Poems Essay Examples and Topics. Page 4

In that poem, Anne Bradstreet uses a self-deprecating tone to emphasize the message of her achievements being nothing compared to the hard long-term work of her father.

The moment where the spirit says that "and I sail from the spirit shore to scan" or "where the weaving of that strong cord began" is still looking more like a lovely story about the [...]

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.

Therefore, a critical analysis of the two poems shows the difference between Taylor and Bradstreet in their use of language to convey their ideas.

For instance, the speaker starts to establish a feeling of funeral service in her brain, and this later becomes bombarded with numerous thoughts, which makes her have a confused mind.

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 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 [...]

The stories in the poem are chronological, and the message from the presiding episode results in a significant change for the consecutive narratives.

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.

Moreover, in some of her poems, Dickinson explored the idea of her senses and feelings after the body's death, and this concept was reflected in the poem "I felt a funeral, in my Brain".

To address the question posed in the poem, Hughes creates a set of similes that assist in seeking answers to the aforementioned question.

The persona depicts that "the husband saw her from the bottom of the stairs". The woman wanting to leave the house is a sign of emotional loneliness because the husband does not feel the angst [...]

One of the most remarkable aspects of the book written by Liu is the development of the doctrine "poetry as exploration of worlds and of language".

“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost creates a very vivid and realistic picture of the forest. The first line familiarizes the reader with the fact that the area is known to the person stopping. This could mean that it is either a friend or someone they simply know of. It is […]

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.

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 tension intensifies with every stanza till the third one from the end after which the narrator understands the senselessness of the situation in searching for the answers for his questions in the raven's "nevermore".

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.

Although Muir shows his pessimistic view, in the beginning, he changes it in the second part of the poem, giving the reader a sense of relief.

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.

But if they over dry, they will become hard to chew and lose all the nutrition, This warns us of the consequences that may befall us if we sit there and wait for conditions to [...]

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 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.

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 [...]

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.

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.

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 [...]

If we match this to the last line of the poem, we see that he is "clinging" to his father's shirt as his father waltzes him off to bed.

by Joyce Kilmer I think that I will never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the sweet earth's flowing breast; A tree that looks at God [...]

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.

In 1923, he graduated from the New York University and published his first book of poetry, "Color". His works are in the tradition of Keats and Shelley, resistant to the techniques of modernism.

The Puritan dogma of retrospection forced Bradstreet to explore her religious beliefs and reveal them in the poem Upon the Burning of Our House on July 10th, 1666.

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 the literal sense, the poet's master is having control over him, and in the figurative sense, the Lord is both male and female.

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

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.

The similarity between them can be explained by the fact that each of the poems belongs to the hand of the same author; indeed, the choice of stylistic devices and formal elements of The First [...]

Athena finds Telemachus to inform him that his father is back, and she directs him to Eumaeus' house, where he finds the vagabond.

The poem is delivered in the form of a narration where the author provides a detailed description of the girl who is getting ready in the morning. In summary, the poem by Song is very [...]

This is likely intentional as the tower, and the neighboring lake is a very famous location in China and holds great significance outside the context of the poem.

On the example of the selected poem, the author's style will be discussed through the lens of her perception of the world. Further, the scheme of the poem will be considered.

In spite of the fact that there are debates on the etymological character of Achilles' name, the role of the hero's name is significant to predict his fate and behavior because the hero's grief associated [...]

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.

It this work, he describes a great mission of white men which have to colonize and rule the rest of the world, bringing civilization and culture to backward peoples.

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.

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.

Here, Owen uses the adjective, monstrous, to refer to the nature of the war that caused the death of thousands of soldiers.

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 [...]

The style is quite appropriate in the poem as it is used deliberately to advance the poet's motive. Whitman's use of symbolism is also notable in redefining the self to the modern times.

It appears as if the speaker places a type of importance on the wheelbarrow beyond what it was meant to do and it is this importance that the author seems to connect to the phrase [...]

However, in most cases this is not the fear of poetry, this is the fear to fail to understand the poetry or the fear to seem too old-fashioned among peers.

In a bid to deliver the message of the poem, the author uses various interesting tools. The content of the poem is interesting as the author narrows down to the concept of old age.

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.

In this regard, Coleridge has managed to explain to the non artistic the mystic and the complexity of truth as defined by the creative genius so to this extent, nature is very useful in understanding [...]

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 [...]

For instance, the message the poet provides through the poem is touching as it demonstrates clearly the picture of how the black people in America lived in pretence by hiding their agony and problems that [...]

The setting of "Snake" is more than just a backdrop; it is a canvas that shows the heart of the narrator's internal conflict.

