Constantine Cavafy’s “The City” and “Ithaca”
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An 8 page paper which compares and contrasts the poems “The City” and “Ithaca” by Constantine Cavafy. Bibliography lists 2 additional sources.
Filename: RAcavafy.rtf

Contemporary Significance of Homer’s “The Iliad”
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A 7 page paper which examines the relevance this classical Greek epic has for the twenty-first century student. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: TGilisig.rtf

Content Analysis of Homer’s “The Odyssey”
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A 5 page paper which examines the Robert Fagles’ translation of the classic Greek poem to consider why Odysseus did not immediately return to Ithaca, the reasons behind his lengthy hiatus, contemplates what he is searching for and determines whether or not the text can be read as a metaphor for the Ionian exile. No additional sources are used.
Filename: TGodyfag.rtf

CONTRAST AND COMPARISON OF T.S.ELIOT’S WASTELAND AND WALLACE STEVENS THE AURORAS OF AUTUMN/THE PLAIN SENSE OF THINGS
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This 10 page paper discusses the poetry of T.S. Eliot in his work, The Waste land, and compares/contrasts it with the work of Wallace Steven's collection in The Aurora of Autumn and The Plain Sense of Things. The two poets are compared/contrasted on points of worldview, philosophies, subject selection, as well as an analysis of various poems from the collections. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: MBelwal.rtf

Contrasting Poetic View of Nature
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A 5 page essay that contrasts and compares four poems, --"A Sick Rose" by William Blake; "Apparently with no surprise" by Emily Dickinson; "Digging" by Seamus Heaney; and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost. The writer argues that in these poems the reader encounters brilliant imagery that perfectly invokes scenes of nature in the reader's imagination. However, examination of these four poems shows that the poets intend their verse to send very different messages. Blake and Dickinson picture nature as beautiful, but unfeeling. Their poems see nature as evidence of a divine power that can be capricious in its cruelty. Frost and Heaney, on the other hand, picture nature as soothing, positive and more benign. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: khbdhf4n.rtf

Contrasts or commonalities? Poet, writer, romantic or realist
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(5 pp) In spite of the external way that we may appear to others, most of us do want some type of order in our lives. One way to do that, on an intellectual basis, is the method of categories - some would call "pigeon-holing" bits of history together, so they stay somewhat orderly in our minds. The labels, romantic, realist, poet, and writer, are all ways of doing that very thing. What happens if we should run into someone who is all four? The author will examine that puzzle, through the works of Wordsworth, Ibsen and Tagore.
Filename: BBromrel

Contributions of Sylvia Plath
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A 5 page paper which considers Plath’s contributions to the development of literature and the effects she has had on her contemporaries and those writers who followed her. Also included is some brief biographical information, a listing of her major works and a summary of some critical opinions. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: TGsylpla.rtf

CONTROLLING METAPHORS
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This 5 page paper deals with the conrolling metaphor in the Edward Taylor poem, Upon A Wasp Chilled With Cold. Elements of a controlling metaphor with examples, given. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: MBlitp8.rtf

Conundrum of Choice
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(5 pp.) Conundrum is a fifty-cent word, which means "riddle." That is often what a choice is. It involves information, intuition and risk; sometimes it appears that spitting into the wind has as much possibility as the productivity of choice. But, who knows, maybe the wind will suddenly change. In examining the idea of change, one way to look at it is through poetry. The ideas of poetry move more fluidly, and are more open to introspection than prose. Poets and poems considered in this discussion will be " Lucille Clifton - "the Lost Baby Poem;" Robert Frost - "Stopping by a Snowy Wood;" and W.H. Auden - "The Unknown Citizen."
Filename: BBchospm.doc

Country House Poetry/Pope's Epistle to Burlington
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A 5 page research paper that examines the genre of eighteenth century "country house poetry," as exemplified by Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Burlington." The writer discusses the Pope's satire and the topics that he lampoons. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: khpopbur.rtf

