Essays on Literary Genres

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Deconstructing The Concept of Truth in Dickinson's Tell All The Truth But Tell It Slant

3 pages / 1256 words

Emily Dickinson’s poem “Tell all the Truth but tell it slant” speaks of the universal idea of truth and the notion that truth should be revealed gradually. The language is vague, however, and deconstructs itself in many ways. Lack of punctuation, blurred line structures, and...

Emily Dickinson Poetry

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Themes of Marriage and Gender Roles in Eliot's and Trollope's Works

3 pages / 1499 words

Emily Dickinson’s ‘A Bird came Down the Walk’ and Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ‘To a Skylark’ both utilise the bird as a symbol of nature, with Dickinson’s poem being a violent and abrupt view of the natural world, and Shelley’s poem being more lethargic and the...

Emily Dickinson Metaphor Poetry

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The Idea of Eternity Depicted in Emily Dickinson's Poetry

7 pages / 3399 words

Over the past few decades, a considerable number of comments have been made on the idea of eternity in Emily Dickinson’s poetry. The following are several examples: Robert Weisbuch’s Emily Dickinson’s Poetry (1975), Jane Donahue Eberwein’s Dickinson: Strategies of Limitation (1985), Dorothy Huff Oberhaus’ Emily...

Emily Dickinson Poetry

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Adjusting to Darkness in Dickinson's Poem

3 pages / 1330 words

In Emily Dickinson’s 419th untitled poem, more commonly known by its first line, “We grow accustomed to the Dark-“, the speaker describes two distinct situations in which people must gradually adjust to “darkness”. The first portion is fairly lucid, using concrete images to portray a...

Emily Dickinson Poetry

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Literary Analysis of Wilfred Owen's Poem on My Songs

2 pages / 910 words

In “On My Songs”, Wilfred Owen gives us an intellectual insight into the emotion of loneliness through the eyes of a young man, newly thrown into the world out of the arms of his loving mother. Owen also tells us of his idolisation of the...

Poetry Wilfred Owen

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The Theme of Rejection in The Poetry of Wilfred Owen and W.h. Auden

4 pages / 1727 words

As poets responding to the turmoil of war, authors Wilfred Owen and W.H. Auden both explore the causes and consequences of rejection. The two men in particular emphasise the psychological impact that war has on human beings who are unjustly cast aside from society for...

Poetry W. H. Auden Wilfred Owen

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Poetry Potential and Risks It Takes: "We Real Cool," "Next to of Course God America," and "Gypsies"

4 pages / 2014 words

In the present day, poetry is often viewed as an inaccessible literary form – one that is made by and for those with a certain education and class background. T. S. Eliot commented that ‘it appears […] that poets in our civilisation […] must be...

Poetry We Real Cool

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Literary Analysis of Whitman's Elegiac Poem

1 page / 794 words

Walt Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” is an elegiac poem in memory of Abraham Lincoln. The poem tracks the narrator waiting to lay a sprig of lilac on the president’s coffin, the physical journey that Lincoln’s coffin takes across the country, and,...

Poetry Walt Whitman

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Allen Ginsberg’s America: Close Reading and Literary Interpretation

4 pages / 2024 words

Through a careful interpretation of A Defense of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Democratic Vistas by Walt Whitman, one can gain a holistic sense of poetry, what it is and what it does, that can be applied to literary texts of all times. One...

Literary Criticism Novel

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"The Wound-dresser" and "Song of Myself": Representation of Equality Question

3 pages / 1474 words

Equality in “The Wound-Dresser” and “Song of Myself” Introduction The theme of equality permeates both “The Wound-Dresser” and “Song of Myself.” Whitman remarks upon judgments that others make and refutes them with his own ideas of impartiality. These manifest particularly strongly in Whitman’s attitude towards...

Poetry Walt Whitman

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When I Heard The Learn’d Astronomer: Poem's Literary Interpretation

3 pages / 1502 words

In the poem “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer,” Walt Whitman writes of a speaker who is exposed to the knowledge of the stars in the sky and the Milky Way galaxies, but is restricted from fathoming a deeper understanding in those observed phenomena. Through...

Poetry Walt Whitman

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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry: Equality Through Differences

3 pages / 1557 words

Walt Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” is a poem that not only exposes the differences within the people and the geography of the nation, but also shows the theme of equality that unites these differences. Incorporating his experience with the Civil War as well as the...

Poetry Walt Whitman

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Literary Analysis of "Give Me The Splendid Silent Sun" by Walt Whitman

2 pages / 974 words

Introduction In his January 6, 1865 letter to fellow writer and self-confessed radical William O’Connor, Walt Whitman states in no uncertain terms that his poetry collection Drum Taps “delivers my ambition. . . to express. . . the pending action of this time and land...

Poetry Walt Whitman

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The Symbolism and Verbs Usage in "When I Heard The Learn’d Astronomer"

2 pages / 1043 words

Propelling subjects into action, inciting inanimate objects into movement; verbs meet and surpass these functions. Without verbs a sentence would fail to be such, a clause would fall in rank down to a phrase or a simple phrase. There are three, generalized categories of verbs...

Poetry Walt Whitman

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A Poetic Vision of Sexual Freedom in The Poetry of Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg

11 pages / 5134 words

Generations of readers and critics alike have denigrated the works of Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg, both equally brilliant poets, separated by a century, yet sharing a poetic vision of both political and sexual freedom, simply because the language and lifestyle represented in their work...

Allen Ginsberg Poetry Walt Whitman

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Civil War and Its Influence on Whitman's Works

7 pages / 3096 words

Introduction In the course of history, there are certain incisive incidents that mark a period, ring in a new era or alter people’s individual lives most drastically. One such incident is the American Civil War (1861-1865), fought over issues such as slavery, cultural differences and...

Poetry Walt Whitman

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The Depiction of Concept of Nature: Comparing Emerson and Whitman

2 pages / 1185 words

For Emerson and Whitman, nature is more than just the trees that line the street, or even the flowers that rest beautifully within the vase. Both men find such a deeper harmony and value within nature, in a way that is very relevant to the...

Poetry Ralph Waldo Emerson Walt Whitman

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The Poetry of Civil War: Whitman and Melville

3 pages / 1459 words

Walt Whitman and Herman Melville were both affected by the Civil War to such a degree that they each published a volume of poetry concerning the conflict. Although both men confront similar issues and feelings, particular in their poems about death, they do so through...

Poetry Walt Whitman

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Deconstruction of Definition of Self in Whitman's Poem

4 pages / 1783 words

In 1917 Marcel Duchamp took a urinal, detached it from its usual setting, entitled it “Fountain” and called it art. By putting such a common, unglamorous object in this innovative context, Duchamp raised a new awareness of the urinal. Its familiarities dissipated as it was...

Poetry Walt Whitman