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- 1911: The Test of Honor in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- ... left Camelot never to return. He instead chose the option of keeping his word and searching for the Green Knight, even though he knew he had to take what was coming to him. "Now, liege lord of my life, my leave I take; / The terms of this task too well you know / to count the cost over concerns me nothing. But I am bound forth betimes to bear a stroke / From ...
- 1912: John Donne and the Psychology of Death
- ... invincible doubt of salvation (Benet, 280). This is a completely different view of death than that put forth in Sonnet #10. Sonnet #10 is absolutely confident that depressed and weary though Donne might be, his Lord will receive him. This poem, obviously written in a much deeper emotional crisis, questions even that. The end conclusion of such philosophical meanderings would have been almost unimaginable for a man of Donnes religious ...
- 1913: Analysis of "The Age of Anxiety" by W.H. Auden
- ... takes place in a "forgotten graveyard." It is observed as a "still / Museum [exhibiting] / The results of life," which could either be death or the life that results from death as the "Flittermice, finches / And flies restore / Their lost milieu" (Nelson 122). The seventh stage begins as each character plunges deep into a dense forest where they are confronted by a vast desert. Here, Quant asks the question, "Do I love ...
- 1914: Differences Between 18th Century Literature and Romantic Poetry Seen Through The Works From Alexander Pope and John Keats
- ... life shows through his writings in fiction. Which inevitably portray his deeper feelings of life. Popes' efforts here are of outstanding quality. However, his poem did fail to convince Arabella to rιsumι her engagement to Lord Petre. Most of Pope's efforts here were written with time. Now, Keats has romantically serenaded his reader with descriptive lust and desire, which can be compared with popes' efforts by the difference in eighteenth ...
- 1915: An Examination of Similes in the Iliad - and how Homer's Use of Them Affected the Story
- ... the plain to the place where he is wont to bathe in the fair- flowing river- he holds his head high, and his mane streams upon his shoulders as he exults in his strength and flies like the wind to the haunts and feeding ground of the mares- even so went forth Paris from high Pergamus, gleaming like sunlight in his armor, and he laughed aloud as he sped swiftly on ...
- 1916: Beowulf
- ... consists of great deeds , the setting of the story is vast scope covering great lands and far off places. Beowulf said that his father was favored far and wide because he was a very noble lord. "The swift current , the surging water carried me to the far off Land of the Lapps ," said Beowulf as he told a story to one of Hroathgars' retainers. When Beowulf talked of where Grendel lived ...
- 1917: Blake's "The Fly"
- ... the fly. If that is the case then life is terrible for a fly is a small and meager creature. Blake is suggested that we are so useless and so petty that we are like flies. This view upon humans is one of disgust and is very depressing for the reader. Blake also says that men are similar to the fly due to their position in life. "For I dance And ...
- 1918: Dante's Inferno
- ... was widely accepted and encouraged. It is this spiritual truth: that those who insist on denying God's will and die unrepentant are eternally damned unless they repent and walk in the ways of the Lord, which makes Dante's Inferno a religious and morally challenging experience. Works Cited Barbi, Michele. Life of Dante. Ed. Paul Ruggiers, Berkley-L.A.: University of California, Press, 1954. Curtius, Ernst Robert. "Dante." European Literature ...
- 1919: Lesbian Poetry
- ... It is questionable who motivated her to write so abundantly. Many researchers agree that a mentor, a man, encouraged her though ideas differ on whether it was Samuel Bowles (a newspaper editor) or Judge Otis Lord. She could have possibly been in love with one or both of these men but evidence shows that the person who effected her the most was Susan Gilbert (Cody 80-95). She is the woman ...
- 1920: Analysis of "The Age of Anxiety" by W.H. Auden
- ... takes place in a "forgotten graveyard." It is observed as a "still / Museum [exhibiting] / The results of life," which could either be death or the life that results from death as the "Flittermice, finches / And flies restore / Their lost milieu" (Nelson 122). The seventh stage begins as each character plunges deep into a dense forest where they are confronted by a vast desert. Here, Quant asks the question, "Do I love ...
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