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Paradise Lost Milton writes Paradise Lost in the tradition of a classic epicpoem. All epic poems contain some common features. Milton follows this outlinewith great precision and style. His poem uses the guidelines of an epic poem andelaborates upon them to make his poem one of the most popular epics written. Inhis poem, Milton uses…

Role of Queen in Beowulf & GrendelIn both texts, Beowulf and Grendel, the main purpose of the Queen’s are to serve the courts as “weavers of peace”. In Grendel however, Queen Wealththeow is described in much greater detail and serves a further purpose. The reader gains insight to a part Grendel that is not present…

Owen’s poem serves to uncover the lie that it is sweet and becoming to die for one’s country. Owen’s use of diction, vivid language, and graphic imagery emphasizes his point. The poem describes the fatigue, blindness, evil, obscenity, death, sufferings, and disgust of war. It shows the true life of a soldier, lying low, ill,…

ation with sex, madness, morbidity and obscurity. Discuss. There seem to be a number of common themes running through all of Plath’s poems, which encapsulate her personal attitudes and feelings of life at the time she wrote them. Of these themes, the most prevalent are: sex, madness, morbidity and obscurity. The whole concept of sex…

Robert Frost is an American poet who drew his images from the New England countryside and his language from the New England speech. His poetry was mainly about the life of the rural New Englander. Frost’s focus was on everyday subject matters. A lot of his poems were concerned with how people interact with their…

John Keats’ ?La Belle Dame Sans Merci?SPeech is where you make speeches. “La Belle Dame sans Merci” In “La Belle Dame sans Merci,” John Keats’ stresses the idea that beauty is only skin deep and also lies in the eye of the beholder. Through the use of two speakers, Keats’ is able to portray his…

arbitrary death of a young boy that could have been easily avoided. One critic wrote that, “the theme is the uncertainty and unpredictability of life. . . A boy who is already ‘doing a man’s work’ and gives every promise of having a useful life ahead of him is suddenly wiped out. ” (Laurence Perrine,…

Emily Dickinson’s poems, ?Because I Could Not Stop For Death? and ?IHeard A Fly Buzz-When I Died,? are both about one of life’s few certainties,death. However, that is where the similarities end. Although Dickinson wroteboth poems, their ideas about what lies after death differ. In one, thereappears to be life after death, but in the…

Numerous stories about numerous heroes have been told and then retold. All ofthese heroes do different things and all of them have a different set ofqualities which make them heroes. Due to the fact that there are only so manyheroic adventures and qualities, most are shared in part with at least one otherhero. Such is…

Satan: The True Hero of Paradise LostThe argument over who is the true protagonist of Paradise Lost, has been brewing for centuries. One would gather that Milton, a Puritan, would have no problem casting God as the hero, and Satan as the antagonist. But looking back in history, Milton saw that most epic heroes had…