Compare and Contrast: "My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun" & "She Walks In Beauty" Time has seen an infinite amount of beauty in its long existence. Nature has produced so many wonderful scenes and objects that we cannot collect it all even in one life. We ourselves are keepers of such beaut...

The dictionary definition of advice is a suggestion or recommendation regarding a decision or course of action. One often receives advice on many different decisions through out a lifetime. Advice comes wanted, or unwanted, good or bad but usually well meant. The poems "If" by Rudyard Kipl...

Compare and Contrast Essay "To be, or not to be," Hamlet by William Shakespeare. Is life worth living, or is it better just to give up and leave the living behind. This was the theme of Shakespeare's play as well as in "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry. Alth...

Compare and Contrast:“My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun”&“She Walks In Beauty”Time has seen an infinite amount of beauty in its long existence. Nature hasproduced so many wonderful scenes and objects that we cannot collect it all even in onelife. We ourselves...

Grendel is portrayed in two radically different ways in the novels Grendel and Beowulf. What accounts for most of the differences in the portrayal of a monster, in both novels, comes two completely different perspectives. The main thing that separates Grendel in both novels is the fact that we a...

Symbolic Contrasts Many plays and novels use contrasting places, such as two cities or towns, to represent opposed forces or ideas that are central to the work to the meaning of the work. The novel, Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton contrasts two such places. The contrast of the two places in...

Wolfgang Tillmans was once quoted to say that with his work he was "challenging the institutionalization of the image within both the gallery and the magazine". The photographs that he takes are of everyday things, such as a woman picking vegetables in a grocery store, gallons of juice si...

The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze two short stories, "Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield and "A Clean Well-Lighted Place" by Ernest Hemingway. Specifically it will compare and contrast the two short stories. Both of these stories feature lonely, pathetic characters th...

As one analyzes the "Apology" by Plato, one is able to analyze and contrast and most people would agree with Socrates when he claims that "...the unexamined life is not worth living...". From a more personal standpoint I would completely agree with Socrates point of view, due to ...

Ernest Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" reflects the contrasts of youth and age. The characterizations and the symbolism illustrate that is not uncommon to become lonely and feel isolated with age. This is exemplified by the contrasts revealed between the two older men and...

Youth, a cherished period in one\'s life, is often encapsulated in words by scholars and poets. As early as the last century, Hiller, the famous German poet once said that the most important thing in one\'s life is to be loyal to his dreams during his youth. The author of this elegant piece of the a...

The thesis of Donne's' "Meditation 17" and Orwell's "A Hanging" have both similarities and differences. Though both theses suggest the idea of mankind as a whole, and the fact that we are forced to examine our life when we witness one's death, there are still ...

The Deadly Irony of "The Chaser" John Collier's "The Chaser" creates a sense of irony, that when discovered by readers, sends a chill to the spine. This short story compares and contrasts beautiful and energetic youth, versus the almost evil and scary old age. Collier plac...

The facts of history, the values and interpretations of history can all be a subject of repeated debate; it is contested and perceived differently by different types of groups of people and ideas. At the same time it is important to remember that history is a part of our culture, it is something we...

The Road Not Taken The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost relates on both a literal and metaphoric level to the concept of a journey. The poem depicts one man's journey throughout his life, the choices he made and the road he travelled. The Road Not Taken is a poem with universal relevance abo...

Willa Cathers volume, Obscure Destinies, is composed of three stories, "Old Mrs. Harris," "Two Friends," and "Neighbor Rosicky." In this volume she explores three facets of small town life. In "Neighbor Rosicky" she explains what residents consider the advanta...

William Blake "Man, born free, is everywhere in chains." (Pg. 328) This was the basis for William Blake's poetry. Blake may have written dreams of sunny days, angels, "wise guardians," "songs of pleasant glee," little ones leaping, shouting, and laughing, but to Blake these were all "Songs of ...

A well written poem may be read numerous times without losing its freshness because each word has been carefully chosen for both its literal and implied meanings. No words are included that do not add extra dimensions to the meaning of the poem. By critically examing the poem "Richard Cory", we ca...

In the poem "The poetry lesson" by Don Maclennan, the poet is in a state of depression, he is finding it difficult to understand the reasons why he is doing poetry and teaching poetry to his students. The poem is also trying to make sense of poetry and trying to determine the purpose of it...

The meaning of life has been debated since man was created. Many philosophers have published their views and beliefs throughout time. Similarly, every ordinary person at one time or another has undoubtedly pondered about life, its meaning, and our purpose. In this essay, I will delve into my view...

During the decade that Steinbeck's novel, The Grapes of Wrath, took place, a vicious spiral of degeneration led people to turn on their own brethren, resort to violence, and blah blah blah. Pshaw! I would have loved to have lived during the 1930's simply because benevolence never went unno...

The four great revolutions in thought and religion that occurred in the first millennium BCE shaped the subsequent history of the world as the cultural descendents of India, China, the Middle East, and Greece attempted to define the meaning of life and understand humankind's relationship with the co...

REDWarm lips are red, blood drops are too, Abe Lincoln was shot, the nation was blue. In the poem" O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman, the color red is used as a symbol for many objects. Red symbolizes blood shed, life, happiness and it also associates with love, life, and vitality. Other thing...

Perhaps as a painting plays light against dark to create images, the words of an author in a work of fiction create tension that produces the vision that the writer wants us as readers to share with him. By sharing, in the vision of an author, we are invited to look at the human ...

Abortion is by far the most extreme, permanent, and devastatingly violent solution for an unborn child. The right to life is the most basic and most important right we have. To deprive someone, an unborn child for that matter, from that right is immoral and inhumane. This is an issue concerning a...