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?Simple Poem for Virginia Woolf?, 2002.
A discussion on the poem "Simple Poem for Virginia Woolf" by Bronwen Wallace.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 39.95
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This paper looks at the Bronwen Wallace's poem ?A Simple Poem for Virginia Woolf? and discusses whether there is a primary acceptance or primary rejection of the aspirations for women?s writing articulated by Virginia Woolf in her essay ?Women and Fiction?.
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"We also see another trait in the poem that may be a reflection of the intellectual freedom. Woolf criticises many past female authors that have succeeded in the style they adopted, masculine in terms of standards and messages, Wallace is not compiling with any traditional standards, she has a style of her own. There are no rigid rhythms or rhymes, on strong patterns, indeed this poem may be seen as the reflections or ramblings of an everyday woman, yet is it still successful in the way it conveys a message."
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"Love Poem", 2003.
Analyzes John Frederick Nims' poem "Love Poem" about his kind and awkward lover.
700 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 24.95
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This paper is a literary criticism of "Love Poem" by John Frederick Nims. The paper addresses techniques used within the poem as well as the underlying meaning of Nims' work. It shows ways in which Nims addresses the issue of his lover's imperfections and yet, despite them, proclaims his love for her.
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"Poetry is the best way to convey love, and John Frederick Nims uses poetry effectively to convey his love for his companion. ?Romantic love can be defined as a deep devotion or affection for something or someone and is often shared between two people. When a love is mutual, lovers find themselves compelled to communicate the love between them, for example, expressing love in a solid form such as poetry? (CliffNotes 1).
John Frederick Nims?s poem ?Love Poem? is a humorously light poem with an underlying love. This poem would make a perfect poem for a clumsy lover simply because Nims says there is more to a person than their awkward faults. Poetry is a prime way to express love, especially using such vivid imagery as John Frederick Nims does in ?Love Poem.? ?And most importantly, we come to understand this poem for what it is? a true love poem?."
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Poem Comparison, 2005.
This paper compares Charles Bukowski's poem "My Old Man" and Nancy Willard's poem "Questions My Son Asked Me, Answers I Never Gave Him".
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This paper explains that Charles Bukowski's poem, "My Old Man" portrays a conflict between a father and son. The complete opposite of this poem is Nancy Willard's poem, "Questions My Son Asked Me, Answers I Never Gave Him", which conveys affection between a parent and child. The author points out that the themes of these poems are different: Charles Bukowski gives the father and son a strong sense of disconnection and refusal of one another; whereas, in Willard's poem, the theme exposes involvement and acceptance between a parent and child. The paper relates that Charles Bukowski creates a sense of misery with the son having a feeling of unimportance; Nancy Willard's poem expresses a deeper meaning of time through life.
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"The imagery created through the questions and answers in Willard's poem, produces an outlook on life relating time. In the course of the parent and son's intimate relationship, it allows them to involve time on the view of life within the questions and answers. Through time the son will find out if butterflies make noise, if he can eat a star, and if the years ever run out. Even the answers given to him are through time. For example the last question asks, "Do the years ever run out?" This question inquires the time in living every day to a year to find his answer. Even though his parent answers, "God said, I will break time's heart", the son must live and learn so he can eventually interpret the answers to his questions."
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Elizabethan and Early Seventeenth Century Love Poems, 2008.
Compares the Elizabethan-era Christopher Marlowe's poem "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" and early seventeenth century John Donne's poem "The Flea".
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This paper explains that Elizabethan-era Christopher Marlowe's poem "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" and early seventeenth century John Donne's "The Flea" share the same theme of romantic love; however, these poems are intrinsically and distinctly different as were the periods in which they were written. The author points out that, though both poem's speakers seek to win over the object of their desire, the ways they go about convincing their love are strikingly different, their images of love are juxtaposed and their definitions and depictions of love completely contrary. The paper concludes that Marlowe's poem describes a romantic love affair, while the speaker in Donne's poem goes in a different direction: sexual gratification.
