The opening lines, "My certain burn / toward pale ashes, is told by the / hand that whirls the sun; each" immediately set the tone for the poem's contemplation of life's transience.
This memoir focuses on Beowulf's iconic battle with the malevolent creature Grendel, which is a testament to Beowulf's bravery and strength. The saga of Beowulf's battle with Grendel is a timeless tale of courage, honor, [...]
In Pastan's and Piercy's poems, the theme of women and their thoughts on children will be examined through the tone, diction, and connotations.
The timing of this artistic choice aligns seamlessly with the setting: the harsh, blustery December midnight represents both the darkest hour of the day and the culmination of the year.
In the second poem, Knight does not discuss romantic love and physical death but the love of freedom, rebellion, and the end of one's character.
The poem uncovers the far-reaching emotional consequences of abortion with unshakeable emotional baggage supported through vivid imagery, repetition, and introspective reflections from the speaker, all conveying a sense of profound guilt and loss.
The poem narrates how Laura is enticed by the goblins and eats the fruits they sell to get money. Christina Rossetti, in her poem, uses the art of language, imagery, and form to demonstrate a [...]
It is a piece that manages to acutely understand the spirit of a family woman, and one that is intimately concerned with trying to portray its challenges in a vivid light.
This view is further supported by the speaker's description of the wreck as "a book of myths" that she is attempting to understand.
Due to the differences in the backgrounds of the pieces, Anne Bradstreet's Contemplations represent nature as benevolent and pure, in contrast to Mary Rowlandson's The Captivity and Restoration of Mrs.
People who focus on the impacts of death realize that people tend to realize the worth of life in the end.
The study will be based on poem 264 from The Canzionere by Francesco Petrarca and a love poem by the Japanese poet Ono No Komachi. Petrarca and Ono no Komachi both explore the emotions of [...]
It is important to understand how the rhetorical aspects used by the translator impact the poem and create a specific effect on the passages.
Further on in the poem, Gorman uses vivid imagery to describe the hope and resilience of the American people. Her imagery highlights America's challenges and the strength of its people in overcoming them.
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 "shape with lion body and the head of a man" that haunts the speaker's vision is the poem's central image.
This is emphasized by the further inversion of the "cloud of hooves and drums", where the sequence of appearance of images is reversed while emphasizing the simultaneity of sound, visuals, and direct shaking of the [...]
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.
The beginning of the 20th century is a time for the world to search for new ways of development, so the poem makes sense of choice.
Analysis of the poem demonstrates that its theme is the greed of manufacturers, which deprived its employees in the 19th century.
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: [...]
Thus, the author shows that in addition to changes in appearance, the girl also notices physiological changes in her body, making her more feminine.
Imagery in the rhyme appears when the poet describes the obsessiveness of the current leadership regime when watching and manipulating the world.
The Odyssey is one of the oldest and most well-known epics in the world. This can be attributed to Homer's ability to describe the culture and life of the people of the ancient era with [...]
This shows that rain is a response to the creation of the tiger and thus is a representation of God's power.
Specifically, to save the hero from a horrible storm that destroys his ship and leaves him without the crew, Athena approaches Nausicaa, the Princess of Phaeacia, in her dream.
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.
Francesca and Paolo are portrayed as two lovers who are doomed to the Secor Hell because of their adulterous affairs. Therefore, Francesca and Paolo are to be blamed for the dreadful event of their decision, [...]
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 [...]
One of the notable things about the punishment of the people in this circle is that the burden of their sin is not offloaded.
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.
It is a huge problem that leads to a deterioration of a person's emotional state, and that can destroy relationships and personality.
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 [...]
The raven's "Nevermore" throughout the poem is a repetition that enhances the poem's lyrical mood and emphasizes the main character's hopelessness.
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.
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.
The Iliad heroes, Diomedes and Glaucus, provide a glimpse into the constructs of community and conflict. Such a story is that of Glaucus and Diomedes who recognized their ancestors as heroes, resulting in mutual respect [...]
