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A View From The Bridge Act 2
Miller uses a lot of the places in the play “A View From The Bridge” symbolically. The first is in the title; it represents the fact that this play is only one view from the Brooklyn Bridge. It shows that there are many other lives being lived out around that bridge and maybe there are similar incidents occurring. It also gives the reader a sense of being a spectator, as Alfieri is, who can see what is happening but is…...
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Characters’ Feelings in Sister Maude and Nettles
The following academic paper highlights the up-to-date issues and questions of Sister Maude. This sample provides just some ideas on how this topic can be analyzed and discussed. Scannell’s ‘Nettles’ shows how a powerful relationship can spark protective impulses; when the persona’s son ‘fell in the nettle bed’, he ‘slashed in fury’ at the nettles to halt their destructive consequences. However, in ‘Sister Maude’, Rossetti demonstrates how an equally powerful relationship can evolve into a destructive drive with negative results,…...
AngerLanguageLovePoetry
Astrophil And Stella
This sample paper on Astrophil And Stella offers a framework of relevant facts based on recent research in the field. Read the introductory part, body, and conclusion of the paper below.Breaking Free of Convention: Sir Philip Sidney In his sonnet, “Strophic and Stella”, Sir Phillip Sidney attempts to break free of the conventional displays of love while still maintaining a conventional sonnet form to represent that love does not follow any “rules”. The poem itself is a metaphor of love,…...
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Frost At Midnight Annotation
This sample essay on Frost At Midnight Annotation offers an extensive list of facts and arguments related to it. The essay's introduction, body paragraphs, and the conclusion are provided below.‘Frost at Midnight’ written by the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge describes the scene of the writer sitting in his cottage as his son sleeps beside him on a winter night, reminiscing of childhood that of his own and of his child. The stanzas are written through the first person narrative, providing…...
Poetry
Cathartic Example
This sample essay on Cathartic Example provides important aspects of the issue and arguments for and against as well as the needed facts. Read on this essay's introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion. Aristotle wrote in ‘Poetics’ that tragedy should contain ‘… incidents arousing pity and fear… ‘ and thus prove cathartic for an audience. To what extent does the plot of Arthur Miller’s play, ‘All My Sons’ allow for this? Arthur Miller (1915-2005) in ‘All My Sons’ (1947), journeys the…...
CatFamilyHopeHuman NatureTragedy
Mariana Tennyson
The sample paper on Mariana Tennyson familiarizes the reader with the topic-related facts, theories, and approaches. Scroll down to read the entire paper.The mood in Tennyson’s poem is reflective of the state of mind of Mariana. Mariana, taken from Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, is despondently isolated as she waits and waits for her lover, Angelo, to arrive. But he never does, hence the abandoned and derelict tone. In Marianna, Tennyson represents Mariana’s state of mind through using objective correlatives –…...
LanguageLinguisticsPoetry
Sample of an Academic Paper on Commedia Characters
This term during our drama lessons we have been exploring and learning about Commedia dell’Arte, a comical and slapstick style of theatre that first became popular in Italy during the 16th century. I had never heard of Commedia before we began studying it in class, so my first impressions were that it was extremely over the top and exaggerated! At the start of the topic I didn’t think that I would enjoy it very much as, because of the…...
ActorCharacterDrama
The Pied Piper Of Hamelin Poem
The sample essay on The Pied Piper Of Hamelin Poem deals with a framework of research-based facts, approaches, and arguments concerning this theme. To see the essay's introduction, body paragraphs and conclusion, read on.Pied piper of Hamlin was written by Robert Browning in 1849. Browning wrote this poem in third person narrative. The rhyming scheme that Browning uses at the beginning is quiet confusing and unbalanced, however he changes it later on in the poem in to his dramatic style.…...
PoetryRatRhyme
Jon Stallworthy
The sample paper on Jon Stallworthy familiarizes the reader with the topic-related facts, theories, and approaches. Scroll down to read the entire paper.“Green Thought” by Jon Stallworthy is an interesting and valuable poem about love. During my essay I will justify why “Green Thought” is a worthy poem to be entered into a young student’s poem anthology. The poem is an excellent choice because of Stallworthy’s choice of characters, imagery and his skill in showing the power that love has…...
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Another Mystery Raymond Carver
This sample essay on Another Mystery Raymond Carver provides important aspects of the issue and arguments for and against as well as the needed facts. Read on this essay's introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion.The focus of both these poems is centred on life and death, on how in different stages of their lives people view death in different perspectives. It also shows life can be brought to a sudden abrupt end with no preceding warning.The poem “Another Mystery” is about…...
