Essays on Poems

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Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" as a War Epic

2 pages / 1048 words

In interpretations of Allen Ginsberg's “Howl,” it is common to find the assertion that this wild three-part poem is a diatribe against the evils of capitalism, personified in the poem as the ancient, child-devouring god Moloch. Marjorie Perloff's essay from The Poem That Changed America:...

Allen Ginsberg Poetry

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"The Chimney Sweeper" by William Blake

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[5] htps://www.peacepropagation.com/aspx-quran-and-science-of-geology/ 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 William Blakes somber piece, “The Chimney Sweeper” revealed the underlying injustices of the 18th century. In the dark streets...

Chimney Sweeper William Blake

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Literature in The Arab World

2 pages / 916 words

Of all the different areas of Arabic literature, the one that I find the most interesting is Arabic poetry. Arabic poetry consists of both classical poetry (pre-renaissance or al-Nahdah) and modern poetry. Classical poetry dates back to the 6th century, though believed to be predated...

Introduction to Poetry Poetry

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The Paradox Transition and The Question of Creation in The Tyger

4 pages / 1907 words

In his iconic poem The Tyger, William Blake directly addresses the paradoxically beautiful yet horrific figure with a question: What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? This simple question, wondering how and what divine being could possibly create such a creature, serves...

The Tyger William Blake

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The Values of Dystopian Literature: Analysis of "The Handmaid's Tale" and "The Road"

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Camus wrote that “the world is ugly and cruel, but it is only by adding to that ugliness and cruelty that we sin most gravely”. Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts...

The Handmaid’s Tale The Road

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Women's History Through Literature: Analysis of Plato, Homer and Dante

4 pages / 1748 words

As long as history has been recorded, a woman’s role in society was dictated by man, for a long time women accepted this patriarchy. This arrangement can be seen in different societies and cultures throughout history; after all, the great literature that is studied in...

Symposium The Odyssey

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"Because I Could not Stop for Death": Reading from The Feminist Perspective

4 pages / 1928 words

Introduction Among different topics appearing in literary texts, death is one aspect that many writers will address. For ages, death has been portrayed as an ultimate bad character which is evil, disastrous but sadly inevitable. However in the poem “Because I Could Not Stop for...

Because I Could Not Stop for Death Emily Dickinson

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Dulce Et Decorum Est and Anthem for Doomed Youth: Youth and War

2 pages / 890 words

Wilfred Owen incorporates many techniques in his poems to present his didactic views to the reader. In this case Owen attempts to teach the reader about the struggles of the youth affected by World War One allowing his concern for the youth to be developed...

Dulce Et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen

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The Theme of Anger in Wilfred Owen's Poems

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Wilfred Owen, a war poet, uses a great number of linguistic and structural devices throughout his poems in order to express his anger at the war. In this essay I will focus on three of his works: ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’, ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’...

Dulce Et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen

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Wilfred Owen’s ‘dulce Et Decorum Est’ Against Romanticized Depiction of War

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In Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen uses a variety of literary devices to highlight the monstrous disjuncture between the gruesome reality of the battlefield and the romanticised image of war that circulated through poetry, newspapers, and magazines at the start of the World War...

Dulce Et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen

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A Wild Image of War in Dulce Et Decorum Est

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Wilfred Owen utilises poetic techniques to create vivid imagery, expressing the trepidation and squander of war. This is most prominent in the poems ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ as well as ‘Insensibility’. ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ disruption of the ode form and violent imagery reveal the...

Dulce Et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen

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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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Tragedy and Artistic Detachment in "Musee Des Beaux Arts"

2 pages / 964 words

In ‘Musee des Beaux Arts’, W.H Auden explores human responses towards tragedy across the cultures through the setting details of paintings within the ‘Musee des Beaux Arts’. Whilst the poem might be read as an ode to human resilience in the face of tragedy, the...

Musee Des Beaux Arts W. H. Auden

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The Use of Literary Devices to Establish Main Themes in "The Road"

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Cormac McCarthy uses a variety of literary techniques in “The Road” to establish his views on a wide range of themes. 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...

Literary Devices The Road

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Cormac Mccarthy's Depiction of American Society in "The Road"

9 pages / 4434 words

The 1990s and early 2000s were full of revolutionary changes in society, and heralded some of the changes in technology usage and social norms that still define our lives today. Cormac McCarthy is an accomplished, acclaimed, and rather dark American author who wrote mainly during...

Cormac McCarthy The Road

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Theme of Alienation and The Environment in "The Road" and "Mysterious Core"

6 pages / 2646 words

Cormac McCarthy has created a tradition in American literature of violence and desolation, his work dismembering American myth and replacing it with a brutal, epic and often uncomfortable reality. In The Road McCarthy maintains the hallmarks of his previous work but shifts his focus from...

The Road

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The Survival Challenge in "The Road" and "I Am a Legend"

2 pages / 1063 words

When exploring the challenges and toils of survival, we can easily make a series of comparisons between the design of Francis Lawrence’s and Cormac McCarthy’s post apocalyptic worlds in I Am Legend and The Road, respectively. Both plots involve the main character as one of...

I Am Legend The Road

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Family and The Role of Parents Figures in "The Road"

3 pages / 1510 words

In Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road, family becomes the central theme that shapes the world in the novel. A reader follows the story of the single-parent family: the father and his son travel across the post-apocalyptic land and fight for their survival day by day....

Cormac McCarthy The Road

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A Theme of Pride in The Rime of The Ancient Mariner

3 pages / 1477 words

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a tale in which one simple action leads to a tumbling of catastrophic events. When the Mariner shoots the Albatross, a bird who has brought him and his sailors good fortune, he does so without...

The Rime of The Ancient Mariner