Poems Essay Examples and Topics. Page 7

Hamlet is pretending to be mad and this pretense is the one that shapes the scene and the rest of the play.

It appears that Blake had a different perspective on the notion of divine law and order, as compared to that of Milton's.

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.

Dickinson experienced a great amount of attachment towards the Civil War and her expression for the cause had been expressed through the expression of death in its spiritual and eternal nature.

The soldier is torn out of his "mother's sleep" that is the state of peace and he faces the reality of war in the belly of his fighter jet aircraft.

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.

A narrative poem is supposed to be a narration of a definite story in the form of a poem; it is a piece of literature where a plot of the story is more important than [...]

Then, the poet expresses the friendly stature of the ponies towards the poet and his companion. In spite of the above-mentioned similarities, both "A Blessing" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" share differences [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Some poets use different stylistic devices to make their works more expressive and keep to a definite type of writing to stand out, whereas the others neglect all the rules of writing verses and rely [...]

In the title, the fear for everything unknown and unexpected is put into the sounds of somebody, knocking at the door.

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.

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

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 [...]

Dante shows the growing toward Christianity of the world population by means of Statius; he stressed that religion was perceived without any political power in the center of it, describing "the corruption of church and [...]

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.

Much in the same way that the human experience is characterized by mood shifts of good and bad days, Emily Dickinson's poetry captures the feelings of every day life, both mundane and fantastic; her poetry, [...]

Therefore, during the course of working on this paper, we will refer to Rumi's Poem 14, and to his poetry in general, as to what it really is a poetic sublimation of Oriental soul's longing [...]

If one analyzes the various stages of English language and literature, it is clear that many English poets have influenced the growth of language.

Poems about love are the most influential, reading them you feel as if also in love and your heart may be filled with warm feelings."The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" is the poem by Christopher [...]

This is like the letter Burns sent to his father before being a poet and there he stood and proved to all that He is a great writer who strikes in every thing he writes. [...]

Eliot employs the so-called exhausted poetic mode for the purpose of showing the corruptive nature of adherence to social mimicry, which results in the spiritual blindness, the loss of the ability to the perceive the [...]

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 [...]

They accomplish this through expensive and sometimes dangerous plastic surgery, but the image of the mask is more important to them than the true health of the individual.

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 epic poem serves to provide the transition between both worlds by linking the ideals of the Old Code to the ideals of the Christian belief system.

The Harlem Renaissance, a period spanning roughly the decades of the 1920s and 1930s, is frequently referred to as a literary movement, but the movement also encompassed a great explosion of African-American expression in many [...]

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.

However, the topic of the poem remains almost the same as in the sonnet the cruelty of this world and necessity to gather all one's powers to resists it.

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.

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.

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

The Divine Comedy, written by Italian writer Dante Alighieri between approximately 1308 and his death in 1321, is commonly regarded as the most well-known epic poem of Italian literature and is seen as one of [...]

In High School, my only claim to "literary acclaim" was a short poem that got published in the school paper, probably due to a lack of contributions from other students.

Finally, her description of the man she married as the model of her father indicates his deep cruelty because he has a "love of the rack and the screw".

Ceramic production and the carving of the hardstones known collectively as jade are part of the earliest horizons of Chinese cultures in the Neolithic period, and the products of these activities have been made continuously [...]

The main similarity of pre-WWII period and the Innti generation is close attention to Irish language and folklore. During the pre-WWII period of time, anxiety and desperation dominated in Irish poetry.

'Leaves of Grass' is a collection of Walt Whitman's poems to which he wrote a preface titled "Inscription: To the Reader at the Entrance of Leaves of Grass".

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.

Thesis A central strand in this poem is the stress on the expressive and emotional side achieved through stylistic devices and vivid images of 'hips.' The main theme of the poem is freedom as a [...]

This poem is written from the perspective of a man lying next to a woman in bed. Tonight, the song is a request: Write me a poem, please".

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 [...]

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 [...]

In 1920, he had written literary journal "Selva Austral" under the pen name of Pablo Neruda, which he took on in memory of the Czechoslovak poet Jan Neruda.

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.

Robert Hayden is probably one of the best known for his verses that discover and articulate the African-American practice, from the epoch of slavery, and the times of Civil War, up to the time he [...]

Mansfield, who experienced the shift from the Victorian era to the Modern in the latter portion of the 19th century and early 20th century, used her writing as an outlet for thoughts and feelings that [...]

The poem and painting chosen for the analysis in this paper belong to the works of the second group, that is the picture came to existence much earlier than the poem which, in its turn, [...]

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.

However, there is a hint, both here and toward the end of the poem, that, like the moon, the lover's body may not always be as open, available, and illuminating to him, thus the need [...]

In " The Aeneid," Virgil tells of the adventures of the hero of the Trojan war, Aeneas, who was destined by the gods to stay alive after the destruction of Troy to come to Italy [...]

The choice of words in the second stanza, the second last line, which reads "glowing at dusk, a shrouded welcome" is a further confirmation of the sorrow in the mind of the narrator.