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'The role assigned to the man and woman of these two poems are quite different. In "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love", the speaker (the man) clearly adores his love, while the speaker of "The Flea" is, essentially, a flea himself. The role of the man in Marlowe's poem is to give gifts and praise and care for his love. The role of the man in Donne's poem is to attempt to persuade his love into having sex with him. The women are treated differently and have different roles as well. In Marlowe's poem, the woman is someone to be put on a pedestal that should be given the finest things nature can provide.'
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Death in Robert Frost?s Poems, 2002.
A focus on the theme of death. The poems analyzed are: ?Home Burial,? ?After Apple- picking,? and ?Fire and Ice.?
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Robert Frost, an American poet, has a group of poems that use the theme of death. Three of these poems are analyzed as examples of Frost?s dark meditation-themed poems, with death the primary focus of the poem narrative. However, despite the similarities in theme in these poems, Frost uses various kinds of situations and concepts of death for the subjects of each poem. This paper discusses the theme of death in the following manner: The discussion of fear and sorrow of death in ?Home Burial,? the fear of death because of unaccomplished tasks here on earth in the poem ?After Apple-Picking,? and life after death in the poem ?Fire and Ice.? Passages from the poems are used as evidence of the themes.
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"The poem ?Home Burial? illustrates the grief and sorrow that a couple feels and experiences after they had lost their child. The poem is a dialogue between the man and the woman, who are also arguing with each other over the death of their child despite the fact that they grieve (especially the woman) and felt sorrow over the death of the young child. The first part of the poem started with the man asking his wife what she?s doing, and the woman displaying a look of fear. In this part of the poem, one would think that the woman is afraid of the dead, especially since they?re in a graveyard. However, a further scrutiny of their dialogue will reveal that the woman is actually afraid of the man, and she?s afraid because the man had caught her in the act of looking over an object, which is actually the ?mound,? wherein her dead child had been buried. The part wherein the man asked the woman about what she?s doing/looking at, and the discovery of the ?mound? where the woman?s child lies gave out a sorrowful cry from the woman: ?Don?t, don?t, don?t, don?t.? The reiteration of the ?don?ts? is Frost's way of expressing the woman?s grief and inability to accept her child?s death. Further into the poem, the conflict between the two, and the woman?s anger on her husband gave out as she pointed the blame to the man for his somewhat indifferent behavior about their child?s death: ?You can?t because you don?t know how/ If you had any feelings, you that dug/ With your own hand how could you??his little grave?? This accusing statement by the woman shows how she was unable to accept her child?s death. Also, the man?s gradually developing fear about the woman?s condition (too much sorrow and grief) had made him also feel fear in a different way, and he acknowledges his wife?s accusations in an effort to calm her and relieve her of her sorrow (towards the child) and grief (towards him). The poem finds resolution in a very uncomfortable and sad way, and the couple does not reach the point of reconciliation when the poem neared its end. In fact, the woman was in the act of leaving the man behind, leaving the man whom she thinks is totally indifferent and does not share with her the sorrow that she feels over their child?s death. The man becomes powerless and defeated, as his wife had left him despite his threats and protests."
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Wordsworth and Ashbery: Two Poems, 2007.
An analysis of John Ashbery's poem "Le livre est sur la table" as a response to William Wordsworth's poem "The Solitary Reaper."
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This paper discusses two poems, "The Solitary Reaper," by the English poet William Wordsworth, and "Le livre est sur la table," by the U.S. poet John Ashbery. The writer analyzes both poems in detail and shows how Wordsworth's poem, in the Romantic tradition, stresses the importance of the human imagination, emotions and perception over rationality and reason, by inciting the reader to fill in the material details that the poet does not provide. Ashbery in his poem also omits the physical details of a woman to play with the Romantic notion that imagination is what gives shape to beauty, but points out the sexual fantasy involved in so doing. The writer explains how Ashbery poses questions to his reader to reveal the flaws in engaging the imagination through a woman, and instead, incites the imagination in a new deductive reasoning way.