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Reflection Essay On Eddie Carbone
The sample paper on Eddie Carbone familiarizes the reader with the topic-related facts, theories, and approaches. Scroll down to read the entire paper.Discussing how effectively Arthur Miller manages to portray Eddie Carbone as a tragic character in his play, “a View from the Bridge” Arthur Miller, the author of the play, is a very modern writer and likes to base his plays around ordinary people. Eddie Carbone is a forty, husky and a slightly overweight longshoreman. When we hear those customary…...
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Sheenagh Pugh: An Overview
The sample paper on Sheenagh Pugh familiarizes the reader with the topic-related facts, theories, and approaches. Scroll down to read the entire paper.The concept of ‘journey’ is one which pervades much of both Carol Ann Duffy’s and Sheenagh Pugh’s poetry, in literal and allegorical terms. Various devices and imagery are used in order to convey this concept, having varying effects on the reader, which will be analysed in the subsequent paragraphs. The theme of travelling is present in ‘Originally’ by Duffy,…...
Adam And EveCultureLanguageLinguisticsLitteringPoetry
O What Is That Sound Theme
The sample paper on O What Is That Sound Theme familiarizes the reader with the topic-related facts, theories, and approaches. Scroll down to read the entire paper.This was an arranged marriage which allowed her to have the British citizenship and escape from Nazi Germany. Aden met his true love, the poet Chester Coalman, in New York in 1939. Coalman became Addend’s companion for the rest of his life. Love is a recurrent theme in Addend’s poetry but so are many…...
LovePoetry
Describing the Descried: Recent Research Findings
The following sample essay on "Descried" offers a framework of relevant facts based on recent research in the field. Read the introductory part, body, and conclusion of the paper below. In ‘Blessing’ there is one main event; a municipal water pipe bursts upon a dry desert like country suffering from drought. In this essay I will be comparing the way Imtiaz Dharker describes the main event in ‘Blessing’ and the way Grace Nichols describes the main event in ‘Island Man.”Blessing’…...
CultureDreamPoetryWater
Sonnet CXXX: Research-Based Analysis.
The sample essay on Sonnet Cxxx deals with a framework of research-based facts, approaches, and arguments concerning this theme. To see the essay's introduction, body paragraphs and conclusion, read on.Firstly I will be analysing “Sonnet CXXX” by William Shakespeare. The poem has been written to send a message to poets, telling them that sonnets do not have to be unrealistic; Shakespeare also mocks traditional Elizabethan sonnets. The occasion is that Shakespeare believes in real love not falsely comparing women to…...
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The Red Headed League Plot
The essay sample on The Red Headed League Plot dwells on its problems, providing a shortened but comprehensive overview of basic facts and arguments related to it. To read the essay, scroll down.As always, it is Holmes that finally manages to deduce how the crime happened and swiftly wants to test his “little theory”. The use of the word “little theory” tells us that Holmes believes that this case is not one of great importance or magnificence, only a small…...
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Its Now Or Never Speech
The following sample essay on Its Now Or Never Speech discusses it in detail, offering basic facts and pros and cons associated with it. To read the essay's introduction, body and conclusion, scroll down.The 17th century poets, Andrew Marvell and Robert Herrick, in their poems “To His Coy Mistress” and “To The Virgins, To Make Much of Time” offer extraordinary insight into the feelings and emotions connected with love. With twenty-eight definitions for the word “love” in the dictionary and…...
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Sociology Project
Introduction Religion, superstitions and legends have played an important role in the society defining each individuals behaviour and actions. As Merriam Webster dictionary says Superstition is a belief that a certain event or thing that bring a good or bad luck. The number thirteen, black cats braking mirrors or walking under ladders may all be things you actively avoid. Even if you dont consider yourself a particularly superstitious person, you probably say bless you when someone sneezes, just in case…...
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Roman and American Entertainment
The following sample essay is about what Roman and American entertainment was like. Read the introduction, body and conclusion of the essay, scroll down. Roman and American Entertainment Everyone around the world has similar versions of entertainment. Entertainment is the amusement one receives through an event or a series of actions. Modern-day entertainment has changed vastly since the ancient times, but the base idea of each style has remained consistent with past. Ancient Rome and modern-day America have parallels in…...
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A Compare And Contrast Essay About Two Poems
Write an essay of 1500 words, in which you compare and contrast the following two poems: Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ‘Frost at Midnight’ and Joanna Baillie’s ‘A Mother to her Waking Infant.’ In comparing and contrasting the two poems, it is logical to firstly acknowledge the titles, and to think about how they shape the way we read, and how they set the readers expectations. Baillie’s title of ‘A Mother to her Waking Infant’ is very clear and factual, and fully describes…...
