Essays on Poems

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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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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

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Exploring Love and Its Corruption: My Last Duchess, Andrea Del Sarto & Two in The Campagna

2 pages / 1059 words

In both My Last Duchess and Andrea del Sarto, Robert Browning explores the notions of love and its capacity to corrupt an individual’s character and potential through his signature diegetic form; the dramatic monologue. While the form of these two poems is based around an...

My Last Duchess Poetry Robert Browning

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"Her Darling One Wish Would Be Heard": How Dramatic Monologue Illustrates Distorted Rationality in "Porphyria’s Lover" and "My Last Duchess"

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In Robert Browning’s poems “Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess,” the theme of obsessive love is intricately woven into the fabric of the narratives, revealing how distorted rationality can lead to devastating consequences. Both narrators, driven by their compulsive desires, attempt to exert control over...

My Last Duchess Poetry Robert Browning

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Body Language: Injury and Identity in The Odyssey and Oedipus The King

2 pages / 883 words

In describing the characters of Odysseus and Oedipus, Homer and Sophocles both avoid defining these men by typical physical characteristics such as stature or distinctive facial features. Instead, these authors focus on detailing specific bodily wounds that function as embodiments of each character’s identity. Parallel...

Oedipus Rex Sophocles The Odyssey

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The Theme of Recognition in Oedipus The King and The Odyssey

3 pages / 1205 words

The theme of recognition plays an important role in Homer’s The Odyssey and Sophocles’ Oedipus the King. Two key recognition scenes are that between Odysseus and Penelope and that between Oedipus and Jocasta. Many differences can be found between the two, and although they are...

Oedipus Rex Sophocles The Odyssey

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Courage in The Face of Adversity in The Odyssey, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and The Winter's Tale

3 pages / 1469 words

From the substantial body of work that has been examined in-depth during the course, one particular theme that has arisen several times is that of ‘courage in the face of adversity’, such that major characters are confronted with tremendous hurdles that they are expected, and...

The Odyssey

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Characteristics of Two of The Most Known Heroes in Literature: Beowulf and Roland

1 page / 1557 words

Beowulf and Roland are two of the most well-known heroes found within literature. While many know their names and their stories few realize what it is that qualifies them as literary heroes and the ways in which their hero stories compare. Joseph Campbell in his...

Beowulf The Song of Roland

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A Synopsis of The Foundation Text of English Literature, Titled Beowulf

1 page / 2037 words

The foundation text of English literature, titled Beowulf (meaning “man wolf” when translated into the modern language), presents readers with a hero named Beowulf who fights three different battles, each with its own monster. Beowulf’s first battle awaits him when he travels to present day...

Beowulf Joseph Campbell

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Bassani’s The Garden of The Finzi-continis: How Glass Captures and Protects The Beauty of The Past

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Giorgio Bassani’s novel The Garden of the Finzi-Continis is told from the perspective of an unnamed speaker who is recalling his time spent with the Finzi-Contini family prior to the family members’ deaths in the Holocaust. This is an Edenic time, and one that the...

Garden Holocaust The Glass

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Idea of Justice Deletes The Revegeful Thoughts

1 page / 871 words

The Iliad and The Odyssey portray a hierarchical, stringently ordered society, ruled by powerful kings, followed by the masses and sanctioned by the gods. At the murder of Agamemnon, a complete breakdown of the Greek social, governmental, and religious systems occurs, throwing Greek civilization into...

Justice Literature Review The Odyssey

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"Homegoing" and "The Odyssey": Hope Towards Coming Back

4 pages / 1785 words

In her debut novel Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi explores the concept of a home as a function of both family and community: if specific characters are to truly establish a sense of belonging within a region, they must have not only the support of a powerful...

The Odyssey

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The Role of Women in Medieval Literature

4 pages / 1636 words

Perhaps William Shakespeare is right: all the world may very well be a stage, with all the men and women being but mere players. What happens when, despite their exits and entrances, these actors play but one part? For lack of a complete character development,...

Geoffrey Chaucer Sir Gawain and The Green Knight The Canterbury Tales

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Representation of Female Characters in Medieval Romances

4 pages / 1949 words

The manner in which amorphous female identities overlap and echo each other in Gawain and the Green Knight, The Wife of Bath’s Tale and La Morte D’Arthur may appear to represent the ambiguity of distinguishable female personalities in romances beyond their status as ideological representations...

Le Morte d’Arthur Sir Gawain and The Green Knight Wife of Bath

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Christian Obligation and Religious Uncertainty in The Song of Roland and The Canterbury Tales

6 pages / 2957 words

The Middle Ages were marked by religious upheaval in Europe. Two new major world religions were coming to power: Islam and Christianity. The rapid success of Christianity led the Roman Catholic Church to become the dominant religious force in most of the western world, and...

Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales The Song of Roland

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Final Analysis of The Wanderer

6 pages / 2560 words

The Wanderer is a poem that laments both the temporality of human life and the material world, posing existential questions that only appear to be answered in the comparatively short conclusion though appeal to the Christian God. In part because of this structural oddity, critical...

Poetry The Wanderer