Essays and Research Papers on Poetry

In three pages this paper compares Keats’ nineteenth century poem with Dylan’s twentieth century song. Four sources are cited in the bibliography.

An 8 page paper which examines, comparing and contrasting, reflections on 9/11. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 5 page paper which examines issues such as individuality and a false sense of security as seen in W.H. Auden’s poem The Unknown Citizen. No additional sources cited.

A 3 page paper which discusses the theme of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner. No additional sources cited.

This 3 page paper discuses Thom Gunn's poem "A Map of the City." Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 3 pag epaper which examines materialism in Ramprasad Sen’s poem I Spent My Days in Fun and George Sand’s The Devil’s Pool. No additional sources cited.

A 3 page analysis of the poem A Blessing from My Sixteen Years’ Son by Mary Karr. No additional sources cited.

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.

This 6 page paper discusses John Keats’s life and works and argues that he deserves his reputation as one of the great Romantic poets. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 3 page outline that is a companion paper to khcbadp2.rtf, as this paper offers an outline for an essay that compares William Blake's "The Lamb" to Emily Dickinson's "I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—." No additional sources cited.

In three pages this paper analyzes how these poets convey meaning through the poetic elements of theme, metaphor, and imagery. The poems discussed are Emily Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop for Death (#712)” and “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died (#465),” Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” and ...

A 4 page research paper/essay that examines the way in which Ovid considered the topic of art, artists and poets in his epic poem Metamorphoses. The writer argues that Ovid's overall thematic approach subtly suggests that it is only through art that humanity can transcend the suffering that is an inherent part of life. ...

This 4 page paper discusses some of the techniques, and the meaning of Marvell’s well-known poem “To His Coy Mistress.” Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 3 page analysis of Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess. No additional sources cited.

A 5 page analysis of Sherman Alexie’s poem On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 3 page essay that offers a psychological explication of Robert Frost's poem "Home Burial." Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 3 page paper discusses Homer’s use of similes in his extended description of violence in “The Iliad.” Bibliography lists 1 source.

A 6 page paper which examines the element and role of time in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. No additional sources cited.

A 3 page paper which compares Robert Frost’s Mending Wall and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. No additional sources cited.

A 5 page research paper which examines the work and messages of Langston Hughes. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

This 4 page paper examines the two theorists' views. Why and how do people make decisions? For Freud, much happiness comes from sexual love or the pursuit of it but he sees a need for restrictions. For Nietzsche, people make decisions based on four great errors, but he sees man as needing to ...

A 3 page paper which examines the irony in Shelley’s poem Ozymandias. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 3 page paper is an explication and discussion of T.S. Eliot’s poem “Conversation Galante.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 7 page paper explores the tragic relationship between Achilles and his mother Thetis in “The Iliad.” Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A 4 page analysis of William Butler Yeats’ poem The Second Coming. No additional sources cited.