The Poetry Of Thomas Hardy / Art Imitates Life
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This 6 page paper examines how the life of author Thomas Hardy influenced his poetry. Illustrative examples from several of Hardy's poems are provided to support the writer's thesis. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Thardy2.rtf

Thomas Hardy's 'The Darkling Thrush'
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A 6 page explication of Thomas Hardy's unusually uplifting poem. The paper analyzes the significance of the date when the poem was written -- December 31, at the precise turn of the century -- and shows how the poet's invocation of nature challenges both the mechanization and the aestheticism of the late Victorian age. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: Darkthru.wps

Whitman, Hardy, & Moss / Personification Of Objects
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A 5 page analysis of three poems that personify objects or objectify humans. The writer examines Walt Whitman's 'To A Locomotive In Winter,' Thomas Hardy's 'The Work Box,' & Howard Moss' 'Pruned Tree.' No additional sources cited.
Filename: Poems3.rtf

Gwendolyn Brooks' 'Kitchenette Building' / Meter
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A 5 page paper on Gwendolyn Brooks' short poem, looking at the tone, dramatic situation, and particularly the meter. The paper asserts that Brooks uses meter to emphasize the poem's point: that traditional poetic techniques, as both styles and as viewpoints, are an inappropriate mode of expression to those who are cut off from the romantic world. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: Brookit.wps

Goethe & Wordsworth / Two Views of the Poet
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An 8 page paper comparing the way artistic souls are portrayed in Wordsworth's long poem The Prelude and Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther. The paper shows that during the Romantic era, two very different views of the poet developed: the poet as prophet and interpreter of society, and the poet as tortured soul, and the different types are perfectly epitomized in these poems. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: Poetwo.wps

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