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

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The Spiritual and Sensual Temptations in Goblin Market, a Poem by Christina Rossetti (2363 words, 7 pages)

Goblin Market and its implications about sexuality and spiritualityMid-Victorian era author Rossettis Goblin Market is a poem shy of 570 lines, in which the trials and redemption of two sisters, leaping flame (l. 218) Laura and most placid (l. 218) Lizzie, and both their involvement with merchants referred to as ... Read More

An Interpretation of She Walks in Beauty, a Poem by George Gordon and Lord Byron (697 words, 3 pages)

She Walks in BeautyBy George Gordon, Lord ByronShe walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and starry skiesAnd all thats best of dark and brightMeet in her aspect and her eyesThus mellowed to that tender lightWhich heaven to gaudy day denies.One shade the more, one ray the less,Had half ... Read More

Comparing and Contrasting The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus and Ozymandias by Percy Shelley (804 words, 3 pages)

Comparing and Contrasting The New Colossus and OzymandiasEmma Lazarus, author of The New Colossus, and Percy Shelley, author of Ozymandias, both wrote poems in which statues were personified. These poems, sonnets about similar subjects, differ in tone. The New Colossus is an idealistic poem about the Statue of Liberty in ... Read More

An Interpretation of Ode on a Grecian Urn, a Poem by John Keats (598 words, 2 pages)

Keats Ode on a Grecian UrnJohn Keats was a poet who was passionate about the world of imagination. He strongly believed in the arts and beauty as being everlasting. We can view his love for immortality in his poem, Ode on a Grecian Urn, where the author romanticizes and meditates ... Read More

A Personal Annotation of The Tyger, a Poem by William Blake (734 words, 3 pages)

The Tyger Annotation 1When first reading the poem The Tyger by William Blake, it is hard to tell if the poem is referring to an actual tiger. The first stanza opens up with a repetition of Tyger! Tyger! which somewhat sounds like a shout, and sets the mood for the ... Read More

The Dangers with Desire and the Author’s Resentment Towards It in Thou Blind Man’s Mark, a Poem by Sir Philip Sidney (509 words, 2 pages)

Sir Philip Sidneys Adverse View of Desire in Thou Blind Mans MarkDesire can be a challenging thing to overcome and resist. In Sir Philip Sidneys poem Thou Blind Mans Mark, he discusses the danger with desire and the resentment he has towards it. He also explains how it is so ... Read More

An Interpretation of To Autumn, a Poem by John Keats (724 words, 2 pages)

John Keatss poem, To Autumn, is an ode which is defined as a lyric poem of some length, usually of a serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal stanza structure. To Autumn has a lot of meanings, for Keats is speaking of autumn as if it ... Read More

The Speaker’s Journey in Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats (757 words, 1 pages)

In Keatss Ode to a Nightingale, the speaker embarks on an adventure with a nightingale. Comparing his life with the nightingales, the speaker, like a bird, flies to new heights on the wings of poetry and language. An analysis of the diction, imagery, and tone shows the speakers journey from ... Read More

The Definition of a Human Being in the Poem What is It to Be Human? by Waldo Williams (1786 words, 5 pages)

Sometimes people wonder what defines a human. Waldo Williams even did, and translates his wonder into his poem What is it to be human?. Williams wonder encourages him to use rhetorical questions, metaphors, caesuras, binaries, and numerous other elements to portray his message and theme of defining a human being. ... Read More

The Inevitable Aging and the Fading of Beauty in the Poem of W.B. Yeats (383 words, 2 pages)

Ill say and maybe dream I have drawn contentSeeing that time has frozen up the blood,The wick of youth being burned and the oil spentFrom beauty that is cast out of a mouldIn bronze, or that in dazzling marble appears,Appears, but when we have gone is gone again,Being more indifferent ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Poem Never Seek to Tell Thy Love by William Blake (389 words, 2 pages)

Never seek to tell thy love, Love that never told can beFor the gentle wind does moveSilently, invisibly.I told my love, I told my love,I told her all my heartTrembling, cold, in ghastly fears,Ah! she did depart!Soon as she was gone from me,A traveler came by,Silently, invisibly He took her ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Poem On the Sonnet by John Keats (1033 words, 5 pages)

With the help of poetic devices, John Keats uses his poem On the Sonnet to express his concern that the confinement created by poetry norms, although not entirely bad, limits poets to stay and think inside of the box. Keats biggest tool is the actual arrangement of On the Sonnet. ... Read More

A Review of the Poem My Blue World by Lanna M (525 words, 2 pages)

My Blue World Lanna MI know a place where the world is stillwhere time and space have no holdI know a place where my heart and soul are one and there are stories left untoldI know a place where I rest in peace where my body lies numbed to painwhere ... Read More

The Meaning of the Motif of the Sun in Idylls of the King by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1078 words, 3 pages)

Beauty, Collapse and ChangeLord Alfred Tennysons Idylls of the King tells the widely adapted story of King Arthurs modest and moral rise to power, which created a peaceful society that had never previously existed. Since most tranquil times come to an end, the bulk of the story tells the slow ... Read More

An Analysis of Daffodils and Lines Written in Early Spring, Two Works by William Wordsworth (1683 words, 5 pages)

After recalling an earlier experience in his life, William Wordsworthpenned the meditative landscape poem, "Daffodils". The tone of this poemconveys what the poet is sharing with the audience an experience ofdelight and joy on the basis of observing nature, and later stopping toponder it. In this poem, the Wordsworth takes ... Read More

