Academic papers on Poetry

Wilfred Owen's 'Dulce Et Decorum est' vs. Yusef Komunyakaa's 'Facing It'
This 5 page essay compares and contrasts two poems written more than seventy years apart and that both speak to the futility and waste of war. The essay briefly addresses the tone, point of view, and subject matter, as well as proving the point...
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Alfred Tennyson's 'The Lotos-Eaters'
A 10 page analysis of the poem in relationship to the Romantic period and Tennyson's personal relationship to his art. Although Tennyson dealt with romantic views of war and heroes, in contrast to other writers of his day, he felt that poetry should...
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Alfred Tennyson's 'In Memoriam ' / Wedding Motif
A 5 page paper showing how Tennyson used the unusual analogy of a bride leaving her parents' home to reflect on the death of a friend. The paper also shows how this section of the poem (Section 40) fits in with the rest of the work as a whole. ...
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Sir Phillip Sidney's 'Astrophel and Stella' / Structure & Innovation
An 8 page paper on this sonnet sequence by sixteenth-century poet Sir Philip Sidney. It discusses the poetic techniques used in the sonnets --particularly in terms of structure -- and points out that while many of these techniques were innovations...
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Structure In Sidney's Sonnet 72
A 5 page paper on Sonnet 72 from Sir Philip Sidney's long work Astrophel and Stella. The paper explicates the poem in great detail, suggesting that although its poetic expression is lovely, it doesn't really work as a sonnet because its rhyme scheme...
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Unearthing Matthew Arnold's 'The Buried Life'
A 6 page paper on this seldom-studied poem by Matthew Arnold. It analyzes the unusual meter and structure of the poem, and concludes that Arnold has used a very overwhelming and confusing stanzaic and metrical structure to graphically illustrate...
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Images of Grief in Arnold's 'Scholar Gypsy' and 'Thyrsis'
A 5 page paper on these two poems by Matthew Arnold. The paper specifically analyzes the way their imagery conveys Arnold's sadness over the loss of his friend as well as his own advancing age. No additional sources.
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Matthew Arnold/ Dover Beach
A 5 page research paper that analyzes the poem 'Dover Beach' by nineteenth century British poet Matthew Arnold. This analysis demonstrates how 'Dover Beach' expresses Arnold's dissatisfaction with industrialized society and relates the poem to...
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In Memory Of W. B. Yeats
5 pages in length. Wystan Hugh Auden has a most curious use of style within his many works. The manner by which he utilizes rhyme leaves the reader to interpret more than just the author's obvious implications. As well, while his sometimes-morbid...
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Robert Burns' 'Tam o'Shanter'
A 5 page analysis of the poem which Burns wrote in his Scottish dialect. It tells the story of the night that a drunken Tam o'Shanter came face to face with the devil and a party of witches. The writer demonstrates how Burns' rollicking poem is...
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Poetic Devices In the Poetry of Robert Burns
A 5 page paper looking at five of Burns' poems: Of A' the Airts, John Anderson, My Jo, A Man's A Man for A' That, Flow Gently, Sweet Afton, and Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn. The paper looks at the literary devices used, particularly those of...
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Seventeenth Century Poetry / Pleasure, Conflict & Time
A 5 page paper examining three poems by John Donne, Robert Herrick, and Andrew Marvell, in terms of the presence or absence of overlapping themes. The paper concludes that while evidence exists that all three writers incorporated into their poems...
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Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress' / The Time is Now
A 5 page essay exploring the issues of time and the role it plays in seduction in the Marvell poem. The writer ultimately concludes that the poem reminds us to seize our time on Earth for it will come to us only once. No additional sources cited.
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Herrick's 'To Virgins, To Make Much of Time' & Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress / Love and Death
A 5 page paper examining these dual issues as they are presented in Robert Herrick's 'To Virgins, To Make Much of Time' and Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress'. The paper observes that both these poets are haunted by the thought of the passage of...
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To His Coy Mistress / Seizing The Day
5 pages in length. Every mother of every child has admonished the curse of time; if one does not take advantage of what comes one's way at the precise moment that it does, it is likely never to return again. By waiting and hoping one's life away,...
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