Poems Essay Examples and Topics. Page 4

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 woman made the decision in her late twenties to spend a significant part of her time in the family house rather than stepping outside.

Lanval is one of the stories to which the rules and nature of courtly love described by Capellanus are applicable. Thus, the character of the story is an example of a true lover who is [...]

Basically, Collins took the idea of a popular poem concept in which the narrator compared their beloved to different phenomena and transformed it into a humorous poem.

Women are portrayed as belongings for the advantage of the men throughout Beowulf and are made to support the male characters.

Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes, two prominent figures of American poetry of the past, are of them."I Hear America Singing," "I, Too," "Harlem," and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" are the emotional responses to the [...]

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.

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

Who are You?" is a short lyric poem written by Emily Dickinson and first published in 1891 in the Poems of the 2nd Series. In this poem, the speaker is a kind of "nobody" who [...]

The first part is the legend of Beowulf and Grendel; the second is about Beowulf and the dragon. He is ready to sacrifice himself and his courage for the sake of justice.

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 her memories, the mother is talking to her back when she was a little girl and teaching her the ways of what she considers a woman's work.

Eliot was known to have been a fanatic of Dante, and the meaning of the epigraph indicates that the poem is something that the world was not meant to hear, but it emerged anyway.

Although the plot mostly narrates several weeks in the last year of the war, The Iliad has various allusions to the many Greek legends about the siege and the astonishing exploits of ancient heroes.

Although the poet initially represents the wheelbarrow as a rather dull and unimaginative thing, he later on shows that it, in fact, can serve a larger purpose, which cements the theme of the magic of [...]

The power of imagery in the poem reaches its peak at the end when the reader sees the contrast between two settings of the poem: Tom's dream and reality.

The poetry of the Beat Generation exuded of the ideal of the Beat Generation that was to "escape" in a "vision".

For instance, in the seventh stanza of the poem, the author appeals to the reader by encouraging them to rediscover their fascination with a blackbird instead of drowning in dreams of a "golden bird".

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.

Symbolism has been utilized in this poem."A Haunted House" being the title of the poem draws the attention of the reader to dreadful issues associated to the house.

Incident is one of the most famous poems by the prominent African-American poet and author Countee Cullen who is a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. The conflict described in the poem is one of [...]

The swaying and rocking of the written song is felt in the cadence of the poem. The sense of evil is to be of anger due to prejudice; he accepts that in the end.

The voice of a girl in Plath's poem and the voice of a man in Browning's one dramatize the plots and the setting of both.

The author manages to accomplish his task of reaching the reader's soul due to resorting to one of the central themes of his poetic works: the theme of nature and the relationship of a man [...]

Sonnet 141 is also dedicated to the topic of love to a woman that does not notice the love of a man.

The first stanza of the poem has the speaker worried about the owner of the place where he has stopped, the same sets a mischievous tone for the rest of the poem because it can [...]

As in the second stanza, she writes, "I could easily tell the white folks" meaning she's addressing white people and without any fear whatever lies she had to tell.

The poem "Howl for Carl Solomon" by Allen Ginsberg is the brightest example of the artistic protest against the humiliating and unfair standards and norms according to which human society lives.

Before the first stanza, a flea has bitten the young man and then has jumped to the young woman and begun to bite her.

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 [...]

The tonal quality of the woman's voice sends the speaker of the poem into a child-time memory that is not actually a single event, but a compilation of impressions throughout the Sundays of his childhood.

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.

A density of narrative elements used in the play creates dynamics between the character and the plot, motif and problem by including techniques implied by the sources.

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 [...]

In the first verse, Marvel Andrew expressed how he would be devoted to the lady by dedicating indefinite quantity of time to the woman.

From the above mentioned epic heroes, we find that the aspect of heroism is differentiated mostly to suit the time in which they were written and also to meet the expectation of the audience and [...]

On top of this, the language that the poets have used in writing the poetry has spread around the world. Born in Carlisle in 1975, Jacob Polley is seen as one of the poets who [...]

Andrew Marvell's poem "To his coy mistress" is still relevant and popular up to now because of the themes portrayed in it.

The fact that Gilgamesh is ready to die for the sake of his people, also shows that he is selfless, a character of a true hero.

