Academic papers on Poetry

Identity in the Work of Olds and Plath
A five page look at Sylvia Plath
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Wordsworth
A five page look at this poem by William Wordsworth. The paper observes that the poem begins by describing the young woman and ends by describing the poet
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Death and Nature in the Poems of Emily Dickinson
A five page paper looking at a number of different poems by this seminal nineteenth-century American poet, in the light of her views about death and its role in the circle of life. Particular poems mentioned are:
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Death and Emily Dickinson
A five page paper looking at Emily Dickinson
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Sylvia Plath/ The Bell Jar
A 5 page analysis of Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar, which compares the female protagonist's coming of age story with that of J.D. Salinger's misfit hero, Holden Caulfield. No additional sources cited.
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Frost
A five page paper looking at Robert Frost
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The Imagery of Joy in Coleridge and Keats
A five page paper comparing Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Odes of Keats and Shelley
A five page paper comparing three odes by John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The paper defines the ode, then looks at Keats
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Theme and Technique in Frost
A three page look at Robert Frost
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Metaphor and Structure in George Herbert
A five page paper explaining the way this seventeenth-century poet uses both the structure of the Elizabethan sonnet and a very dense metaphoric language to show the relationship of the Christian story of sin and redemption to the act of prayer....
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The Poetry of Misery
A 6 page analysis of six poems: Arnold's 'Dover Beach,' Auden's 'Musee des Beaux Arts,' Coleridge's 'Kubla Khan,' Brooke's 'The Soldier,' Shelly's 'Song to the Men of England,' and Wordsworth's 'The world is too much with us.' The writer argues that...
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Love and Romanticism in Blake and Hemans
A ten page paper looking at the way poets William Blake and Felicia Hemans looked at the issue of romantic love in several selected poems. The paper argues that neither writer was really capable of seeing marriage and love as a relationship of...
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Art and Artifice in Pope
A five page paper looking at Alexander Pope
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Cultural Influences on Eliot
A ten page paper looking at T.S. Eliot
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Hopkins
A five page paper on this poem by nineteenth-century poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. The paper critically examines the way Hopkins conveys his Catholic faith through the vehicle of a poem about nature. Bibliography lists five sources.
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