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"Wordsworth makes the woman less accessible to that part of ourselves that perceives through sight, yet engages the imagination by omitting particularities. Wordsworth does not use any descriptive diction to create an internal visage of the woman and her physical characteristics in the reader's mind's eye. Interestingly, her pose is the only tangible information we gather from Wordsworth. She is a reaper, bent over her grain, singing. Her song, however, like her physical appearance, is indecipherable to the reader. This omission of physical details is aided by Wordsworth overall use of commonplace diction in the poem. For example, the line "For old, unhappy, far-off things" is simple in construction and simultaneously relies on the reader's imagination to flesh out the lack of description of the "things" he speaks of."
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Edgar Allan Poe's Poem: "Annabel Lee", 2007.
This paper analyzes the poem "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe and notes that the poem shows great symbolism with images and feelings of love and death.
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This paper explains that the most important part of Poe's poem, "Annabel Lee", is the speaker's love for Annabel Lee and how his love is unaffected by her death. The author points out that the word choice in this poem, which uses words that give the feeling of a medieval fairy tale story, is one of the greatest aspects of the entire work. The paper relates that the speaker describes many series of opposites throughout the entire poem, such as the idea from the beginning through the end that the speaker says they are in a "kingdom by the sea". The author concludes that "Annabel Lee" was not a religious prayer or any type of sermon; but rather, Poe wrote this poem with the knowledge that love will stay forever.
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"Many times throughout the poem the speaker tells about how heavenly beings and winged seraphs look down and how they wish they had the same love that the speaker and Annabel Lee share together. There is a possibility that these angels could have caused the death of Annabel Lee, or at least the speaker thinks this is a possibility. Many things such as jealousy could be explanations to why the angels, or devils, would have killed what was a great young relationship between two lovers. In the fifth stanza the speaker directly talks about these beings."
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The Definition of Womanhood through Five Poems, 2001.
An analysis of five poems with the theme of womanhood.
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This paper is an anthology analysis: a collection of poems bound together by a common theme---womanhood. The five poems are womanhood poems written by Erica Jong, Maya Angelou, Anne Sexton, Genny Lim and Elma Mitchell. All the poems talk about womanhood and the differing perspectives of what a woman really is. After selecting these poems, the author analyzes them and relates the common threads they share as well as the differences.
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"The first poem is ?Phenomenal Woman? by Maya Angelou. ?Phenomenal Woman? explores the enigma of womanhood at the most basic level---- a woman?s natural charm. After all, this continues to be a puzzle for all of us. What makes a woman click? What makes her so special? Angelou pieces the puzzle together through her poem. Her view on this puzzle is this: the appeal of women does not necessarily come from appearances. It goes deeper than that. In the first stanza, she says, ?Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. / I?m not cute or built to suit a fashion model?s size.? With these lines, she contradicts the age-old myth that women have to be externally beautifully to have that certain factor. ?It?s in the reach of my arms,? she says, ?The span of my hips, / The stride of my step, / The curl of my lips.? If you think about it, these are universal attributes of women. What makes the difference, however, is the confidence that all these features present. The ?stride,? the ?span? of the hips: these are all features of confidence."
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti?s Poem ?The Portrait?, 2005.
This paper discusses Dante Gabriel Rossetti's poem "The Portrait", which celebrates love, art, the artist and eternity as the poet moves through time while gazing at a portrait of his lover.
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This paper explains that the "The Portrait", a complex poem, operates on two different levels: First, the reader becomes aware of the relationship of the artist and his piece of work; and then the poem probes the connection existing between the artist, his sense of self and how those emotions shape the creation of art. The author points out that the rhyme scheme in this poem is ababccddc, which allows the poem to read smoothly, and the poet's use of words forces the reader to read slowly. The paper relates that Rosette includes the mythological story of Narcissus to further the idea that the poet is just as attached to his art as he is to the memory of his lover.
