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Work Poems, 2005.
This paper reviews two poems "Hard Work" by Stephen Dunn and "What I Wouldn't Do" by Dorianne Laux, which explore the experience of unfulfilling work.
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This paper explains that the poems "Hard Work" by Stephen Dunn and "What I Wouldn't Do" by Dorianne Laux describe work, which is menial, repetitive and boring in atmospheres that are less then ideal, experiences so common as to be nearly universal. The author relates that, in "Hard Work", which is set in a Coca Cola bottling plant in the 1950s before total automation and robots, the narrator's job is to carry empty bottles to the line; whereas, in "What I Wouldn't Do", the narrator tells of a whole string of quite different "drifter" jobs. The paper concludes that the poems present valuable information that working for awhile at a low-status jobs give a sense of what a person wants to accomplish and how to proceed or, at least, a sense of what a person does not want to do for the rest of his or her life.
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"Later, the boy himself with a sense of anger, and emulating what he saw earlier, breaks some of the bottles deliberately, again for revenge and to impress the other men he works with. His "petty act of free will" is a way to get even for all the mindless hours spent on the line working for the riches of someone else. Coke, after all, is the quintessential American product. The Company reaps billions of dollars a year in profits, selling Coke in every country in the world, while the workers suffer hours on end of boredom, low pay, and a body that "hurt with that righteous hurt men have brought home for centuries." The term righteous hurt implies that "hard" work is supposed to be noble, a myth the narrator's father seems to have internalized but the narrator rejects."
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Labor in Two Poems, 2007.
This paper discusses the subject of labor in the poems "The Chimney Sweeper" by William Blake, and "Hard Work" By Stephen Dunn.
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In this article, the writer introduces, discusses and analyzes the poems "The Chimney Sweeper" by William Blake and "Hard Work" By Stephen Dunn. Specifically, the writer discusses how the two poets view labor - young people's labor in particular. The writer notes that both of these poems use labor and work as their central theme. The biggest difference in the two works is the reason the boys must work hard. The writer points out that in Blake's poem, the young boy has been sold to a chimney sweep and lives almost like a slave, while in Dunn's poem, the young boy is not working to survive, or to save his family. The writer concludes that work does not have to be something without opportunity, but when a person has no other choices in life, like the chimney sweep, then work is the very worst thing that can happen to a person, and it can even lead to his death.
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"William Blake's chilling poem is a criticism of a society that allowed young boys to be sold into servitude in an attempt to save a poverty-stricken family, while Dunn's poem shows the boredom and control in a factory assembly line. Both poems take a dim view of hard work such as this, and both show that finding alternatives can make all the difference in a person's life. The young chimney sweep has little choice in his profession, but the young man who works on the assembly line knows that is not the work he wants to do for the rest of his life, and that he has choices to make his life better. The chimney sweep ultimately has no hope, while the boy does, and that is the biggest separation between the two characters. Without hope, the chimney sweep has nothing to live for, while the modern boy has far fewer worries and concerns. He has hope for the future, and with hope, anything is possible."
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The Theme of Death in Poems by Christina Rossetti, 2003.
Details the continuing theme of death in the works of Pre-Raphalite poet Christina Rossetti, focusing on three of her poems and how they relate to events in her life.
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Details the theme of death in three works by Christina Rossetti, a Pre-Raphalite female poet of the Victorian Era. "Resurrection Eve," "An End," and "Love, Strong as Death, is Dead" are all cited, and their themes are illustrated in a review of her own life. All poems used are included at the end of the paper.
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"As a young woman succumbs to the unknown, there is no fear in her lyric. She is unafraid and grateful for the shelter that is provided for her in the dark cover of death, surrounded by the beauty of nature, and away from those who might try to keep her in the ?struggle and horror? of the living. There is certainly no mistaking Christina Rossetti?s voice in her work, nor her deep Romantic ties. Her work was always simple but complex, her dramatic gestures never overt or overplayed. Unlike other Romantic poets, Rossetti?s heavy sigh and grand laments were much more obscure, never over the top. While Rossetti was ?romantically in love with her woes,? (106, Guide) shown in great detail in her many poems dealing with death, she made no real dramatic gestures."