The primary thesis of the work is that both authors use the image of Satan to show the ideological, literary, and historical contradictions between good and evil.
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 [...]
Each of the poems contains an allusion to nature in the form of a bird Keats' nightingale, Poe's raven, and Dickinson's unnamed bird that represents hope.
Lauren's works have given me the opportunity to see how poetry can be used to review and raise awareness of concerning issues and events.
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.
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.
In conclusion, it is clear that despite having procured abortions in the past, she wanted to be a mother to her children.
I agree with the previous poster: in the poem Of the Threads that Connect the Stars, the metaphor is used both for emotional involvement of the reader: for example, "the language of galaxies".
The first point of contrast is the authors' use of time in painting the imagery. Cullen takes one point in time the poem appears to be set in the poet's present and focuses on its [...]
Donne's "Batter My Heart, Three-Person would God" and Shakespeare's "My Mistress' Eyes" both deal with the subject of love, but the love in question is as different in each poem as the approach to portraying [...]
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.
This essay aims to analyze the theme of the effects of war and destruction in the poem The End and the Beginning by Wislawa Szymborska and the lyrics Harry Patch by Radiohead.
As a result, we at the Academy of American Poets believe that airing poetry on radio and television will enhance American awareness of poetry and aid in the restoration of a dying art form.
Blues poetry is a common feature of the first decades of the 20th century and it is closely connected to the names of renowned authors of the time.
The first aspect of this poem is the focus on the conduct of the male characters from the perspective of honor.
The poem describes the glorious life and deeds of a hero, Beowulf, who was regarded as a person sent by heaven for people.
In the epic poem The Odyssey by Homer, Odysseus encounters Athena, Poseidon and Polyphemus are surrounded by unique myths and occupy a distinct place in Odysseus' journey.
The title of this literary work is the name of the main character. In addition, a key factor contributing to the plot of the heroes' destinies is the presence of an enemy, on whose destruction [...]
Women are portrayed as belongings for the advantage of the men throughout Beowulf and are made to support the male characters.
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 central thesis of this work is that Olds shows sex without love as a beautiful wrapper, devoid of meaning, truth, and any warm emotions, while Ackerman, on the contrary, demonstrates the positive feelings caused [...]
The poem of my choice is a sonnet by John Keats titled On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, which is focused on a piece of poetry describing the importance and the impact of poetry in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In Langston Hughes' poem "I, too," the setting and mood shape the story, portraying the life of an ordinary home in the early 20th century in a rebellious and confident mood.
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 [...]
Arguably, Frost encourages his readers to define the boundaries of their walls carefully, not to exclude the people that are essential to them.
The poetry of Emily Dickinson, one of the most remarkable poets of the 19th century, has the unique ability to create a sense of a special space where the action unfolds.
In this case, the most effective approach to analyze the character's reference to heroicness is to illustrate Rustem's vision of the life goal.
Thus, the main similarity is the narrative about the difficulties of the protagonists, and the difference is the presence of magical characteristics.
"The Weary Blues" is a jazzy musical poem that has a structure with the rhythms and form of the blues. The poem combines the voices of both the speaker and the Black singer who plays [...]
This poem is a metaphor for both Hughes' life and the life of Black people in general. The author speaks for all African Americans and their ancestors who lived hundreds and thousands of years before.
The person addressed by "you" in the poem is the oppressor of the Woman. The Woman tells her oppressor that she will rise like dirt despite the unfair treatment she receives.
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 [...]
Although Victorian poetry tried to diminish the place of such romantic characteristics as the faith in the human imagination, focus on emotions, and the re-evaluation of nature, these values were not completely rejected.
The poem consists of 164 stanzas, contains valuable life advice on a broad range of subjects, and aims to explain the rules of public behavior and social conduct.
The depth of the work lies in the themes of man's isolation from nature and the appreciation of the value of natural things.
A battle with the monster's mother was going to be even harder for our hero. Nevertheless, a few days after, I was extremely happy to see Grendel's arm and claw exhibited in Herot as a [...]
