Essays Theses!

Metrical Analysis (Hamlet): While Shakespeare develops the allure of death with the metaphor of sleep, he reinforces suicide's temptation with the rhythm of sleep itself, a lulling iambic pentameter punctuated by jarring reminders that keep sleep out of reach.

Poetry Comparison (Donne and Piercy): While Donne's male-dominated comparisons literally take ownership of he woman by progressing from heavenly to objectified, Piercy's progression from sexual descriptions of an inanimate uncovering to a desexualized description of a denuded woman removes the male hand from this female figure.

OED ("tape" in Jean Toomer): The interpretation of tape as a facilitator of electrical and telegraphic communication then complicates the poem's reconciliation of words and touch: while the tape's removal suggests liberation in sexual union, it also implies that this liberation compromises capacity for verbal communication.