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

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Traditions in Digging, a Poem by Seamus Heaney (1056 words, 3 pages)

From past traditions to present change Seamus Heaneys Digging delves into the memory of the author as a young boy growing up in Ireland, where he watched his father and grandfather work their whole lives digging on the farm. Traditions often expect young men and woman to follow in the ... Read More

The Mistress’ Beauty, Ugly Truth of Death, and the Carefree Nature in the Poem To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell (505 words, 2 pages)

In To His Coy Mistress, poet Andrew Marvell gushes about his mistress beauty and describes everything they would do together if they had an eternity to live. However, due to her shyness, he finds it difficult to pursue her and thus reminds her of her limited time of beauty, suggesting ... Read More

The Life of the Romantic Poets, William Wordsworth and Lord Byron (937 words, 4 pages)

Romantic Poets Wordsworth ByronThe poetry of the Romantic period in England often incorporated descriptions and ideas regarding nature andor current local affairs. The poets who wrote these poems were often coined as nature poets as well as poets who paid attention to the issues that affected their society. Poems by ... Read More

You Can’t Spell Poem Without Poe (1289 words, 4 pages)

You Cant Spell Poem without PoeThe art of macabre poetry is not one to be understated. While the soul-searching, heart wrenching, floral laden soliloquies are favored by many, equally as marveled are the dark depths that exist in the vast world of literature. One may argue the supreme authority on ... Read More

An Analysis of Linda Pastan’s Poem A Daughter Leaving Home (1645 words, 5 pages)

In Linda PastansA Daughter Leaving Home, she compares the gradual matureness of a daughter to that of riding a bicycle for the first time. There are four obvious stages of child growth within the poem toddler, preteen, teen, and adulthood. Each of these stages is described by an action while ... Read More

The Blind eye and the Mind’s Eye in the Poem Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey (565 words, 3 pages)

The Blind Eye and the Minds Eye in Tintern AbbeyAs I read the conversation poem, Lines Written a few miles above Tintern Abbey, I noticed that Wordsworth hints at the question what is more importantwhat we perceive, or what we think about what we perceive? and that he addresses this ... Read More

Varying Interpretations of Hope in Ruined Cottage by William Wordsworth (2219 words, 7 pages)

Varying Interpretations of Hope in Wordsworths Ruined CottageIn The Ruined Cottage, hope is a negative force in Margarets life. Her hope debilitates her and prevents her from moving on from the loss of her husband, Robert. Though she needs to maintain her house once he is unable to provide for ... Read More

The Death of Turnus in the Poem Aeneid by Virgil (1030 words, 5 pages)

Stripped, if you will, of life, to my own kin. Turnus is saying, Look, kill me if youre going to kill me. But for goodness sakes, just return my body to my family. We all deserve that at least. You have defeated me.Turnus is admitting Aeneas has defeated him, and ... Read More

An Interpretation of Lines 41-60 of Tintern Abbey, a Poem by William Wordsworth (461 words, 2 pages)

Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth, a poem published in 1798 is a look into the mind of a poet who sits at a distance, observing and fondly remembering of his childhood and his intimate connection with nature, and eventually pondering on how it has all made him into the man ... Read More

An Analysis of the Eulogy of King in the Poem Lycidas by John Milton (908 words, 4 pages)

Does Miltons Lycidas Justly Honor his Deceased Friend?Milton was half-hearted about writing a poem in the wake of Edward Kings death, but the poet had no other choice. Edward King, Miltons friend at Cambridge University and fellow poet, died prematurely, drowning at sea before he was able to be ordained ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Lyric Poem Tears, Idle Tears by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1319 words, 6 pages)

For my literature analysis, I chose the work, Tears, Idle Tears, written by Alfred Lord Tennyson in 1847 (Tennyson, 1847). The poem is non-rhyming, and in blank verse, with the same phrase at the end of each fifth line, the days that are no more. There are repeated words that ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem The Secret by Denise Levertov (677 words, 2 pages)

The SecretThe poem The Secret by Denise Levertov is about two girls that are discovering a secret, as is pretty obvious by the title. The secret that they are discovering is that reading is fun and magical. This poem uses and interesting point of view, that of an outsider watching ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem When I Consider How My Light is Spent by John Milton (679 words, 2 pages)

Sonnet Summary of When I consider how my light is spentMiltons poem, When I consider how my light is spent, is what he thought of his blindness, in other words, the poem is mediation on his condition of being blind. What presented itself was that it seemed that he was ... Read More

An Analysis of Love in The Clod and the Pebble, a Poem by William Blake (349 words, 2 pages)

The poem Love seeketh not itself to please discusses the nature of love. I believe William Blake wishes to say what love is and to examine the effects of loving in two different ways.The poem involves a conversation between a clod of clay and a pebble in the brook. The ... Read More

An Interpretation of When I Consider How My Light Is Spent, a Poem by John Milton (361 words, 2 pages)

When I consider how my Light Is spent by John Milton is a poem which speaks deeply to me. Milton seems to deal with a problem which many believers face- They want to do so much for the kingdom of God. Yet when they compare their actions to those of ... Read More

Theme and Symbol Analysis in to The Virgins, to Make Much of Time, a Poem by Robert Herrick (339 words, 2 pages)

