Essays Tagged: "Muse"

Relationships in Emily Dickinson...focusing on the relationships that she failed to have outside of her attic room and the relationships that she put into her poetry.

ver, it could be seen also as her ex-communication. Her retreat into solitary reclusiveness was her muse. Before she could write about the world, she first had to step back and contemplate it from a d ... ory allow for constant exchange between the past and present. Such landmarks as The Amherst History Museum, The Stone House and The Evergreens are just a few sites that make Amherst the town that it i ...

(10 pages) 294 1 4.0 Apr/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing

Dante Alighieri. Biography and work

ever spoke to her. Nevertheless she became thefocus of his love, and after her death she became his muse. She is a focal pointin his works, including La vita nuova(The New Life) and La divina commedia ...

(6 pages) 156 1 4.4 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Byron in Italy A biographical review of Lord Byron's period spent in Italy, discusses his relationships and works of the time.

ays been', for Byron, 'the greenest island of my imagination'. Venice would become Byron's greatest muse - the liberty, experiences, excesses and sensations of Venice would inspire some of his stronge ...

(14 pages) 124 0 4.2 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" is an outstanding example of the neoclassic genre of mock epic.

the ODYSSEY that the Rape of the Lock mocks include: the statement of the theme, invocation of the muse, description of the great battles, supernatural beings taking part in the affairs of men and th ... ivial matters should remain just that- trivial. In the lines following theinvocation of an unlikely muse is clearly stated "I sing- This Verse to Caryll, Muse! Is due" (Canto 1, 3).The entire poem is ...

(3 pages) 124 0 4.7 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

"Rape of the Lock", a Satire.

ntions found within an epic poem: the narrator begins with his argument or epic question invoking a muse to his aid he describes heightened and illustrious characters who often have divine lineage he ... intent to ridicule his society. As in traditional epics, Pope's poem opens with the invocation of a muse. He then asks a question that states the topic that the epic will address. In The Rape of the L ...

(10 pages) 195 1 4.7 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

It all turns out well in "shakespeare in love".

way Will encounters a woman, Viola. This is the point where it turns out well as Will has found his muse, Viola. He is enchanted by her "By all the stars in heaven, who is she?" Will writes more of th ...

(3 pages) 60 0 2.2 Jun/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Ophelia's Role in William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

here so often is. Such questions and questions: was lovely Ophelia Hamlet's divine inspiration? His muse? His one true love? Sources point to (no) yes. But was she, in fact, so impossibly feeble that ...

(4 pages) 105 0 4.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Director John Waters as auteur.

her, Alan J. Wendl as Hefty Hideaway shop owner, Mr. Pinky and starring as Tracy Turnblatt, Waters' muse, the incomparable Ricki Lake. With the exception of Divine who died shortly after this movie wa ...

(6 pages) 64 0 4.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Some Thoughts and a few Peculiar Points

plained in Robert Graves The White Goddess where he theorizes that all great art is inspired by the muse.3. Main character of SC - a family of love?4. Southern Jasper and Emerald Tablet relationship. ... ars previously in Paris.Which brings me to my next point. The authorship of each of these works.The Muse and the ArtistThe authorship of each of these works raises a number of questions, in particular ...

(18 pages) 76 1 4.3 Mar/2004

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays > Travel Descriptions

The Steganographick Collection and The muse

The Steganographick Collection and The museIntroductionThe Steganographick Collection is a fascinating document in itself but when examined ... was unwilling to betray.Which brings me to my next point. The authorship of each of these works.The Muse and the ArtistThe authorship of each of these works raises a number of questions, in particular ... Graves classic, The White Goddess is in fact an essay positing that all true art is inspired by the muse. Robert Graves mentions something of his own experience of this while writing the book.I propos ...

(57 pages) 89 2 4.4 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Comment on William Wordsworth's portrayal of Nature and his treatment of it

ity". Nature plays a vital role in the creation of Wordsworth's poetry. Nature acts as Wordsworth's muse.Wordsworth was a pantheist, he believed that everything is a manifestation of Nature and that G ...

(3 pages) 80 1 4.7 Aug/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Joseph Bueys

Beuys called Social Art, which was an entire new category of art, which set against the traditional muse. Through his endless activities as a draftsman, sculptor, teacher, performer, and politician, h ... 33)The Honey pump at the work place was first installed by Beuys in Kassel. In the stairwell of the Museum Fridericianum, Beuys had installed his Honey Pump at the workplace. One of two electric motor ...

(6 pages) 58 0 4.5 Sep/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

This assignment dealt with writing two different poems and mixing them together to make one poem. Its entitled "Abstractions"

passed,See the "knowlage" you have amassed.How much did you actually use?forget that now and find a muse.Now with a pencil and a paper,Draw, write, do a favor.Create something truly you,then show the ...

(1 pages) 12 0 4.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Prose Notes on "Frost at Midnight" By S.T. Coleridge

Summary:The quiet of night sets the scene for poet to muse and unleash his creative spirit. All is conducive, ready, but he finds the silence disturbing, ...

(6 pages) 83 2 4.8 Nov/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Write an account, including all you have learnt, of the three witches before they meet Hecate.

e no sympathy for the fool, for he is deserving of his fate."Intrigued by what I had just heard, I amused myself further in their delinquencies. I had never encountered citizens of Scotland who muse t ...

(2 pages) 8 0 3.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Analysis of John Keats' "On the Sonnet"

orton):In John Keats' "On the Sonnet," he urges fellow poets to not let their poetic genius, their "Muse" die, because it is confined to the parameters of then-current Petrarchan and Shakespearean son ... his coinage, let us be /Jealous of dead leaves in the bay-wreath crown; /So, if we may not let the Muse be free, /She will be bound with garlands of her own." Midas was a king who had the power to tu ...

(3 pages) 19324 0 4.3 Sep/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

"Decade" by Amy Lowell.

ast thirteen years of her life. Russell became Lowell's beloved companion, secretary, and nurturing muse. They lived together in a "Boston marriage" until Lowell's death and many of Lowell's most poig ...

(2 pages) 16 0 1.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Path of our lives.

gent in the world yet she is not the reason for myfailure she is my beloved grandmother. She is the muse for my success. When I moved tomy father's to a whole different state, different home, new scho ...

(2 pages) 16 0 0.0 Dec/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Interpretive Questions from "The Odyssey"

dyssey", Book 1Question One:Who is the narrator in this story?References:1. "Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallow ... s he makes his way home?References:1. "... and when they'd put aside desire for food and drink, the muse inspired the bard to sing the famous deeds of fighting heroes - the song whose fame had reached ...

(7 pages) 33 0 1.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Sex and the city, a sexual revelution?

4 single successful women stay loveless on that sexy island Manhattan full of men?Carrie had been a muse to the fashion industry from the very start of the show, but now when it has come to an end, we ... ry from the very start of the show, but now when it has come to an end, we had to wave goodbye that muse, that had reached the hearts of every "single" one of us.Sex and the City was defining a new li ...

(7 pages) 94 1 4.6 Nov/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis