflict between the kingdoms of Mycenaean Greece and Troy, – reflecting Greek invasion on Troas (present North West Turkey), has been striding through the mythology and history of ancient Greece, inspiring the greatest men of letters of ...

When many people think of satire, they understand that it is a subversive approach to a certain social or political issue through the use of irony. Works like the Earl of Rochester’s “A Satire Against Reason and Mankind,” Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal or John Dryden’s MacFlecknoe all make fun of some perceived failing of its audience, whether it be the “Satire’s poking fun at rationalism and reason, Swift’s pointing out of the problems facing Ireland as a result of English ignorance, or Dryden’s ridiculing of his contemporaries’ inadequate literary criticism. However, to what end do ...

William Blake was a famous English poet and painter largely unrecognized during his lifetime, unfortunately. However, as time went by, the society recognized the value of Blake’s writings. Today, William Blake is known as a substantial figure in the history of poetry and arts of the Romantic Age. His poetry is characterized by contemporaries as prophetic and insightful (Clark and Whittaker 91). The ideas Blake presented in his poems were far beyond the understanding of his contemporaries; the poet was ahead of his time. William Blake lived his life as a foreteller contributing to cultural diversity of England in particular and ...

The Romantic Period implies that the period reflects a time of whirlwind and old-fashioned romance. But, it does not. The misconception of the period is common and anyone can make such errors about the true meaning of the Romanticism. The Romantic Era in literature is the period that saw many writers placing fundamental significance on the emotions and on the individual. While the Romantic period lasted for approximately thirty years, it revolutionized the way individuals see literature today. Literary critics points to romanticism as the principal artistic movement in the latter part of the 1700s. The influence of the era ...

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The Rhetorical Function of Carpe Diem in John Donne’s “Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed” and “The Flea”
Carpe diem is a Latin term which is usually interpreted as meaning "seize the day". However, as indicated by the website, <http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/carpe-diem.html>, the phrase actually means "'enjoy the day, pluck the day when it is ripe'" (para. 2). Additionally, the author of the website notes the following: "The extended version of the phrase 'carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero' translates as 'pluck the day, trusting as little as possible ...

"Robert Hayden"

The poem Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden tells about a hardworking foster father who does not get any appreciation from anyone. Robert Hayden was brought up in a poor family and he admired a foster father next door. Robert Hayden attended University of Michigan with H. Auden where he got much influence from Auden to continue writing. Robert also appreciated the work of other poets and his became his role models. Since Robert was black, most of his writings concentrated on race and he had lots of concern with racial expression.
This particular poem was about a father who would wake ...

Introduction

Paul Klee was born on 18th December, 1879 in Munchenbuchsee, Switzerland. He was influenced by and participated in a variety of movements, which included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was an Art teacher in Germany up to 1933, when his work was declared indecent by the National Socialists (Biography.com 1). However, Klee contributed a lot in the field of Art as discussed below.
In 1908, Klee painted a figure study which was entitled “The Artist (Poet/Painter).” This title indicated that by this time Klee had a dual identity but towards the end of that year, his professional goals were only focused on ...

One of the most prolific, incendiary and thought-provoking poets and authors of the latter part of the 20th century, Charles Bukowski firmly established himself as a unique voice in American popular culture. Focusing on the filth and grime of American masculinity and machismo, Bukowski’s works touched on the ‘real’ America, a place filled with alcohol, sex and depravity, taking place primarily in the city of Los Angeles. This highly influential writer has also been the subject of numerous critical discourse, attempting to break down his works into their subtextual and compositional elements to glean greater meaning from them. Starting from ...

Introduction

‘After great pain, a formal feeling comes’ is a well acclaimed short poem by American poet, Emily Dickinson. Dickinson lived an isolated and comfortable life in her father’s house. Emily Dickinson is now considered as one of the most noteworthy American poets but there was a time when she was known for her unique prosaic lifestyle. Only a small number of literary works written by Dickinson were published during her lifetime. She wrote hundreds of poems that were discovered after her death. This paper intends to discuss the poem, ‘After great pain, a formal feeling comes,’ one of the most famous literary works ...

