Essays on Poems

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The Importance of "The Wanderer"

2 pages / 768 words

The Wanderer is a staple of Anglo-Saxon storytelling and has been recited over countless centuries to new audiences. The poem follows the story of a former warrior who is currently living a life of solitude. After the loss of his lord and kinsmen, the warrior...

Poetry The Wanderer

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The Wanderer: Analyzing The Weather as a Symbol

2 pages / 793 words

The weather in “The Wanderer” is reflective of the author’s view of the world following his exile. Throughout the poem, weather is utilized in an effort to paint a picture as wretched and sorrowful as the persona’s view of life. As I read through the...

Poetry The Wanderer

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Boethian Ideas in "The Wanderer"

3 pages / 1458 words

Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy and the Old English poem “The Wanderer” are both testament to the enduring quality of literature. Writing in the sixth century A.D., Boethius discusses such varied topics as happiness, the existence of evil, and the path to God while locked...

Poetry The Wanderer

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Acceptance and Delicate Life History in "The Raven"

3 pages / 1243 words

As the account of his life goes, Edgar Allan Poe was a notoriously dark and depressed man who was always in search of love. When he finally found a marital relationship with his first cousin, she passed away, making his life even more tragic and...

Edgar Allan Poe The Raven

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Main Theme of "The Rime of The Ancient Mariner" and "Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples"

4 pages / 1667 words

Amongst the ideas presented in the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples, the theme of isolation is prominent. Although Coleridge’s poem departs from Romantic stylistic tendencies, it exemplifies many of the ideas which defined the era, while...

Percy Bysshe Shelley Poetry The Rime of The Ancient Mariner

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Values of Feudalism in "The Song of Roland"

3 pages / 1443 words

The French epic The Song of Roland (ca. 1100) loudly echoes the feudal values of its time. As it describes the transformation of France into a Christian nation united by loyalties to the king and country, the epic embodies the spirit of loyalty between a...

Song The Song of Roland

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Manipulation in "The Song of Roland"

4 pages / 1697 words

The First Crusade took place from the year 1096 to 1099. According to Robert the Monk’s retelling of Pope Urban II’s speech at the Council of Clermont, the Pope describes the enemy as, “…a race from the kingdom of the Persians, an accursed race, a...

Literature Review The Song of Roland

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Analysis of Roland's Death

2 pages / 896 words

In the Song of Roland, the protagonist, Roland, faces his death as the end consequence of his self-conceited and prideful actions. In the beginning of the poem Oliver indicated the consistent prideful behavior of Roland in the past. Roland then proves Oliver’s point by fighting...

The Song of Roland

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Main Ideas in "The Song of Roland"

4 pages / 1982 words

In Song of Rowland, the author tells the story of Charlemagne’s attempted takeover of Saragossa, a land controlled by the Muslim king, Marsilla. The poem covers the feud between Rowland and his stepfather Ganelon, as well as the disastrous consequences that come from that feud,...

Book Review The Song of Roland

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Good and Evil in "The Song of Roland"

3 pages / 1467 words

Lines from the first laisse of the epic, The Song of Roland express the focus of the poem: the demise of paganism and the victory of the superior, Christianity through the will of God. “Saragossa . . .held by King Marsiliun who does not love...

Literature Review The Song of Roland

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The Concept of Evil in Islamic and Western European Cultures

4 pages / 1802 words

In our modern world, the frequency of terrorist activity and the ubiquitous threat of attack has greatly affected the way Western culture has come to regard the religion of Islam. Skewed by the media, society’s perceptions have reverted to the views of its European predecessors....

The Song of Roland

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Parenting and Poetic Technique in "My Father’s Song" and "Those Winter Sundays"

2 pages / 901 words

The poem “My Father’s Song” is based on the wisdom and values, as well as traditions passed from old generation to new one. The speaker uses his life experience between him and his father to depict the variation of values and traditions between the old...

Poetry Those Winter Sundays

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Joyce's "The Dead" and Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" Comparison

7 pages / 3320 words

Though James Joyce’s realist short story “The Dead” and T.S. Eliot’s mock-epic poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” both describe a climate of self-conscious emotional inarticulacy and division, the protagonists of each work deny themselves the pleasures of the present by their refusal...

Dubliners Song The Dead The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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A Poetic Call-and-response: The Discordant Intertextuality of Wordsworth’s "The World is Too Much with Us" and Levertov’s "O Taste and See"

5 pages / 2114 words

Literature is not a static, fixed entity, confined to the parameters of its initial creation. Literary pieces are forever evolving, adapting to new cultural, historical and social contexts through the processes of revision and reinterpretation. The grand scheme of literature is best represented as a...

Poetry The World Is Too Much With Us

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Critical Literary Analysis of Coleridge's The Rime of The Ancient Mariner

3 pages / 1290 words

”To account for life is one thing; to explain life another” – Coleridge (Norton p.596) 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 One of the most easily definable...

Poetry The Rime of The Ancient Mariner

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Comparing Presentations of Love in "Havisham" and "Valentine"

2 pages / 1060 words

Carol Ann Duffy’s love poems are often riddled with oxymoronic statements, which affirm the changing nature of love and how it is perceived in different relationships and in different periods of time and life. “Valentine” and “Havisham” are two poems which share similar proposals of...

Carol Ann Duffy Havisham

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Analysis of The Theme of Gender in "Litany and Havisham"

3 pages / 1243 words

Duffy presents gender in the poems Litany and Havisham through society’s views and expectations of women, and the effects it has on them show how being female was harmful to their wellbeing. Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to...

Carol Ann Duffy Gender Havisham Poetry

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Love in Valentine and Havisham

2 pages / 874 words

Duffy explores ideas, thoughts and feelings about love in Valentine and Havisham by commenting on societal expectations of the outcomes and portraying love as unstable, dangerous and likely to cause hurt. Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater...

Carol Ann Duffy Havisham Poetry Relationship

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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