Poems Essay Examples and Topics. Page 3

In order to fully grasp the meaning of a formal poem, it is necessary to analyze and understand its rules; there is no such restriction with free verse.

The poem is rhythmical, and the only lines that do not contribute to its general rhyme and rhythm are the ending lines of the second and third stanzas.

The poetic techniques that have been imposed in the poems are: Repetition- in the poem "Do not go gentle in to that good night," there is an aspect of repetition of the statement "Do not [...]

The author personifies Imagination to describe best the state of mind that people experience when they are dreaming. Moreover, the poetess notes that Imagination can transfer people to places not available to the common mind.

The text of this work demonstrates a short episode from the life of a mother, clearly showing the massive number of worries that women have to deal with every day.

The protagonist sees himself as chosen for fulfilling a purpose, almost as a sacred duty of his ideology, "These are the duties of the righteous/ the ways of the anointed".

The second stanza is more disturbing in nature and shows the narrator's fear and disgust of a place that aroused his interest in childhood.

The major theme of both poems is the victimization of people of color."Stop and Frisk" explores the incident of being physically targeted by the police.

In this poem, McCrae addresses the subjects of war and death, expressing feelings of peace, remorse, and perseverance by altering the tone throughout the work.

Jordan focuses on portraying the aspects of the young Black poet's life while naming Wheatley the "miracle" and explaining why the life of the Black poet can be associated with the idea of a "difficult [...]

In the poem, The Larynx Alice Jones tried to use a serious and at the same time informal tone in order to show all the significance and the necessity of the larynx.

The force of Dylan Thomas's feeling is as apparent in the short poem "The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower" as in the significantly longer "Fern Hill".

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"..

The basic idea of a new approach to the structure and function of the language was that language is a system of signs which can be distinguished and studied separately, "Language is a system of [...]

Wisdom in Beowulf's life is evident in his journey to Denmark and his reign over the Geats. At this time, all he had in his mind were the battles he was going to engage in [...]

The present paper will focus on one of his poems, "The Rio Grande," where the author concentrates on an internal question of the balance between life and death, happiness and sorrow.

The reader can interpret starting lines as the response to the question of the priest in the wedding ceremony about the reasons preventing the couple from getting married The structure of the phrase "Let me [...]

The existence of a gift denotes the action of a provider and thus the question that remains is about the giver of the gift of writing poems.

The second volume is supposed to address various issues that were related to the murder of Helen Osborne and the actions that were taken by the police.

In this stanza, the words that carry the rhyme are "me", which is repeated three times, "be" repeated two times and "see"."Me" and "be" are used in an altering way to indicate how the speaker's [...]

In the book, Hogan has explained a lot about the use of language and used it to explore how human beings have continued to misinterpret and understand their position in the universe.

In his powerful poem "Private War," Jesse Thistle examines the impacts of addictive behavior and trauma on the protagonist's life and how it is destructive.

Their bubble burst in the air" to mean black men have confronted what others, including the white men, have encountered, only that the black men's experiences are negative.

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.

In the poem, the sunflower serves as a metaphor; the connection between the sun and the flower symbolizes the bond between people and God.

The narrative of Joseph and Potiphar's Wife comes from a religious standpoint and portrays the actions of Joseph, a worker at Potiphar's household.

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 [...]

The theme of love as a magical curse is the central theme of the legend of Tristan and Yseut in general.

The first publications of Dickinson's poems began to appear only in the 1890s, after her death. Many of Dickinson's poems contain the motive of death and immortality, and the same plots permeate her letters to [...]

Simon and Garfunkel managed to skilfully reflect on the sudden death of Richard Cory by using rhyme, rhythm, meter, and sound.

This fact undoubtedly also influenced the work of Emily Dickinson, and it is in it that the social significance of the poem "Hope Is the Thing with Feathers" is reflected.

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

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.

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.

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 [...]

My husband claims that he yearns to travel the world again as he used to in the past, but he is elderly.

The line "It will take a long time to know how it is for you" emphasizes how much the author wishes she could see that person, but, sadly, it will take a while until her [...]

The story of "Sonnet" is considered to be partly autobiographical, although the characters were real people who lived in the first part of the 20th century."Sonnet" consists of three verses. There is a sort of [...]

Each of the poem's stanzas demonstrates the gravity of the sour relationship between a father and his son. The complexity of the association between the father and the son is evident all through the poem.

The speaker and nature in the poem communicate through the rapidly changing times. I connect with the poem at a personal level as it speaks to my heart about the truth of my life.

The speaker seems to be a woman who was abandoned by her partner, and the poem is a solitary reflection on the feelings of love and loneliness.

In addition, the use of the word 'can' illustrates the young man's feeling of the impossibility of getting a woman and hence the reason for despair and the tone of the poem.

In The Nymphs' Reply to the Shepherd, Sir Walter Raleigh gives a response to the proposal. On the other hands, in The Nymphs' Reply to the Shepherd, Walter gives reasons as to why the promised [...]

In the second and the third verse: "That from the nunnery2 Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind3" The author uses figurative language to describe his mistress, where by using such words as nunnery, chaste, [...]

