… life, as an esquire of the royal court, as the administrator of the customs for the port of London, as a participant in important diplomatic missions, and in a variety of other official duties. Before William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer was the…

… is perhaps simply the seventeenth century’s version of a commonplace pickup line. However, in today’s society it offers a comical and conceivably ingenious if not simply creative method of wooing a fine, honorable lady into your bed. In overview,…

… given to them. In the outside world they were condemned. For here the blind could make anything without the use of eyes as if they were seeing. For here the blind had eyes that glowed and looked through the mind lighting fire in the soul. For…

… a Puritan woman, Anne Bradstreet had trouble writing poetry in a patriarchal, unimaginative world. Although Bradstreet grew up in affluence with the luxury of an excellent education, she was expected to behave as a normal Puritan woman. She was the…

… spent his life exploring and attempting to answer through his poetry. By exploring nature around him, Hopkins adds insight to God’s relationship with and essential role to man-- that of creator and redeemer. In his poem “Windhover” we see a prayer…

… presents a very real theme of love in his poem, Dover Beach. Where he creates a scene of beauty among the sea and shores, mixed with night and moonlight, he also is presenting us with the underlying misery, which is easily over looked and disregarded.…

… greatest poets of the modern era, creating a literary movement known as “imagism.” Pound coined the term in 1912 to assist Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) in the marketing of some of her poems. Doolittle was an unknown author, and Pound decided that her work…

… emotions toward her father’s life and death. With passionate articulation, she verbally turns over her feelings of rage, abandonment, confusion and grief. Though this work is fraught with ambiguity, a reader can infer Plath’s basic story. Her father…

… nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?” Edgar Allen Poe shows us the dark part of human kind. Conflict with in ones self, state of madness, and emotional break down all occur within this short story. The narrator of the…

… nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?” Edgar Allen Poe shows us the dark part of human kind. Conflict with in ones self, state of madness, and emotional break down all occur within this short story. The narrator of the…