English Poetry Essays Examples For College & High School Students in PDF

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A Personal Interpretation of the Poem of Christina Rossetti (537 words, 2 pages)

Christina Rossetti has a very passive way of writing about the inevitable aspects of life. Her Song beginning with She sat and sang alway, seems to be a reflection by the speaker of her perspective during two different points in her life-- a past self and a future self. The ... Read More

An Analysis of William Wordsworth’s View on What Humans Fail to Appreciate (357 words, 1 pages)

Wordsworths View On What Humans Fail To AppreciateWordsworth seems to have a desire to understand the human experience, especially his own. His lyrical ballad, Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey, uses images of nature and various aspects of being human to explore different parts of life. In particular, ... Read More

A Review of the Eolian Harp, a Poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (528 words, 3 pages)

The Eolian Harp, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, has a cache of ways it can perceived, as well as possible meanings behind it. Not only does it seem to be a tribute to Coleridges wife Sara, written on their honeymoon, it also seems to be a metaphor for life and its ... Read More

Betrayal in My Last Duchess by Robert Browning (440 words, 2 pages)

My Last Duchess by Robert Browning is a poem that fits well within the Victorian Age because of the psychological aspects he uses. The subject seems to be betrayal, which can be very complex especially when searching for answers for why bad things happen. As I read, lines 15-25, stuck ... Read More

The Bride of the Greek Isle by Felicia Hemans as an Example of Romantic Literature (913 words, 5 pages)

The Bride of the Greek Isle and RomanticismRomanticism, as defined by The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Vol. 2A, is a term describing qualities that colored most elements of European and American intellectual life in the late 18th and early 19th centuries (p. 1193). These qualities include the stress of ... Read More

A Comprison of The Lamb and The Tygre, a Poems by William Blake (579 words, 2 pages)

Similarities and DifferencesWilliam Blakes The Lamb and The Tygre are both well written poems expressing curiosity of creation and God. The Lamb addresses the figurative lamb in the poem, inquiring if it knows who created thee. Blake used soft calm diction to explain the many deeds the creator did for ... Read More

The Literary Elements in Ode to Autumn, a Poem by John Keats (1334 words, 5 pages)

Nature is often a place where an individual turns to escape from reality. It is a place of simplicity that seems to calm the minds of even the most troubled people. Ode to Autumn by John Keats is a poem about an unconventional appreciation for the fall season. Keats personifies ... Read More

Carpe Diem in To His Coy Mistress, a Poem by Andrew Marvell (1081 words, 4 pages)

To His Coy MistressTime is an essence to life that is constant and never changing. It is important to the basic human being to live their life as if it is the only one they have, hence the saying of seize the day or carpe diem. In Andrew Marvells poem, ... Read More

The Imagery in Stanzas 1-6 of the Poem Le Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats (1285 words, 3 pages)

Literature AssignmentQ. With close reference to diction, examine ways through which the poet presents imagery in stanzas 1-6.A. In his poem La Belle Dame sans Merci, Keats uses the ballad form to present to us a story about love and death. The form he has selected, riddled with poignant images ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem The Silent One by Ivor Gurney (1473 words, 6 pages)

The Silent One by Ivor Gurney is a dense, seventeen-line poem that starts out with structured couplets, but as the poem goes on, its rhymes and structure become irregular. Gurney was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and was confined to a mental hospital for fifteen years (Gurney 28). His mental illness ... Read More

The Author’s Admiration for Nature and Its Resilience and Potency in Domicilium, a Poem by Thomas Hardy (1101 words, 3 pages)

LIT IOCDomicilium is a poem portraying Hardys idealistic view on nature through his description of his childhood home and the surrounding landscape. The poem is split up into two separated by a time shift the first section is on the current state of the cottage and the wilderness enclosing it, ... Read More

The Romantic Themes of Music, Human Expression, Rural Splendor, and the Positive Memories in The Solitary Reaper, a Poem by William Wordsworth (1600 words, 6 pages)

The beauty of music is something that is universally acknowledged. There is rarely a soul out there who cant find at least one form of verse that appeals to them. For some, the themes of extravagance of the wealthy and heroism are inspiration enough. For others, the oddities of the ... Read More

The Use of Common Language and Anti-Melodramatic Settings in We Are Seven, a Poem by William Wordsworth (493 words, 2 pages)

Power within Common Life William Wordsworths lyrical ballads, such as We are Seven, were published anonymously in 1798, as experiments, for they were radical pieces for the time. In Wordsworths Preface to Lyrical Ballads, he writes about the reasoning behind his aspects of poetic style. Wordsworth was a Romantic who ... Read More

A Lesson on Christianity, Gender, and Sex during the Victorian Period in Goblin Market, a Poem by Christina Rossetti (750 words, 3 pages)

Gaining RedemptionChristina Rossettis poem, Goblin Market, offers a lesson regarding Christianity and provides the reader with a story about gender and sex during the Victorian period.Rossetti uses the characters within her poem to represent characters from the story of Adam and Eve, from the Book of Genesis, as well as ... Read More

A Comparison between the Innocence in The Lamb and Experience in The Tyger, Two Poems by William Blake (550 words, 2 pages)

The Experience of InnocenceIn William Blakes Songs of Innocence, he refers to the Lamb through numerous fashions, and even writes a song specifically, called The Lamb. In The Lamb, the child speaker reveals a hymn-like, soft tone through the simplistic diction and rhyme scheme. The speaker also displays closeness to ... Read More

