Today's Date:
December 16, 2024
Poetry Analysis of “Dolce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen
Literature since the time of the Ancient Greeks glorified and glossed over the horrors of war, making it seem as a worthwhile, honorable, and romantic male endeavor. This same philosophy carried on even until past the time of America’s bloody →
Poem Analysis of “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath : The Poetic Weight of Histor
The first two stanzas of the poem “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath are deceptively simple and sound more like a strange nursery rhyme than an angry depiction of the speaker’s father. An analysis of the straight rhyme scheme in “Daddy” by →
Romanticism & “Frost at Midnight” by Coleridge and “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” by Wordsworth
One important aspect and recurring theme throughout romantic poetry is the connection between the natural world and children. In Coleridge’s “Frost at Midnight” and Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” childhood is a sacred time during which the natural and human realms become intertwined. →
Analysis of Themes in the Poems of W.B. Yeats : “Sailing to Byzantium,” “Among Schoolchildren,” and “The Circus Animal’s Desertion”
Although there are several allusions to it made by several scholars within the vast library of biographical works regarding William Butler Yeats, the poet’s intense fear and disdain of aging and death can be discerned with even the most cursory →
An Analysis of Common Themes in Victorian Poetry
Many of the themes and meanings of Victorian poetry reflect a conflicted sense of self. At once manypoems by Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning portray a longing for the ideals of theRomantic period in literature but they are stunted it seems →
Poem Analysis of “Traveling Through the Dark” by William Stafford
The poem by William Stafford, “Traveling Through the Dark” presents readers with an uncomfortable and rather grim instance of the intersection of the natural world and that of man. Technology, in this case cars and the man-made road, are seen →
Overview of Romanticism in Literature
In the most basic sense, Romanticism, which is loosely identified as spanning the years of 1783-1830,1 2 can be distinguished from the preceding period called the Enlightenment by observing that the one elevated the role of spirit, soul, instinct, and emotion, while the other →
Summary and Analysis of the Poem “Departmental” by Robert Frost
To offer a brief summary of the poem “Departmental” by Robert Frost and its general meaning before launching into a full poetry analysis of “Departmental”, one should begin with the important first lines. At the beginning of “Departmental” by Robert →
Essay on Divine Right in Shakespeare’s Richard II and Henry V
The divine right to rule is an important issue in both Shakespeare’s “Richard II” and “Henry V”. In each play by Shakespeare, the kings are prone to making a series of mistakes or succumbing to certain weaknesses and are judged →
Prejudice in Shakespeare’s Othello and The Merchant of Venice
In both of Shakespeare’s plays, “Othello” and “The Merchant of Venice”, there are several instances in which the non-white and non-Christian characters are marginalized and are often the victims of prejudice and outright racism. This occurs in both “Merchant of →
