Academic papers on Poetry

Wordsworth's The Solitary Reaper
Poets can be seen as conduits for beautiful ideas and language, and as those who use concrete images to suggest metaphysical concepts. This 5 page paper asserts that the poem, The Solitary Reaper instills in the reader a sense of time and an...
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Explication of Wordsworth's The Solitary Reaper
This 5 page paper provides an analysis that focuses on thematic elements, the five senses, and other literary aspects of this poem. Much of the work is quoted. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Analysis of 12 Poems
A 6 page paper which analyzes 12 different poems. The poems are analyzed in terms of tone, rhyme, and theme. The poems presented are "Dover Beach" by Mathew Arnold, "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning, "Ulysses" by Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The...
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Tennyson's Enoch Arden
Enoch Arden by Tennyson is a long narrative poem that is much too short and with too little adventure to be considered an epoch. This 7 page paper argues that Enoch Arden is a tragic hero whose life served as a metaphor for the resurrection...
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Dickinson/ Funeral in My Brain & Stop for Death
A 5 page essay that analyzes two poems by Emily Dickinson -- "I felt a Funeral in my Brain" and "Because I could not stop for Death," which the writer argues are exemplary of this category of Dickinson's poetry. These are not uplifting poems that...
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Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
A 5 page paper which examines the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost. The paper offers an examination of the poem through discussing imagery, metaphor, allusion, and theme. Bibliography lists 3 additional sources.
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Silence in Eastern and Western Literature
A 5 page essay that analyzes the differences between Eastern and Western poetry, using the work of Matsuo Basho for the east and Walt Whitman for the West. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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George Herbert/The Holdfast
A 5 page research paper/essay that examines and analyzes "The Holdfast," a religious poem by seventeenth century poet George Herbert. The writer offers a line by line "translation" of the poem into Modern English, as well as offering a discussion...
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Emily Dickinson: Her Work in Historical Context
5 pages. The focus of this paper is the historical context in which Emily Dickinson was writing her poems. What was happening in Emily's real world that was perhaps influencing the way she wrote? This interesting paper gives some insight to the...
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"The Rape of the Lock" by Alexander Pope
A 5 page examination of the poem "The Rape of the Lock" by Alexander Pope. The paper examines how Pope may well be ridiculing epic poets of the time, such as Milton, and also ridiculing such people as Belinda and her family. Bibliography lists 4...
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Blake & Marvell/ Human Condition
A 5 page essay that contrasts and compares two poems, Marvell's To his Coy Mistress and Blake's The Sick Rose. In both poems, the decay of death is contrasted against the beauty and vibrancy of life. Therefore, both poems can be seen has having a...
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Katherine Philips' Poetry of Friendship
An 8 page paper which examines the poetry of Katherine Philips and discusses whether its portrayal of female friendship is bold or transgressive poetry. The paper focuses on how her poetry regarding female friendship is transgressive....
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WALCOTT AND HIS LIGHT MOTIFF
This paper examines Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott and his work "The Light of the World." The paper discusses Walcott's background, his use of themes in all of his works, then focuses on "The Light of the World," which reflects Walcott's own...
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The Second Coming by Yeats
5 pages. This paper explores the poem The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats. This poem is broken down into its independent parts, with a thesis and explanation. The language, tone and context are all taken into consideration in the analysis of...
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Carpe Diem Poetry
A 5 page essay that examines three poems written on the carpe diem theme
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