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An Introduction to the Analysis of a Political Poem (777 words, 4 pages)

Marilyn ChinI am interested in cultivating the consumate political poem. I believe that my work isdaring, both technically and thematically. I am working on material which is veryambitious in thematic scope and form and is both a delicate and apocalyptic melding ofEast and West.Sometimes this may mean breeding hybrid forms. ... Read More

A Study on Ruth Stone Poems (2619 words, 11 pages)

Note Readers are urged to consult the full book for the full essays from which many of the following excerpts have been taken--The House Is Made of Poetry The Art of Ruth Stone. Ed. Wendy Barker and Sandra M. Gilbert. Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press, 1996. Copyright 1996 by the ... Read More

A Study on Poems by Blackburn (1813 words, 9 pages)

Edith JarolimIn his later poems, Blackburn came to wear his learning lightlyin his generally short early lyrics, his erudition is still on display. (Pound's examplewas not likely to have discouraged him in that regard.) The young man who wrote the lovely"Cantar de Noit" and satirical "For Mercury, Patron of Thieves ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Poem (5632 words, 23 pages)

Reuben A. Brower. . . The poem opens with what first sounds like flat prosaic statement, There is a singer everyone has heard . . . but the line rides on the expected thrust of later lines, and before it ends, it meltsimperceptibly into iambics. Butwe must always be saying ... Read More

The Profile on the Pillow: A Poem (920 words, 6 pages)

The Profile on the PillowAfter our fierce loving in the brief time we found to be together, you lay in the half light exhausted, rich, with your face turned sideways on the pillow and I traced the exquisite line of your profile, dark against the white, delicate and lovely as ... Read More

An Analysis of the Features in the Poem The Bee Meeting (5154 words, 19 pages)

Margaret DickieIn the opening poem, "The Bee Meeting," the speakerherself seems uncertain about what is going on. Some village ritual is in progress, andwhile the speaker is included in it, she keeps looking for its ominous significance. Herrush of questions reveals her suspicions "Is it blood clots the tendrils aredragging ... Read More

An Introduction to the Poems by Marilyn Chin (8700 words, 38 pages)

Marilyn Chin's "I" poems do not merely reflect the richand varied modes of Asian American feminist literary theory which predate her work, butare themselves acts of theorizing. By referring to Chin's poems as such, I intentionallyriff on the work of Barbara Christian, Katie King, and Lisa Lowe. In the influentialarticle ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Poem as Mask (1633 words, 7 pages)

Rachel Blau DuPlessisExplicitly antimythological, "The Poem as Mask" is also an act ofself-criticism, written in direct opposition to an earlier "Orpheus." The olderpoem, constructed like a court masque of the English tradition, uses the power of music asorganizing symbol, centers on a static drama of transformation, and ends with a ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem Heritage by Countee Cullen (1641 words, 7 pages)

Peter PowersThis bifurcation between public responsibility and private desire is evidentthroughout "Heritage," a poem that is, of course, about theproblematic status of Africa in Cullen's imagination and in the HarlemRenaissance in general, and about the sense of split between a pagan self and aChristian or civilized self. Without denying these ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of the Poem at the Fishhouses (9552 words, 40 pages)

Lynn Keller"At the Fishhouses" begins, as a poem by Moore might,with a description of a scene that seems eternally suspended. The verbs in the openingsection are stative -- "the five fishhouses have steeply peaked roofs,""all is silver," "the big fish tubs are completely lined," "onthe slope . . . is ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poems by Edward Estlin Cummings (411 words, 2 pages)

Rushworth M. Kidder (1979)..."Thy fingers make early flowers of," is justified forinclusion in the "Songs" sequence by a graceful lyricism built from theliterary counterparts of musical devices. Theme and variation...refrain...and a carefulattention to rhyme mark the piece as more song than statement. Employing a free-versecadence within a rather tight structure, ... Read More

An Overview of the Poems by Suzanne Juhasz (1122 words, 5 pages)

Suzanne JuhaszThe "superior objectivist poem," her "AnEgyptian Pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish," is a poemappreciating art itself according to criteria that can be applied easily to herown poetry. Uncharacteristically, she begins not with the physical details ofthe fish-bottle but with the practical and moral situation that ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem The Dream Only of America Poem by John Ashbery (3378 words, 15 pages)

Alan Williamson (1984) How many movies have we all seen on the subject of runaway children who crosspaths with a murderer a subject whose appeal, surely, is to our own anxiety aboutthe relation between normal venturesomeness and the completely out of bounds? And hiding from darkness in barns They can ... Read More

An Analysis of the Topic of the Rhyme in a Poem (9999 words, 39 pages)

Reuben A. BrowerThere is no question here of tones playing against a traditional form rather, anoriginal rhythmic form grows out of the dramatic setting and the initial commitment intone. Pre-sleep and sleepy reminiscence of the day condition all that is said, and thespeaker's first words show what form his dreamy ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem Mill Doors from Chicago Poems (1993 words, 13 pages)

from Chicago Poems (1916)MILL-DOORS You never come back.I say good-by when I see you going in the doors,The hopeless open doors that call and waitAnd take you then for--how many cents a day?How many cents for the sleepy eyes and fingers?I say good-by because I know they tap your wrists,In ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem After the Winter (1390 words, 10 pages)