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William Wordsworth Themes
William Wordsworth was born in Cumberland. Wordsworth entered Cambridge University in 1787, the year he completed his first significant poem. Wordsworth is considered to be the most important English romantic poet. Wordsworth has also been praised for his descriptions of nature. But he traditionally claimed that his primary interest was “The Mind Of Man.” His finest poems include “Michael,” the “Lucy” lyrics, “The Solitary Reaper,” and “Resolution and Independence,” dramatize how imagination creates spiritual values out of memory of sights…...
CulturePoetrySeamus Heaney
William Wordsworth Composed Upon Westminster Bridge Summary
William Wordsworth was part of the Romantic movement. This usually involved using plain language, unlike most poetry at the time, and addressing liberal political issues to do with the suffering of poor agricultural workers. He often celebrated nature, and wrote about landscapes. He believed in the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings being expressed in poetry. Wordsworth’s poems, including this one, use the Petrachan form, made up of an octave, rhyming: a;b;b;a;a;b;b;a, and a sestet, rhyming c;d;c;d;c;d. The sonnet describes something…...
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The Soldier And Dulce Et Decorum Est
Wilfred Owen also uses imagery in ‘Dulce et Decorum Est.’ He uses a simile to compare the condition of the exhausted soldiers to hags. This is clear in the line, “Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, knock-kneed, coughing like hags…” By comparing the soldiers to hags, Wilfred Owen expresses his opinion in a very degrading way. He also compares the m to beggars which is not an admirable state to be at in war. Compared to Rupert Brooke’s poem,…...
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Le Poison by Charles Baudelaire Analysis
This particular poem is very interesting as it explores different hypes of drugs, sins and ‘poisons’ in our society, taking the reader on a dark Journey from wine, to opium, to women and then to ‘la mort’ from the point of view of Baudelaire himself. Within the first stanza, Baudelaire speaks of the idyllic world that is created when he drinks wine; the ‘portières’ that are created that allows the reader to imagine multiple doors opening; multiple possibilities that can…...
CulturePoetryRealityWine
Keats Ode To Autumn Poem Analysis
This is the last poem Keats wrote and is an ode, which is a lyric poem addressed to a person or thing and deals with one main idea. The romantic poets like Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats used this form of poem a lot. The Romantics wrote of many things in their poems and believed their emotions and their imagination were very important. In this poem the main subject is autumn which Keats relates to love, death and immortality (Romantics were…...
LoveOdePoetryRomanticism
The Art Of Losing Poem
This essay is mainly focused on Elizabeth Bishop’s poem One Art, and the recurrent theme of “losing”, depicted as an art, or as the poet might say: “the art of losing”. This paper will also focus on the poem’s form and the way in which the usage of certain conventions, such as tone, language, syntax (adjectives, adverbs and verbs) and form help to convey the poet’s message, which suggests that loss can lead to the mastery of “the art of…...
CultureIronyLanguagePoetry
First Ice by Andrei Voznesenky Poem Analysis
These two English Translations of the Russian poem by Andrei Voznesenky are about a girl being rejected for the first time. The young girl’s feelings of hurt and rejection are described in terms of coldness throughout the poem. “The first ice of human hurt”. The theme that is put across from the poem is of growing up, and the experience of loosing someone for the first time. Both of these poems are very similar, but they have both been translated…...
CommunicationMetaphorPoetryRobert Frost
Murder Mystery Genre Analysis
These two stories are completely different from each other, only one of them follows the murder mystery genre we are used to. A typical murder mystery usually revolves around a highly respected detective who always seems to find the murderer by the end of the story. We never get to know the victim very well in the stories, as they are either dead before the story starts or shortly after the start before we get to know anything about him or…...
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District Twelve
There are many types of societies in the world. For example, there are two societies called dystopian and utopian societies. An utopian society is a perfect world, versus a dystopian society which is an imperfect world. One of the characteristics of a dystopian society is information, independent thought, and freedom are restricted. From the beginning of the book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, the reader can interpret that the people have no freedom to an outside world. There are…...
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A Farewell To False Love
The writer uses all of these poetic elements to make this poem the best poem In the world. The structure of this poem Is very common for the era that It was written. It Is written In pentameter which Is five pairs of strong and weak syllables. This makes the poem easy to read and it gives it a pleasant structure. It consists of five stanzas with 6 lines each including a rhyming couplet at the end of each stanza.…...
