Essays and Research Papers on Poetry

This 5 page paper considers the statement “Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’ was one of the lights that led the West out of the Dark Ages and towards the light of the Renaissance.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 5 page paper examines three poems: “The Road Not Taken” by Frost; “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot; and “If We Must Die” by Claude McKay; and what they might have in common. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 3 page paper which examines how and why Robert Frost is a terrifying poet as seen in his poems Design and Niether Out Far Nor in Deep. No additional sources cited.

A 3 page paper which compares and contrasts the poetry of Robert Frost and John Keats. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 5 page paper which examines parent/child responsibilities in Robert Hayden’s poem Those Winter Sundays. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 3 page paper which interprets Amy Lowell’s poem The Dinner Party. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 4 page paper is an analysis of Jennifer Keith’s article on poet Anne Finch. Bibliography lists 1 source.

A 4 page paper which compares and contrasts William Wordsworth’s The Daffodils and John Keats’ On the Grasshopper and Cricket. No additional sources cited.

This 7 page paper discusses Maya Angelou’s poem “Phenomenal Woman” and argues that it represents the poet’s ability to use her life experiences as a celebration, rather than letting them overwhelm her with bitterness. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A 6 page paper which examines The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Laughter and Tears by Kahlil Gibran. The paper also discusses the two individuals. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

In three pages this paper analyzes various aspects of the former U.S. President’s poem including how the theme is revealed in its setting, character, and figures of speech. Four sources are listed in the bibliography.

This 3 page paper discusses the way three poets, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost and Langston Hughes, use sound and motion to convey a sense of life and death in three of their poems, “Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers” (Dickinson): “Out, out…” (Frost) and “The Weary Blues” (Hughes). Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 3 page paper which examines immortality in the works of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, and Percy Shelley. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A 5 page examination and analysis of Bob Marley and his song/poem Redemption Song. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 4 page paper which examines the elements of elegies in the English poems The Wife’s Lament and The Seafarer. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 3 page essay that contrasts and compares Odysseus, from Homer’s epic the Odyssey, and Beowulf. The epic heroes Odysseus and Beowulf appear to be very similar. They each are featured in an ancient epic poem and therefore engage in heroic action. Also, they each can be viewed as representative of their era and society’s ...

This 4 page paper discusses the deaths of Sigurd the Volsung and the Greek hero Achilles. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 5 page essay that discusses the character of Satan. An epic hero is traditionally an example of a culture's ideal man, that is, someone who embodies all of the virtues that a particular society esteems above all others. A tragic hero is quite similar, as he embodies noble virtues, but suffers downfall due to ...

This 3 page paper explicates Langston Hughes’s poem “Theme for English B,” with special attention paid to the line “So will my page be colored that I write?” Bibliography lists 1 source.

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.

A 6 page paper which examines two literary articles concerning Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself and discusses which seems more convincing. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 4 page paper which examines the influence or pressure that society and family can make on an individual’s identity as it relates to several literary works. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 3 page paper which analyzes the poem Richard Cory by E.A. Robinson. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 3 page paper explicates and responds to Marcella Durand’s work “The Clocktower.” Bibliography lists 1 source.

This 20 page paper is an explication of the first six nights of William Blake’s poem “The Four Zoas.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.