Essays and Research Papers on Poetry

A 5 page analysis of Robert Frost's poem "Desert Places," in which the writer explores the idea that Frost's poetry is antipathetic to the notion that the universe is inherently good or delightful or hospitable. The writer shows how this statement applies to "Desert Places," and then substantiates this by looking at "Out, Out-" ...

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.

A 5 page paper discussing voice, imagery and theme in "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant" as the primary work, then comparing to and integrating with "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died" and "After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes." Voice and imagery vary between the three poems, but the ...

A 5 page paper which discusses and illustrates the use of irony in Jonathan Swift's "Directions for a Birth-Day Song." Bibliography lists 3 additional sources.

A 5 page research paper that examines three poems looking at the role of metaphor in conveying meaning in poetry. The writer analyzes the statement that poetry if the "bread of faithful speech." Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 5 page paper provide an overview of the use of metaphors in the poetry of Lord Byron to represent love and fame. This paper demonstrates the way in which Lord Byron uses similar symbols to represent different themes in two of his poems, Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa and ...

Ovid and Catullus were contemporaries who wrote poetry as 'before Christ' became 'after Christ', two thousand years ago. This 5 page paper argues that the main difference between Ovid and Catullus is the use of poetic voice. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 5 page analysis of 5 poems: Dejection: an Ode, Coleridge; Among School Children, Yeats; Autumn Song, Auden; Do not go gentle into that good night, Thomas; The Chinal Plate, Graves. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

An 8 page paper which examines how Ted Hughes is a poet of death. The paper examines how he is not a celebrant of death but an adversary. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

This 7 page paper provides a pragmatic criticism of Robert Browning's poem, The Last Duchess, from a feminist perspective. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

Examines the concept of irony in this particular Blake poem, which describes the pathos and gloom of the life of a child chimney sweep. Also touches a little on the history of the chimney sweep in order to better bring out the concept of irony. Bibliography lists 1 source.

This 5 page paper discusses Gillian Clarke and her poem Letter from a Far Country. Quotes are given. Imagery, use of alliteration, rhythm, symbolism are all discussed, examples given. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

An 8 page paper which provides a textual analysis of the poem by examining heroic diction, hyperboles, alliteration, similes, metaphors, imagery, and descriptive verbs carefully designed to get the poet’s message across. No additional sources are used.

A 5 page paper which examines the writing abilities of the unorthodox American poet, and how his use of prosody in such works as “The Fire Screen,” “Braving the Elements,” “Scripts for the Pageant,” “The Book of Ephraim” and “Mirabell: Book of Numbers,” along with his companion, David Jackson, helped him garner much acclaim and ...

A 5 page analytical essay on the World War I British poem. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 5 page paper which examines "The Lamb" by William Blake, discussing its presentation of Christianity. The paper also discusses the poetic perspectives of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 10 page research paper/essay that analyzes the poetic approach of William Wordsworth. The writer particularly examines "The Ruined Cottage" and the "Elegiac Stanzas." Bibliography lists 20 sources.

A 5 page paper which examines how both of these poems are expressing the same message. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A 5 page analysis of Emily Dickinson's poem "I Started Early--Took My Dog." Bibliography lists 1 additional source.

This 5 page paper gives criticism on Wordsworth's poem, Inscriptions. The style of Wordsworth's writing is also discussed as well as explanation of metaphors and natural imagery. Quotes and specific examples given. Done in MLA. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 5 page paper that contrasts and compares T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and Robert Frost's "The Death of the Hired Man." The writer points out where the poems are different, but argues that they are similar in that they both deal with the inevitability of old age and mortality, ...

A 5 page paper which examines the theme in the poems "Mending Wall" and "The Telephone" by Robert Frost. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This paper examines two poems by William Cullen Bryant, "To A Waterfowl" and "The Prairies," and determines how both pieces reflect the concept of nature, loneliness and, to an extent, the author's feelings about his own life. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 12 page paper which critically examines the theme of good and evil in such Poe short stories as “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “Ligeia,” “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” as well as in the poem, “The Raven.” Bibliography lists 14 sources.

A 5 page paper which examines the historical significance of this stanza, as it relates to the city of Florence during the thirteenth century. Bibliography lists 4 sources.