A Chance Encounter: Interpretations of First and Second Generation Romantic Poets
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A 7 page overview of the writing styles of five first and second generation Romantic poets, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelly and Byron. Provides a fictional account of a meeting between the men where they encounter a young girl in the woods. Curious as to the reasons for her presence and saddened by her rapid departure each man mentally plans a poem to relate the experience. The girl returns and chooses the man whose poem was the most accurate. Written in the form of a story, this paper gives the student insight as to the differences and similarities between the five poets. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Death And Grieving In Wordsworth's Poems
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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 builds and expands on the theme of the grieving process introduced in the first. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Hallmarks of Romanticism in Wordsworth’s “Strange Fits of Passion”
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A 5 page paper defining the influence of Romanticism in Wordsworth’s poem “Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known.” The paper shows how the poem depends on an awareness of the presence of two realms operating simultaneously: the everyday world of the material, and the secondary world of the ethereal. Bibliography lists five sources.
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The Cult of the Child in Wordsworth's Romanticism
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A 16 page paper on this seminal Romantic poet's fascination with the theme of childhood. The paper points out that this cult of the child was an important feature of Romanticism, and reflected the popular belief that children and primitives were morally pure, all others having been corrupted by society. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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The Romantic Revolution
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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 example of the old order) Samuel Johnson's 'The Vanity of Human Wishes.' Bibliography lists six sources.
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William Wordsworth & The Theme Of Nature In His Poems
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A 9 page research paper arguing that Wordsworth's poems frequently centered around the theme of nature. Examples are provided from 'Tintern Abbey,' 'To The Same Flower,' 'Michael,' and other works to support the writer's thesis. It is concluded that Wordsworth was particularly interested in the 'non-human' aspect of life and illustrated such throughout his works. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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William Wordsworth / The Epitome of the Romantic Era Poet
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This 10 page paper looks at one specific aspect of Wordsworth poetry (nature) and how it is representative of the entire literary period known as the 'Romantic Era.' Bibliography lists six sources.
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William Wordsworth vs. Elizabeth Browning / Two Romantic Era Poets Analyzed
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This 5 page research paper examines two poems, 'Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known' by William Wordsworth and 'Sonnets From the Portuguese' (XXI, XXII, XXXII) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Specifically analyzed are the poets' attitudes about love -- Wordsworth's romantic notions despite acceptance of realism and Browning's more dream-like prose.
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William Wordsworth's 'The World Is Too Much With Us'
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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 attempting to depart from the overly decorative speech used in the poetry of the late 18th-century. The writer pays particular emphasis on how Wordsworth's poetry related to his beliefs about nature. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Wordsworth’s “She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways”
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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’s feelings for her, which was really what he was describing all along. Bibliography lists two sources.
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The Sonnets Of John Donne
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A 4 page paper which discusses John Donne's sonnets # 5 and 11 using the method of examination displayed by Stanley Archer. Archer describes some of Donne's sonnets by using the descriptions of two separate individuals. The essential qualities that Archer illustrates as being important in evaluating the sonnets are issues which address meditation, childhood upbringing, and previous Jesuit training. Each of the sonnets are also described by breaking them down into sections in order to truly understand how they can involve such examination. No additional sources cited.
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Death and Sin In The Works of John Donne
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A 15 page paper discussing the opinions of John Donne in relationship to the issues of sin and death. In one of his most famous works, 'Biathanatos,' Donne discusses the idea of suicide and deals with the ethical issues surrounding the realities of death. This work is discussed in direct relationship with other poems and sonnets written by Donne which help to illustrate Donne's opinions in regards to death and sin. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Feminism In The Poetry of John Donne
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An 8 page paper providing a feminist reading of three of John Donne's poems -- 'The Undertaking,' 'The Good Morrow,' and 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning.' The paper connects Donne's highly-tuned ability to think in metaphor -- in other words, to see with a kind of double vision -- to his acceptance of the personhood of the females in his life in an era when women's minds were not highly valued. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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John Donne / Characteristic Features
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5 pages in length. The characteristic features of John Donne's poetry, as they relate to theme, imagery, audience and approach, blend together in an insightful combination of metaphysics, wit, sensuality and contrast. Indeed, Donne projects not just a singular image or approach, even though each individual work of poetry may focus upon a singular theme; rather, he utilizes a subtle combination of temptation and reality. One only has to read a verse or two of any of Donne's poetry to understand that his characteristic features are anything but myopic. The writer discusses characteristic features as they pertain to three of Donne's poem. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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John Donne's 'Batter My Heart'
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A 5 page paper discussing how John Donne's poem, 'Batter My Heart' reinforces or qualifies the view of love put forth by Donne in his poem A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning. Bibliography lists no sources.
