Essays and Research Papers on Poetry

A five page paper looking at four of Frost's works -- "Provide, Provide"; "Mending Wall"; "A Cloud Shadow," and "The Secret Sits" -- in terms of how their use of irony inverts the expectations of the everyday world. The paper questions Frost's reputation as a down-home, "folksy" poet. Bibliography lists seven sources.

A 6 page paper which discusses the works of Langston Hughes and illustrates how his use of women, as well as his use of non-gendered narrators, within his poetry helps to represent the determination of the African American people. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 5 page paper which compares and contrasts John McCrae's "In Flanders Fields" and Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" as they relate to depictions of war. Also mentioned are Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach" and Richard Lovelace's "To Lucasta." Bibliography lists 4 additional sources.

At the end of the eighteenth century three people came together into a relationship that helped to define an era and defy the conventions of the times. This 20 page paper examines the lives, personalities and relationship between William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge and Dorothy Wordsworth. Bibliography lists 16 sources.

This 5 page paper provides an overview of a number of works of 19th century poetry with a focus on the theme of death. This paper considers the works of William Bryant, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 5 page paper analyzes the author's last Haiku. Sabi and Wabi are discussed as well as principles of Buddhism that might have affected the poet's view. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 5 page paper explores the use of language in William Blake's two renditions of The Chimney Sweep: one from Songs Of Innocence and the other from Songs Of Experience. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

13 pages in length. This paper goes into great detail describing the romanticism period as it applies to poetry, literature, and science. Topics include Whitman, Keats, Emerson and others. Bibliography lists 12 sources.

(5 pp). Our goal during this discussion will be to examine the sound and meter of Robert Frost's "Stopping by woods on a snowy evening." Choice of words and the sounds they make as the slide over the tongue, can enhance a piece of poetry, and make the simple seem elegant and sophisticated. ...

(5 pp) John Ashbery is the only American poet to win all three major annual literary prizes - the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award - for one book Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. This is the book which will play the primary role in this ...

A 5 page paper which compares and contrasts Wallace Steven's "Comedian As Letter C" and T.S. Eliot's "Journey of Magi." Bibliography lists 1 additional source.

A six page paper looking at these two works by Robert Frost in terms of their subject matter, theme, imagery, and tone. The paper concludes that although they both deal with the effect of death upon the living, "Home Burial" is darker than the merely poignant "Hired Man," because the stakes are higher; the couple's ...

A 5 page research paper and analysis of sixteenth century religious poet Robert Southwell's St. Peter's Complaint. In this work, Southwell describes the last days of the life of Christ, as seen from the perspective of he remorseful Saint Peter, who is tortured by the knowledge t hat he has denied his Master. Bibliography lists ...

A 5 page paper which examines the themes of oppression, false promises, fantasy vs. reality, and social status are depicted. No additional sources are used.

This 5 page paper takes the essay called "The Poet" by Ralph Waldo Emerson and evaluates it in respect to Walt Whitman's work. A connection is made between the two poets in respect to how they view the work of the writer. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

An 8 page research paper that discusses the different romantic modes that Byron, Keats and Shelley displayed toward their poetry. Specifically, the writer discusses Byron and the "Byronic hero," Keats and his "doctrine of art," and Shelley on "Platonic love." Bibliography lists 5 sources.

(3 pp) Baudelaire writes of a dog that was in love with its own feces, and disdained all those nice cover-up smells. Comparisons have been made with the public in general who disdains the experimental in the same way. What is happening is not obscene or even foul smelling, rather it is ...

(5 pp) John Ashbery is the only American poet to win all three major annual literary prizes - the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award - for one book Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. This is the book which will play the primary role in this ...

A 7 page research paper that examines the poetry and politics of Leopold Sedar Senghor, Senegal's first president and one of the people who coined the philosophy of Negritude in the 1930s. The writer examines how Senghor's politics influenced his poetry. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 5 page paper which examines the role of symbolism, and how it can be used for poetic interpretation. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

Known best by his novel, Deliverance, which became a widely acclaimed movie, James Dickey was first and foremost a poet. This 7 page paper explores his life, style of writing and the critics' response. Bibliography lists 9 sources.

A 5 page research paper in which the writer examines Shelley's detailed and articulate argument that assesses the value of poetry, in general, as well as the role of the poet as an "unacknowledged legislator" for the world. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A 5 page research paper that examines poetry by French poet Charles Baudelaire. The writer argues that while the romanticism of Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley concentrated, for the most part, on the inspiring beauty of the natural world, Baudelaire's vision of romanticism was much darker. He emphasized the "winter" aspect of nature – that death, ...

A 5 page paper which examines how their works not only envisioned the next century, but how their poetry contributed to the writings of other twentieth-century poets. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

(6 pp.) Padgett's poetry is rooted in popular culture. The poet says his own overt use of comic strip material: "I ascribe it to having grown up in a prospering, consumerist America in the 1940s and 1950s with parents who had just edged upward from poverty into the middle class and ...