The three poems written by Langston Hughes, namely "Negro Speaking of the Rivers", "Democracy" and "The Negro Mother" show the depth of black people's sufferings and the immensity of their desire to obtain freedom and [...]

Secondly, this poem is relevant more to the youth as most of the characters are young, like Aeneas, who is being told about the history of the city by his mother, Venus.

Ceramic production and the carving of the hardstones known collectively as jade are part of the earliest horizons of Chinese cultures in the Neolithic period, and the products of these activities have been made continuously [...]

Finding a paradox in nearly all that he finds, it is as if Keats examines both sides of every coin using the urn as a base of perfection and the mortal desires of man and [...]

In 1920, he had written literary journal "Selva Austral" under the pen name of Pablo Neruda, which he took on in memory of the Czechoslovak poet Jan Neruda.

The imagery effects of the poem offer deep grounds for the analysis of the house's inside, the woman's feelings, and the passerby's attitude toward her.

The speaker starts the poem by stating a connection to the ancient rivers of the world, possibly meaning the time before Africans were brought to America as slaves and were living peacefully.

The first part of the paper exemplifies to the reader how Wordsworth incorporates similes, while the second part illustrates the narrator's use of personification to underline the poem's central theme.

The language used in many of her poems lacks a clear rhyme and at times is borderline prose, and yet still it manages to pluck at the strings located in a reader's heart, painting vivid [...]

The tension comes from the fact that he knows that is his dog, but he really does not want to see it too close, and the dog has been missing for five days, so now [...]

Additionally, the poet's description of beauty, satirical approach to love, and the construction of gender roles reveal his interest in the issue of sexuality.

The masterpiece describes the life of Odysseus and his journey especially after the infamous fall of Troy. One outstanding fact about Odysseus is that he is the main hero of the epic.

The main purpose of prayer is to get some kind of protection from unknown powers, and, according to the character, his love in the form of the poem can protect his lover.

Laura like a good loving sister knowing too well the consequences that would befell one if he or she ate the forbidden fruits of the goblin men following the death of a girl from their [...]

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.

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 [...]

However in terms of penetrating language delivered in a simple and accessible style, the poem most suited to emotional authenticity is We Real Cool, as shown by the following lines: "We Sing sin.

Through the use of vivid imagery, repetition, and the hypnotic rhythm of the poem, Poe creates a sense of unease and foreboding that draws the reader in and keeps them spellbound until the very end.

For instance, Dante graphically describes the endless torment of those guilty of lust in the second circle of Hell, where they are constantly buffeted by violent winds, symbolic of the turbulence of their desires: "As [...]

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 [...]

In "The Trouble Ball," Espada uses symbolism to convey the pain and injustice experienced by his father and other immigrants due to segregation and discrimination in baseball.

As a magician of language, Carroll raised in the poem and in the whole work about the girl Alice, the most ancient folklore layer: the abstruse language is in children's counting rhymes, it was used [...]

The poem's magnitude of metaphors and symbolism does an excellent job of reflecting the poet's state of mind."Lady Lazarus" resembles the biblical story of Lazarus - the person whom Jesus famously resurrected.

Nancy's fear of the dark and the violence she associates with it makes her use the Compton children as her protection.

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 [...]

He changed his attitude toward education entirely, and I realized that the usefulness of my help to him was primarily in motivation, which he had lacked before.

After reading the poem, a lot can be learned about Beowulf as a warrior and his challenges, as well as the historical and cultural context of the literature of that period.

The poem was published in 2011, and the narrator may have been inspired by the science fiction movies that dominated the movie industry between 2009 and 2010."Of the Threads that Connect the Stars" by Martin [...]

Maya Angelou is no exception to the above characteristics; in most of her works, the prolific writer has a similar theme in most of her poems. The author lights the honor and right of the [...]

The segregation and prejudices attached to the black community by their counterparts impacted them negatively in regard to how society perceived the black people and consequently, how they felt about themselves.

I think this statement was used to uncover the hidden meaning of the poem because it is when the father is heavily drunk that fear and violence creeps.

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

In slide two, Fong introduces the reminisce of Roethke and his father waltzing in the kitchen. In this slide, the author introduces the theme of ignorance, which cannot be disputed because of the actions displayed.

As a result of the specified exploration, the chance to heal and embrace the cultural roots emerges for African American readers.

She is telling the truth: she and like-minded people will fight for the world to stop climate change. For those who contribute to the planet's destruction, her message is clear: she will oppose them, fight [...]

In the poem "Upon Burning of our House," she "shows her total belief in God, even in times of the destruction of their property".

The speaker communicates with the neighbor by continually questioning the legitimacy of the wall. First, the poem is written in the form of a short story where the speaker recounts one remarkable event in his [...]

A reader can feel the emotion of fear and uncertainty throughout the whole poem, as the writer enhances the feeling of anxiety with the symbol of tulips that torture the woman.

In the very first lines of the poem, the reader is able to see a negative tone that the author is using to warn his readers concerning the possible dangers of the absence of meaning [...]

The poem shows the poet's appreciation of life in Bristol by praising love and relationships but criticizing how people express love and the tendency to ignore the transient nature of life and love.

