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The paper looks at the theme of death in the poetry of one of America's great storytellers and argues that his poetry was a means of exploring his own apparent fatalism. Furthermore, the paper argues that Poe uses poetic devices like apostrophe, rhyme scheme and graphic metaphors to express his own philosophical musings on death and his own desire for egress and transcendence. The paper demonstrates how the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe was the one means by which he could probe the dark recesses of his own psyche and articulate his own morbid sadness.

Tags:poe, death, theme

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The writer of this paper examines the underlying theme of death in both works of poetry. In "The Voice" poet Thomas Hardy questions the reality of the voice he's hearing by questioning if ,it is in fact the wind, and not his recently deceased wife. In his poem, Hardy believes his wife is still with him as she speaks to him in whispers of breeze. The poem "The Widow's Lament in Springtime" by William Carlos Williams is full of metaphorical content. From the beginning of the poem Williams describes the extent of grief which is felt by the widow as she finds memories of her life with her husband and cannot bear to gaze upon them. This paper also clearly details the structure of both poems.

From the Paper
"Now, in this stanza Hardy introduces his second thoughts about the voice actually being the voice of his wife. He wonders if it is just the breeze, and a lazy breeze at that, which just seems to catch his attention as it floated past him. In the last two stanzas, Hardy describes the abandonment of his wife if it is the breeze. He describes that if he only hears the wind, then his wife has been cast into a realm where she will never be heard again. Therefore, these stanzas describe the other side of Hardy. He has created an elaborate poem in which his wife is remembered through her whispers to him. Then in this stanza he comes out and says that is could just be the wind. This sets him up to conclude his poem."

Tags:analysis, poetry, literature, death, structure, stanza

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This paper looks at the literary theme of death in a specific historical context. It examines the way death is juxtaposed and contrasted with allusions to violence, life, love and sex, building up a discussion of whether we should ultimately read death as positive or negative in Renaissance poetry.

From the Paper
"Meanwhile, Donne's 'Holy Sonnet 1' begins with death as an imminent threat. It appears as early as the first line with the word 'decay' , which, when we link it to the similar threat of death in 'To His Coy Mistress' with its 'worms shall try that long-preserved virginity' (ll. 27-28), appears almost certainly to refer to posthumous decay. Moreover, the repetition of 'now' (l. 2) twice in the same line and words like 'I dare not' (l. 5) convey the speaker's urgency and fear because of death. However, with closer reading, it may not be simply death that the speaker finds threatening. Towards the middle of the poem, Donne twists the reader's expectations by beginning to mention 'sin' (l. 8) and 'our old subtle foe' (l. 11) as a reference to the devil. "

Tags:decay, gender, holy, love, mistress, religion, sex

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This paper explores the presentation of death in three poems, which are Randall Jarrell's "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner", John Keats "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" and "Pardon" by Richard Wilbur. It is shown that through presenting an encounter with death as an event from which one "awakens", that the three writers wish their readers to also "awaken" to the reality of death.

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The paper discusses two memoirs of childhood, "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt, set in Ireland, and "The Liar's Club" by Mary Karr about a girl's childhood in East Texas. The paper shows how these two memoirs share many common elements-- poetry, savage humor, great emotional pain, bad weather, the wonder of books, the joys and terrors of sex, and ultimately, the redemptive power of love. Above all, it shows that it is the humor that renders the unbearable both readable and even inspiring.

From the Paper
"Liars' Club opens with a singularity rather than a mythic overview: "My sharpest memory is of a single instant surrounded by dark." That frozen instant only unfolds over time it took three decades to unfreeze so that we realize that seven-year-old Mary, nicknamed Pokey, has been raped by a neighbor and at that moment is being examined by the family doctor. And yet the details of this girl's upbringing in a swampy Texas town (which, like Ireland, is beset with hurricanes and bad weather), with a drinking, lying, fabulating, mad, loving family also takes on a quality of the mythic, and achieves its power through humor and poetry."

Tags:Catholic, Pokey, narrator, Irish

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This paper examines a few outstanding poetic elements which three prominent American poets have used to convey the messages they wish to impart to readers. Along the way the paper notes how each poem, while undeniably great nonetheless, uses different tools to become so. The paper is also quick to note how the best poetry, using the work of Tato LaViera as one example, is able to use common place literary devices like repetition in ways that make predictability agreeable.

From the Paper
"Great poetry uses certain techniques in much the same way great fiction uses literary techniques to craft a story or draw a character. This paper will briefly examine three poems - Alberto Rios' "Seniors", Edgar Allan Poe's "The Haunted Palace", and Tato LaViera's "American" - and discuss the dominant poetic elements which animate each. In the end, what should become clear is that there are many different ways of producing memorable poetry in the modern age, and each of these authors does an expert job of finding what is needed to convey the message they wish convey. In Alberto Rios' "Seniors", the reader is confronted with the clever use of both middle and informal diction."

Tags:poetry, elements, techniques

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This paper will discuss the book "The 13th Element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fire and Phosphorus" by John Emsley and seek to review this book on the history of the element Phosphorus. The book reveals many fascinating facts about the many different uses of this common element.

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This paper identifies and discusses in detail the common element shared by Dostoevsky's underground man in "Underground", Ibsen's Hedda Gabler in "Hedda Gabler" and father of Pirandello in "Six Characters in Search of an Author".

Tags:hedda, gabler

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This paper compares specific aspects of Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" to aspects of poetry. This allows Kafka's text to be seen in terms of both epic poetry and lyrical poetry, where the format and the content of the story are compared.

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This paper describes the remaining pieces of the fresco "The Triumph of Death", painted by Andrea di Cione Arcangelo. The paper explains that the subject of the fresco is the effect of the great bubonic plague that decimated the population of Europe during the 1300s. The paper also explains that it is likely that Adrea di Cione Arcangelo, also known as Orcagna, was not the only artist who worked on "The Triumph of Death", as it was common in that era for several artists to work together to complete a work of art.

From the Paper
"Given the state of the civilized world right after the Plague, it is no wonder there is such great confusion about whether Andrea Orcagna actually painted the "Triumph of Death". We have to remember that even in days of the Renaissance to come that a master would do the original mock-up or design for a painting but his apprentices would do the actual painting itself except for a few special touches. If one painter worked on one painting by himself in the early Gothic and before, it is possible that the death of so many apprentices and masters during the Plague forced those painters and other artists alive after the great destruction, that everybody worked on everything together so they could get it done."

Tags:literature, architecture, education, suffering, retribution, horrible, old, woman, cloacked, black, pain