Academic papers on Poetry

William Wordsworth's 'The World Is Too Much With Us'
A 7 page essay on this sonnet from Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads. The writer reviews what Wordsworth himself said about his poetry and his intentions in the 'Preface to the Lyrical Ballads' which was published with the poems. Wordsworth was...
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Death And Grieving In Wordsworth's Poems
A 5 page paper analyzing two of Wordsworth's poems in Lyrical Ballads: 'We are Seven,' and 'Anecdote for Fathers' in terms of their logical sequence. The paper concludes that 'We Are Seven' logically follows 'Anecdote,' because the second poem...
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The Romantic Revolution
A 5 page paper analyzing the birth of the Romantic era in literature at the turn of the nineteenth century. Particular attention is paid to William Wordsworth's 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood' and (as an...
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Goethe & Wordsworth / Two Views of the Poet
An 8 page paper comparing the way artistic souls are portrayed in Wordsworth's long poem The Prelude and Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther. The paper shows that during the Romantic era, two very different views of the poet developed: the poet as...
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Alexander Pope & His Essay On Man
A 15 page paper showing how this long narrative poem illustrates the eighteenth century's dominant conception of man. The paper looks at each of the poem's four sections individually, and analyzes Pope's contribution to both poetry and philosophy....
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Alexander Pope's 'Rape of the Lock' / Use of Satire
A 4 page paper that discusses how Pope used satire to mock the aristocracy, the Greek epic, and the feuding families over the loss of a lock of hair. The paper also discusses how the satire used parallels the Greek epic and its consequences. One...
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Alexander Pope
A 2 page discussion of Alexander Pope's poem about the insignificance of man in the realm of nature and the world scheme. In this analysis, the writer concentrates on the false view that the end of mankind will be the end of the world-- when we are...
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The Poetry Of Charles Baudelaire
An 8 page paper discussing this nineteenth-century French poet and his tremendous influence on the modernist tradition in the twentieth century. It discusses five poems of Baudelaire's poems in some depth, and offers an opinion on why he was so...
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Charles Baudelaire's 'Paris Spleen' / Focus On Women
A 5 page paper discussing the works of Charles Baudelaire within the collection of 'Paris Spleen.' His prose has many subtle hints as well as obvious remarks about women. Some of it is vague at times and often secondary but the essence is there....
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Charles Baudelaire's 'Paris Spleen' / The Grotesque
A 5 page paper on Baudelaire's 'Paris Spleen,' or as it was originally known, 'Petits Poemes en Prose,' (short prose poems). The poems described from this compilation are used as examples of Baudelaire's use of the grotesque. The grotesque and...
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Muir's "The Good Man in Hell"
4 pages in length. A thorough explication of Edward Muir's poem entitled "The Good Man in Hell" in which the writer finds it asserted that the existence of one good man in Hell could potentially "close it gates", and assumably destroy the very...
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Seamus Heaney's 'Mid-Term Break' and J. D. Salinger's 'Catcher in the Rye' / Stopping for Death
A 5 page paper comparing the boy protagonists of Seamus Heaney's poem 'Mid-Term Break' and J.D. Salinger's novel Catcher in the Rye. Both boys have suffered the death of a younger brother, and both works show their youthful protagonists coming to...
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Seamus Heaney's 'Mid-Term Break' & Elizabeth Bishop's 'First Death in Nova Scotia' / Imagery
A 4 page paper discussing the imagery present in the poems 'Mid-term Break,' by Seamus Heaney, and 'First Death in Nova Scotia,' by Elizabeth Bishop. Both poems are incredibly effective in their use of imagery. Each one presents a different view...
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Elizabeth Bishop / Simple Structure Masks Inner Complexity
12 pages in length. Poet Elizabeth Bishop was as simple as she was complex. The lucid and uncomplicated images she created with her seemingly elementary style were anything but; in fact, the complexity that resides within her characteristically...
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Marge Piercy's 'Barbie Doll'
A 3 page essay defending the title of Piercy's poem as an appropriate description of the manufacturing process of women she describes within the poem. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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