In turn, Meyer and Miller assert that excess of alliterations is irritating and distracts from the message of the text. The unity of the verse is displayed at the semantic, intonation, and syntactic levels.
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 development of an unknown land, the realization of it as one's own, and its cultivation lie at the heart of the American spirit, which is expressed through the symbolism of the song in Whitman's [...]
The general subject of Because I Could Not Stop for Death is by all accounts that passing is not to be dreaded since it is anything but a characteristic piece of the everlasting pattern of [...]
The author commonly draws on the theme of comparing the old and new life of Negro race. The migration caused a shift in history because it has changed how the Negro is viewed by the [...]
The monologue in the poem clearly expresses the emotions of the narrator, and the details that the author mentions complement the idea of the main character's opinion on the topics touched upon.
She is a star I cannot find in constellations, One who understands her pain not less than mine, The one I love beyond my world, For in the next world, I would want Isabella Abreu [...]
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.
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.
Patroclus is always beside Achilles to support him in the saddest moments and the moments of his rage. This loyalty shows that the friendship of Achilles and Patroclus was a perfect relationship as seen by [...]
The significance of Iliad and Odyssey in the modern world can be explained by the fact that they are the first ancient epics, which have survived to this day.
In "Habitual" by Nate Marshall, as the title implies, the poem describes the psychological issues of habits that construct human lives. The narrator opens the poem with the expressions of controversial existence.
The poems The Addict by Anne Sexton, Habitual by Nate Marshall, and Philip Seymour Hoffman by Nick Flynn, address the issue from the psychological perspective as an inner struggle within a person.
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.
To be a child again one would need to shed details Till the heart found itself dressed in the coat with a hood.
The author narrates the poem in a monotonous manner, allowing the reader to feel their own emotions on the issue presented in the text.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
In this story, Voltaire wanted his audience to question the church's monopoly over moral issues in the face of her hypocrisy, critique the system of giving objects like jewels monetary value, assess the usefulness of [...]
The book's central motif is the adventurous journey, the complete transformation of the king of Ithaca from the Trojan battle.
From the point of view of the author of the poem, the heroism of Odysseus lies in the fact that he remains faithful to his homeland, the island of Ithaca, nothing scares him in achieving [...]
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.
Robert Frost wrote "The Road Not Taken" at the beginning of the 1900s to underline the difficulty of choices that people have to make. Symbols make it possible to develop the reader's imagination, and alliteration [...]
Claude McKay was a poet of Jamaican descent who took one of the leading roles in the Harlem Renaissance.
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 [...]
To address the question posed in the poem, Hughes creates a set of similes that assist in seeking answers to the aforementioned question.
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".
The day the explosion happened / there was a foreboding of an accident / and the sun was the foreteller. The poem's central topic is the explosion which happened in a coal mine."At noon there [...]
As for the format, the example of these two sonnets demonstrates one of the main differences in the Italian and English traditions.
Rosetti's lie has the character of misinterpretation and fantasy, Smith's has the form of concealment or white lies, and Askew's is presented in the form of allegory to different kinds of desserts.
The historical question to be addressed in the poem will be linked to the role masses and individuals played in the war.
The employment of personification of death in the poem, together with the used metaphors and symbols, illustrates the perception of it by the author.
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".
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.
The topic that will be discussed in the feature story is the mission of a modern female poet in the United States.
This piece of literature is not a work of so to say, an eternal value that can be explained by the transient nature of the life experience addressed in it.
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.
Omar Sabbagh provides a more positive view of the people and poet. The title of the poem, Vital, describe the differences and the agreements or love existing between a father and the author. The author depicts the need for proper parental treatment desired by the child. The palm tree metaphorically describes the author. The first […]
Written language is one of the most diverse and significant tools of communication that we have at the present. This type of medium is the most artistic branch of the written word.
In one of his most famous poems, Eliot captured the desperation of his contemporaries due to the immense and dramatic changes in the world at the beginning of XX century.
As Blue remarks, the best way to understand the essence of the poem is to read it with the same attention one typically gives to strangers' dialogue that one is trying to eavesdrop on.