He drew inspiration from many aspects of his life, but his childhood and experience living on a farm had the greatest influence on his poetry.

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 [...]

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.

Moreover, it is in the genocide and extermination of the tribe members that the author accuses the American authorities of that time.

The Fragment 31 by Sappho is a masterpiece that celebrates being in love and demonstrates the pain of inner feelings because of unrequited love.

The prologue of the book is highly engaging, and I found quite a few of the comments to be intriguing. Essentially, it makes sense to claim that the statement alludes to the complicated realities of [...]

At a Station of the Metro is a two-line poem by the American poet of the 20th century Ezra Pound. The title is part of the poem, as it creates a scene for the perception [...]

Using all the power of literary language, the author masterfully portrays the American Civil War and the assassination of one of the greatest presidents.

The mix of cultures that she experiences allows Alyan to notice the difference in perception of various countries and people within it and certain biases and stereotypes surrounding them.

Thus, by featuring small details in the poem, the author emphasizes the unnatural and meaningless state of life of people living in the cities who are deprived of a connection with nature.

The author takes the readers into the poetic lifeline of exploration of fearing the unknown. The author personifies the snake by calling it a fellow, which gives the snake a weird humanistic quality.

In many cases, immigrants form or join the closed communities, and the people, who live there, are often not adjusted to the environment of the main population. Nina Rosario is the daughter of two hard-working [...]

The American Beat Poet movement of the 1940s and 1950s was the first to introduce the spoken word to the general public.

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.

At the beginning of the poem, the author writes about the alleged benefits of the relationship he offers to a woman while referring to its inevitability.

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 [...]

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.

The chosen poems present one distinct similarity in the setting: both authors use the complexity of relationships between a son and his father.

The text addresses the issues of the men's and women's functions in ancient China, as well as the topic of childbirth.

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 [...]

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

In The Poem of the Cid, there are three foremost themes, which can be outlined as follows: a) The theme of Spaniards indulging in the armed struggle with Moors for the purpose of reclaiming Spanish [...]

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 [...]

It seems that the writer wants the nurses caring for her to remember that she is a person with a past, wants, and needs rather than a patient.

The first stanza is devoted to comparing the former with the sky: "The Brain - is wider than the Sky ".

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.

With the development of the poem's story plot, the reader follows Aeneas from his heroic fights in Troy to his final destination in the territory which is now known as the country of Italy, and [...]

Through the Inferno poem, Dante Alighieri describes an allegorical journey to demonstrate the fates of various people in the underworld. The betrayers are immersed in ice.

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.

It stands to reason that to a certain degree, the works of this famous historian and poet take their origins in Homers Iliad and Odyssey, but the two authors do not share the same opinion [...]

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.

The poet confirms that death is "Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so". Donne refers to a world of privacy and solitude when it comes to the existence of the death.

Rampersad, the biographer of Langston Hughes, says that Fine Clothes to the Jew is not a successful volume, though it is Hughes's greatest collection, which was published when the poet was at the height of [...]

Nature is therefore described as the origin of language and the end of the same, where language is said to be born out of nature and to terminate in the same form, making nature a [...]

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.

What he remembers is the slaying of mankind to which he acknowledges that he has attained and reached that extent of fear, after which fear itself has remained trivial to him.

Robert Herrick's poem carries the same urgent and passionate tone, he also reminds the listener of the fast passing time and the need to act now 'Old time is still a-flying: And this same flower [...]

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 [...]

The analysis of the poem The Flea should be viewed through the author's personal style of writing and world look. The style of the poem writing can be characterized as lyrical and romantic as the [...]

The first four words of the poem can be used as key words for comprehending it as a whole.'That's' helps the reader understand that the style of the poem is conversational.'My' tells the reader about [...]

The poet mocks this dream and criticizes the country for being a notion of hope that is fundamentally aligned towards the rich and not for the poor.

The Legend of Good Women written by Geoffrey Chaucer is considered to be a significant poem having the dream vision form; it is a kind of testament to female disparate views being prevalent at the [...]

The beginning of the poem reveals the narrator's feelings toward Annabel Lee, determining the theme and the mood of the verse: "a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of Annabel Lee; [...]

