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Poetry As Crisis / A Study In Plath And Dickinson
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A 6 page paper comparing these two poets in terms of the assertion that Poetry is the language of a state of crisis. Specific poems discussed are Emily Dickinson's 'My Life Had Stood -- A Loaded Gun' and Sylvia Plath's 'Lady Lazarus.' Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Crispoet.wps
Transcendentalist Roots In Whitman & Dickinson
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A 5 page paper comparing and contrasting the ways in which Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson exhibited the influence of Emerson and Thoreau's Transcendentalism. The ideas expressed are supported by quotes from the literary works mentioned and several critical sources. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: Tranroot.wps
Works of Derek Walcott / Investigating the Trope of Song
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In 5 pages, the author investigates the trope of song in the works of Derek Walcott. Several passages are taken from Walcott's writing. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: Walcottd.wps
Thomas Hardy's 'Convergence of the Twain'
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A comprehensive, thorough 4 page explication of Thomas Hardy's infamous poem : 'Convergence of the Twain.' Theme deals with the sinking of the Titanic. No bibliography.
Filename: Converge.wps
Walt Whitman and the Civil War
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A five page paper looking at the nineteenth-century poet’s involvement with and reactions toward the Civil War, as seen through his poetry and letters. Specific poems discussed are: “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” “O Captain! My Captain!”, “An Army Corps on the March,” “Calvary Crossing a Ford,” “Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night,” “A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim,” and “A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown”. The bibliography cites five sources.
Filename: KBwhitm2.wps
Charles Baudelaire's 'Paris Spleen' / Focus On Women
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A 5 page paper discussing the works of Charles Baudelaire within the collection of 'Paris Spleen.' His prose has many subtle hints as well as obvious remarks about women. Some of it is vague at times and often secondary but the essence is there. Works such as those are the ones illustrated within the content of this paper. Bibliography lists several secondary sources.
Filename: Spleen2.wps
Charles Baudelaire's 'Paris Spleen' / The Grotesque
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A 5 page paper on Baudelaire's 'Paris Spleen,' or as it was originally known, 'Petits Poemes en Prose,' (short prose poems). The poems described from this compilation are used as examples of Baudelaire's use of the grotesque. The grotesque and morbid may be subtle but they are definite components of the works cited. Bibliography lists several secondary sources.
Filename: Spleen.wps
The Poetry Of Charles Baudelaire
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An 8 page paper discussing this nineteenth-century French poet and his tremendous influence on the modernist tradition in the twentieth century. It discusses five poems of Baudelaire's poems in some depth, and offers an opinion on why he was so influential. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: ChBaud.wps
Yeats Meets Carl
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The two men seemed to be from separate planets, if
not universes, as they sat face to face in the comfort of the TV studio.
William Butler Yeats, in his three piece Italian suit, was somber and a
little detached. Carl Sandburg, on the other hand, looked as though he
could 'talk up a storm' in his bib overalls and wide grin. This 5 page
paper proposes a conversation between the two great poets. Bibliography
lists 8 sources.
Filename: KTwbycrl.wps