After the WinterSome day, when trees have shed their leavesAnd against the morning's whiteThe shivering birds beneath the eavesHave sheltered for the night, We'll turn our faces southward, love,Toward the summer isleWhere bamboos spire to shafted groveAnd wide-mouthed orchids smile.And we will seek the quiet hillWhere towers the cotton tree,And ... Read More

An Introduction to the Poem a Winter Twilight (344 words, 3 pages)

A Winter TwilightA silence slipping around like death,Yet chased by a whisper, a sigh, a breathOne group of trees, lean, naked and cold,Inking their cress 'gainst a sky green-goldOne path that knows where the corn flowers wereLonely, apart, unyielding, one firAnd over it softly leaning down,One star that I loved ... Read More

An Introduction to the Poem on the Topic of Virginia (1180 words, 10 pages)

Life-Long, Poor Browning...Life-long, poor Browning never knew Virginia,Or he'd not grieved in Florence for April salliesBack to English gardens after Euclid's linearClipt yews, Pomander Walks, and preached alleys Primroses, prim indeed, in quiet ordered hedges,Waterways, soberly, sedately enchanneled,No thin riotous blade even among the sedges,All the wild country-side tamely impaneled ... Read More

A Discussion of Language and Composition of Poems (1494 words, 7 pages)

Susan HoweLanguage is a wild interioriy. I am lost in the refuge of its dark life.Poets are always beginning again. They sail away to a place they hope they can name.Linguistic nature is always foreign. Grammar bales the darkness open. Only a few strikehome. They remember and acknowledge each other.. ... Read More

An Introduction to the Literary Analysis of the Poems by Dickinson (5568 words, 22 pages)

Gerhard FriedrichThis poem seems to present two major problems to the interpreter.First, what is the significance of the buzzing fly in relation to the dying person, andsecond, what is the meaning of the double use of "see" in the last line? Ananalysis of the context helps to clear up these ... Read More

An Analysis of Birches, a Poem by Robert Frost (1204 words, 2 pages)

The poem, Birches, by Robert Frost evokes all of the senses. Whether it is the rhythmic flow of the poem or the mere need to recite the words for a clearer understanding, the images that flood the mind are phenomenal. Imagery is an essential part of poetry. It creates a ... Read More

An Overview of the Poems by Langston Hughes (874 words, 2 pages)

Hard Daddy, Midwinter Blues, Little Old LetterLangston Hughes electrifies readers and launched a renaissance in black writing in America. The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of black men and women, the poor, and the lovesick. Helping the African-American male gain praise in the poetic and musical world Hughes conveyed ... Read More

An Analysis of Antigone, a Poem by Maurice Sargoff (511 words, 1 pages)

This poem is quite successful in getting the plot across to the reader. Unfortunatly, that is all he can get across because of his beleif that, "inside every fat book is a skinny book trying to get out." Sargoff cannot have character descriptions, themes, or any real detail in his ... Read More

An Analysis of the Theme of War in Australian Poems (963 words, 2 pages)

Poetry AssignmentWar PoetryA popular theme for poets in the last century was war. Many famous poems were written about the two world wars, as well as the Korean and Vietnam wars. For my report I have chosen six poems, three by Wilfred Owen and three by Australian poets. Anthem for ... Read More

A Commentary on Juggler, a Poem by Richard Wilbur (1748 words, 4 pages)

JugglerPoetry commentaryThis Poem is written by Richard Wilbur and it's tittle is "Juggler" as we can see. The subject of this poem is not very straight forward it has a deeper meaning which the reader has to search for and has to understand. The poem is basically talking about a ... Read More

The Emphasis on the Oral Nature of the Homeric Poems (675 words, 1 pages)

It is possible, on the other hand, that some lesser use of the new technique of writing was the determining factor in the ability to compose such long and complex poems out of pre-existing and much shorter oral songs. Many critics do not accept this however. The huge gap in ... Read More

A Review of Elizabeth and Other Poems (538 words, 1 pages)

A Review of Elisabeth and Other PoemsElisabeth and Other Poems reflects the many aspects of life, including relationships with family members and other loved ones, religion, and hardships of growing up. Many of these poems explore difficult experiences, such as a battle with Cancer, as well as the sentiments of ... Read More

An Overview of the Ariel-Period Poems of Sylvia Plath and the Poem Lady Lazarus (1313 words, 3 pages)

The Ariel-period poems of Sylvia Plath demonstrate her desire for rebirth, to escape the body that was "drummed into use" by men and society. I will illustrate the different types of rebirth with examples from the Ariel poems, including "Lady Lazarus," "Fever 103," "Getting There," and "Cut.""Lady Lazarus," the last ... Read More

An Overview of the Society and the Poems of Bruce Dawes (557 words, 1 pages)

Bruce Dawes Poems and the Society around himThrough Bruce Dawes poems, he has commented on the society around him, through the three poems, The flashing of Badges , Enter Without So Much as Knocking and Life-cycle .In his poem, The Flashing of Badges , he talked about a derelict that ... Read More

An Overview of the Poems of Protest and an Analysis of the Poem Theme for English B (829 words, 2 pages)

Konovalova Veronica Poems of protestIn a poem Theme for English B, black student worries about an essay that he has to write for his English class in College. According to the description of the place of the school, I can assume that the school that he goes to is Columbia ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013