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Christina Rossetti and Charles Baudelaire, in their respective poems Goblin Market and A Carcass, voiced different, though sometimes intertwining, views on the conditions of the modern world. Goblin Market describes the troubles that arise from pure women giving into the temptations of goblins a metaphor for men while A Carcass ... Read More

The Effectiveness of Preserving Words in the Poems To the Stone-Cutters by Robinson Jeffers (490 words, 2 pages)

The two poems To the Stone-cutters by Robinson Jeffers and Not marble nor the gilded monuments by William Shakespeare are works of influential poets centered around the effectiveness of preserving words as opposed to creating statues and other works of art by stone. While both poems ultimately come to the ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poems The Kokinshu, Returning to the Farm to Dwell, and Thoughts While Traveling at Night (795 words, 3 pages)

From what we have read so far, the writers themselves have a form of free will. The writers themselves write in a way that makes think that we are not limited to what humans can do that help, harm or offend others.In this essay, we will be analyzing two Chinese ... Read More

The Use of History in Digging and Requiem for the Croppies, Two Poems by Seamus Heaney (486 words, 1 pages)

Poetry Essay History is sometimes used to determine the future, because the analysis of the past can help to prevent, continue, or improve events that could reoccur. Author usually make a historical connection to their novels to inform the readers, and give the people a better understanding of the time ... Read More

The Portrayal of Death in Two Poems by Emily Dickinson: Because I Could Not Stop for Death and I Felt a Funeral in My Brain (492 words, 2 pages)

Emily Dickinson portrays death In vastly different ways in I could not stop for death and I felt a funeral in my brain. Because I could not stop for death is a happier, much lighter hearted portrayal, with the speaker entering deaths carriage and travelling until she is ready to ... 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

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

The Themes of Love and Death in Two Poems of Emily Dickinson (1574 words, 5 pages)

Death and Love in Emily Dickinsons PoetryAfter Emily Dickinsons death in 1886, her family and friends discovered hundreds of her poems. Today, if one were to read these poems, two themes would be prominent love and death. Though these themes seem common to many poets, they were not simply themes ... Read More

The Different Perspectives on the Caged Bird’s Thoughts in the Poems Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar and Still I Rise by Maya Angelou (728 words, 2 pages)

In each two out of the three poems we read in class there were two slightly varying perspectives on the caged birds thoughts. Paul Laurence Dunbar describes the bird violently. He says, And a pain sill throbs in the old, old scars and they pulse again with a keener sting- ... Read More

An Analysis of the Theme of Identity and Place in the Poems of Bhatt and Brewster (974 words, 2 pages)

Essay QuestionHow do the poets create a sense of place and deal with the theme of identity?Both poets deal with the theme of place and identity, including ideas of displacement - being a stranger in a strange land. In A Different History, Bhatt deals with nostalgia for her homeland, colonialism, ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem Reading Poems to a Senior Class at South High by D.C. Berry (596 words, 2 pages)

Poetry ResponseThe poem Reading Poems to a Senior Class at South High by D. C. Berry is literally about the experience of reading poems to a class and the classs reaction to the poems. Berry uses an extended metaphor throughout the entire poem, comparing the class to a school of ... Read More

A Comparison of the Poems Spring and Fall by Gerard Manley Hopkins and The Oven Bird by Robert Frost (955 words, 3 pages)

In the poems Spring and Fall and The Oven Bird, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Robert Frost, respectively, express differing sentiments about not only the comparisons between seasons, but the comparison of human reactions to seasons. Hopkins use of rhetorical questioning and its implicit meanings, Frosts frequent use of imagery in ... Read More

The Critique of Females in the Poems Women by Louise Bogan and The One Girl At the Boy’s Party by Sharon Olds (673 words, 3 pages)

The Female ParadigmIn the poems Women by Louise Bogan and The One Girl At the Boys Party by Sharon Olds, they both describe their own critique of females, envisioning a common character that is constituent of women.Bogans perception of women entails a stereotype from the perspective of a man, who ... Read More

The Concepts of Belonging and Alienation in the Poems, Sam, Your Paris, and The Shot by Ted Hughes (1032 words, 4 pages)

