Essays on Poems

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Humanity and Immortality in The Iliad and The Odyssey

3 pages / 1583 words

“Poor things, why did I give you to King Pêleus, 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 a mortal, you who never age nor die, to let you...

The Odyssey

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A Relationship Between The Guest and The Host in The Odyssey by Homer

2 pages / 838 words

Introduction Odysseus’ disastrous encounter with the Laistrygones serves as a useful reference point for analyzing the nature of guest-host relationships in The Odyssey. When compared with his arrivals at the lands of the Phaiakians and the hands of the Cyclopes, a fuller picture of Odysseus...

The Odyssey

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Analysis of The Underworld as Presented in The Odyssey Versus The Aeneid

2 pages / 1152 words

The Aeneid clearly reflects the influence which Homer’s Odyssey had on Virgil’s writing. Among the several common aspects shared by these two epic poems, each author’s depiction of the Underworld provides an interesting basis for comparison. Although the resemblance appears extraordinary at first, several important...

The Aeneid The Odyssey

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The Concept of Piety in The Odyssey and The Oresteia

3 pages / 1504 words

Piety was an important concept in ancient Greek civilization, as it shaped the culture and actions of Greek citizens. What exactly piety means has varied over time, and the definition differs throughout Greek literature. Characters such as Odysseus from The Odyssey and Orestes from The...

Socrates The Odyssey

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Climactic and Anti-climactic Elements in Iconic Literary Works

5 pages / 2223 words

Climaxes are moments of increased tension which signify a central turning point within a text. Anti-climaxes can be defined as moments which subvert expectations as they provide a plot twist which are marked by decreased intensity. This essay reviews climaxes in several works. Made-to-order essay...

The Great Gatsby The Rime of The Ancient Mariner The Road

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The Elements of Light and Music in The Glass Menagerie and Master Harold and The Boys

4 pages / 1839 words

Light and music are two elements of drama that can become significant in developing the plot and characters. Certain playwrights may further incorporate stage lighting including directional lighting and setting lighting in order to not only divert attention to the critical area of the stage,...

The Glass The Glass Menagerie

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A Look at The Character of Lady Lazarus in The Bell Jar

4 pages / 1970 words

“Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.” 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 Sylvia Plath has long been recognized as a poetic...

Lady Lazarus The Bell Jar

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Plath's Use of Humor in Lady Lazarus

4 pages / 2118 words

After the post-humous publication of Sylvia Plath’s Ariel, the poet exploded into the scene of second wave feminism, widely regarded as a victim of her mental illness and the men in her life. While the tragedy of Plath’s life is inseparable from her work, more...

Lady Lazarus Sylvia Plath

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Marriage as a Trap in Lady Lazarus

3 pages / 1300 words

The primary concern of Sylvia Plath’s poem “Lady Lazarus” is how the female speaker views her relationship with men; the emotions associated with her views of sex are equated to death, and the desire for her to die. This metaphor of death, used throughout the...

Lady Lazarus Sylvia Plath

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The Language of The World War Ii in Plath's Poetry

4 pages / 1803 words

The Holocaust is one of the most devastating and incomprehensible events in human memory. The systematic killing of millions of civilians and the attempted erasure of their culture defies logic, and exists outside the realm of everyday understanding. Words associated with the Holocaust or the...

Lady Lazarus Sylvia Plath

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Alliteration and Its Role in "Sir Gawain and The Green Knight"

4 pages / 2113 words

In explanation of Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse, J.R.R. Tolkien said “They depend on a balance and a weight and emotional content. They are more like masonry than music” (59). The original manuscript of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is written in alliterative verse and follows...

Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

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The Symbolism of Characters in Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

2 pages / 1123 words

Arthurian legends served as a means to centralize the Celtic culture and provide the Celtic people with their own myth in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries CE. One such Celtic myth of the late fourteenth century CE is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Many...

Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

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Christian Morals Vs Human Nature in Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

2 pages / 1233 words

While Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, chivalric romance by Pearl Poet, might seem as no more than a tale about heroic quest of the noble knight, an observant reader would notice a number of deeper issues discussed in this work. Perhaps the most curious...

Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

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The Color Symbolism in "Sir Gawain and The Green Knight"

2 pages / 1199 words

Introduction Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is about sir Gawain, a knight of the knights of the round table, who accepts a game from a mystery man called the Green Knight who asks the knights if any knight to strike him with his axe...

Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

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The Theme of Gender Roles in Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

5 pages / 2290 words

Gender in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is caged within a static binary composed of the masculine and the feminine; relative opposites within which individuals are expected to conform to a certain quota of behaviors – for to fit into neither category would seemingly...

Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

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The "Public" Vs The "Private" in Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

5 pages / 2481 words

As Derek Brewer comments, the Gawain-Poet creates an “honour-driven”[1] society. From this, almost everything within Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is assumed to be in a chivalric context, specifically Gawain’s through the romance typically focusing on an individual knight. These given spheres of chamber,...

Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

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The Representation of The Natural World in "Sir Gawain and The Green Knight"

4 pages / 2039 words

In his 1959 translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the literary critic Brian Stone writes of “a Romance both magical and human, powerful in dramatic incident, and full of descriptive and philosophic beauty”. Indeed, this late medieval poem exhibits a rich supply of...

Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

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The Significance of The Chivalric Code in Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

5 pages / 2288 words

“King Arthur was counted most courteous of all.” Line 26 of Part 1, one of the opening lines of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, reveals a society in which people are ranked in accordance with their adherence to a certain code of behavior: the...

Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

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Vision of Dreams and Fractured Narration in The Gawain-poet's Pearl

4 pages / 2005 words

A dream, as we conceive of it in modern thought, is considerably different to the dreams which featured in Middle English dream vision poetry. Where today we might generally think of one’s dreams as an abstract, introspective reflection of individual and personal psychology, the dream...

Sir Gawain and The Green Knight