An Examination of the Life and Poetry of Robert Frost (1011 words, 4 pages)

Robert Frost Life and Poetry Everyone has heard of world-renowned poet Robert Frost. You are allfamiliar with his poems, but how familiar are you with his life, and howhis life contributed to the creation of them? Growing up in New England,Frost became accustomed to the region's subtle lifestyles and expressed ... Read More

The Indecisive and Hesitant Attitude of the Speaker in Gascoigne’s Poem For That He Looked Not Upon Her (680 words, 3 pages)

The indecisive and hesitant attitude of the speaker in Gascoigne'spoem, "For That He Looked Not Upon Her," is developed through wellstructured form, extensive diction, and intensified imagery in order tofully express the overall meaning of the poem. The overall purpose at firstseems irrational, but then begins to make more sense ... Read More

Architectural Construction and Nature in the Book High Windows by Philip Larkin (3544 words, 12 pages)

Architectural Structure and the Natural World in Larkins High WindowsA great many poets dedicate their intimate writings to the thematic preoccupation of death. Whether this comes in an elegy, sonnet, or meditation on ones own death, mortality stains the pages of many collections. In his collection High Windows, Philip Larkin ... Read More

A Father’s Way of Coping with Grief in the Poem On My First Son by Ben Jonson (1429 words, 5 pages)

A Fathers Way of Dealing with GriefUnder the reign of King James I in 16th Century England, two influential dramatists, William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, rose up to be wildly referred to as influential to modern day writing. While Shakespeare is known for his powerful drama, Jonson is acclaimed for ... Read More

The Themes and Symbolism in Dulce Et Decorum Est, a Poem by Owen Wilfred (981 words, 4 pages)

Wilfred Edward Salter Owen was born 18 March 1893 in Oswestry, Shropshire England. After school he became a teaching assistant and in 1913 went to France for two years to work as a language tutor. He began writing poetry as a teenager. In 1915 he returned to England to enlist ... Read More

The Aspects of Human Nature in Visiting Hour, a Poem by Norman MacCaig (1206 words, 4 pages)

Visiting Hour by Norman MacCaig is a poem which deals with the fear a person feels about their ability to control their emotions, when visiting a loved one in hospital, which deepens our understanding of human nature. MacCaig employs techniques such as powerful word choice, enjambment and synecdoche to continuously ... Read More

Strong Emotions in the Poem Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen (598 words, 2 pages)

Dulce et Docorum Est by Wilfred Owen, is a poem which arouses strong emotions in the reader. The poem sharply contradicts the jingoistic propaganda which was shown at the time, which often made young men who hadnt signed up feel guilty, who were then branded as cowards by the women ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Poem A Room in the Past by Ted Kooser (507 words, 2 pages)

A Room in the Past by Ted Kooser is a profound reminiscent of past, and the writer has artistically depicted the past by comparing it to a kitchen where no cooking is done now. The poem has symbolic tools used in order to evoke feelings of nostalgia in the reader ... Read More

The Tones in the Poems The Tyger by William Blake and Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning (481 words, 2 pages)

The tone in The Tyger by William Blake is mysterious. Throughout the entire poem, the narrator is asking about who it is that had created the tyger. He is mystified as to who it is that would dare to create such a creature. He goes further to ask, Did he ... Read More

A Literary Analsis of the Poem When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d by Walt Whitman (540 words, 3 pages)

"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" by Walt Whitman is abeautiful poem that mourns the death of Abraham Lincoln. In the poem,Whitman uses many symbols to portray just how important Lincoln was, notonly the poet but to the country as well. Whitman uses images from nature,such as birds and ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem Disabled by Wilfred Owen (1483 words, 3 pages)

DISABLEDLike all of Wilfred Owens renowned war poetry, Disabled too is affirmatively anti-war. Though at first Owen was pro-war, a soldier even his poetry in the later years clearly depicts the resentment he feels towards it. It is portrayed through his words of accusation that Owen quite literally blames the ... Read More

True Love and Lust in My Poems True Love Never Dies and Stabbed in the Heart Alone Once More (440 words, 2 pages)

True Love is Not LustTrue Love Never Dies and Stabbed in the Heart Alone Once More are of my own creation brought on by a relationship of what was thought to be true love, but ended up being lust. While these two artworks both show feelings of love, they show ... Read More

The Theme of Dying Light in the Poems Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas and To an Athlete Dying Young by A.E. Housman (346 words, 2 pages)

Explication of PoetryIn Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, Dylan Thomas is encouraging the reader to fight death when it comes, stating that men should rage against the dying of the light (Line 9). He is speaking generally at first, referencing several different types of men and how ... Read More

An Analysis of Dramatic Monologue in Graded Paper by Mark Halliday and My Last Duchess by Robert Browning (926 words, 3 pages)

The use of a dramatic monologue as a poetic device can be exemplified in the poems "Graded Paper" by Mark Halliday and "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning. There is no difference in form between the two although Browning's poem stays true to a specific AABB rhyme scheme.The dramatic monologues"Graded ... Read More

An Interpretation of Invictus, a Poem by William Ernest Henley (681 words, 3 pages)

In the poem Invictus by William Ernest Henley the writer has given us a glimpse of the theme in the title itself. Invictus means unconquerable or undetected in Latin. Knowing that this poem was written by Henley while he was in the hospital being treated for tuberculosis of the bone. ... Read More

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