Akiko’s Poems Essay Examples

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A Critique of the Poem Birches by Robert Frost (652 words, 1 pages)

"Birches," by Robert Frost, is an archetypical example of a Frost poem. Frost's poems are normally characterized by beautifully evocative descriptions of nature that form a very clear picture in the reader's mind. On first reading, many of his poems seem to be just a portrayal of events that occur ... Read More

An Examination of the Poem, Solace by Dorothy Parker (1055 words, 2 pages)

What can be more beautiful than love? More delightful to the ears than a bird chirping its melodious song of happiness on a Sunday morning? More heart melting than a single rose given to you by the one you adore? To be able to live and to see such beauty ... Read More

Death and Darkness in the Poems, The Raven and The Bells (743 words, 3 pages)

In Edgar Allan Poes poems he writes about death and darkness. Throughout his poems, The Raven and The Bells, Poe writes of death, darkness, and evil. Many say he writes about this because of his childhood problems. (Slovey p. 15) As you continue to read, it will show how others ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem of Those Winter Sundays (237 words, 1 pages)

The poem of Those Winter Sundays has a very interesting and peculiar ending. The author of the poem leaves the ending open. By an open ending I mean the author ends the poem with a question. Since the poem ends in this fashion it makes it hard to interpret.At the ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Poem by Dante (952 words, 2 pages)

In his poem, the Inferno, Dante mentions many well know people. Dante mentions such people as Pope Anastasius, Alexander the great, Cleopatra, and many others. The poem is about Dante who has died, and upon reaching the afterlife, he was stopped short of heaven by three beasts. When Dante flees ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Epic Poem Beowulf (571 words, 1 pages)

The epic poem Beowulf describes the most heroic man of the Anglo-Saxon times. The hero, Beowulf, is a seemingly invincible person with all the extraordinary traits required of a hero. He is able to use his super-human physical strength and courage to put his people before himself. He encounters hideous ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Epic Poem Beowulf (620 words, 1 pages)

Did Beowulf truly obtain the qualities of an epic hero? In the epic poem Beowulf, Beowulf's character traits prove to be the depiction of an epic hero. Beowulf's traits of boastfulness, bravery and amazing strength are the proof of his heroism.Beowulf's boastfulness may not be the most convincing heroic trait, ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Epic Poem Beowulf (690 words, 3 pages)

The epic Beowulf shows us how a mans character is tested as he encounters difficult situations. The unknown author of Beowulf, leaves behind a mystique, an intriguing quality with which the character which hold our interest. The modern-day hero, Superman, also possesses these same qualities. Their modest actions are what ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Epic Poem Beowulf (970 words, 2 pages)

The epic poem Beowulf describes the most heroic man of the Anglo-Saxon times. The hero, Beowulf, is a seemingly invincible person with all the extraordinary traits required of a hero. He is able to use his super-human physical strength and courage to put his people before himself. He encounters hideous ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem, Zimmer in Grade School (699 words, 1 pages)

Zimmer in Grade School The poem "Zimmer in Grade School" appears to be expressing a person's viewpoint of his self-image. He is talking about his thoughts on how he viewed himself and the feelings how others viewed him in grade school. It seemed that no matter what he did he ... Read More

The Procrastination of Penelope in the Poem, The Odyssey by Homer (553 words, 1 pages)

"Procrastinating Penelope" In the beginning of the Odyssey, Penelope and Telemakhos are waiting for the homecoming of Odysseus. Odysseus has been gone for many years at Troy and his family is awaiting his return home, concept of nustros. At this time it seems rather unusual for them to still have ... Read More

An Analysis of the Topic of the Poem Lovers of the Poor (883 words, 1 pages)

The poems title "Lovers of the poor" is talking about the women from the ladies betterment league. Brooks calls them lovers of the poor because the rich ladies want to help the poor. If they weren't poor I don't think the rich ladies would like them, but instead they would ... Read More

An Analysis of Poe’s Poem (383 words, 1 pages)

In the beginning it is very clear he falls asleep reading a book, then is awaken by a knocking on his door. Line 3 has alliteration, repeating the n sound. Then things are somewhat gothic and dark. He begins to miss his wife Lenore, thinking of her being in heaven ... Read More

A Look at the Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath (2092 words, 3 pages)

Sylvia Plath's 'Collected Poems' A Review-Essay At last, almost twenty years after her death on February 11, 1963, here are the Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath. It is a book that should have appeared much sooner. By 1982, its publication seems somehow anti-climactic witness the rather cool response it has ... Read More

An Analysis of the Epic Poem the Odyssey by Homer (1301 words, 2 pages)

Clash of Ithaca The epic poem The Odyssey written by Homer is comprised of twenty-four books of adventurous stories. The story of DEATH IN THE GREAT HALL, book twenty-two, is the most interesting because it is action-packed from start to finish. This story is also very descriptive in describing the ... Read More