Through the story telling of the poem it becomes evident that its main character is somehow corrupted by the glory, power and money he acquires for his acts of bravery; still, his main qualities are [...]

Given the fact that Keats belongs to the Romanticist era that ushered in the enlightenment period, it is not surprising that most of his poetry tends to cross the borders of physical reality.

The poem The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop reminded me that other animate creatures are able of feelings and have the right to live their lives on this planet.

However, as a reaction against the extreme subjectivity of the Romantics and the social emphasis of the Victorian Age, literary criticism under the label of 'New Criticism' or the Formalists took the shape of a [...]

The poem depicts the influence of the Civil Rights Movement on the social life of the population; the author tries to disclose the hopes of ordinary people leading to the great tragedy and mass death [...]

Though throughout the poem the name of the president is not mentioned it can be easily understood that it is mourning for a public figure as a lot of people "with a thousand voices rising [...]

As she describes it, the reader gets the impression that this fish is quite ugly and undesirable. In the first line, the poet calls this fish "tremendous", and according to the experience of the reader, [...]

The poems "Acquainted with the Night" by Robert Frost and "We Grow Accustomed to the Dark" by Emily Dickinson depict the images of the night and darkness in different ways.

This way the languages of the poem creates an effect of a one-on-one conversation between the reader and the author and increases the feeling of the poet's personal presence during his monologue, which is extremely [...]

The "I" is introduced in the first line of the poem as the overall voice of the poem while the "you" follows in the second line.

John Donne was an English writer widely known for being the most prominent member of the metaphysical poets."He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only should [...]

Apparently, by doing it, Douglass strived to emphasize the hypocritical ways of Southern slave-owning Bible-thumpers, who used to be thoroughly comfortable with indulging in two mutually incompatible activities, at the same time treating Black slaves [...]

Willy Loman is believed to be a tragic hero, since he fails to achieve his purpose and encounters numerous barriers in his way to self-realization and happiness. Willy Loman cannot be a tragic hero, since [...]

The most stimulant reason for the selection of the poem comes from its touchy phrases that explain the need to appreciate and put all the love to the most high, the creator of everything, the [...]

Making Satan the main antagonist of the poem, Milton shows the inner struggle in the character's soul and the process of his devolution, depicting him as a fallen angel gradually transforming into a devil.

In Paul Tran's poem "The Cave," the poet builds the plot on the idea of Plato's cave. Tran adapts the allegory by using a metaphorical cave and adding a spiritual dimension to the journey.

The image of the midwife "slapping" the child's "footsoles" creates a sense of urgency and physicality, emphasizing the harshness and reality of the birth process.

The juxtaposition of light and darkness is a technique that the poet successfully utilizes to compare the two worlds, thereby enhancing the effect on the reader."After Someone's Death" is a poem that raises multiple issues.

Robert Frost is one of the greatest poets in the history of the United States and four times winner of the Pulitzer Prize, who composed a famous poem, Desert Places.

The poem by Yeats is an allegory of the current day because the symbols and imagery used in the text resemble a hard time in history.

Langston Hughes wrote the poem "I, Too" to express his concern about how African Americans are racially discriminated against and excluded from the essential matters concerning the society despite being Americans like the white population. [...]

The poem does not directly resolve the dilemma, and it's certainly feasible to view it as an indictment of the speakers.

The semantic load of the poems of the poetess gives an opportunity to take a closer look at the woman's attitude to love.

Moreover, in the view of Dickinson and Donne, Death is not only the "hero" of their works but also the embodiment of a natural phenomenon or occasion.

For instance, rhyme refers to the recurrence of syllables in a poem and is not present in Whitman's verses. Both authors use figurative language to imply that their minds differ from the others, as Whitman [...]

The point is that the lives of children can blossom in the hands of parents, but to assert the child is "mine" is to defend one's ignorance.

In brief, the poem recounts the lyrical protagonist's disillusionment with the decline of Christian faith in the rise of scientific thought in society.

For Kitty, it was in a growing sense of homosexuality as well as a rebellion against the constricting accepted occupational goals open to her gender.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze and explain the poem's themes and what helps the writer deliver the message to the reader.

The themes of the time of the day and seasons of the year are among the most popular with poets. Numerous instances of alliteration and consonance help to recreate the tone of the situation by [...]

The poem "The Sunlight on the Garden" by Louis Macneice has four stanzas. The stanza finalizes by representing the decreasing authority of the British Empire.

The analysis of this essay will identify three points; the first describes how Imagery makes the poem more interesting and real; the second point will help describe the characteristics of the poem with a simile; [...]

The same symbols of drums, which are present in the poem, show the reader that the war spirit is discussed, which wants to fight, but some doubts limit it.

Through this poem, the author shows the readers, how some of the magazines which purport to be the heavenly figures of literature are actually exploiting the aspiring writers by their unethical practices.

Our task is to compare and contrast the poetry of Robert Frost with that of Dylan Thomas in terms of their themes, style, and use of imagistic elements.

This paper will provide an explication of the poem, as well as a personal analysis regarding how it makes the writer feel, as well as his personal opinions of how the subject matter of the [...]