Poems Essay Examples and Topics. Page 4

It is a book with a story that has lasted for ages due to its major themes such as the relation between father and son, the role of women, the significance of hospitality and the [...]

Aristotle stated that "Tragedy, then, is a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in it, and of some amplitude; in language enriched by a variety of artistic devices appropriate to the [...]

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.

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 theme of love, of course, occupies a central place in the poetry of Anna Akhmatova. The suffering of a mother, doomed to see her son's torments on the cross, is fantastic in the Requiem: [...]

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

The poem 'The Lamb' by William Blake is a short verse that describes the author's attitude towards the little lamb that metaphorically symbolizes everything in the world that is calm, humble, and inoffensive.

Although these poems have radically different plots, their authors use a persona, enjambment, oxymoron, metaphors, and references to religion and folklore to achieve the same goal, namely to share personal experiences and fears with readers."Lady [...]

The relevance of showcasing social inequality through voices and faces of the Afro-Americans in the United States draws the parallel between the historical and contemporary context.

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, [...]

At the same time, the reader can develop a finer appreciation of how these elements are constructed to contribute to the final impact of the poem.

The title shows the intolerance of the passionate young man to the lady who is hesitant. The literal meaning of the poem is that the passionate man is intolerant of the coyness of the lady.

As a result, the reader perceives the woman's love as pure and platonic, focused more on the spiritual side of the matter.

In this paper, I will show that in light of the deliberate choice of diction, the metaphorical significance of the funeral, the interaction of the content with structure and form, the utilization of personal voice [...]

The first stanza of the song heaps a lot of praises on the girl's beauty and the extent of loneliness she is in.

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.

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 [...]

Leveraging the formalist, feminist, and postcolonial literary approaches, subjective analysis of the Young Goodman Brown poem highlight the motifs, techniques, and methodical and systematic styles utilized in the reading.

The poem does not seem to address anyone in particular, but the "you" in it refers to the people who have oppressed and continue to discriminate against the speaker and the community she represents.

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.

The poem is preserved in a copy from the Applurian Library of King Ashurbanipal, where it was transcribed from the original in the library of the Nippur temple.

The image of one who is lost in the labyrinth of love and is desperately looking for a way out is common in the sonnets of the Renaissance.

Whitman tries to emphasize and harmonize the body and soul in the poem. The reader finds an image of the poet's body and experiences it throughout the poem.

Countee Cullen's poem "From the Dark Tower" reveals the author's thoughts and feelings concerning slavery in the United States. The main idea that the poet seeks to convey is the notion that white and black [...]

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 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.

The stylistic device that the poet uses is the simile to associate a deferred dream with the traditional image of rotting meat. The first part is the dream's relation to a raisin and a rot.

To be a child again one would need to shed details Till the heart found itself dressed in the coat with a hood.

This paper examines the poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes and delineates the meaning by focusing on the various elements in the poem like setting, the background of the author, and the [...]

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 [...]

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.

The poem, "The Bean Eaters" portrays the old couple's poor state they live in alongside how they are fighting to be alive despite all their difficulties. They are the remnants of their lives.

The revolutions of 1830 and 1848 showed that the medieval structure of the streets in Paris was playing one of the major roles in their success.

The persona in the poem is a woman and she is already dead! In the first stanza, the use of the fly which is capitalized, allows the reader to focus on the occasion when flies [...]

The internal structure and the external form of this very poem are connected with the help of the context; at the same time, the external form facilitates the understanding of the contrast between two worlds.

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 [...]

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.

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.

Again, the original rhyme is lost, though much of the original character of the words are intact, due to the close resemblance of Latin and English in much of the inherited vocabulary from French, a [...]

In this example, death is in the middle of the circle, and is, hence in the power of the person because death settles on to impede, whether the person is pleased with it or not.

Auden's poem uses conventional structure in the form of a sonnet although the the rhymes are not as smooth and lyrical, but the substance of the poetry remains in the era of the 1930s.

Thus, Lord Byron was involved in political struggle and considered one of the revolutionists of his time. Byron died of malaria in Greece while preparing to assist in the Greek war of independence against the [...]

Having already presented the boys as a group of older men in characteristic business behavior, this comparison serves to bring into focus the concept that while the speaker's son is ostensibly the 'king' of the [...]

In his sonnet, Shakespeare reflects the theme of time by mentioning various seasons of the year and comparing them to a girl's age and appearance.

Contrasting to other writers of the Romanticism period, she used the rat, the mushroom, the bat, the fly, the frog, the snake, and the stones as symbolic representations of nature.

That seems to be the main purpose of the poem, to highlight the aspects of patriotism. It is speculated that the author chose to include this element as a way of distancing his persona from [...]

He will have you lie on a grand couch, and will have you lie in the seat of ease, the seat at his left, so that the princes of the world kiss your feet.

What is of great interest to the author is the fact that she went above the expectation of many, even to the point of attaining classical education at Harvard. The author remains skeptical, and he [...]

Thus, through this poem, Mao Tse-tung describes the establishment of the Red Army in China; this poem can be considered as a 'hymn' of the revolution.

His poem "If" which was first published in 1910 remains one of the most expressive pieces written in a specific didactic manner which attracts the readers' attention by the currency of the depicted ideas."If" is [...]

After killing the albatross who was suppose to provide them with wind, all the people in the ship died but he managed to survive because he had asked God to forgive him all the sins [...]

First, it is important to consider the major theme of the poem to be able to analyze the significance of the style.

