Academic papers on Poetry

Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself' and 'Sleepers'
A 6 page paper contrasting Walt Whitman's outlook on life and the universe in these two poems. It concludes that In 'Song of Myself,' Whitman seems to assume that the other living creatures he observes and celebrates are as awake and exultant as he...
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Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself' And 'The Sleepers' # 2
A 6 page paper that examines the significance of the major images Whitman provokes in relationship to: what he is trying to say and how he says it through the images. The paper posits that the images are the same, in that they reflect the triology...
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Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself'
A 6 page paper that provides an overview of the narration in Whitman's poem, considers the nature of the speaking eye, and discusses the narrator in terms of the effect on the poem. No additional sources cited.
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Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself'
This 5 page report discusses one of Whitman's best known works, 'Song of Myself' and its un-self-conscious celebration of the experience being an American. Most of Whitman's poetry illustrates what can be accurately and appropriately described as of...
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Whitman's 'Song of Myself' vs. Tennyson's 'The Lady of Shallot'
A 6 page essay that compares and contrasts the works of Walter Whitman and Alfred Tennyson focusing particularly on 'Songs of Myself' and 'The Lady of Shallot.' Also discussed are the reviews at the time, i.e., 1855, in contrast to the modern...
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Whitman & Ginsberg
A 5 page paper discussing two separate poems by Whitman and Ginsberg. The first poem is Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself,' and the second poem is Alan Ginsberg's 'Howl.' The poems are discussed in relationship to their depiction of individuality and...
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Whitman's 'Song of Myself'vs. Ginsberg's 'Howl'
A 5 page paper that addresses the individual expectations of each of the authors with regard to these works, their personal experience, and how each saw his solution to the complexity and ambiguity in his personal existence in a nation in which it...
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Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself' vs. 'The Federalist'/ Promises & Perils
A 5 page essay responding to Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself' [and 'The Federalist'] -- discussing how it illustrates that American writers usde a theme of uncertain or shared identity to comment on the promises and perils of American society. Only...
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Transcendentalist Roots In Whitman & Dickinson
A 5 page paper comparing and contrasting the ways in which Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson exhibited the influence of Emerson and Thoreau's Transcendentalism. The ideas expressed are supported by quotes from the literary works mentioned and several...
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Whitman, Hardy, & Moss / Personification Of Objects
A 5 page analysis of three poems that personify objects or objectify humans. The writer examines Walt Whitman's 'To A Locomotive In Winter,' Thomas Hardy's 'The Work Box,' & Howard Moss' 'Pruned Tree.' No additional sources cited.
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William Butler Yeats' "Second Coming"
2 pages discussing Yeats' poem in the context of The Second Coming not really being a second coming of Christ himself, but of a new figure; One who is cruel, bestial, pitiless, etc; No Bibliography.
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William Butler Yeats' "Second Coming" # 2
A 4 page paper on Yeats' "Second Coming" in which the writer attempts to explain the poem's meaning from beginning to end-- focusing on some of the more difficult phrases. It is concluded that the poem was meant to be largely ambiguous and that to...
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W.B. Yeats / Irish Nationalism As Reflected In 'Easter 1916'
A 3 page essay that analyzes the poem in terms of the political climate of the time as well as the literary trends of the day. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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William Butler Yeats' 'Leda and the Swan'
This 5 page essay discusses one of Yeats' best known and most fascinating poems 'Leda and the Swan.' The essay covers the tone, character, situation, and use of allusion, while describing the ways in which Yeats' short poem tells of the fate that...
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Wilfred Owen's 'Dulce Et Decorum Est'/ Not Sweet & Not Fitting
A 6 page explication of this anti-war poem by Wilfred Owen. The writer concludes that to Owen, it is not sweet and fitting to die for one's country; it is vile and inhuman to inspire young people to do it. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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