This fascination with the contradictions between the visible and the concealed aspects of personality and behavior is a reflection of Wilde's stated goal for the play.
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 Afterlife less interesting than life?"."My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close" opens another door into the theme of death from Dickinson's penetrating and sharp intellect.
In the poem itself there are actually two voices, that of Soledad and another that asks her who she seeks and tells her to clean her body, as such it can be assumed that this [...]
Andrew Marvell's poem "To his coy mistress" is still relevant and popular up to now because of the themes portrayed in it.
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.
Not every person is able to understand the essence of nature, its uniqueness, and importance. To my mind, his close connection to nature and a kind of isolation from people helped him to understand deeper [...]
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.
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".
These informal interviews emphasized the universal appeal of poetry, as it provides a platform for individuals to express their feelings and experiences.
The speaker in Dickinson's poem thinks about her death and the experience of being abducted by Death on a carriage ride.
Over the ages and at the time of the Revolution, the majority of authors and poets in American history have been men.
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.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is an epic poem where the protagonist illustrates knightly virtues through overcoming the trials sent to him by the Green Knight.
In the poem "My Last Duchess," the Duke shows that he values status and power, which drives his jealousy and makes him want to control every aspect of his former wife's behavior.
The characters of the chosen poem by Chaucer Troilus and Cressida are Trojans; Troilus is the son of the Trojan king Priam, the younger brother of Hector.
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.
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.
Therefore, the speaker closely reads the translation to discover the meaning of the original poem. Therefore, through psychoanalytic, the author uses literature to create a sense of a lived experience.
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.
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 woman made the decision in her late twenties to spend a significant part of her time in the family house rather than stepping outside.
Even though it is not stated directly in the text, the reader assumes that the doe was hit by a car, the driver of which did not even stop to move her body out of [...]
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 poem does not directly resolve the dilemma, and it's certainly feasible to view it as an indictment of the speakers.
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.
The poem suggests that the life of a person who could be represented by this poem is far from perfect. As Brooks starts her poem with a positive note, it is immediately understood that the [...]
Dante's conception of the universe is commonly known as a straightforward representation of the Medieval view of the afterlife. If the reader interprets the text through the lens of allegory, it becomes clear that Dante [...]
In the first five stanzas, the author paints the picture of the weather and generally sets the tone of the following lines.
The chosen poems present one distinct similarity in the setting: both authors use the complexity of relationships between a son and his father.
The settings affect the reader's impression of the poem, making it more emotional and addressing the context of the historical period it describes.
Two neighboring crones, antique and gray, Together talk would at close of day One said with brow of wrinkled care, "Life's cup, at first was sweet and fair, On our young lips, with laughter gay, [...]
From the feminist perspective, the key feature of the speaker's stance in "Death Be Not Proud" that sets it apart from "Wild Nights" is the speaker's persona, which is openly and unequivocally male.
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 willingness to save the opponent's head describes the main hero's braveness, which is one of the central features that is explained during the poem.
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".
Therefore, a critical analysis of the two poems shows the difference between Taylor and Bradstreet in their use of language to convey their ideas.
On balance, the discursive nature of the poem lends itself to a discovery guided by the author via repetition and comparison, and the air of playfulness pervades the first part of it.
The text addresses the issues of the men's and women's functions in ancient China, as well as the topic of childbirth.
Hence, the tone of the verse demonstrates that despite the cruelty of the father, the son does not stop loving him and tries to win his love.
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 extermination of the Roma was part of the general policy of the National Socialists to destroy political opponents, homosexual people, terminally and mentally ill, drug addicts, and Jews.
In the poem "Upon Burning of our House," she "shows her total belief in God, even in times of the destruction of their property".
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.
Thus, the central theme of this poem is the horrors of war and the human compassion and power of the heart that oppose them.
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.
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.
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".
In the poem The Pardon is used four-line stanza which is called a quatrain. The rhyme of this poem looks like abba which is known as envelope rhyme.
The first stanza is devoted to comparing the former with the sky: "The Brain - is wider than the Sky ".
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 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.
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.
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 [...]
The melancholic and resentful tone in My Papa's Waltz is a striking message of the author to his own father. And the empty room is most likely a sign of passed away relatives.
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; [...]
Hamlet is pretending to be mad and this pretense is the one that shapes the scene and the rest of the play.
This mindset is what assisted as the cornerstone for young men to reprimand dolls in the earlier periods. Why Boys Do not Play with Dolls is concentrated on the stereotypes of males and females.
