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Atwood & Browning/On Love
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A 3 page essay that contrasts and compares contemporary Canadian poet Margaret Atwood's "You Fit Into Me" and nineteenth century poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnet XLIII, better known as "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." The writer argues that these poems are complete opposites. Atwood's poem is terse and short, expressing her stance in just four lines. As her title suggests, Browning's poem has the traditional 14-line form of a sonnet. Also, Browning employs a traditional rhyme scheme, while Atwood uses unrhymed free verse. But while these differences are striking, the biggest difference between the two works is the individual poet's stance on love. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khatbrlo.rtf

Auden & Donne/On Separation & Mourning
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A 3 page essay that contrasts and compares poems by these two poets. Separation from a loved one, either through death or prolonged absence, engenders the natural response of mourning. In his poem "Funeral Blues," W.H. Auden captures in metaphors the heart-wrenching experience of losing a loved one. John Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" also uses metaphor in order to offer solace to his beloved concerning a prolonged separation. In both cases, the poets capture the experience of mourning the creative use of metaphor. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khauddon.rtf

Auden’s Geographies
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An 11 page paper which discusses the geographies within the poems of W.H. Auden. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: RAauden.rtf

Audre Lorde/Black Unicorn
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An 8 page research paper that examines several poems by African American poet Audre Lorde. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: khlorde.rtf

Aztec Poetry
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A 4 page paper which analyzes an article about Aztec poetry from a historical perspective, as well as analyzing a poem. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: RAzpo.rtf

Bai Juyi (Pai Chu-i, Bo Juyi, Po Chü-i) 772-846 - Poet of the Tang Dynasy
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(5 pp) Bai Juyi (772-846) is considered one of the most prolific poets of the Tang Dynasty. And the Tang Dynasty itself (618 - 907 BCE) is considered to be the golden age of Chinese poetry. We will examine this poet and his works in light of his own historic period. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Bbbaijuy.doc

BALLAD OF BIRMINGHAM
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This 3 page paper analyzes this poem for form, tone, symbolism, alliteration and more. Examples given from text of Dudley Randalls poem: The Ballad of Birmingham. Bibliograpy lists 1 source.
Filename: MBnobaby.rtf

Barnby's Setting Of Tennyson's "Crossing The Bar" And Ireland's Version Of Masefield's "Sea Fever": Songs Of The Sea
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5 pages in length. Understanding the greater meaning behind traditional songs of the sea enables one to gain a significantly better perspective of just how powerful the ocean's presence is in some people's lives. To those who live and breathe by the sea, her swelling waves and wafting salt air reflect a world still unknown to man yet comforting nonetheless. When Tennyson's Crossing the Bar and Masefield's Sea Fever were put to music by Barnby and Ireland, respectively, the already absorbing and intimate meanings beheld by the poems took on an even greater sense of emotion with each man's haunting melody, clearly expanding the meaning of the words. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: TLCSngSe.rtf

Barreca/Nighttime Fires
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A 3 page explication of "Nighttime Fires" by Regina Barreca, the writer argues that the poet creates a haunting tale of her father's disillusionment with a society that has failed him. Barreca turns the behavior of her father, that is, waking up Barreca and her siblings so they could witness the night time destruction of a home to fire, into an elaborate metaphor that enlightens the reader as to her father's state of mind. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khbarnf.rtf

Basho's 'Sick on a journey'
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This 5 page paper analyzes the author's last Haiku. Sabi and Wabi are discussed as well as principles of Buddhism that might have affected the poet's view. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: SA040Bos.rtf