Courtesy and Code in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and "The Miller's Tale"
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A 5 page paper which discusses how courtesy and the so-called code of honor are used in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and "The Miller's Tale." The paper discusses whether the courtesy and code are used righteously, or used for selfish and snobbish reasons. No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAgreenmller.wps

Critical Analysis of Claude McKay’s Poem, “If We Must Die”
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A 5 page paper which considers the poem’s meaning and impact and critically analyzes its form and use of metaphor, tone and mood, irony, and figurative language. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: TGcmdie.rtf

Critical Analysis of Emily Dickinson’s Poetry and Style
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An 8 page paper which analyzes the experiences that Emily Dickinson wrote about (her thematic preoccupations); the techniques she employed to make these experiences vivid; the relationship between the content of the works to poetic form to determine whether form follows function; to what extent she is an “idea” poet as opposed to being primarily interested in conjuring significant images, etc.; her unique style and content markers that distinguishes her poems; and biographical elements that shaped her view of the world and influenced her craft. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: TGemdick.rtf

Cullen: Yet Do I Marvel
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This 3 page paper analyzes Countee Cullen's poem "Yet Do I Marvel." Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: HVCullen.rtf

Cyclops in Homer’s “The Odyssey”
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A 5 page paper which examines the great significance of this minor character to the epic poem. No additional sources are used.
Filename: TGcyclo.rtf

Dangerous Teenage Behavior: “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks
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A 3 page paper which analyses dangerous teenage behavior using the poem “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks as a foundation for the discussion. Bibliography lists 4 additional sources.
Filename: RAwecool.rtf

Daniel Halpern's 'Summer in the Middle Class'/ What Happens In Unison
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A 7 page paper analyzing Daniel Halpern's painful look at his own generation. The paper asserts that although the poem seems happy on the surface, it is actually full of unresolved tensions, and its theme -- isolationism -- cuts to the very root of the American way of life.
Filename: Halpern.wps

Dante the Sociologist.
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This 7 page paper discusses Dante’s “Inferno” and why he can be considered a medieval sociologist. The paper also touches on Weber, Marx and Durkheim and their theories. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: HVdtesoc.rtf

Dante’s Inferno & Humanism
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A 3 page essay that discusses “The Inferno” from Dante’s medieval epic poem The Divine Comedy. This poem describes the experience of the author, led by the specter of the ancient Roman poet Virgil, through a journey of spiritual enlightenment that takes him through Hell, Purgatory and finally to Heaven. The punishments that are inflicted on the souls in Hell strike Dante, as a character in the poem, as inhumane, but Dante, the poet, makes it clear that each punishment is ideally suited as retribution for the sins committed by these souls while the individuals were alive on earth. Therefore, as the poem’s narrator moves through Hell, he receives progressive lessons pertaining to what it means to be fully human and fully in accord with the expectations of God. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khdanhum.rtf

Dante/Inferno, Canto II
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A 12 page research paper/essay that examines the beginning of Dante's Inferno, with particular focus on Canto II and how Dante uses the symbolism of three as a unifying device that serves to emphasize the religious message that forms the main thrust of the poem. The writer discusses the symbolism of the three beasts and particularly focuses on the significance of the three blessed women, Beatrice, Santa Lucia and the Virgin Mary. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: khcanii.rtf

Darkness in the Poems of Robert Frost
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A 12 page paper which examines the use of darkness in several of Robert Frost’s poems. The poems discussed are “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening,” “Come In,” “Desert Places,” Design,” “Acquainted with the Night,” and “For Once, Then Something.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: RAfrostd.rtf

Death in Emily Dickinson’s Poem ‘Because I Could Not Stop for Death (712)’ and Robert Frost’s ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’
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In four pages this paper compares and contrasts how these poets represent the theme of death in their respective poems. There are no other sources listed in the bibliography.
Filename: TGpoemdead.rtf

Death in Tennyson Poems
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A 5 page paper which discusses the attitude of death as portrayed in two poems by Tennyson. The poems are "Ulysses" and "Charge of the Light Brigade." No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAtennys.wps

Death in the Poems of Walt Whitman and Robert Frost
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A 5 page paper which examines some of the poems of Walt Whitman and Robert Frost as they involve the theme of death. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: RAwhit.rtf