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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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Tennyson's Poems, 2002.
This paper introduces and compares three different poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson: "Faith," "Poets and Critics" and "On the Jubilee of Queen Victoria."
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This paper examines these poems and shows how they represent the different themes that Tennyson wrote about during his lifetime, and yet they all contain similarities. They are all well written works, that convey thoughts and themes that were very important to Tennyson, like how critical people can be of your work, and Queen Victoria and her reign. He often uses references to the natural world in his poems, and these are no exception. The paper examines how Tennyson also uses many references to love and women.
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"Tennyson often writes of women in his poems, and one of the greatest themes he uses surrounding women is their capacity for love, and motherhood. He felt one of the greatest things in the world was love, and this comes through clearly when he writes about women. ??but when he wrote of Victoria, in whom ?a thousand claims to reverence closed... as mother, wife and queen,? or of his own mother as he did in ?Isabel,? he wrote with a power not evinced in the descriptive analyses of the women of his imagination. The women of his brain are pretty girls. The noblest women whom he knew were strong in character and life and love? (Gordon 73)."
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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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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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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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Anglo-Saxon Poems Compared, 2005.
Compares two poems from the Anglo-Saxon era.
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This paper discusses, analyzes and compares two poems from the Anglo-Saxon era. The poems include "The Wife's Lament" and "Wulf and Eadwacer". Each piece of literature is representative of society and culture more than five thousand years ago. Both poems are written from a narrative perspective of a woman mourning the absence of her husband. The poems also depict how woman were owned, controlled and repressed."
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"Around the third century, three Germanic tribes -- the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes -- migrated from other areas of Europe to England as part of a general movement of Germanic peoples who conquered much of Europe, including Rome itself (Gordon 111). During that time, the Celts (or Britons) inhabited England, and they continued to be the dominant people in Scotland and Ireland for several years to come (Harris 205). After the invasion of England, the Anglo-Saxons became the dominant people in the country. They brought along their Anglo-Saxon language (i.e., Old English) and a strong literary tradition that included oral poetry, which was spoken or sung. The Anglo-Saxon Era began in 450 A.D. and ended around 1066 AD (Harris 204)."
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Sylvia Plath's poems, 2003.
Discusses tone in Sylvia Plath's poems "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus".
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Confessional poets often write about their own personal experiences, without filtering painful emotions. One of the 1960s most influential confessional poets, Sylvia Plath, used the anger and grief that stemmed from her father?s death when she was only eight as the subject of many poems. This paper discusses tone in two of the most well-known Plath poems, ?Daddy? and ?Lady Lazarus,? in which she tackles her depression in very different ways. It shows how Plath?s word choice in both poems creates two opposing tones on similar subject matter. In ?Daddy,? Plath is clearly filled with bitterness and rage, but she is almost playful and sarcastic in ?Lady Lazarus.? The paper shows, too, how Plath channels her own personal world of suicidal escape in both poems, but she clearly changes tone in each by selecting words with specific meanings. Biographical information on Plath is also included.
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"Plath conveys this instability in her poem ?Daddy.? Written in 1962, twenty-two years after her father?s death and just one year before her suicide, ?Daddy? is not only an obvious cry for help but also a stream of unabashed rage toward the father who left her, the husband who betrayed her, and the circumstances that ultimately left her alone. Plath chooses words like ?Aryan eye,? ?swastika,? ?Fascist,? and ?devil? to associate with her father (?Daddy? 44, 46, 48, 54). All of these words conjure feelings of hatred and liken the father in the poem to someone like Adolf Hitler, a historical figure whose name is almost synonymous with oppression. This comparison is even more evident when Plath describes her father?s Hitleresque ?neat mustache? and ?bright blue? eyes (?Daddy? 43-44). Plath, as the speaker in ?Daddy,? calls herself a Jew and speaks from the perspective of an innocent who has been wrongly persecuted (?Daddy? 40)."
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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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Cynewulf's Signed Poems, 2008.
An analysis of Cynewulf's use of colophons in his four signed poems: "Juliana", "Christ II", "Elene", and "Fates".
