However, in the poem, the very bird we hate shakes up the poisonous tree causing snow to fall on the poet. The setting of the poem is in a snowy landscape with a tree and [...]
The poem "Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks" by Pablo Neruda depicts the violent attitude of men toward the mermaid, a symbol of nature and the female gender.
The specific characteristics of his type of poetry originality come from the spontaneous nature of the poem, and the use of alteration and substitution.
With the clever use of words, the author designates the role of a parent and a child, presents examples of exemplary attitudes in child-rearing, and argues for the importance of individual agency.
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the poem "Snapping Beans" and locate and discuss the main formal aspects of the poem, as well as prevalent themes and imagery.
In Girl, Jamaica Kincaid seeks to highlight the themes of the traditional mother-daughter relationship, the dangers of being a woman, and the transformative power of domesticity using the symbols of food, cloth, and folksongs as [...]
Thereby, irony can be traced in a poem even if contemporary scholars try to prove that there is no ironic meaning at all by using biographic approach to analyse the poem, motivation of the author, [...]
Realizing that person is not in a contest with the outside world or other people, nothing can be stolen from an individual until they allow evil to control life.
On the one hand, environmentalists may be concerned with the way nature is treated by humans, while on the other, there is a spiritual perspective that nature is the embodiment of God, with which the [...]
Since her grandfather worked on the railway, the poet imagines that their household was similar to the untamed West of the past and that he never imagined that this would be the place where he [...]
The persona of the poem is the wife or the lover of John Anderson. On the surface, the poem expresses the thoughts of a wife as she and her spouse near the end of their [...]
These are the results of warfare and ignorance and indifference of the society and even the immediate families of veterans. The use of "Does it matter" is ironic since the veterans are essential people, and [...]
Although Smith does not lose her connection to social and political contexts, the first and foremost describes the discovery of the human self through nature, which means, the natural world appears both a key character [...]
Sonnet 130 is one of the most widely recognized sonnets in various parts of the world. However, even despite all of these unfavorable comparisons, the main idea is hidden in the couplet in the last [...]
The multiple negative characters described by Neruda emerge as a result of feeling afraid of being ostracized, and admitting one's faults to oneself is the first step towards becoming stronger.
The primary goal of this essay is to understand a new definition of the word 'touch', as it is apparent that the definition has a dissimilar meaning to the original one.
She imagines herself as "the milk-white maid, the "maid mild," her husband as "the Fine Prince," and the murdered teenager as "the Dark Villain" who wanted to defame her and ruin "the Happiness-Ever-After".
It is often proclaimed that America celebrates biculturalism and ethnic diversity, but very often, immigrants prefer to disguise their cultural heritage, in order to become full-members of the contemporary American society.
At the end of the poem, Lyca, the little girl, and the lion are involved in an unlikely association. The two poems, that is, The Little Girl Lost and The Little Girl Found, are essentially [...]
The particular imagery refers to the effects of the Second World War, the pushing of rubble, the collection of corpses, and miring in sofa springs and glass.
In "God's Grandeur," the author, Hopkins, expresses his admiration for the splendor of God and His creation, as well as his dismay at how humankind lost sight of the special relationship between God and the [...]
It should be stressed that the author strived to disclose the atmosphere of fear and silence not through the characters, but through the title; the subway is not described in the poem, but all its [...]
But in Whitman's poem, the completion of the physical journey to India is only a prelude to the spiritual pathway to India, the East, and, ultimately, to God.
Thus, this reflective treatise analyses the poem composed by Sappho on the significance of the era of composition and the bigger picture intended by the poet.
In the poem, the author delivers the details about the theme by stimulating the reader's imagination, mind, and perception. In the poem, the author uses epithets and metaphors to stimulate the readers' imagination and describe [...]
It is essential to appreciate simple moments, everyday joys, minutes with a loved person, and beauty in the little things. Hence, in order to be able to fully enjoy all the beauties and joys of [...]
He speaks mostly from his point of view, but it can be argued that it is not the same person in all the parts of this poem. He kept losing the people that were close [...]
The love and passion that is expressed in the poem relates to the poet's homeland and not his wife. The poem captures Neruda's feelings in light of possible rejection by his homeland.
All in all, through the Song of Myself poem, Whitman presents a description of himself that demonstrates that the poet is intimately related to the concepts of life, death, and The Universe.
The format of the poem also serves to create a sense of isolation and disconnection. The swerving described throughout the first stanza is adopted by the mind of the reader and is never fully brought [...]
For the love poetry of the Renaissance, attention to the human essence was riveted, and the soul was perceived as a receptacle of all emotions and experiences.
The miracles illustrated in the poem represent the deamonic revision of aspects in Book of Genesis. The result is the restoration of the sacrality of the Earthly kingdom.
Overall, after the analysis of the poem, a conclusion can be made that the poet's tone in it is characterized by a shift of mood from sadness and regrets of childhood to understanding his father's [...]
Harlem Renaissance also referred to as the New Negro Movement led to the evolvement of a new identity of the black culture between the the1920s and the early years of the 1930s.
The tone of the poem is calm and meditative and Wordsworth describes the "landscape" and compares it to the "quiet" of the sky: "The landscape with the quiet of the sky"..
Thus, like most of his other works, the poem Ku Klux also is a staunch protest against the White supremacy, racial discrimination, and violence that prevailed in American society.
The role of friendship in the Epic of Gilgamesh is vital. This essay unfolds the theme of friendship between Gilgamesh and Enkidu that develops in the course of the story.
This is good evidence for the argument of the need to eliminate the issue of ableism. Language evolves gradually, and countering the issue of ableism is a long-term goal.
