Essays on Poems

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Mccarthy’s "The Road": Post-apocalyptic Story

4 pages / 1787 words

“When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he’d reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Nights dark beyond darkness and the days grayer each one than what had gone before. Like the onset of some...

Cormac McCarthy The Road

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The Conflict of The Frustration of Poets in Introduction to Poetry, a Poem by Billy Collins

1 page / 561 words

Billy Collin’s poem, Introduction to Poetry, dramatizes conflict of poets’ frustration when their work is overanalyzed instead of being enjoyed. More specifically, this poem’s narrator stresses the author’s intent of providing open-ended messages when writing poetry while audiences fail to appreciate poetry properly, instead seeing...

Introduction to Poetry Poetry

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Hero in The Odyssey: The Unheroic Traits of Odysseus in Homer's Epic

1 page / 995 words

Selflessness, trustworthiness, and sacrificial may be words to describe a hero. In The Odyssey by Homer, despite being portrayed as a hero, Odysseus’ actions seemed to prove otherwise. He shows very minimal traits of being a hero, and thinks more so of himself than others....

Hero’s Journey Odysseus The Odyssey

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Gender in "Sir Gawain and The Green Knight and "Yvain The Knight of The Lion"

4 pages / 1761 words

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by James J. Wilhelm and Yvain the Knight of Lion by Chrétien de Troyes are both Arthurian stories that focus in on the chivalrous tales and adventures of two very brave knights, Gawain and Yvain. Although the stories...

Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

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Transformation of The Redeemer: from Beowulf to The Vicar of Wakefield

5 pages / 2431 words

Within the span of British literature, it should come as no surprise that the themes and motifs which appear in written works evolve in nature. Times, cultures, and peoples change, so it is only natural that the things they write down change as well. An...

Beowulf Character Titus Andronicus

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The Role of Father in "The Gift" and "My Papa’s Waltz"

3 pages / 1259 words

Both the speakers in “The Gift” by Li-Young Lee and “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke look up to their fathers with wide-eyed admiration. Comparing these two poems, we can say that what stands out the most is the similar theme – each boy has...

My Papa’s Waltz Poetry

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Analysis of Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

4 pages / 1641 words

In T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Prufrock is a man who is emotionally in conflict with himself. Although Prufrock is growing old, he feels the need to attract women but scares of being rejected or having an unstable relationship as in...

Poetry T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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Evolution of Attitude in Eliot’s "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

3 pages / 1224 words

Evolution of Attitude in Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” 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 T. S. Eliot’s notoriously opaque “The Love Song of...

Poetry Song The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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The (modernist) Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

3 pages / 1406 words

T. S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock demonstrates several Modernist ideas. In particular, by frequently employing imagery, repetition, alliteration, assonance, rhetorical questions and references, creatively shaping lines and sentences and weaving in ambiguity and uncertainty in his words, Eliot includes Modernist characteristics...

Book Review Poetry The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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Prufrock’s Social Anxiety

3 pages / 1422 words

Though the poem is specifically about Alfred Prufrock, it embodies the idea that every modern person struggles with these social barriers at some point in life. Eliot’s skillful use of repetition, rhyme, assonance, and imagery present a picture of a modern, single man who is...

Poetry The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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A Walk with Prufrock

3 pages / 1415 words

T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is the story a man contemplating emergence from his solitude into the world, a man capsized by the fear of being misunderstood. In this poem Eliot employs the quest motif in an ironic fashion to explore...

Poetry T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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The Self Esteem of J. Alfred Prufrock

3 pages / 1486 words

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Elliot, depicts the thoughts of a modern day Hamlet. It follows, what seems like, the typical evening with Mr. Prufrock. He is a man that often loses himself in his own mind, efficiently losing his ability...

Poetry The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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Prufrock, Paralysis, and Pieces of The Modern City

4 pages / 1952 words

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” depicts an image of the modern city that is marked by paralysis, alienation, decay, and repression. Prufrock is a modern man who can see the superficiality of the social values of middle class society, and yet lacks the...

Poetry The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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Inner and Outer Worlds; The Internal and External in James Joyce’s ‘ulysses’ and The Poetry of T. S. Eliot

6 pages / 2650 words

In the novel Ulysses, a hallmark of modernist writing, James Joyce presents to the reader a particular relationship between inner and outer worlds, blurring the distinction between the internal consciousness’s of his characters and the externality of the world around them. The two become intrinsically...

Poetry The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Ulysses

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The Unreachable Prufrock

4 pages / 1808 words

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is at once a comic poem as well as a trenchant satire on the low aspects of urban life. Its speaker, a man going bald and self-conscious about his every gesture, represents a sexual as well as spiritual...

Poetry The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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A Close Reading of T.s. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

5 pages / 2461 words

T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a modern journey into and dissection of the mind of a society man, J. Alfred Prufrock. Prufrock is pushed in two opposite directions by his desires: his desire to have the favor of the woman...

Poetry T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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Sum of Parts in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

3 pages / 1271 words

These twelve lines capture the essence of all that is phenomenal about the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and the author T.S.Eliot. In these lines we see the carefully chosen allusions, repetition, lyricism, and maintenance of ambiguity that distinguishes Eliot from other...

Literature Review Poetry The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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An Old Regret: Analyzing "Those Winter Sundays

1 page / 755 words

Robert Hayden described the relationship between his father and younger self in his poem “Those Winter Sundays.” Robert Hayden grew up in a poor neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan. Since his parents left him with family friends, he grew up with that family and didn’t know...

Poetry Those Winter Sundays

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The Power of Voice in "My Last Duchess"

3 pages / 1747 words

“My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning is a Victorian poem that demonstrates the power of voice. This poem is narrated by the Duke of Ferrara who uses his voice to gain control of those around him. He even speaks for his deceased wife, only explaining...

My Last Duchess Robert Browning Voice