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John Donne's 'Batter My Heart' / Metaphor & Paradox
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A 5 page paper outlining the use of these literary devices in Donne's Holy Sonnet No. 14, which appeals to God to intervene directly and assist the author to overcome sin. Refers to Donne's imagery of God as a conquering warlord and the central paradox that 'freedom is slavery.' No additional sources cited.
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John Donne's 'The Anagram'
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This 2 page essay discusses poet John Donne's 'The Anagram' and explores the ways in which it relates to Donne's ideas of female beauty and language. No bibliography.
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Love And Death In John Donne
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A 10 page look at several of Donne's poems, most notably 'The Anniversary,' in terms of his handling of the themes of love and death. Other poems discussed are 'The Sunne Rising' and 'Valediction: Forbidding Mourning.' Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Poetry Of John Donne & The Psychology Of Death
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A 5 page paper discussing the seventeenth-century poet and his views on the subject of death. The writer examines two of his 'Holy Sonnets', and concludes that Donne's beliefs about death were deeply colored by the anxiety of his depressive state. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Sonnets
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The sonnet seems to be the epitome of the lover's message. It is a type of poetic form that was extremely popular in Elizabethan and Victorian England. The sonnet form was invented by Giacomo da Lentino in the mid-13th century. This 5 page paper compares and contrasts Shakespeare's Sonnet #18, Shall I compare thee to a summer's day; Edmund Spencer's Sonnet # 75, One day I wrote her name upon the strand; and John Donne's Sonnet #10, Death be not proud, though some have called thee. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Blake & Dickinson / The 'Nature' of God
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A 5 page paper analyzing the attitudes of William Blake and Emily Dickinson toward God as manifested in their poetry. The paper concludes that Blake's and Dickinson's theology ultimately derives from the observation of Nature and its processes, and both poets see reflected in the impersonality of Nature the impersonality of God. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Comparing Dickinson And Whitman
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Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman were contemporaries in time and space but worlds apart in experience. This 5 page paper argues that the poems, A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman and A Spider Sewed At Night by Emily Dickinson are both nature poems that employ allusion and repetition to compare the spider with the soul of the writer. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Death and Emily Dickinson
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A five page paper looking at Emily Dickinson’s view of death as expressed in such poems as “Because I Could Not Stop For Death,” “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died,” and “Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers.” The paper concludes that Dickinson feels that while one should not fear death, one should also make the most of life, for it doesn’t get better than this. Bibliography lists four sources.
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Death and Nature in the Poems of Emily Dickinson
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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: “Because I could not stop for Death,” “I felt a Funeral in my Brain,” “I never felt at Home -- Below,” “Some keep the Sabbath going to Church”, and “’Twas just this time, last year, I died.” Bibliography lists five sources.
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Emily Dickinson & The Utter Pain Of Blank In Her Poetry
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A 5 page paper comparing two poems by Emily Dickinson -- 'Pain has an Element of Blank', and 'There is a pain so utter.' The writer concludes that one poem attempts to describe pain in terms of metaphors, while the other attempts to replicate the 'blankness' of true pain. No additional sources cited.
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Emily Dickinson – A Look at Some of her Works
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5 pages in length. The works of Emily Dickinson are at times morose and yet depict a knowledge and inner sensitivity about life. While many of her works focus upon death and dying there are also those are filled with a passion for the nature around her. This excellent paper describes a group of poems by Emily Dickinson and focuses on her love of nature and her ability to make us smile with some of her metaphor.