It is present in all lines of the poem, where the heroine expresses and describes her passionate feelings, mystical experiences, and exhausted state at the end of the poem.
At the beginning of the poem, Hughes describes the house where he first met his future wife. In "18 Rugby Street", he probably tries to explain the essence and the nature of the relationship between [...]
The work juxtaposes the concepts of ever-fleeting innocence and the harsh reality that comes with experience and, hence, makes use of such literary devices as antithesis pairing certain poems in the collection like The Lamb [...]
Therefore, the poet's intention is to foreground the element of time in love relationship and show the ambiguity inherent in it. The greatness of the poem is in its literariness.
The poem alludes to the fact that it is now time to re-evaluate one's priorities and one's way of life. In western culture, the primary focus is on amassing material possessions to achieve a sense [...]
The author remarks that it is the fulfillment of these conditions, of being male, white, and of a privileged background, that would drive the bank to even allow the loan of "two solid millions, and [...]
The source of her beauty is revealed to be her physical appearance characterized by her body shape and contours all of which bring together what is best for the dark and light.
Arguably, the central theme of the poem is the personal journey of self-discovery and the events that influence the decisions made on the way. Therefore, she managed to overcome the traumatic experience and return to [...]
In strengthening the primary theme, the author uses words such as slave, trod, lies, and tides to create a logical appeal to the implication of racism and discrimination. The poet makes the second reference to [...]
This attitude of a hard-working woman, well-grounded in her Christian faith and yet longing for a change in her life, is illustrated through the imagery presented, the allusions to religious tenets and the changing meter [...]
The extermination of the Roma was part of the general policy of the National Socialists to destroy political opponents, homosexual people, terminally and mentally ill, drug addicts, and Jews.
The narrator of Those winter Sundays is a son who recollects his memories about the father and a generation gap that existed between the father and son.
The title of the poem strikes people's attention and gives the understanding what is the main idea of the poem. The peculiarity of this phrase in this very poem is that the author wrote about [...]
The author of the poem makes it clear to the reader that he will talk about a specific living person who is not an abstraction and exists in the physical world.
The opening of the poem "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin" contradicts the central message of how the poet feels and the conflict of being a black American.
One of the elements used in the poem is anaphora in the first three lines, starting with "If ever.."., making an accent on the beginning of the verse, attracting the attention of the audience.
The narrator emphasizes the fundamental opposition between fire and ice through the use of anaphora, that is, the repetition of the phrase "Some say" at the beginning of each of two lines.
The poem "Sylvia's Death" by Anne Sexton is devoted, as the title suggests, to the death of poet Sylvia Plath. The poem itself is like a monologue or a short speech devoted to Sylvia and [...]
In Romeo and Juliet, the development of characters eventually led to the tragedy of the main characters. The love of Romeo and Juliet is a remarkable love as they have to undergo many obstacles to [...]
The size and the age of the fish make the narrator to respect the creature. The narrator compares herself with the fish due to the struggle that each one of them has to make in [...]
The title of the work, "Woman's Work," immediately leads the reader to think that the main topic will be the role of a woman and the labor that she invests daily for her family and [...]
Langston Hughes, the author of the poem, was quite a significant person during the Harlem Renaissance a movement for the revival of the African American culture which took place in the 1920-1930s.
Evaluating the facts, it appears that the address to the theme of stereotyping is seen through all the parts of "Cinderella" as Sexton resorts to the use of a considerable variety of stereotypical ideas and [...]
It would have required many years of study for her to become a poet in Hong Kong as she would have had little access to the English publishing world and none to the Chinese unless [...]
It was not Robert Frost's life being different which made him and his poetry, but rather, his reaction to life which was different, and his insight and ability to see things and communicate that to [...]
The poem has several powerful meanings on the one hand, it shows the difference between infatuation and genuine love as the basis of human relationships and the ability to see the person's inner world.
The theme of child labor is the red thread that runs through the white cloth of Frost's narration, causing the audience to become as horrified as the boy when he loses his hand.
In the poem "The Addict," Anne Sexton vividly describes the experiences and feelings of an addicted person who is not understood by other people and struggles with the addiction. Thus, the poem creates a vivid [...]
The poem "Life After Death" by Ted Hughes is a hymn of the sharpest grief and devastation that can only appear after losing the dearest and beloved person.
The first two lines of the poem reveal the picture of an actual corpse being burned in the process and providing the readers with ideas regarding the subject of the poem; namely, Harrison's father the [...]
The young soldier in the poem felt that the army personnel and the society at large were aware of the potential dangers that he could face in the war but they still encouraged him to [...]
The poem is written in the form of appeal to Aphrodite, the ancient Greek goddess of love, beauty, and sexuality. The poem can be considered exploring homoerotic friendship, as the object of the speaker's love [...]
Through his poems, Whitman gave a detailed account of the civilization era in the United States of America. Whitman used a variety of themes in his poems to discuss various issues that affected the society.
The third subdivision of this poem argues that the nature of love is not subject to the passage of time. The language and the style used in this poem only enhances Shakespeare's message of love.
In terms of the usage of figurative language, it is feasible to state that a combination of symbolism and metaphor is used in the poem's concluding lines.
In "My Son the Man", Olds combines pride, sadness, and hope through the prism of Houdini's allusion to explain why the idea of the child's escape leads to unpredictable outcomes.
The structure and vocabulary of the poem, as well as its effective use of stylistic devices, help the author to convey the deep meaning behind the work.
For most people reading the works of Parker they always seem to remark that her outlook on relationships is from a dark and cynical point of view and as such most of them would be [...]
The author expresses himself and justifies the choice using metaphors in the first two lines. In the last stanza, he posits that "I will be telling this with a sigh / Somewhere ages and ages [...]