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"The first lines of the poem introduce us to a relationship between an object of art and the viewer of that piece of art. It is important to note that the poet is speaking to himself because this allows us to see how the poet is not just examining the work of art. The act of looking at his artwork moves him to explore himself as well. The notion of the exploration of self can also be seen when the poet compares the painting to the image he sees in a mirror. He writes, "It seems a thing to wonder on/As though mine image in the glass/Should tarry when myself am gone" (Rosetti 2-4). These statements reflect the story of Narcissus in that when the young man turns from his image, the object of his affection disappears."
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Donald Justice's "New and Selected Poems", 2008.
A review of the poetry book "New and Selected Poems" by Donald Justice.
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This paper analyzes a selection of poems by Donald Justice. Most of the poems that the writer analyzes are in the villanelle format and the writer suggests that it is the required repetition of this format that brings out the emotion of the poem. The writer also notes that Justice's poems pay attention to the detail of craft and work with restrained expertise. The writer further discusses a few poems in detail, and points out that even though we find Donald Justice's poems objective and admirable, they are lacking in self as if he is standing on the outside of them.
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"Upon reading Donald Justice's book New and Selected Poems, I am reminded of Eudora Welty's quote, "Virtuosity, unless it moves the heart, goes at the head of the whole parade to dust." Justice's poems work with restrained expertise. The poems pay attention to the detail of craft, but the detachment of feeling in the verse leaves out the passion of poetry."
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Mary Oliver?s Poems, 2004.
This paper analyzes Mary Oliver?s poems, ?Seven White Butterflies" and "West Wind 2?, and includes the entire poems as the sources.
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This paper explains that Mary Oliver, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, like most Romantic poets, creates a boundary between nature and man and attempts to explain through examples. The author points out that, in her poems, ?Seven White Butterflies? and ?West Wind 2?, the poet demonstrates that humans need to learn from nature a life free from struggle for materialism or dejection. The paper relates that, in ?Seven White Butterflies?, the butterflies represent nature as always being free from threats because nature enables them with the wisdom to extricate themselves from captivity or death.
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"As far as rhythm in "West Wind 2" is concerned, Oliver seems to adopt a style that is free from any formal rhythm. This is what makes "West Wind 2" even more interesting because in four stanzas she manages to first establish trust as evidence in these words "Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without/any doubt, I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me" and then delves straight to the issue of cautioning the youth. There is no formal rhyme or rhythm to the terms used yet one gets the distinct image of a boat rower's dilemma rowing downstream. And the last line, in one smooth stanza, she presents and, at the same time, advises the youth what to do. This gives the finality of the obvious and the reason why she wants to caution one in the first place. Unlike in the poem "Seven White Butterflies", she does stick to syntax but no rhythm is established."
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Spider Poems, 2006.
A comparison of Walt Whitman's poem "A Noiseless Spider" and Emily Dickinson's poem "A Spider Sewed at Night".
1,102 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper explains how these poems present us with images about spiders that work against the common perceptions of spiders. It shows that while spiders are creatures that are associated with fear, Whitman and Dickinson present us with different images of them that are filled with awe and respect. Whitman watches a spider spinning his web and is filled with such a sense of respect that he relates the spinning of a web to his own act of reaching out in the world. Dickinson, too, sees an aspect of her life in the spider's action of spinning a web. The paper explains that through different elements of language and grammar, each poet is able to establish a certain and very different mood about spiders, which is directly related to the feeling each poet experiences.