1,221 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 16 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper analyzes Cynewulf's four signed poems. The paper specifically discusses the colophons of the signed poems and describes what they tell us about Cynewulf's poetic practice. The paper cites many examples from the four poems, "Juliana," "Christ II," "Elene" and "Fates" and shows how "Elene" differs from his other three signed poems.
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"Cynewulf's self-presentation is ambivalent. He is a sinner and distant from God. Yet he is not fully self-abasing. In Christ II he speaks of himself explicitly as a teacher of men, which he also does implicitly in the other poems, indicating that although he is sinful, he is at least knowledgeable about how a Christian ought to behave. And the act of writing, of educating people and asking their aid, is a deed that may eventually lead to his salvation. He takes credit for the majority of his writing rather than claiming it as divine inspiration. Only in Elene does he involve God in the poetic process. Finally, the very presence of the signatures and colophons indicate a strong sense of himself as a poet. He has worked his name into the poems in such a way that it cannot be removed without damaging the poem. And he has appended personal colophons to four poems in contrast to any of their original sources. Although he has failings as a man, Cynewulf conceives of his poetry as a means to salvation."
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An Analysis of Four Poems, 2004.
Considers the work of two poets, Gerard Manley Hopkins and W.B. Yeats, and analyzes two poems from each poet.
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This paper describes and compares the form, style, poetic techniques, and effectiveness of four poems. The poems, Hopkins's ?As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame? and ?Carrion Comfort? , and Yeats's ?An Irish Airman Foresees his Death? and ?Sailing to Byzantium?, are considered in detail, and their strengths and weaknesses are described. In addition, the poems are rated as either effective or ineffective.
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"This first line describes a strong wind removing the chaff from the wheat, so the grain can be seen. This represents how the suffering may have been positive, in that it pushed away the outer layer to reveal the poet?s good character. The poet then asks who he should cheer. First, he wonders if he should cheer God when God has made him suffer. Then he wonders if he should cheer himself for enduring. The poet does not find an answer to this question, with the poem ending with him still wondering whether he can thank God for making him suffer. Considering that the entire poem is a narrative of the poet?s journey out of depression, there is a suggestion that at some point later in time the poet will resolve this issue and manage to look back thankfully on what has happened. Overall then, this is a poem that offers hope."
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Sylvia Plath?s Poems, 2002.
An analysis of the influence of popular culture in the poems ?The Thin People? and ?Mirror?.
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This paper discusses two poems by Sylvia Plath, and provides a thorough analysis of each poem. The paper focuses on the influence of popular culture in each of these works. These poems are discussed according to their significance as Plath?s extension of her thoughts on the culture of today?s world, that is, what are the trends, the preoccupations, and social issues that people face today. In particular, the poems show that society is too frivolous due to the high value it places on the ideals of thinness and beauty. The paper includes a brief history of Sylvia Plath.
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"Most works of literature reflects an individual?s culture and society, and it is evident that most of the literary works that were written by popular artists is seen to have traces of the kind of society and culture that artist had lived and encountered. Sylvia Plath is an example of a literary artist that illustrates in her poems a deep influence of the society she has grown up with. "
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Two Robert Frost Poems, 2006.
An analysis/comparison of two Robert Frost poems: "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening" and "Desert Places"
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The paper analyzes the meter of the two poems, iambic tetrameter in the first and iambic pentameter in the second. The writer cites Frost to show that the poems contain much embedded wisdom, including belief in God and understanding of "aloneness". In conclusion, the writer finds that both poems draw extreme wisdom from examples set by nature, and how nature can teach man how to find the answers to his conflicts.
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"Frost relies on simplicity of language, rhyme, meter - the lines rarely diverge from ordinary speech as to seem unrealistically elevated; at the same time, the meter rarely diverges so far from regularity as to seem broken or undisciplined. Yet his poems do convey complex philosophical ideas usually through his heavy use of metaphor. If the reader takes the time to look at the poem figuratively versus literally, he too, may come to his own epiphany which is, according to Frost, the intention of poetry. He believed that both the writing and the reading of poetry must give rise to emotional and intellectual change, saying "It begins with delight and ends in wisdom. . . . No tears for the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader."
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