Essays and Research Papers on Poetry

This 6 page paper explores the violent episode with the Cyclops in “The Odyssey” and the similes that Homer uses within that chapter. Bibliography lists 1 source.

This 6 page paper examines two passages closely, one from the "Iliad" and the other from the "Aeneid."

This 4 page paper discusses the similarities in Hagia Sophia and Notre Dame, and then compares the buildings to Dante's "Inferno." Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 5 page paper which examines the characters’ resistance to marriage as seen in William Congreve’s The Way of the World and Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 6 page paper which compares and contrasts Langston Hughes’ poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 4 page paper discusses two versions of Troilus and Cressida, that of Boccaccio and Chaucer's later work. Bibliography lists 1 source.

A 4 page paper which offers study notes for William Wordsworth’s poem A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal. No additional sources cited.

In two and a half pages Geoffrey Chaucer’s Wife of Bath offers her experienced commentary on poems by Sappho and Catullus and how the love they discuss compares with her understanding of love. The wife’s assessment of these expressed attitudes along with the advice she might offer are also included. One source is ...

This 3 page paper describes the mood, point of view and theme of Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Annabel Lee." Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 6 page paper is a detailed examination of Robert Lowell's poem, "For the Union Dead." Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 4 page paper which analyzes the Dream of the Rood. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 10 page paper is an “addition” to “The Odyssey” by Homer, and depicts a new adventure that the men meet on their way home to Ithaca.

A 3 page paper which examines the powerful nature of relationships between fathers and sons as it involves Roethke’s My Papa’s Waltz, Faulkner’s Barn Burning, and Dubus’ Killings. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 3 page comparison and contrast of John Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale and Chinua Achebe’s Dead Man’s Path. No additional sources cited.

A 4 page paper which argues for the existence of childhood ignorance as seen in Robert Hayden’s poem Those Winter Sundays. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 4 page essay that contrasts and compares the work of African American poets Raymond Carver and Langston Hughes, who are separated by decades, but nevertheless shares similarities in that both poets favored an abbreviated style that employed an economy of words. Each poet favored choosing the precise image that would conjure understanding in ...

This 5 page paper discusses the African-American poet Langston Hughes, and his work and view of the world that his work reflects. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 3 page paper examines the collection of poetry 'Women Poets of the Italian Renaissance.' Bibliography lists 1 source.

A 3 page analysis of The Snow Cricket by Mary Oliver. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 3 page paper examines one of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe, The Purloined Letter, and discusses what themes it has in common with his poetry. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 6 page research paper/essay that discusses Emily Dickinson’s stance toward nature. Dickinson has moments of epiphany when she indicates a oneness with nature, but it is aggression, not passive receptivity that dominates these moments as she “wrests form nature the power to create her poems,” enduring “struggle and acute pain” when necessary (Diehl 36). ...

This 3 page paper is an analysis of the theme of the eyes in the poem “Blues Spiritual for Mammy Prater” by Dionne Brand. Bibliography lists 1 source.

A 6 page paper which compares and contrasts the theme of death in William Carlos Williams’ The Dead Baby and Robert Frost’s Home Burial. No additional sources cited.

This 5 page paper explicates the poem "Scenes from the Playroom" by R.S. Gwynn. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 4 page exposition of this poem by Gwendolyn Brooks. "To An Old Black Woman, Homeless and Indistinct" is a homage to a life of promise, beauty and talent that has been wasted and discarded by society, like a piece of rubbish. The juxtaposition of the very rich against the very poor suggests the class-based ...