The 3 poems by Ted Hughes studied, reflect both the concept of belonging and its antithesis. Belonging and alienation were reflected through the use of a variety of language techniques. Throughout the poem Sam, imagery and repetition were used to help the reader understand the poems more thoroughly to make ... Read More

The Role of Changes in the Poems X and Actuarial File by Jean Valentine (1125 words, 4 pages)

ChangeChange is an inevitable part of life, actions happen, events are held, lives are introduced and taken away. Through the poems X, and Actuarial File, change is suggested to be an inevitable part of life, and because of this constant change, in the end, this change ends up generating a ... Read More

An Examination of the Characteristics of Sonnets in the Poems Death Be Not Proud, One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand, and How I Love Thee (2291 words, 9 pages)

A sonnet is defined as a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes. They are typically written about love, but can be about a host of other topics as well. They are well known for the utilization of a strong rhythm, which is why ... 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

An Analysis of Archibald Macleish’s Poems Using the New Critical Ideas (472 words, 2 pages)

According to New Critical ideas, each poem, work ought to be read assomething different, the whole which is completely various from the others,so that it is hardly likely to compare one poem with another one as all ofthem should be perceived as unique. In the result, the most significant isthe ... 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

The Use of Figurative Language in the Poems of Emily Dickinson (518 words, 2 pages)

Figurative language dips poems in a liquid that gives it the charm of many interpretations. Specifically in Emily DIckinsons work, she abuses the use of similes, metaphors, and personification. Her poems, My life closed twice before the close, I heard a fly buzz- when I died, and Much madness Divinest ... 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

A Comparison of the Forms of the Poems I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud and Written at the Close of Spring (297 words, 1 pages)

To compare the form of the poems I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud and Written at the Close of Spring, I will examine each pieces rhythmic progression. Both the Wordsworth poem and the Smith poem share an iambic pattern every even-numbered syllable in each line is stressed, while the odd ... Read More

A Comparison of Two Poems Ozymandias by Percy Shelley and Horace Smith (480 words, 2 pages)

Two Ozymandias Poems by Two RomanticsShelleys Ozymandias has a cousin. Nay, a competitor Horace Smiths Ozymandias. Smith, a 19th century stockbroker, is perhaps less important a romantic poet than Percy Shelley is now, though his poem is worth mentioning in conjunction with Shelleys poem due to their similar subject matter ... Read More

The Pains of ChristabelIn Samuel Taylor Coleridges poems The Pains of Sleep and Christabel, there is a similar motif present in both works, and this motif is the dream. While both poems contain the recurring element, the dream motif serves a different purpose in the respective poems. Through the dream ... Read More

Controversy as a Cultural Requirement in Literary Works such as Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems (2224 words, 7 pages)

The identity of humanity has been stained with war, bloodshed, and constant conflict. In fact, humanity continues to be defined by this conflict, as can be seen in contemporary issues of ISIS, tension between Ukraine and Russia, and the ever present threat of potential nuclear war. Consequently, many people desire ... Read More

The Use of Imagery and Emotion in the Poems Ode on a Grecian Urn and Ode on Melancholy by John Keats (856 words, 4 pages)

Imagery and EmotionHow They Differ in Ode on a Grecian Urn and Ode on MelancholyJohn Keats, as a poet of the romantic era, makes remarkable use of imagery to convey meaning in his poems, specifically his odes. Although odes are poems of praise, Ode on a Grecian Urn and Ode ... Read More

The Pleads for Guidance in the Poems London, 1802 by William Wordsworth and Douglass by Paul Laurence DUnbar (476 words, 2 pages)

Pleads for GuidanceWhen society is deteriorating, and there seems to be any signs of relief nearby, it is reasonable to seek inspiration from the great thinkers who were a part of society when it was in prosperity. In the poems London, 1802 by William Wordsworth and Douglass by Paul Laurence ... Read More

The Inevitable Death in the Poems When I Have Fears by John Keats and Mezzo Cammin by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (735 words, 3 pages)

Poets and DeathThe poems When I Have Fears by John Keats and Mezzo Cammin by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, both contemplate the inevitable death the both shall have to face. However, Keats and Longfellow each share a different perspective about what death shall bring to them when they meet it. Keats ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013