LovePoetryRhyme
The Voice Thomas Hardy
The writers of both poems use different techniques and tones to convey the idea of marriage in ‘The Voice’ and ‘Marrysong’. The main theme of ‘Marrysong’ is the idea of Scott trying to make sense of his wife and her sudden changes of mood, and he uses metaphorical references to nature and landscape to indicate how trying to understand his wife is a rough, meandering journey – ‘the map was never true’ shows the unpredictability of his wife. The structure…...
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American Dream Essay
The word superseded is separated from the rest of the title with a comma, so that it is emphasized. The word superseded is also an allusion to McDonald’s, which is seen all ever the world as a symbol of America. McDonald’s is a huge corporation, and using a word related to it in the title helps to show that America in general has become a country where bigger is better, and everyone wants to gain as much for themselves as…...
AmericaAmerican DreamCommunicationCultureIronySociology
Medusa Carol Ann Duffy
The Worlds Wife by Carol Ann Duffy depicts women as victims’ Analyse three poems showing how far you agree with this statement. The Worlds Wife explores Duffy’s strong and, at times, controversial views on the women who have been traditionally overshadowed by their husbands. Duffy deliberately chooses to study women who are ignored or despised by their husbands or lovers, making it easier to portray women as victims. However the victimisation of the women within this book of poetry is…...
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Poem John Clare First Love
The verse form First Love by John Clare is written about the poet’s feelings of unanswered love for a affluent farmer’s girl. Mary Joyce. The poet uses assorted unusual effects in the verse form to convey this sense of loss. supplying deep penetrations into his head in a apparently simple and brief piece. Combined with words which reflect the temper in each poetry. these make it a really powerful verse form. An unusual signifier of contrast is used in First…...
CultureLanguageLovePoetry
Advice To A Teenage Daughter Poem
The two poems “City Friends Advice” by Benjamin Zephaniah and “Advice to a Teenage Daughter” by Isobel Thrilling are both giving advice of some form or an-other. In Zephaniah’s poem he is giving advice to the reader directly telling them to be careful in the city. In Thrilling’s poem she is giving advice to her teenage daughter telling her that if she wants to impress a boy she has to compete with Cars, computer games, cricket, football, motor cycles and…...
CommunicationPoetry
Dh Lawrence Snake
The two poems I shall be comparing are “Snake” by D H Lawrence and “Jaguar” by Ted Hughes. “Snake” is about a man encountering a snake in his water trough. His feelings and possible reactions are conflicting throughout the poem. “Jaguar” is about a jaguar and how the poets moves past all the various animals at the zoo and reaches the jaguar and focuses on its beauty. I shall cover D H Lawrence’s poem first. This poem is written in…...
Poetry
Willy Loman Tragic Hero
The tragic hero has long been a dramatic figure. Oedipus defines such a hero; his future determined by the fates and the gods, his actions work together to bring it about even as he believes that he is taking pains to avoid it. He has no choice in how his story will end; he is a hamster in a wheel running and running to go nowhere. Willy Loman is no such hero. While his story makes the reader feel for…...
HeroLifeLiterary GenreLiteraturePersonalityTragic Hero
Themes Relating to Love, Death and Sex.
The three poems I have been studing are Holy Sonnet written by John Donre, Sonnet 71, which is written by William Shakespeare, and To His Coy Mistress, which is written by Andrew Marvel. These poems contain major themes dealing with love, death, and sex. These poems are very different from one another. John Donre who is the author of Holy Sonnet talks about a young priest who is challenging death and has no worry’s because he doesn’t fear anything not…...
PoetryTo His Coy MistressWilliam Shakespeare
You Carol Ann Duffy Analysis
The title of this poem is “$” and is part of Carol Ann Duffy’s fisrt collection, Standing Female Nude which was released in 1985. The title gives no hint about what the poem may be about, except for the fact that it is about money, and in particular, American money. Instead of writing the word “dollar,” she chose to use the symbol instead, meaning her poem could be one that symbolises something that affects her strongly. Carol Ann Duffy was…...
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Andy Cope Ted Williams is known as one of the greatest baseball players
Ted skipped some seasons and served as a Marine Corps pilot. During his time in WWII and the Korean War, we would all assume that Ted gained tremendous leadership skills. These skills helped him on the baseball field and throughout his entire life. Ted could be mistaken as a coach in these lines. He talks to someone as if he is teaching them. He repeats himself constantly. Cope uses the line, “Don’t let anybody mess with your swing”, four times.…...
BaseballCommunicationHuman NaturePoetry
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