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.

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 [...]

Okigbo spoke the language of his people in Nigeria, and Eliot spoke American English. Okigbo learned English in school and university as the language of the colonial government of Nigeria at that time.

According to the author the in the short poem the Dream of the Rood, the narrations of the poem is done in a manner to represent the horror fear as well as awe in witnessing [...]

The literary styles influence the interpretation of the poem by the target audience. In the poem "My Papa Waltz," the author has employed, vivid descriptions, figurative language, and unique poetic tones to communicate the meaning [...]

In "Love Among the Ruins", Browning compares the past with the present giving love more weight than material things through the persona that he creates.

Nevertheless, Rama is regarded as a re-embodiment of divinity and a person of solemn responsibility; his wife is the representation of chastity and submission.

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.

The central figure of any heroic epics is the character who represents the interests of his people and serves as the embodiment of the human qualities which are considered to be the best in their [...]

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

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 theme of the poem is drinking alcohol and its justification. Clearly, there is a hint at the theme of the piece as the Greek writer focused on love and alcohol.

The iambic pentameter couplets, the trademark of "A Description of a City Shower" and "A Description of the Morning," help the audience immerse into the atmosphere of a heroic verse style and, therefore, realize the [...]

Judging from the prologue that precedes the poem, the reader realizes that the author of "Lanval" was of French origin. The purpose of this essay is to carry out a close reading on lines 17 [...]

The elusive coalition between Enkidu and Gilgamesh, their fateful destinies and eventual epiphanies broaden the societal apprehension of the elements/value of friendship as expounded in the next discussion.

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 [...]

It s based on this that I believe that the poem is a more personal work of the author, written to commemorate a point in his life where his heart was broken by love.

To start with, it is so ancient that one cannot help gasping in awe; second, "Beowulf" is the first written and, therefore, the most treasured British poem; third, the poem is truly epic from beginning [...]

Frost used the lifestyle and settings of the rural people in a creative manner and related them to the philosophical, cultural and social issues that existed at that time so as to bring in the [...]

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 [...]

In this paper, the two beginning verses of the poem will be analyzed in order to comprehend the motives of the author as well as the main messages sent from the end of the 16th [...]

The physical universe impacts aesthetics - the poem is likely to be the lost breath, not the transcendent song of the heavens, and the topic of Kinnell's poetry is the creature that dies.

The intricate dialectic of experience within William Blake's "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" provides a rich landscape for critical examination, particularly within the framework of "Songs of Innocence and Experience".

While "Daystar" takes an intimate and reflective approach, focusing on the struggles and desires of a woman in her domestic role, "Exchange of Hats" offers a more satirical and whimsical exploration of traditional roles, highlighting [...]

The speaker in Dickinson's poem thinks about her death and the experience of being abducted by Death on a carriage ride.

The author flirts with people who want to limit her to writing, and she laughs at them and the scenario they have created. She inspires the reader to resist society's pressures and act only in [...]

The "shape with lion body and the head of a man" that haunts the speaker's vision is the poem's central image.

Based on the analysis of the poem and the idea of a speech act, one can say that the first part of the poem is the addressee, the beatniks, including the author himself.

Analysis of the poem demonstrates that its theme is the greed of manufacturers, which deprived its employees in the 19th century.

The emphasis on bravery and dignity in Roland represents a stark contrast to the characters of Odysseus and Gilgamesh. Therefore, Roland as a character is vital in the evolution of heroic characters in epic narratives.

Instead of examining the causes of suffering themselves, it occupies itself with understanding the feeling itself at a deeper level, connecting it with the static numbness of the after-pain.

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

The piece is written in free verse and combines rhyming and non-rhyming lines in a single syncopated rhythm to mimic the musicality of the blues.

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 [...]

Structurally, the text is divided into eleven paragraphs each of which finishes with a sort of refrain that proclaims soon delivery from slavery.

The poet intends to compare the beauty of the latter with the beauty of the summer days. In my opinion, at its core, the poet compared the powers of nature with the power of the [...]

The key artistic effect of this small but capacious poem is achieved through the use of several techniques related to the structure of the versification and sound patterns.