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Papers On Poetry
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The Sacred & The Profane In Wallace Stevens' 'Sunday Morning'
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A 3 page explication of Wallace Stevens' famous long poem. It presents the difficulties inherent in a deistic view of the sacred, but stops short of advocating a truly Christian vision; in fact, it ends by advocating no vision at all. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Stevens.wps
Wallace Stevens' 'The Rock' / Reality, Illusion, & Imagination
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A 6 page paper analyzing Stevens' poem in terms of the way it deals with alternate modes of reality. The paper particularly concentrates on how 'The Rock' uses metaphor to emphasize the metaphysical nature of existence. Bibliography lists six sources.
Filename: Therock.wps
Love and Romanticism in Blake and Hemans
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A ten page paper looking at the way poets William Blake and Felicia Hemans looked at the issue of romantic love in several selected poems. The paper argues that neither writer was really capable of seeing marriage and love as a relationship of equals. The poems covered include Hemans’ “Image in Lava” and “The Mirror in the Deserted Hall,” and Blake’s “Marriage of Heaven and Hell.” Bibliography lists 12 sources.
Filename: KBhemans.wps