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"In his poem, "A Noiseless Spider," Whitman uses many words to establish a mood of tranquillity. For example, we are told that the spider is "noiseless" (Whitman 1), and it stands "isolated" (2). In addition, it is marking out how to explore a "vacant, vast surrounding" (3). These words convey a sense of serenity when the poet looks at the spider as it begins its daunting task. The speaker also presents us with an image of a spider that is very deserving of respect. For instance, the words "vast" (3) and "measureless" represent the endless the cycle of life. We also know that the spider approaches his task "tirelessly" (5) and "ceaselessly" (8). With this poem, we can see how Whitman is commenting on how nature is akin to the human spirit. He begins the poem with a general observation of the spider and then relates what he sees to what he has experienced within in his spirit, or soul. We know that the spider is long-suffering in that he launches "forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself" (4) all in an attempt to make his way across "measureless oceans of space" (7). The poet is drawing a parallel between the spider's attempt to reach across the vast space and his own attempt to reach out. Here we see how the poet is apostrophizing his soul."
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Emotional Turmoil in Pablo Neruda?s Poems in the ?Winter Garden?, 2002.
An examination of several poems from Pablo Neruda's collection.
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This paper discusses five poems extracted from the book, namely: ?Homecomings,? ?A Dog Has Died,? ?The Lost Ones Of The Forest,? ?The Ocean Calls,? and ?Many Thanks.? This paper analyzes each poem and discusses what underlying message each poem has for the reader. At the end of the analysis, the researcher establishes the stance that Pablo Neruda?s poems deeply reflect an individual?s emotional struggles, and Neruda voices out this feeling by personifying nature, making them almost life-like, and lets them participate and bear witness to these struggles. This thesis is also supported through an evaluative study of the poems, through a reflection and analysis of the content and flow of though of the poet.
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"The book ?Winter Garden? is a collection of poems that were found and published after Neruda?s death. Pablo Neruda, a pseudonym for Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, is a Chilean poet who is known for his poems that evokes political and social contemplation. He is also a Marxist, and always extends his massage (through his poems) the unjust treatment and struggles of hid fellow Chileans as they try to achieve social freedom and equality. In his collection of poems in the ?Winter Garden?, it is remarkable that much of the poems contemplate emotional struggle or turmoil, while depicting or associating these struggles with nature or any element in the environment. "
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The yue-fu poem: "South of the Walls We Fought", 2002.
Analysis and explanation of the voices used in a yue-fu poem.
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The question of the "voice" of a yue-fu poem is a complicated one given the circumstances under which these poems came to be written. This is a strange poem because it has more than one voice. In fact, parts of the poem are even in the quotation marks that usually separate speakers in prose. In the first section of the poem the voice is that of a soldier. However, it is important to note that the soldier never uses "I" as an individual. Instead, the "voice" always uses the pronoun "we" in reference to the entire group of soldiers in his unit.
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William Carlos Williams' Poem "The Red Wheelbarrow", 2006.
The paper describes the way William Carlos Williams' poem "The Red Wheelbarrow" uses a simple battery of devices and basic vocabulary to convey a multitude of thoughts and images.
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This paper explains that William Carlos William, in his poem "The Red Wheelbarrow", utilizes imagery, symbolism, simplistic structures and a free form style to illustrate the meaning of the poem in both a literal and metaphorical sense. The author points out that the meaning behind the picture created by this poem is left up to the reader to discover by looking for patterns in a deceptively simple sentence. The author underscores that, through these patterns, the readers rediscover the beauty in a simple wheelbarrow, a simple sentence and a simple poem. The paper concludes that the plain red wheelbarrow glistens by the end of the poem, in the calm following a storm, like the reader's glow of excitement after unraveling the mystery of the scene.
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"The structure of the poem is perhaps the most interesting characteristic of it. The simple vernacular is underscored by the structure. Because the sentence is broken into four stanzas, the reader is forced to go line by line, scrutinizing each syllable, looking for meaning. Each word was carefully chosen and packs a punch, as was the author's intention. There are relatively few words, which causes the reader to notice the author's word choice more than if the poem were longer. Additionally, the pauses between each stanza allow the reader to reevaluate the mental image they are creating, as explained previously."
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