Essays on Literary Genres

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Spiritual Vs Physical in Anil’s Ghost

2 pages / 984 words

Throughout Ondaatje’s novel Anil's ghost, there are a multitude of allusions to an underlying theme of the struggle between the spiritual world and the physical. Ondaatje does a fantastic job in weaving these two world views into the singular perspective of the reader; it seems...

Novel Spirituality

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Artificial Nature and Natural Art: Spenser’s "The Faerie Queene" and Marvell’s "Upon Appleton House"

6 pages / 2866 words

Many poets draw on the theme of nature to symbolize the message they are trying to convey. In many cases, nature is juxtaposed with artistic design to emphasize the conflict or the relationship between the natural and the human worlds. Millar Maclure clarifies the distinction...

Andrew Marvell Poetry The Faerie Queene

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The Concept Pf Carpe Diem in "To His Coy Mistress" and "To The Virgins"

2 pages / 921 words

To His Coy Virgins Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online Get my essay The concept of carpe diem or “seize the day” is a popular poetic credo. Seventeenth century poets...

Andrew Marvell Poetry To His Coy Mistress

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The Problem with Ambition: Understanding "The Garden" Through Allusions and Close Reading

3 pages / 1425 words

H.C. Beeching proclaimed about ‘The Garden’ that ‘Marvell is the laureate of grass, and of greenery’. This is recognition of Marvell’s desire to explore, effectively, the relationship between man and creation through the analogy of a Garden. However, it is important to note that there...

Andrew Marvell Poetry

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Carpe Diem: Wooing Lovers During The Renaissance (a Close Reading of Poetry)

3 pages / 1357 words

Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” and Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” offer powerful examples of sensual, carpe diem Renaissance poetry. In both poems, the poet-speakers attempt to spur their beloveds into action through various compliments and rhythmic patterns that create a...

Andrew Marvell Poetry

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Wollstonecraft, Barbauld, and The Proto-feminists

3 pages / 1448 words

The Romantic period was one marked by turmoil and deep unrest within England. The morality of the slave trade was questioned, the Industrial Revolution deepened the rift between the working class and aristocracy, and the French Revolution was on the rise in France, drawing the...

Mary Wollstonecraft Poetry

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Logical Form and Formal Logic in Andrew Marvell’s ‘to His Coy Mistress’

6 pages / 2918 words

Dialectical structure is probably one of the major characteristics of all Metaphysical poetry. Donne was the pioneer of this type of poetry, which was marked by erudite scholarship, and difficulty of thought. It is said that a whole book of knowledge can be compiled from...

Andrew Marvell Poetry To His Coy Mistress

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Artificial Intelligence: What Really Makes Us Human

4 pages / 1699 words

“The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.” Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online Get my essay...

Artificial Intelligence Science Fiction

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Self Discovery in Anansi Boys

2 pages / 987 words

In West African culture, Anansi is a cunning god, who takes the shape of a spider. He is known to be a trickster and very deceitful. He is considered the god of all knowledge of stories. In other words, Anansi owns all stories. In Anansi...

Fantasy Literature Review

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The Love Poems of Rich, Marvell and Campion: Realism Vs. Idealization

3 pages / 1473 words

Jordan Reid Berkow Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online Get my essay Personal Response Lambert December 14, 1998 The Love Poems of Rich, Marvell and Campion: Realism vs. Idealization Adrienne...

Andrew Marvell Poetry

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Metaphysical Poets and The Idea of Nothingness

3 pages / 1508 words

‘Annihilating all that’s made/To a green thought in green shade.’ – Marvell Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online Get my essay ‘I am re-begot/of absence, darknesse, death; things which are...

Andrew Marvell Poetry

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Andrew Marvell: The Pastoral, Conveyed

3 pages / 1183 words

Andrew Marvell’s poetry exemplifies an ancient literary genre known as the pastoral. This genre, which dates back to the third century B.C.E., represents the values of the shepherd and rustic life. Marvell’s poems “The Garden” and “The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn”...

Andrew Marvell Poetry

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Redefining Asian American Masculinity in Shawn Wong’s American Knees

6 pages / 2857 words

Even in a globalized community that consists of a blending of many different cultures and races, stereotypes still thrive in the modern day. Two persistent and contrasting stereotypes of Asian American men exist: the first is that they are sexually deficient and weak, physically and...

Asian American Novel

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Ibsen Versus Society: Three Breakthrough Dramas

2 pages / 867 words

Henrik Ibsen: A Playwright’s Journey Henrik Ibsen was born in 1828 to a merchant family in the small Norwegian town of Skien. After his family fell into poverty, he was forced out of his education and, at 15, worked as an apprentice in a pharmacy....

Drama Henrik Ibsen

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Maturity and Independence in "All The Pretty Horses"

3 pages / 1152 words

The journey from childhood to maturity is guided primarily by the search for meaning. In All the Pretty Horses, protagonist John Grady Cole leaves home to find the place where he belongs in the world. Throughout the novel, John Grady chased the ideal vision of...

All the Pretty Horses Maturity Novel

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Literary Analysis of The Poem "Bearded Barley"

2 pages / 794 words

“Bearded Barley” is a poem written by Tacoma Community College professor Allen Braden. The speaker of this poem is an observer, and the audience is commoners or those who under-appreciate the barley plant. The poem goes into detail about the plant by describing the appearance...

Poetry

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Beat

5 pages / 2463 words

Allen Ginsberg’s poetry reflects both the era in which he began to write it and the psychedelia that allowed him to accept his own work as an expression of a higher truth. Usage of the word “psychedelia” refers not only to psychedelic drugs, such as...

Poetry

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Imagery in Ginsberg’s "A Supermarket in California"

3 pages / 1168 words

In “A Supermarket in California,” Allen Ginsberg uses the American supermarket as an extended metaphor for a poet’s mind and experiences. In this supermarket of the mind, the poet can select images and inspirations much as one would search for items on a grocery list....

Allen Ginsberg Poetry

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Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" as a War Epic

2 pages / 1048 words

In interpretations of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl,” it is common to find the assertion that this wild three-part poem is a diatribe against the evils of capitalism, personified in the poem as the ancient, child-devouring god Moloch. Marjorie Perloff’s essay from The Poem That Changed America:...

Allen Ginsberg Poetry