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CARPE DIEM IN POETRY
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This 5 page paper discusses the philoosphy of carpe diem in the poetry of Marvell, Brooks, Olds, Ackerman, to name a few. Examples cited from text and quoted. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Casinos: Costs and Benefits
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A 14 page overview of the benefits in terms of resources contributed compared with the potential costs of casino gambling. The author emphasizes that while casinos could be viewed as a viable form of recreation, leisure, and tourism and even as valuable contributors to state and local revenues, there are a number of problems associated with casino gambling. These problems include negative impacts on the community such as high crime and negative impacts on the customers themselves. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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Catullus and Callimachean Poetry Compared
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This 5 page paper focuses on Catullus poetry and evaluates some poems to see if they have any relationship with Callimachean poems. The paper looks at both similarities and differences. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Change and the Self/Poetry of Gwen Harwood
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A 5 page essay on change that focuses on the poem "Suburban Sonnet" by Gwen Harwood. Using this poem, the writer discusses how motherhood involves change for the protagonist of the poem and to women in general. The positives and negatives of motherhood are discussed, with the conclusion that motherhood can be process that facilitates the growth of self. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Characters and Dante’s Hell
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A 5 page apper which examines where one would place various characters in classic/ancient literature in Dante’s Inferno. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Charles Baudelaire/A Dark Version of Romanticism
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A 5 page research paper that examines poetry by French poet Charles Baudelaire. The writer argues that while the romanticism of Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley concentrated, for the most part, on the inspiring beauty of the natural world, Baudelaire's vision of romanticism was much darker. He emphasized the "winter" aspect of nature – that death, decay, and destruction are also a natural part of the natural world. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Chaucer and Wordsworth
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An 8 page paper which discusses Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” and William Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey poem. No additional sources cited.
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Chaucer/Significance of Love in 2 Poems
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A 14 page research paper that argues that love plays a pivotal thematic role in two of Geoffrey Chaucer's greatest poems, The Book of the Duchesse and The Parliament of Fowles. While Chaucer is acknowledged as one of the greatest and most eloquent advocates of love in English literature, in these poems, he qualified his endorsement and dedication to love by placing it within certain institutional and societal boundaries. In The Book of the Duchesse, his elegy of consolation over the death of the Black Knight's lady is couched within the parameters established by the conventions of courtly love. Likewise, while the Parliament of Fowles is a love poem, Chaucer pictures love as susceptible to certain natural laws that should be meticulously followed. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Child Abuse in Theodore Roethke’s Poem “My Papa’s Waltz”
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A 6 page paper which examines whether or not Theodore Roethke’s poem “My Papa’s Waltz” is about child abuse. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Children's Poems/Silverstein & Stevenson
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A 3 page essay that contrasts and compares children's poems by these two poets. Being able to recreate the magic and joy of childhood and to do it from the child's perspective is a rare gift that few poets have exhibited. Two poets who manage to accomplish this feat are Shel Silverstein and nineteenth century author Robert Louis Stevenson. Examination of a representative poem demonstrates not only the technical virtuosity of each poet, but also the fact that each man managed to capture a child's narrative voice without talking down to their young readers, but rather showing empathy and understanding of a child's world. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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