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.

This view is further supported by the speaker's description of the wreck as "a book of myths" that she is attempting to understand.

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 [...]

On the contrary, the Heian period was marked by the transfer of the capital from Nara to Kyoto and the development of the imperial court and aristocratic culture.

The 17th century saw the beginning of the metaphysical era in poetry since several poets expanded poems to include in-depth analyses of natural and intellectual laws and changed their views to the concept of love.

At the same time, Emily Dickinson demonstrates death as an inevitable occurrence and highlights the uncertainties surrounding it in her poem "Because I Could Not Stop for Death".

The poem tells the story of Adam and Eve, their creation, and how they happened to lose their position in the Garden of Eden, also known as Paradise.

In the poem, the sudden abundance of water allows children to see the reflection of the sun. The reflection of the sun in the water is also a symbol of hope for dehydrated children.

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.

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

Imagery, similes, and alliteration are essential elements in Spencer's work that help him reach the reader and explain his concept of love.

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.

In the poem Africa, and in the first stanza, the character that is being addressed is the Woman. For instance, the line "Two Nile her tears" compares how the Nile flows to the manner in [...]

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 [...]

She must have felt regretful about coming to call her brother for dinner."Leaped out at the boy's hand," the writer personifies the saw to show the fatality that befell the brother's sister.

The monster was killed, and later Beowulf had to protect his people from the vengeful mother of the beast, although even the hero's original sword refused to harm a woman.

Moreover, death in the poems of the poetess is often personified. Thus, this poem examines in detail the process of reconciliation with death and how it is inevitable.

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.

In the 21st century, the population of the planet has grown so rapidly that management technologies and the achievements of psychology are used to convince people.

The poet emphasizes the sounds to bring the reader into the philosophical mood by writing about "gazing at the croaking of the frogs" and "listening to the moon".

All through eternity Beauty unveils His exquisite form in the solitude of nothingness; He holds a mirror to His Face and beholds His own beauty.he is the knower and the known, the seer and the [...]

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 [...]

That they remind each other of what they had agreed themselves and that they should be one common unit working in unity and that whatever they plan, they should do it with confidence, keen, and [...]

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 [...]

The present paper is the combination of the summary of six books from Metamorphoses by Roman Poet Ovid, the set of questions to the text, and the expression of personal opinion on reading the books.

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 [...]

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.

In the first place, it is necessary to define the term "discourse" because of the multiplicity of existing definitions of the notion.

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 [...]

Anderson makes a conclusion that the poem is built on the ironic contrast between the unheroic Miniver as it is and his dreams of adventure, romance, and art associated with heroic figures of the Trojan [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 speaker, out in a battle-worn, rented boat, catches the old fish and after examining the fish closely and sympathetically, in a spontaneous moment of recognition tosses the fish back into the water."The aesthetic nature [...]

It acknowledged the interdependency of the masculine and the feminine or community values such as the earth and sky. Achebe's stories are also known to use proverbs that incorporate the values of the rural Igbo [...]

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; [...]

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 character Prufrock in the poem "love song" represents the same emotions of Eliot. The emotionality and psychological masterwork of language is like magic in the poem.

This poem, like most of the Cummings' other poems, exists, quite meaningfully exists, in both form and content. Indeed, the form both encapsulates and expounds the meaning of the poem.

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.

The excellence of the sonnets is the excellence of parts. Although the sonnets proclaim his affection for the young man and his indulgence of him, they also disclose the attitudes which Shakespeare takes to both [...]

We believe that the one to who the poem is addressed is a representative of the Western world, the author calls him/her like "you"; this person, going by the author, calls eating primitive.

Most noteworthy in this poem is the importance of the gunner to the mission and the cleaning of the turret after the gunner has died.

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.

In Dylan's song, the masters of war hide at the time "young people's blood / Flows out of their bodies / And is buried in the mud".

The title captures the attention of the reader by arousing curiosity to find out about this road that is not taken, and ultimately, the poem addresses this issue by talking about the road and its [...]

The major theme of the poem is how the life of a person can be destroyed by the accidental loss of self-confidence.

Critics attribute the change in style to the politically charged times that We Real Cool was written in, and the poem also includes a more generous sprinkling of the vernacular that made her work more [...]

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 [...]

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 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.

In the initial edition, Whitman changed the first line to "the poem of the body", making it known that the intention was to appreciate the nature of the human body.

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.

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

Thesis: whilst the poem may be apprehended in many ways, essentially the framework of a speaker questioning the beast symbolically reflects the beginning of the appreciation of the strength of own soul.