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.
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.
Sometimes the image is used so clearly and appropriately that the reader experiences the same feelings as the author; this means that the purpose of the poem is reached.
The poems inspire the readers, through the images of life, whether in old age or young, to not accept death as it is, but rather to challenge even in the last time minute.
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 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.
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 [...]
As the military conflict drains the country economically and males are not able to support their families as the main breadwinners, the woman faces the challenge of providing for herself, her children and often her [...]
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 [...]
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.
Sonnet 141 is also dedicated to the topic of love to a woman that does not notice the love of a man.
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.
It was through the literature that much of this expression came to the attention of the rest of the nation, enabling it to have the tremendous impact it did on its own as well as [...]
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 [...]
The last line of this poem seems to express guilt, but it is more a statement of conviction that not all change is good, and we mourn what is lost: if she only felt guilt [...]
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.
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.
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.
The functions of dreams in both works are studied by the researcher, their significance is underlined, differences and parallels between the usage of dreams in both works are established, the enduring values that the works [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 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.
They call me the cancer stick; I am a gigantic straw, Crack of dawn in just a flick, pleasuring is what I draw, In an attempt so quick, I rip them out of the low, [...]
The song manages to tell the whole story of the life and love of the lyrical hero. The future is unpredictable but we see glimpses of it in the past and present.
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.
The secondary argument supporting the claim of the psychological temperament in Plath's works is based on the interpretation of her state of mind when she forcefully vilified her father as a Nazi sympathizer.
Apparently, the wide variety of themes that he chose for his writings also contribute to their popularity: the complexity of human soul, its ability to rise and fall, wisdom and vanity, purity and vice, the [...]
At the beginning of the poem, the first two lines introduce the bird, and the narrator describes it as the creature that continues singing "without the words".
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.
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.
In the end, he does make it to heaven after supplication, showing that he is not responsible for the errors of judgment he made earlier in his life.
Depicting the difficult times of the economic depression in 1893, the poem shows the plight of the commoners who could not afford to meat and had to be content eating bread.
The imagery of the poem, its language, and structure are the main elements that help the author to convey his meaning and feelings for Lucy. One of the things that catch the attention of the [...]
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.
Both poets suffered from depression that influenced the themes of poems in Praise to the End by Theodore and Ariel by Sylvia.
First, it is important to consider the major theme of the poem to be able to analyze the significance of the style.
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.
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 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.
The first two lines, "I remember / The horror of her head on a pillow," set the tone for the rest of the sonnet.
On the contrary, Bishop's "One Art" is considered a personalized topic because the poem is about loss, which is described as art. The prevalence of a matter-of-fact tone does not denote that figurative language is [...]
It is possible to illustrate the idea of the relation of time, death, and love with the lines from Shakespeare's sonnet.
In contrast, Plath's poem is written from the perspective of a daughter. The common theme in both poems is the importance of parental relationships and their profound impact on a child's life.
Thus, the poem's central theme, The Road Not Taken, becomes the path of life, as well as the complexity and significance of his choice.
As Sir Gawain shows the path of the good who faces human weaknesses and fights them, the monstrosity falls under the necessity to use tricks and challenges to make the good fall under evil.
The author is afraid of the tiger but is also amazed by God's power, which forces him to accept the tiger's cruel nature.
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.
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.
The ideology underscores that every American citizen has the right to dream and be facilitated for the dream to come true.
The masterpiece involves the themes of mortality and eternity and applies Christian imagery, allusions, and exploration of the soul's journey toward union with God. The poem's central theme of mortality and eternity reflects the Christian [...]
The poem compares the fearsome nature of the tiger to the peaceful demeanor of creatures like a lamb, raising the question of God's creative intent.
Within the lush Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve grapple with repressed desires, the allure of forbidden knowledge, and the subtle undercurrents of temptation.
The stages of the narrator's life are symbolically passed during the carriage ride, with the school, the fields of gazing grain, and the setting sun representing childhood, maturity, and the end of life.
These lines challenge the traditional standards of beauty and emphasize the realness and individuality of the special, which is refreshingly honest and relatable. Sonnet 18 embodies the quintessential theme of immortalizing love and beauty, embracing [...]
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 [...]
In the poem, the author uses examples of different occupations, from mechanics to shoemakers, to showcase the country's democratic ideals and the importance of work to a nation's development.
The presenter structured the work in the introduction in such a way as to provide listeners with an understanding of what works will be read.