Poems Essay Examples and Topics

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.

In other words, Dickinson was not confident in her own beliefs and she questioned the importance of faith as opposed to science.

The leading theme of the poem is the non-conformist ideas of the author, the problem of life choice, and the dilemma in making the right decision.

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 the first stanza, the mask that Dunbar talks about is the mask that hides the real feelings and thoughts of the African Americans.

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 [...]

Again the faery is inviting the child to the world of faeries which is full of wild and water with no grievances like the current world of the child.

This analysis aimed to show how the contrast between life and art is developed in Ode on a Grecian urn by Keats.

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, [...]

For instance, in the poem Eurydice, Duffy presents Eurydice as a narrator of the story to change the default point of view assigned by the patriarchy.

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 [...]

In the second part of the poem, the poet asks the rose to remind his lady love that she is still young.

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 [...]

In the poem "telephone conversation", the writer uses humour to deflate as well as to intensify the pain he endures as a result of racial prejudices.

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 main hero, Aeneas, is driven out of his home after the destruction of Troy and travels the world in his quest to reach Italy.

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".

In the poem "Up the Wall," Bruce Dawe narrates about the depressing existence of a housewife who is talking to his husband.

The poet uses the first line of the poem and orders mourners to stop all the clocks and to cut off all telephone lines.

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.

All these kind of punishments provokes the image in the readers' mind that God has done what he warned to Adam and Eve.

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 the poem, irony is used to portray the wreckage and damage done in the city with repetition of lyrics from the song "White Christmas".

One of the prevalent techniques Hoagland uses throughout the poem to explain his point of view is the metaphor, precisely the extended metaphor.

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 [...]

He is reminding himself to be patient with this man who has always had patience and time for a young boy who was at least as much of a nuisance.

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.

The analysis of the poem "Parsley" shows that Dove used the parrot as a symbol of the essential things in life.

In this quatrain, by describing the distancing kite, the poetess is alluding to the idea of childhood distancing itself from people as life goes on.

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 [...]

But at the same time, there is a sense of controversy because of the unordinary nature of the title and the way the words are related to each other.

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.

The prophetic dreams that both Gilgamesh and Enkidu have are used to show the weaknesses of man in front of destiny.

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 [...]

The central attention of the poem is about the rawness of humanity, the violence, bleakness and suffering in the state of being human.

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 structure of the poem is AABCCB. Edgar Allan Poe vastly uses metaphors and sight sensory in the poem.

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.

What is first traced in the short story is the description of the gap in the working conditions of black and white people.

I would like to finalize with Kaur's depiction of an immigrant, who is "a bridge between the last generation and the next one".

The reader thus learns that the author considers the death of an infant to be innocent and doomed to eternal life in the Kingdom of God.

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"..

Expecting the sound to be caused by the wind, the speaker opens the window, through which a raven flies into the room.

The readers are encouraged to reflect on everlasting truths and the role of a common woman in her daily life as a mother and wife.

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 [...]

By the end of the poem, the speaker is fed up with the annoying ticking of her clock and the aggravation of the infection that disheartened her.

The text of the poem conveys a wide palette of emotions of the author, urging the reader to penetrate the depth of the message.

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 [...]

A great variety of cognitive metaphors highlighted in the poem outline a great desire of a woman to be loved and gain respect on the part of a man.

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 [...]

Song of Myself is a gem of a literary work by Walt Whitman that challenges the conservative society of America in the second half of the XIX century.

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 [...]

On the contrary, in terms of the poem, she is a "gun" and rage is part of her being, in so far as it permits her to explode.

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 [...]

At first glance, it may seem that this literary work describes the events of the future, in which people left the Earth to move to the moon.

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.

In the poem The Pardon is used four-line stanza which is called a quatrain. The rhyme of this poem looks like abba which is known as envelope rhyme.

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 [...]

Alfred Prufrock is picaresque due to the way it sounds and provides lines of changes appeared to the main character in the poem.

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 turquoise pool rose up to meet us, its slide a silver afterthought down which we plunged, screaming, into a mirage of bubbles.

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 [...]

In the poem Child of the Americas, Aurora uses "child of America' as a sign to explain her exposure to the American culture.

The poem is written in response to Homer's poem the Iliad, to show the heroic past as opposed to the unenthusiastic situation of the current society.

We may assume that Dickinson uses the unconscious sublimation to reflect her ideas of sexual desires and pleasures in her literary work.

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.

The poem "Because I could not stop for death" by Emily Dickinson uses an extended metaphor to transform the perception of a viewer on the topic.

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.

As the paper reveals, The Aeneid is a political epic that was written with a political agenda to justify the founding of the nation of Rome.

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 aim of this essay is to analyze the poem I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed and to define the place of Nature in its plot.

In the poem, the speaker suggests that he is excited and feels comfortable with the sight of a rainbow and likens this to other natural events.

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 [...]

The poem "Bully" by Martin Espada is comprised of four stanzas, which are not of equal size, as is the case with most poems.