An Examination of the Epic Poem, The Odyssey by Homer (1065 words, 2 pages)

The Odyssey is an epic poem, which revolves around Odysseus and his journey home from the war at Troy. Throughout his travels he is met with many obstacles and adventures. There are times when he thinks he will never make it home. But through perseverance, faith, maturation and heroics, he ... Read More

The Sad Poem and the Mid Term Break (842 words, 2 pages)

Mid Term Break The title mid term break gives us the idea of school holidays for Heaney however this period of absence from school was far from normal. This is an incredibly sad poem. The mood is set almost immediately in the second line Counting bells knelling classes to a ... Read More

An Evaluation of the Poem, The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop (593 words, 1 pages)

The Fish Elizabeth Bishop's poem The Fish narrates the changing attitude of the speaker towards the fish. First, the fish is described as ancient and grizzled, showing signs of death and decay. However, upon closer inspection, the fish is made out to be a survivor of many battles. Through the ... Read More

A Summary of the Poem, Aeneid by Virgil (2991 words, 4 pages)

The second book of Virgil's Aeneid is the account of the sack of Troy from Aeneas' point of view. Since Aeneas is the narrator, the characterisation of him and his men is particularly interesting because it demonstrates the way in which Virgil intended his future founder of the Roman race ... Read More

A Critique of the Poem Hope by Ariel Dorfman (663 words, 1 pages)

HopeImagery Perhaps one of the most important parts of poetry is the ability to expand the perception of readers. When writing, poets try to appeal to the readers senses. A poet uses the sense of imagery, a language that evokes a physical sensation produced by one of the five senses. ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem the Flea by John Donne (479 words, 1 pages)

"The Flea" a poem by John Donne, is one young man's struggle to get a girl into bed. He uses a simple flea to sell his argument. The speaker, stanza by stanza, goes from rationalizing, to desperately grasping for a hold to his argument, and then trying to salvage what's ... Read More

An Examination of the Poem, Facing It by Yusef Komunyakaa (420 words, 1 pages)

I really enjoyed Yusef Komunyakaas poem, Facing It. It is about a black Vietnam Veteran who is at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. He stands before the wall and his thoughts fade to the war and back again to the present. I really liked how the authors word ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem of William Wordsworth (703 words, 2 pages)

William Wordsworth's poem about England and how great it used to be. The writer actually explains how it had a natural endowment of wealth and power and how it changed into a country full of selfish men. He goes even further, begging the deceased John Milton, an English poet and ... Read More

An Analysis of the Hawk in Control in the Poem (468 words, 1 pages)

y outset, it is clear that the hawk is in control. The poem begins assertively with the pronoun I. The hawk is so secure in his position that he is able to announce the fact that he is resting, inaction, with his eyes closed. There is no falsifying dream - ... Read More

An Analysis of Thistles, a Poem by Ted Hughes (1548 words, 2 pages)

Q Poets are often concerned with the connections between man and the natural world. Choose two poems and explain how the poets' attitudes are conveyed through the choice of language. "Thistles" effectively shows how Ted Hughes is able to use an extended and sustained metaphor of a negative facet of ... Read More

An Overview of the Early Literature Poems (1347 words, 2 pages)

Back in early literature there were two great epic poems that became the fundamental format for future works. These two poems are called Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Beowulf. Even though we do not know the original authors of the works, we do know that these two stories ... Read More

An Analysis of Shine and the Sinking of the Titanic, a Poem (434 words, 1 pages)

In the poetry Shine and the Sinking of the Titanic, Shine is a hero. Shine is considered a hero because he left the sinking ship Titanic and swam to shore in order to save his life from a forthcoming tragedy. In this poem, it is apparent that Shine was an ... Read More

An Analysis of The Iliad, an Epic Poem by Homer (964 words, 2 pages)

The IliadTHE ILIADBy Aubrie CampbellThe Iliad tells the story of the Trojan War, which lasted 10 years. The Grecians eventually won the war, but the outcome could have very easily shifted due to a quarrel between King Agamemnon and Achilles. Pride and anger is what the two men were fighting ... Read More

A Review of the Poem “Passed On” (824 words, 2 pages)

Ben Collins English Mr. Bruce Passed On The first point about the poem is the title, Passed On. This has a few different meanings the first of which is to do with the death of the mother of the poet, Carole Satymurti. This ties in with the main theme of ... Read More

An Analysis of Western Culture in the Poems of Homer (1801 words, 2 pages)

Barbarians Bureaucrats Mycenae No other texts in the Western imagination occupy as central a position in the self-definition of Western culture as the two epic poems of Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey . They both concern the great defining moment of Greek culture, the Trojan War. Whether or not ... Read More