Academic papers on Poetry

Poetry
25 pages in length. Poetry is the expression of one's very soul. It encompasses a great many emotions, feelings, and desires that can range from one spectrum to the other. Often represented in poetry are rage, love, happiness, sorrow and despair....
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What Is Poetry ?
4 page paper that describes the essence and development of poetry. This paper presents considerations in regards to poetic themes, styles, and similar development that is present in this vastly diverse literary format. The writer stresses the...
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Edgar Allan Poe's 'Annabel Lee'
A 5 page paper that provides an explication of Poe's poem, while also demonstrating the way he utilizes form to support the themes of love and loss. No additional sources cited.
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Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Raven'
A 7 page explication of Edgar Allan Poe's immortal poem. The paper shows how all the poem's elements -- rhyme, meter, word choice, imagery, and metaphor -- all work together to create an atmosphere of doom. Four sources including poem.
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Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Haunted Palace'
In 6 pages, the writer analyzes, 'The Haunted Palace' by Edgar Allan Poe as a poetic tragedy of grotesque implications. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Edgar Allan Poe's Poetry / Influenced By The Death Around Him
This 6 page essay discusses how the deaths of Poe's mother, stepmother, and wife affected him and were all reflected in his poetry. Specific examples from 'To Helen,' 'Annabel Lee,' 'The Raven,' and 'Lenore' are provided to illustrate this thesis....
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Edgar Allan Poe / How His Life Is Reflected In His Works
A 7 page paper on the personality of Edgar Allan Poe, and how his life experiences fit into his work -- particularly his poems. The writers argues that Poe's obsession with death was simply endemic in the young man's disturbed personality, and his...
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Edgar Allan Poe / Melancholy In His Poetry
A 5 page paper discussing the evolution of melancholy in two of Poe's poems, The Raven, and Annabel Lee. Discusses Poe's life, as background to understanding his works. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Emily Dickinson's Positive View Of Death
A 9 page paper analyzing the aspects of Dickinson's thought which may have contributed to her unusually realistic and healthy view of death. Five of Dickinson's poems are discussed in considerable depth. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Emily Dickinson As A Transcendentalist
A 6 page paper analyzing whether the famous nineteenth-century poet can actually be considered a transcendentalist. Looking at evidence presented in several of her poems, the writer argues that Dickinson would like to have been such, but many of...
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Emily Dickinson & The Utter Pain Of Blank In Her Poetry
A 5 page paper comparing two poems by Emily Dickinson -- 'Pain has an Element of Blank', and 'There is a pain so utter.' The writer concludes that one poem attempts to describe pain in terms of metaphors, while the other attempts to replicate the...
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Emily Dickinson's 'As Imperceptibly As Grief'
A 3 page paper examining Emily Dickinson's poem. This paper looks at how Dickinson is able to use the cycles of the seasons to indicate the likelihood of the ongoing nature of man's consciousness as well. It examines in particular her word choices...
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Emily Dickinson's 'As Imperceptibly As Grief' # 2
A 3 page explication of Dickinson's poem. This paper notes that Dickinson's style strongly reflects the rhythms of the Protestant hymns she heard each Sunday in church. It also shows how she uses her unique ability to look closely at nature and the...
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Emily Dickinson's 'Because I Could Not Stop For Death..'
An insightful 3 page analysis of Dickinson's poem in which the writer describes theme, message, personification and so forth. No Bibliography.
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Emily Dickinson's 'I Send Two Sunsets'
A 4 page explication and analysis of Emily Dickinson's poem 'I Send Two Sunsets.' The paper demonstrates how through a comparison of the creation of a poem to the creation of a sunset, Dickinson creates a radical analogy of a human being's creative...
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