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Walt Whitman- Song of Myself (1855) The poem Song of Myself by Walt Whitman is one of the most influential and widely-acclaimed poems by an American author.... The poem embodies the idea of 'self-reliance' propagated by Emerson which means the spirit of non-conformity to tradition and the belief that the best way of doing a task is one's own individual way.... espite being condemned by the social conservatives and religious fanatics for its going against the established norms of morality and its flagrant depiction of sexuality and eroticism, the poem is regarded as an American classic in terms of individual resilience....
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Essay
An analysis of the poem makes clear that the poem admirably fulfills the three criteria set by the poet, even the seemingly impossible one of transforming consciousness, but only with the inclusion of its fourth section printed separately from the other three, as "Footnote to Howl....
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Essay
The insistent beat of "when" and "then" is intensifying the tattoo of ticking time.... This poem has always had different variants of interpretation: some critics say that Emily Dickinson wanted to show a funeral as a philosophical vision of human's life (Cameron 1979, Cameron 1992) or the process of getting free (Ford 1997); others think that a funeral is a metaphor of the speaker's descent into madness (Wolff 1988) or reaction to the great stress or dread (Bennett 1986).
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Book Report/Review
He has called himself one of the "last romantics"1 in a poem "Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931".... William Butler Yeats, the well-known Irish poet and later Senator of the Irish Free State was born on 13 June, 1865, at Sandymouth, Dublin.... His father John Butler Yeats had been a lawyer but had left the legal profession to dedicate himself to painting....
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Book Report/Review
Caribbean literature witnessed a gradual resurgence as efforts were made by Caribbean authors to engage in contentious dialogues with the colonisers and to shape Caribbean literary aesthetics to include ideas other than those from the Victorian British.... Sustained literary.... ... ... The Caribbean is a complex mixture of many races, cultures, religions and traditions....
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As an epic poem is brought down through the generations it is not important that the details of the story remain unchanged.... The paper "Versions of Jason and the Argonauts" analyzes the story of Jason and the Argonauts handed down for generations and adjusted to the various audiences that it was intended....
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Literature review
The writer of this assignment "Symbol and Irony in the Short Story" discusses the role of irony and symbolism in Edgar Allan Poe's short stories using the works called "The Cask of Amontillado' and 'The Black Cat' as the examples.... Both of them contain many instances of symbolism and irony.... ...
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Assignment
"Analysis of the poem Strange Fruit by Cyrus Cassell" paper focuses on the poem by an African American Author.... he poem 'Strange Fruit' was borne from the African American experience.... The poem has much meaning to those who have felt the negative aspects of being African American.... The language and style of the poem have little meaning unless one is aware of the African American experience that preceded it....
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