Death in Villon’s “Testament”
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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 people of his era shared. Bibliography lists six sources.
Filename: KBvillon.wps

Death, Dying & Mutilation/WWI Literature
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A 7 page essay that examines the work of 5 WWI British poets and also Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. The writer argues that this literature recounts the horrors of war through subtext, that is, not stating observations overtly. Subtext, expressed through metaphor, satire and allusion, provides the motivational engine that propels these works. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: khwwilit.rtf

Death/Injury in Poetry
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A 3 page paper which examines how death or injury has a very powerful impact on the adults in various poems. The poems examined are Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney, Rush Hour by Elaine Terranova, and The Boxes by Shelly Wagner. No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAdepo3.rtf

Deborah Austin/dandelions
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A 5 page analysis of a poem, 'dandelions,' by Deborah Austin. The writer offers an explanation for the war-imagery that Austin employs to describe the tiny flower, relating it to the poet's feelings on nature. No additional sources cited.
Filename: 00ausdan.doc

Deborah Miranda and “The Zen of La Llorona”
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A 3 page paper on Deborah Miranda and her work “The Zen of La Llorona.” No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAmirzen.rtf

DECONSTRUCTION OF FROST’S “THE ROAD NOT TAKEN”
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This paper attempts to analyze Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken" through the method of critical deconstruction. The paper also includes an explanation of this method of critical analysis. Bilbliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: MTdecons.rtf

Depression in Winter by Jane Kenyon
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A 3 page paper which examines the theme and imagery in Jane Kenyon’s poem “Depression in Winter.” No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAjnedep.rtf

Development of English Versification
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A 5 page research paper that offers a brief survey of the history of English versification, beginning with the Old English of Beowulf to the modern English of the eighteenth century. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: khverse.wps

Dickinson & Whitman/The Self & The World
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A 3 page essay that contrasts and compares the way that Emily Dickinson's "The Soul Selects Her Own Society" and Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" picture the relationship between the self and the outside world. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khssssom.rtf

DICKINSON AND THE CHURCH
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This 5 page paper discusses the views of Emily Dickinson and how they opposed the teachings of the church. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Dickinson and Whitman
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A 12 page research paper that contrasts and compares Emily Dickinson's "The Soul selects her own Society" and Whitman's "A Woman Waits for Me." The writer looks at the similarities between their poetic form and their differences in their decorum, i.e. the context of their work. Annotated bibliography lists 9 sources.
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Dickinson and Wilbur
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A 3 page paper which compares Emily Dickinson’s “I Like to see it lap the miles” and Richard Wilbur’s “A Fire Truck.” No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAdckwil.rtf

Dickinson's "My Life Had Stood" (754)
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Emily Dickinson was an enigma of time and place. This 5 page paper explores the poem, My Life Had Stood - A Loaded Gun in terms of structure, imagery, form rhythm , meter, tone and theme. No additional sources are listed.
Filename: KTlddgun.wps

Dickinson’s “This World is not Conclusion”
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A 3 page paper analyzing Emily Dickinson’s Poem 501. Dickinson makes her point in the first line of the poem, and provides the remainder of it in support of her opening statement. Her message is that despite the efforts of people to explain God, ignore God, “serve” God or define God, He operates in a manner that defies human logic and focuses on the individual. If the individual is able to avoid awareness of God, He is at work nonetheless, nibbling away at the soul, making His presence sensed, at least, if not fully known without first gaining commitment of belief. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: KSpoDickin501.rtf

Dickinson, Wheatley & Bradstreet / Impacts of Feminist Perspectives in Poetry
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A 3 page paper that provides a brief overview of the elements of the poetry of these three women poets and their impact in terms of feminism. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: Fempoet.doc

Dickinson/ Funeral in My Brain & Stop for Death
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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 offer a reassurance of life after death. Rather Dickinson presents disturbing images of being aware, conscious, but nevertheless in the grave. However, from her poetry, one gains new insight into the processes of death, and the customs that surround it. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khdeadic.rtf