Academic papers on Poetry

Frost
This five page paper looks at a seldom-read but evocative poem by Robert Frost in terms of its themes of alienation and regret. The paper analyzes the poem both in terms of its meaning and its poetic structure. Bibliography lists three sources.
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Walt Whitman and the Civil War
A five page paper looking at the nineteenth-century poet
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The Symbolism of Grass in Whitman
A five page paper looking at Whitman
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Emily Dickinson's Views On Death
Many of Emily Dickinson's 1775 poems deal with her beliefs concerning the process of death, the rituals surrounding death and the question of immortality. This 6 page paper focuses on three of her poems: 'After Great Pain A Formal Feeling Comes',...
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Blake
A seven page paper looking at these two works in terms of the way their respective authors, William Blake and Percy Bysshe Shelley, define love. The paper concludes that although their approaches are very different, both poets seem to feel that love...
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Death in Donne
A five page comparison of these two poems, which are on the same topic but which are very different thematically. The paper observes that Tennyson
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Shelley
A five page paper looking at Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
5 pages in length. Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the greatest philosophers of our time. His essays remain among those of the most popular of philosophers and embrace the mysticism of life. This paper discusses his life, his works, and analyzes a...
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Beowulf and 'Tristan and Isolde'
An 8 page comparison of the Old English epic poem Beowulf and the thirteenth century romance, 'Tristan and Isolde.' The writer endeavors to demonstrate how each of these works demonstrated the culture and ideas of their era. No additional sources...
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Self-Reflection in Hayden
A seven page paper looking at the degree to which this poem by Robert Hayden is autobiographical. The paper shows that Hayden suffered a traumatic childhood in which he felt unloved by his foster parents, and this is reflected in this poem....
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Death in Villon
A ten page paper looking at this famous French poet by fifteenth-century poet Francois Villon. The paper concludes that the poem seems unusually modern in its treatment of death because Villon did not have the confidence in the Church that most...
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Walt Whitman's Contribution to American Poetry
A five page look at this seminal nineteenth-century poet. The paper analyzes the reason Whitman is considered the first modern American poet, and what characteristics make him so quintessentially American. Bibliography lists six sources.
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Yeats' 'Sailing to Byzantium'
A five page paper looking closely at William Butler Yeats' meaning and symbolism in this poem. The paper concludes that the poet asks for the impossible; he asks for his work to become an immortal piece of self-expression, but as soon as he dies,...
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A Lament and A Complaint: Comparing the Style of Shelley and Wordsworth
A 5 page paper which discusses the different poetic styles of romantic poets Shelley and Wordsworth. The poems are, respectively, 'A Lament' and 'A Complaint.' No additional sources cited.
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Debunking Myths in Cope and Thomas
An eight page paper looking at two villanelles by Dylan Thomas and Wendy Cope, showing how they debunk myths we hold about love and death. The two poems discussed are Cope's 'Lonely Hearts' and Thomas' 'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good...
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