Poems Essay Examples and Topics

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

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

The specific characteristics of his type of poetry originality come from the spontaneous nature of the poem, and the use of alteration and substitution.

Henry Longfellow composed poems, the themes of which echoed with the principles and cornerstones of that time. These ideas are depicted in the works of Longfellow of the 1830s throughout the interaction of man and [...]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 [...]

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

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 theme of death is present throughout this poem with the first three stanzas repeating the words "when death comes" as many as four times. And in her opinion, the best way to avoid fearing [...]

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.

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

The poem discusses the issues related to the native population of Americas Indian people. In her poem, it is possible to identify the themes of mourning, retribution, and hope.

The poem abounds in a clever use of creative figures of speech to create succinct mental images of the scenes depicted by the writer.

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

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 [...]

In Ode to a Nightingale, the narrator longs to experience the world of the nightingale. However, the poems have different structures in that Ode to a Nightingale is longer than Ode to Cheese Fries.

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.

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

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.

The speaker contrasts the ocean and the land by stating that people were all facing the ocean while neglecting the land, which has all the answers they are looking for in the deep waters.

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 [...]

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 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.

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.

Sherman Alexie's Facebook sonnet illustrates the various ways in which the use of social media reduces face-to-face interaction and causes controversy.

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

Therefore, the speaker has to take one of the roads and live with the consequences of taking that road. Furthermore, the speaker has no control of what may happen to his life in the path [...]

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.

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

Choice according to the presentation involves selection of the likings of the individual while also locking out the rest."Then shuts the door," illustrates the theme of exclusion, closure of the door. The presence of chariots [...]

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.

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 "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 [...]

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.

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.

It is because in the past when Wordsworth was a boy, he was able to see the nature around him through the prism of innocence, but upon revisiting the Abbey, he grew older and became [...]

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.

In this poem, the situation is the negotiation between the Duke of Ferrara and the Count's envoy on the marriage between the Duke and the Count's daughter.

In summation, it is safe to assume that Marvell uses hyperbole to show the almost endearing foolishness and irrationality of love.

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 [...]

In this respect he declared the status of the American poetry as a means for cultivating the whole idea of living in the US."Song of Myself" characterizes Walt Whitman in his capability of using poetic [...]

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.

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.

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 [...]

The music is full of harmony and in the second line, there is a much softer touch to it there is a change of tone and the joyous music slowly ends.

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.

Additionally, the object that is for is not being found and therefore the search continues repeatedly. The use of "that drawer" suggests the use of choice and effort in evaluating and deciding which drawer to [...]

Who are you?" Emily Dickinson dons the mantle of the speaker in the poem and explores the various nuances involved in being the antithesis of a 'somebody', namely, a 'nobody'.

Some other interpretations of the poem have concerned itself with the apologetic or forgiveness seeking language of the poem and interpret the moral and linguistic pattern of the act presented in the poem.

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 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.

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.

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

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 [...]

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.

The Iliad and the Odyssey are anti-war poems, even though the actions in the stories are mainly conflict-oriented. They are anti-conflict because the aftermath of the fights is tragic, and every individual always engaged in [...]

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.

Frank O'Hara's poem "Morning" was written in 1950 and the main idea of the poem is that the loss of a loved one is equivalent to the loss of happiness for life.

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.

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.

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.

The narrator wonders whether the Raven came at the command of Pluto, who is the god of the underworld, Satan, or the storm, all who are in another world.

Therefore, the selected work represents the ideals of the Harlem Renaissance and can be used for improving the understanding of the movement.

The poem describes the shore of the English port of Dover, which the poet visited during his honeymoon in 1851. The image of water shows the analogy to the life in England that could be [...]

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.

Her poetic approach, use of vignettes and the Spanish language in her books 'The House on a Mango Tree' and 'Caramelo' indicates a unique style that makes them easy to read and understand.this paper reviews [...]

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".

The poem illustrates the complexity of the relationship that is between the son and the father, and it is possible to see that the author did not realize the scale of the sacrifice his father [...]

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.

Robert Frost's figurative language, tone, imagery, and symbolism are poetic devices that highlight the speaker's emotion and ought to be analyzed for a deeper understanding of his literary work. The symbolism of life and death [...]

The respiration and heartbeat of the baby that has been metaphorically compared to a timepiece, begins with a slap on the foot soles by the midwife.

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 main theme of the poem is the variety of the world's elements, all of which have their meaning. The first stanza of the poem implies that the author is in the sixth grade.

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

But obviously, for Aunt Jane, in her old age, even the joy of interacting with children to pass her time was not an option.

This discussion looks at the poem' Ethics' by Linda Pasten and seeks to try and gain an in-depth understanding of the reason behind Linda Pasten writing of this poem as well as some of the [...]

These dreams greatly influence the plot of the narrative since the characters perceived that the deities sent the dreams, they needed interpretation because they had a unique revelation, and were able to foretell the future.

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.

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.

The poem "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" is a piece in which the plot is supported by Christian morality underpinning the chivalry of the characters and their occasional failure to comply with this notion.

The poem is a description of the speaker's feelings and desires to only have the lover to herself. Sappho wrote the poem to express feelings to the lover, who cannot return the love as he [...]

Though the poems are apparently dissimilar, the tone of the narrators, their description of the object of their obsession, and the treatment of the female body suggest a connection that previously was unobserved.

The ability of "wyrd" is to put a person in a situation where they can determine their future and even partially feel or foresee it.

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

The poem is an example of realism, as it reveals the truth of war, describes events on the battlefields and indicates the consequences of armed conflicts. The image of the war and its consequences in [...]

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 [...]

The poem "The Railway Children" is imagist because it follows these philosophies in its directness to the subject, precision of the language, and the use of rhythm of the music.

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.

Although, many poets are concerned with transformation, in the case of Adrienne Rich, one of the brightest and influential poetesses of the second half of the twentieth century, this transformation included many elements in her [...]

It is a tribute to the honesty and faithfulness of the peasant to master and to God. It shows the value that Burns placed on family, and most of the poem is spent telling us [...]

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 [...]

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.

S, seems to suggest that the writer intended to invoke a particular image of a particular group of people whose dreams are often deferred."The dream" is a something that the writer of the poem had [...]

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 [...]

Another example of kenning in the Beowulf's foreword is the phrase "mead-bench tore", which describes a sturdy man, emulating the size of the seat at the Germanic feast.

In old English, as is the case with the poem, there is an addition of the suffixes such as as in elingas in weak verbs.

Consequently, from this point on, the narrative splits into two parallel lines that show the reader the perspective of the lord and Gawain throughout the day.

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.

The pen and the arm are included in the description, hence the mention of the snout and the clothing. Billy Collins' "Budapest" is a representation of his creative process and the forces involved in it.

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 [...]

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 [...]

The characters from The Epic of Gilgamesh help to realize a true essence of heroism as a concept and accept heroes as ordinary people, who are able to develop good relations, set goals, and be [...]

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 allusion to the Gorgon Medusa is used to reinforce the metaphor: the mother strangles her daughter with her influence, like a monster with tentacles. The myth is the basis for the poem, which refers [...]

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 [...]

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 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.