Essays on Literary Genres

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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

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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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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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The Logic of Metaphor in Marvell’s "To His Coy Mistress"

3 pages / 1564 words

Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” was written when Cromwell’s Calvinism constrained liberty and free-will, and the poem exemplifies an unconventional assertion of love and sexual propositioning, while validating the request to yield in sexual activity with three “arguments”, structured into stanzas. These segments of the...

Andrew Marvell Metaphor Poetry To His Coy Mistress

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"The Picture of Little Tc in a Prospect of Flowers" in The Context of Marvell’s Methods and Motifs

3 pages / 1376 words

The Journal of English Literary History indicates that ‘‘The picture of little T.C. in a prospect of Flowers’ is characteristic of Marvell’s poetry both in its complexity and in its subtle use of superficially ‘romantic’ or decorative detail’. The degree in which Marvell uses detail...

Andrew Marvell Poetry

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

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Many poets use the theme of nature to symbolize the messages they wish to convey. Often, nature is contrasted with artistic design to highlight the conflict or relationship between the natural world and human creativity. Millar Maclure articulates this distinction by stating, “nature as what...

Andrew Marvell Poetry The Faerie Queene

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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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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

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‘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

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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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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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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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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

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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. It was here that he...

Drama Henrik Ibsen

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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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An Exploration of Light in August and All The Pretty Horses:

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In both novels, All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy and Light in August by William Faulkner, a central theme of heroism and the expectations placed on the two main characters and other’s surrounding them is presented as a pivotal point for the advancement of...

All the Pretty Horses Light In August Novel

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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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Wildness and Civilization in All The Pretty Horses

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The post-World War II boom that informs today’s world has no place in Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses. The post-war optimism and suburban complacency common to other American works of this period does not figure into McCarthy’s novel, peopled as it is by characters...

All the Pretty Horses Novel

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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