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- 5551: The Hobbit: Fantasy World Comparison To Our World
- ... creatures at an instant, is an excellent example of such fiction. The dragon, Smaug, is the main adversary of the fourteen adventurers and is a type of creature that has long been used in fantasy writing. Although most of the characters' species are merely creations of the author, they all exhibit a sense of realism that causes them to seem almost human. There is a vast difference between Middle Earth and ...
- 5552: Phillis Wheatley: Black or White Poet?
- ... was more privileged than other slaves because her owners taught her to read and write. Showing early signs of remarkable intelligence, her owners, the Wheatleys, fostered her talent by tutoring her regularly. Phillis took to writing poetry, which led her to become the first black woman poet in the United States. She was a genius of her time. Her poems mainly focus on the themes of nature and religion. As a ...
- 5553: Porphyrias Lover
- ... in his distraught mind that Porphyria was happy to be dead and with him forever. This shows that he is very twisted yet innocent in his own eyes. In conclusion, Browning was highly successful in writing Porphyrias Lover as a dramatic monologue
- 5554: Easter 1916 By William Yeats
- ... animals represents the actual reality of the revolts in Ireland. First, is the Easter rebellion of 1916 and following World War I there was constant fighting which leads to independence from Britain. The authors personal view of the rebellion is neutral. He conveys this stating that the driving force of the stream cannot be stopped, but only diverted. Clearly Yeats has come to terms with reality and the mighty iron ...
- 5555: The Flea: Analysis
- ... ignores the repercussions which may occur tomorrow. He is regarding religion as insignificant and paying no heed to the beliefs of his girlfriend. The second theme of the poem is that the woman Donne is writing about is exercising an ethically and morally correct behavior. She doesn't want to make love to him not because she doesn't love him but because she is worried about the religious constraints she ...
- 5556: Song of Myself: Divinity, Sexuality and the Self
- ... of the sexual in his work is integral to this sense of active, individual discovery. Whitman's notion of sexuality acknowledges it as one of the highest forms of sensual pleasure, and one of great personal and communicative importance.
- 5557: Interpreting Poetry
- ... discussed. Each author uses various literary tools, but for now the main focus will be that of meaning. The first poet to be discussed is Shakespeare. The famous sonnet simply numbered eighteen, Shakespeare appears to writing (speaking) to a woman he is fond of. Shall I compare thee to a summers day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer ...
- 5558: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- ... knight. When everything is all said and done Gawain finally realizes that he is not the true hero that all of his peers mistake him for. Gawain in this epic journey went through a big personal revelation step in his life. He realized that he was not a flawless true Christian that he though he was. He in a sense had been fooled out of his faith. In the end You ...
- 5559: Compare And Contrast The War Poems By Jessie Pope And Rupert Brooke To Those Of Wilfred Owen
- ... inner Peace. Whether they find peace by victoriously battling the Germans or gallantly dying for their country, is not important. It is the fact that war will bring together the flagging nation, which Brooke is writing about in the poem. Peace is not a direct recruitment poem, nor is it about battles and fighting, but it gives reasons why Brooke thinks war is a blessing (maybe in disguise) to the nation ...
- 5560: The Use Of The Color White In Frost's Poem "Design"
- ... that height. Why did the spider end up on the flower? This is a question that is not directly answered in the poem, but it makes the reader think a little bit more about the writing. Maybe there is no logical explanation to the spider's whereabouts. I think that the spider was on that flower simply because he could be. It seems to me that the best explanation for this ...
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