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Emily Dickinson As A Transcendentalist
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A 6 page paper analyzing whether the famous nineteenth-century poet can actually be considered a transcendentalist. Looking at evidence presented in several of her poems, the writer argues that Dickinson would like to have been such, but many of her fears and obsessions rose from her Calvinist background. The paper uses five of her poems -- 'These are the days when birds come back', 'I heard a fly buzz when I died', 'Because I could not stop for death,' 'Further in summer than the birds', and 'Tell all the truth but tell it slant' to support its thesis. No critical sources are cited.
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Emily Dickinson the Recluse
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A 5 page paper looking at the way Emily Dickinson’s reclusive lifestyle affected her poetry. Poems discussed include in “Because I Could Not Stop For Death,” “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died,” , “Further in Summer Than the Birds,” and “I Send Two Sunsets”. Bibliography lists four sources.
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Emily Dickinson's 'As Imperceptibly As Grief'
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A 3 page paper examining Emily Dickinson's poem. This paper looks at how Dickinson is able to use the cycles of the seasons to indicate the likelihood of the ongoing nature of man's consciousness as well. It examines in particular her word choices and development of theme. No additional sources cited.
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Emily Dickinson's 'A Bird Came Down the Walk'
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This 5 page paper discusses the Dickinson poem 'A Bird Came Down The Walk' and the poet's use of tone, imagery, and figurative language. No additional sources cited.
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Emily Dickinson's 'Apparently With No Surprise'
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A 1 page essay on theme, imagery, and symbolic expression in this work by Dickinson. The writer also evaluates her technique and use of allusion. No Bibliography.
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Emily Dickinson's 'As Imperceptibly As Grief' # 2
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A 3 page explication of Dickinson's poem. This paper notes that Dickinson's style strongly reflects the rhythms of the Protestant hymns she heard each Sunday in church. It also shows how she uses her unique ability to look closely at nature and the natural world to illustrate her reflections on the invisible and ineffable -- in short, how she uses nature to prove her articles of faith. No additional sources cited.
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Emily Dickinson's 'Because I Could Not Stop For Death..'
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An insightful 3 page analysis of Dickinson's poem in which the writer describes theme, message, personification and so forth. No Bibliography.
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Emily Dickinson's 'I Send Two Sunsets'
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A 4 page explication and analysis of Emily Dickinson's poem 'I Send Two Sunsets.' The paper demonstrates how through a comparison of the creation of a poem to the creation of a sunset, Dickinson creates a radical analogy of a human being's creative process with God's. Bibliography lists four sources.
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Emily Dickinson's 'I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed...'
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4 page explication and analysis of Emily Dickinson's 'I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed,' in which the writer attempts to explain Dickinson's purpose, meaning, use of metaphors, and so forth. This detailed analysis literally 'gets to the heart' of the poem. No Bibliography.
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Emily Dickinson's 'The Soul Selects Her Own Society'
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A 5 page explication of this poem by Emily Dickinson. The writer details the metaphors of the poem, its form and rhyme scheme, and critical views of its relationship to Dickinson's own life. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Emily Dickinson's Positive View Of Death
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A 9 page paper analyzing the aspects of Dickinson's thought which may have contributed to her unusually realistic and healthy view of death. Five of Dickinson's poems are discussed in considerable depth. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Emily Dickinson's Views On Death
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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', 'Because I Could Not Stop For Death' and 'I felt A Funeral In My Brain', where it can be seen that Ms. Dickinson did indeed believe in an afterlife and viewed death from the vantage point that it should be faced and celebrated with a sense of dignity. Her outlook toward organized religion and the rituals accompanying death was skeptical, if not cynical. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Poetry As Crisis / A Study In Plath And Dickinson
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A 6 page paper comparing these two poets in terms of the assertion that Poetry is the language of a state of crisis. Specific poems discussed are Emily Dickinson's 'My Life Had Stood -- A Loaded Gun' and Sylvia Plath's 'Lady Lazarus.' Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Transcendentalist Roots In Whitman & Dickinson
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A 5 page paper comparing and contrasting the ways in which Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson exhibited the influence of Emerson and Thoreau's Transcendentalism. The ideas expressed are supported by quotes from the literary works mentioned and several critical sources. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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