Introduction

Vigil and Dante are main characters in the Divine Comedy poem of the 14th century. Its first part is the inferno followed by Purqatorio and Paradiso in that order. The poem is the author’s allegory of the journey through hell. In the poem, Virgil acts as a guide to Dante’s vigil journey. The poem portrays hell as having nine circles where suffering and torment goes on earth. Symbolically, the divine comedy is a representation of the soul’s journey to heaven. Describing rejection and recognition within the Inferno is the theme of the entire poem. Virgil’s presence in ...

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Eliot’s poem, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” was the author’s first published works. At the time, it was considered unusual as modernism was new. Though the piece seems to centre around the theme of love, the nature of its speaker, and perhaps of modernism itself, leads the reader to an end where the love is never fulfilled. Eliot uses a variety of poetic devices such as symbolism, metaphor and imagery. Furthermore, he uses a concoction of poetic forms within what is, essentially, a dramatic monologue.
"The Love Song of J. ...

Introduction:

Sylvia Plath was definitely a personage of great tragedy yet she was also a person who imbued the feminism of her age and who could not cope with the depression which tormented her life which ended at the young age of 30. She was a poet with a fierce sense of independence and originality but intrinsically very proud of her sexuality and prowess in that area. In fact her poetry can be rather lurid and direct at times showing the way forward for female sexual liberation accordingly. However the situation which really affected her life and eventual suicide was the lack of a father ...

Music and poetry have existed alongside each other for many years. The question of whether poetry is improved by music is an interesting one. People who do not enjoy traditional poetry often find that they have a passion for music with lyrics. Arguably, lyrics are a form of poetry and, through the medium of musical performance, people are able to understand the meaning of the words on a deeper level than if they were to simply read them on a page. Nevertheless, as there are many types of music there are also many types of poetry. Some poetry can be complemented and enhanced ...

Literature

Edgar Allan Poe and his most predominant themes
Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, writer, and editor. He is also known for literary critics. He is one of the most important literary figures in Romanticism from 1840 to 1849. Poe’s work was of such dynamic nature that it has resulted in “massive impact” (3). He has also associated nature with good. Poe’s well-known fiction works are Gothic, and "Metzengerstein" was his first published Gothic tale. Some of his works were also satiric and comic such as “A Tale of Jerusalem”, “The Duc de L’Omelette” (humorous ...

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Introduction
Vampires are mythical creatures that appear in ancient folklores. Most cultures have their own version of the vampire although they share a common characteristic; that is, the lust for human blood. There is no particular gender to the vampire character. Male and female vampires do exists even in ancient literatures, making the vampire one of the most gender neutral characters. The depiction of the female vampire in human culture, however, is an interesting way of looking into the development of women, particularly on how society views women and their social status over the course of time. ...

Emily Dickinson is one of America’s most beloved poets. She wrote of nature, love, and death. It is said that Dickinson wrote 1800 poems, the majority of which were untitled. Dickinson was known to be somewhat reclusive and introverted throughout her life. These traits, however, did not preclude her from observing and appreciating even the simplest forms of her natural surroundings. One of Dickinson’s poems involving nature is “A Bird Came Down the Walk-.” It is this poem that will be discussed here. Dickinson’s poetry is of a personal quality, not only to the poet, but ...

ISLAMIC SUFISM

Introduction
There has been a profound link between the art and the spiritual depth of humans because the true form of art is assumed to be a reflection of the various thoughts, beliefs, and emotions existent in the spirit of the individuals. Religion is a definite medium to address all the above three aspects of humans and therefore, religion has an equally significant impact on the artworks as well. Like all the other prominent religions of the world, Sufism (Islam) is highly capable of reflecting the core facets of spiritual refinement, precision, and profundity in its art forms. The ...

Ching K’o was a guest in Prince Tan’s house, an assassin who would kill for his host and a noble man who did not renegade on his promises.. He was an expert in martial arts, spiritually disciplined and loyal to the core. Ssu-ma mentions Ching K’o in his book Shiji as an assassin who attempt to kill the Chin king failed. The short story about Ching K’o is reminiscent of Chinese short stories of that era. The principles espoused in the stories and by the characters share no similarity with their European counterparts and the ...