The Commemoration of the Rebels in Easter 1916, a Poem by William Butler Yeats (604 words, 2 pages)

A Fight till the DeathIn Easter 1916, by William Butler Yeats, the death of Irish revolutionaries is mourned in a rather unusual way. Instead of specifically focusing on the good impacts that the rebels had on Ireland throughout the poem, Yeats slowly builds upon the actions of the rebels, as ... Read More

The Culture of Victorian England: Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Ulysses and Robert Browning’s Prophyria’s Lover (1129 words, 4 pages)

Two works that reflect the Victorian Era well are Alfred Lord Tennysons Ulysses and Robert Brownings Porphyrias Lover. Both pieces speak to the era and culture of Victorian England. Compared to the twenty first century, Victorian England seems like a distant and strange land with a seemingly strange and foreign ... Read More

The Themes of Death and Nature in the Poems of John Keats, Dylan Thomas, and William Wordsworth (463 words, 2 pages)

Throughout the semester we looked at all kinds of different poems. They ranged in all types, from sonnets to ballads to modern free verse. We even looked at different time periods in Romanticism, Realism, and Modernism. Some of these poems were even in different languages. However, as different as they ... Read More

An Analysis of the Life of William Blake and His Poem The Chimney Sweeper (1422 words, 5 pages)

Part IWilliam Blake was born on November 28, 1757 in London, England. He was born to James, who worked as a hosier, and Catherine Blake and was one of four surviving children out of six. Ever since her was little, Blake claimed to have visions. At age four he speaks ... Read More

Portraying Wilfred Owen’s Personal Experience of War in His Poems “Exposure”, “Dulce et Decorum est” And “The Sentry” (1470 words, 3 pages)

How does Wilfred Owen explore the experience of war in at least two of the poems that we have studied?In many of his poems, for example, Exposure, Dulce et Decorum est and The Sentry, Owen portrays the experience of war in multiple ways. He describes the conditions the soldiers lived ... Read More

A Comparison of the Ways in Which Duffy and Pugh Write About Powerful Emotions in Their Poetry (1538 words, 3 pages)

Compare the ways in which Duffy and Pugh write about powerful emotions in their poems. In your response you must include detailed critical discussion of at least two Duffy poems and one Pugh poemIn many of their poems, Duffy and Pugh convey powerful emotions such as desire and unrequited love, ... Read More

An Analysis of the Theme of Education in the Poetry of Duffy and Pugh (1252 words, 3 pages)

How do Duffy and Pugh present the theme of education in their poetry? In your response you should refer, in detail, to two Duffy poemsDuffy and Pugh present the theme of education in many of their poems, such as Head of English and Geography was peculiarly taught. These poems criticise ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem Composed Upon Westminister Bridge by William Wordsworth (885 words, 3 pages)

Composed upon Westminster Bridge AnalysisA poem I would like to share that I find a good read from chapter 21 is Composed upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth found on page 473. In order to analyze a poem, I first read the poem and then read it out loud a ... Read More

A Comparison of Values between a Monk and a Prostitute in Poems: In a Prominent Bar in Secausus One Day and Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister (705 words, 3 pages)

Monk and Prostitute Have the Same Values? The antagonist in a story is often why a story becomes exciting. Theprostitute in the poem in "In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day" and thenarrator monk in Robert Browning's "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" werethe "bad" characters. The monk is on ... Read More

The Brilliant Use of Creative Language to Change the Mood in the Poems Men at Forty by Donald Justice and The Tyger by William Blake (632 words, 2 pages)

Men at Forty and The Tyger are two intense poems written using creative language that seems to alter each piece's mood drastically. These two poems discussing strong, bold things are transformed into soft spoken stanzas that float off the readers tongue and resonate like peaceful songs. Donald Justice uses gentle ... Read More

The Permanence of Death in Bright Star, a Sonnet by John Keats (2023 words, 8 pages)

Traditional sonnets exalt and dramatize unattainable love. Through inverting the conventions of this form, John Keats uses the immediacy of love to personalize death in Bright Star. Sonnets are a good poetic form for talking about death because they maintain a tension between lyric and narrative (The Making of a ... Read More

An Analysis of the Main Themes in Sonnet 29 (342 words, 2 pages)

In Sonnet 29, I found a few main themes. The first was the use of emotion or words relating to emotion. These were used to convey to the fair youth to whom this sonnet is addressed what he is feeling as this outcast. He uses them so that it is ... Read More

A Literary Review of Dockery and Son, a Poem by Philip Larkin (583 words, 2 pages)

In the poem Dockery and Son by Philip Larkin, the life and experiences and satisfaction of the speaker is presented through a nostalgic, yet mildly negative tone. Through the structuring of the poem, as well as how the speaker refers to both himself and others in his life, Larkin effectively ... Read More

The Two Different Definitions of Blood in The Flea, a Poem by John Donne (698 words, 2 pages)

In John Donnes poem The Flea, Donne talks about making some sort of flea from something, and two bloods being mingled together. In the first stanza I came to believe that Donne is using two different definitions of blood. The first definition, being the obvious one, the red fluid flowing ... Read More

The Disease Called Desire in Thou Blind Man’s Mark, a Poem by Sir Philip Sidney (514 words, 1 pages)

Desire is a black hole, where every man is blind, and where there is no way back, only forward, towards the self-chosen snare. Sidney longs to kill desire. He is tired of sleeping through life, and has finally opened his eyes to where this Blind Man's Mark has left him. ... Read More

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