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In the poem “Heritage” by Lorna Dee Cervantes the speaker goes back to the place of her families decent to find her heritage, only to discover despise and hatred from her people. Although she is of the same decent and race of the people the see her as a traitor because she was raised American….

Compare and contrast the presentation of childhood memories in ‘half past two’, ‘piano’ and ‘my parents kept me from children who were rough’ focusing on the poet’s use of language, form and structure. ’ The poems are different based on theme as piano has a theme of music taking on a memory. Half past two…

The Faerie Queene is an important romantic epic that more than being just poetry, represents the protestant imagery in terms of kinds of individual virtue , the forces of temptation and human weaknesses to which the greatest of persons can succumb and, of course, the humanist ideals of its time. His author, Edmund Spenser, makes…

Male/female relationships are portrayed differently in the poems ‘Porphyria’s Lover’, ‘Havisham’, ‘Cousin Kate’ and the play ‘Macbeth’. They all surround the themes of love, hate, jealousy, betrayal, guilt and obsession. However, the love versus hate theme is most dominant because all of the poems and the play have a melancholy mood, showing how the key…

Offensive or Derogatory Words or Phrases The five poems in this next category contain demeaning and derogatory expressions for Africans and African-Americans, including the offensive word “nigger” in the first two. “De Ole River-Ox” (undated) The racism analysis of this poem includes the use of the “N” word as well as the dialect itself. De…

A great man is one who serves humanity heart and soul but no man is great who is great only in his life time the test of greatness is the page of history is repeat with the noble deeds of men whose sole and scared aim life was the to help and and guide their…

The title of the poem is Annabel Lee, wrote by Edgar Allan Poe. Annabel Lee is the star of the poem, and she’s the only thing that matters to the speaker. That’s why the poem is named after her. The title introduces us to the sound of her name, which is important for the editor….

Comparing Two PoemsThe comparison between two poems are best analyzed through the form and meaning of the pieces. “Mother to Son” and “Harlem (A Dream Deferred)” both written by the profound poet Langston Hughes, depicts many similarities and differences between the poems. Between these two poems the reader can identify his flow of writing through…

Is Virgil’s Aeneid an Anti-War Poem?Virgil opens the Aeneid’ with the words ARMA virumque cano ( I sing of arms and of men). The central role that war plays in this Roman epic is made apparent from the very first word of the Aeneid’ by the emphatic placing of the word arma at the very…

Langston Hughes’s poems “Negro Mother”, “Let America be American again” and “Mother to Son” express the status of African Americans in early 20th century American society, and the hope they have for their future. In all three of these poems, Hughes positions the reader to empathise with the African Americans of the early 20th century….