Robert Herricks poem, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time is a poem with an interesting theme Make the most of your youth. Herrick uses two images to show this theme flowers and the sun. The first imaged used is that of flowers. The poet tells the virgins to ... Read More

A Personal Interpretation of Holy Sonnet 14, a Poem by John Donne (362 words, 2 pages)

Holy Sonnet 14 by John Donne speaks quite profoundly to me because I have been going through a similar conflict in my life. Donne in this poem describes the believers conflict between the sinful nature and their new Godly nature given to him when he becomes a believer.When I first ... Read More

An Analysis of Romanticism in Love’s Philosophy by Percy Shelley (384 words, 1 pages)

Loves Philosophy by Shelley Percy AnalysisShelleys poem Loves Philosophy is a poem about love and romance. After analyzing it, I have come to conclude its about ones fantasization and longing of love from another. Shelley begins to compare destiny and fate of meeting people in your life to that of ... Read More

Romanticizing Childhood Innocence in the Poem Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas (1956 words, 7 pages)

Romanticizing Fern Hill Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas is a poem that celebrate the whimsy of childhood. The poem revolves around the focus of how impactful time is in a persons life, through the eyes of a young boy (Korg). The boy serves an archetype to the protagonist wandering through ... Read More

The Misconception of the Importance of Worldly Possessions in the Poem Upon the Burning of Our House by Anne Bradstreet (281 words, 2 pages)

Throughout Upon the Burning of Our House, Anne Bradstreet draws upon the connotations of common words in order to reinforce the theme that if one gets too attached to worldly possessions, heshe may soon be forced to realize that they are not what is truly important in life. One especially ... Read More

The Role of Fate and Karma in Silas Marner, the Third Novel by George Eliot (539 words, 3 pages)

In Silas Marner, Fatecomes back to haunt all characters, for good or for bad. Throughout the story, characters actions return to them in the form of karma. In this way, Dunstan ends up dead in the Stone-pit because of his wicked deeds earlier in the story, he is attributed with ... Read More

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Dulce Et Decorum Est, a Poem by Wilfred Owen (1130 words, 4 pages)

Tiffany Madison, author of Black and White once said, "the problemwith having problems is that 'someone' always has it worse." Many humanbeings have problems they struggle with, but some struggle with somethingmuch more serious - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, otherwise known asPTSD, or shell shock. Those affected with PTSD may ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost (2010 words, 7 pages)

There are numerous ways to achieve an understanding of a poem. One of these methods is to close read in order to obtain a well-supported interpretation. By possessing the ability to analyze and close read a poem, we will be able to decipher some of its latent meanings therefore, obtain ... Read More

A Review of the Poem Not Waving, But Drowning by Stevie Smith (595 words, 2 pages)

Not Waving, but Drowning, is a poem by Stevie Smith. The poem is about a crowd which gathers around a character who has apparently drowned. This piece by Smith best illustrates the 20th Century through her use of modernized syntactical structure, irony and diction in the past-progressive tense to establish ... Read More

The Nature of Phase Shifts in the Works of T.S. Eliot (648 words, 3 pages)

Question T.S. Eliots work is notorious for sudden phase shifts using things such as language, setting, and even obscure references without explanation. Were the phase shifts confusing or beneficial to the reading experience of T.S. Eliots work? How were they confusing or beneficial?Confusing T.S. EliotT.S. Eliot was a celebrated writer ... Read More

The Concept of Analysis in the Poems Introduction to Poetry by Bill Collins and Some People Like Poetry by Wislawa Szymborska (347 words, 1 pages)

The poem "Introduction to Poetry" by Bill Collins communicates agreat deal of analysis. The poem tells the readers to enjoy writing andreading poems. For example, in the poem Bill Collins wrote, "or walk insidethe poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch" (7-8). He is tryingto tell us ... Read More

Unrequited Love from the Opposite Side of the Spectrum in the Poems The More Loving One by W.H. Auden and No, Thank You, John by Christina Rossetti (1449 words, 5 pages)

Poetic verse has been used as an outlet of strong emotions and feelings for centuries. The elegance of poetry has long been thought of as more refined than that of prose writing, and thus as a better vessel for conveying strong feelings. Subjects such as death, love, hate, beauty, and ... Read More

The Beauty of the Seasons in the Poems To Autumn by John Keats and Ode to the West Wind by Percy Shelley (1506 words, 5 pages)

The beauty of nature is a common subject in poetic verse. In both To Autumn and Ode to the West Wind, the former by John Keats and the latter by Percy Shelley, the beauty of the seasons is used to convey and represent feeling and topics that were important to ... Read More

An Analysis of Wheatley’s Poem about Leaving New England (510 words, 2 pages)

This poem begins Adieu, New Englands smiling meadows, which shows that this poem will be about leaving New England to go to Britain. The first few lines also set a tone of positivity, as she describes the New England she is leaving as having opning charms. Wheatley then describes how ... Read More

An Analysis of the Art of Poetry in Several Poems (1968 words, 7 pages)

Art of Poetry For centuries artists have been trying to express complex ideas with concise precision. This intricate form of the written word is called poetry. The art of poetry has baffled philosophers, artists, and writers alike. Many have succeeded in describing the impact that poetry has. Poetry is an ... Read More

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