When the devil came to tempt Adam and Eve, God knew that they would fall to the temptations because they had the free will to make their decisions.

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 [...]

In the real sense, it is at the Green Knight's abode that Gawain rests on his way to the chapel. This causes Gawain to flinch and he is reprimanded by the knight for that action.

However, the persona is proud of the father and the grandfather's commitment and vows to work s hard as his forefathers.

As the speaker touched its belly, he was sorry that he could not be able to save the young deer that was warm in the belly of the dead deer.

However, the poem about the author's love to her husband can be contrasted to the "The Flesh and the Spirit" where human existence is contrasted to the love of God.

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 [...]

In the story, Enkidu who was created to be wild is meant to counteract the oppression of King Gilgamesh on the inhabitants of the Uruk territory.

Looking into the fish's eyes may be regarded as the poem's crucial and turning point and as the author's attempts to identify and compare the existence of the human and the fish.

This shows that rain is a response to the creation of the tiger and thus is a representation of God's power.

Maya Angelou, being a Black woman in the America of the past, dared to assert that she is capable and worthwhile with Still I Rise. In conclusion, Maya Angelou's Still I Rise is an ode [...]

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.

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

As a result, this essay argues that the ultimate aim of the author was to advise individuals against such behaviors by describing the complex nature of sexual interactions and pointing out that it is unreasonable [...]

It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with [...]

The differences include the period in which the action of the poems takes place and the concept of love. At the same time, in Orlando Furioso, love is viewed as a form of madness, and [...]

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.

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.

Identifying a theme of the writing is one of the essential skills, which can be applied not only to the literature analysis but to everyday life as well.

The poem is focused on the poet's wife's fear that attracts and draws her to the writing-table and, at the same time, lives in it.

Plato, Courtly, and the general perception of affection today, represent it as a valuable sensation, which everyone should admire to have.

The figure of speech I decided to choose for this paper is in the first line of the poem, it is a metaphor that says "nature's first green is gold".

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 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 [...]

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

It seems that this poem reflects some of the issues that could be relevant to the life and work of Emily Dickenson.

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 [...]

Dickinson makes us realize that the loosing side with wouldefeated' and wouldying' soldiers is in a better position to translate the meaning of victory and success.

In particular, Darwish's poem demonstrates that the loss of homes is major distress for Palestinians, undermining their national identity and depriving them of their history.

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 is imbued with a melancholy mood, which is stated in the first lines of the work. This is the main point of the poem.

Enkidu's journeys to Gilgamesh and Uruk, his trek with Gilgamesh to the Forest, and the journeys to the underworld are examples of only a few of these major events.

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 [...]

The first aspect of this poem is the focus on the conduct of the male characters from the perspective of honor.

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

The first image that appears in the poem is the hook and the eye. Those symbols represent the traditional heterosexual relationships where the man has the leading position and holds the initiative of showing the [...]

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

Through the poem "My Last Duchess," the poet deeply explores the mind of such powerful dukes of the Victorian era and the dark aspects of life, especially for women living in those days.

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 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.

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.

The speaker in this poem urges people not to fear death, as has been the tradition. Essentially, the poem also notes the essence of the family as a vital social theme.

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.

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".

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.

It is probably done to encourage the audience to think about the superiority and grandeur of the Universe and show humanity the importance of a respectful attitude toward it.

Throughout the story, Dante presents himself as a good student through the way he posits questions to Virgil, listens to him as he narrates the sinner's stories and the way he feels under him although [...]

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; [...]

We can being by comparing the use of irony in each poem."The Fish" is comprised mostly of descriptions of the fish that the speaker of the poem caught.

The current age has seen an acute upsurge in the value placed on the beauty of women; where the stigmatization, low esteem, and shame associated with being bad looking among women is leading to high [...]

This line also exposes her fear of social ridicule which is preventing her from doing all the things she would really like to do.

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 [...]

It is a fruit of the tree that is the poet's mind. There is always a great satisfaction in finding out the meaning of those poems, it's like you have climbed a tall tree and [...]

This work also reflects the experience of the speaker and the stage he/she has to overcome thus showing the inevitability of the given situation, which is illustrated by the last line of the poem: "First [...]

The poem 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' written by Robert Frost, is considered to be one of the most prominent works of world literature; the poem is dedicated to the disclosure of nature [...]

Additionally, a certain pattern can be seen in alternating the rhyme of the last word in a line, where in the first two stanzas, the first and the third lines where unrhymed, while the second [...]

One of the best examples of his poetic genius lies in his poem, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love", written in rural background, best suits the poetic type of the period.

While the Italian sonnet is also called the Petrarchan sonnet about Francis Petrarch - great fourteen-century poet- the sonnet is claimed to have existed a century before him. The stanzaic form of a sonnet is [...]

The ‘Iliad’ is one of the most admired and well-known poems worldwide. Its main idea covers several essential themes, one of which is hospitality.

Thesis: The poem is about the wanderings of the ancient mariner who is permanently traumatized and alienated by his killing of the albatross and his experiences lead him to the spiritual realization that all creatures [...]

Type: Lyric Rhyme Scheme: aababbcbccdcdddd-last two lines are the same Setting: In a sleigh in the middle of a winter's night, between the lake and the woods and not near the houses.

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 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 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 [...]

One of the most famous arming scenes in the Iliad is the description of Achilles' arming, in particular, shield. It could be supposed that Homer tried to highlight the horror of the war and focused [...]

Through the description of the repetitiveness and monotonousness of the game, Ginsberg establishes the moral baseness and spiritual emptiness of Solomon while in the asylum.