"I am a riddle in nine syllables" this means that there are nine parts of the secret that the reader is supposed to discover; "An elephant, a ponderous house" here, the author is referring [...]

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.

The main theme of the poem is the relief that death can bring to a man who is finally freed from all the hardships of life.

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 [...]

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 [...]

In the research article "Sweet silent thought: alliteration and resonance in poetry comprehension," the researchers were mainly interested in scrutinizing alliteration and how it generally functions as a memory cue during the process of poetry [...]

The descriptions of the scene demonstrate the extent of Negroes' poverty and level of unemployment as they play the pianos on the streets to attract sympathy from the passers-by.

Perhaps, it is the rhythm of the author's voice that helps to reveal the new ideas. That is the magic of poetry.

In addition, use of Symbolism imagery and symbolism creates a better picture in audience mind, concerning the themes that the play covers; such as where dark is used to represent evil.

The citizens of the USA became familiar with the poet in the early sixties. I suppose that famous Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko is one of the most influential literary figures in the world.

The speaker is optimistic to go and face the rivals and although the chances of surviving the fight look minimal, he wants the group to die a noble death, a death that will be of [...]

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.

In "Two Scavengers in a truck..".the story is being told in the third person, and two different kinds of work are described.

The Song of my poem by Whitman is a centerpiece of the "Leaves of Grass" collection which became a kind of poetic manifesto of the author.

In the first section, the narrator depicts the serenity of a frosty night and lets the audience realize that the narrator is the author himself.

The central idea the author want to deliver to the reader is the connection between people and nature and his struggle to understand humanity's failure to recognize the value of the nature.

For instance, Retief and Cilliers argue that Book XI of The Odyssey largely shaped the perception of Hades, or the Greek land of the dead, as well as of the Ancient views on death and [...]

The main theme of the poem is the variety of the world's elements, all of which have their meaning. The first stanza of the poem implies that the author is in the sixth grade.

Andrea Gibson's poem "A Letter to White Queers, A Letter to Myself" is a fabulous example of passionate expression of the author's hatred towards those inglorious individuals who think that they are better than others [...]

The 11th book of the Odyssey tells about the trip of Odysseus to the Underworld. He expresses pity that Odysseus is also in the land of the dead and tells about his journey in Hades [...]

The most obvious way of assessing the extent to which Langston Hughes responded to the historical context of his race in his work is to assess his thematic concerns. Again, just like in "Cross," Hughes [...]

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.

Even though the poem seems to puzzle the readers and looks like a mixture of incomprehensible thoughts, Eliot showed in it how a person perceives the world, referring to the stream of consciousness and focusing [...]

Rita uses the poems to outline her main challenges, which are reminiscent of the challenges, which faced aboriginals of her time. Rita uses the book to show her patience in an abusive marriage which she [...]

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.

Therefore, the author's works created a powerful impact on the establishment of a connection between content and literary form. Thus, Poe's writings possess the power to show the links between a concept and a form [...]

For these reasons, the majority of the works devoted to the given issue tend to demonstrate the horrors of war and factors that impacted people.

The proponent of the study will attempt to compare and contrast Maya Angelou's The Lesson and Elizabeth Dandy's The Parable of Talents.

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 [...]

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 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.

The use of metaphors to emphasize particular points in relation to nature and an individual's surroundings is a hallmark of the work of Frost and, as such, it is not surprising that he utilizes the [...]

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.

In the first stanza, the poem gives a detailed description of the monotonous nature of the job that the main character does and how it has changed some of her physical aspects.

It is possible to consider three sins and the way the sinners are punished to see Dante's idea of justice and the way it is similar to the contemporary concept of justice.

The "I" is introduced in the first line of the poem as the overall voice of the poem while the "you" follows in the second line.

From the poem it is clear that everyone hopes for a better life and this can only be achieved through collective effort.

Gibran's mother settled in Boston together with a young Gibran, his two younger sisters, and his half brother. Holland was a member of the European avant-garde-movement and he acted as a tutor and mentor to [...]

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.

To start with, the representation of the treasured and valuable objects in Beowulf is rather obvious from the very start of the poem; it is obvious that the characters focus on the secular values.

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

In this form of analysis, the teacher also seeks to understand the unfolding events in the poem for the benefit of the students.

Grant Farred is of the opinion that "Securing an ideological space for coloureds within the ranks of the disenfranchised and crafting an artistic vocabulary that can engage the problematic of racial ambiguity and ambivalent political [...]

In the two books, Steinbeck and Babb wrote about the plight of migrants in Oklahoma and California. On the other hand, Steinbeck argued that the system forced the migrants to live in miserable conditions.

Bearing these images in mind this paper seeks to proof that humans have conditioned themselves to disregard the suffering that seems always to surround them as the surface meaning of the poem in relation to [...]

One of the issues that Di Brandt explores is the attempts to subjugate nature and make it completely subservient to the needs of the society.

Although there is no actual rhyme in the given piece, the way it is structured clearly shows that this is a poem; for instance, the line "At the head sat Bishop Baldwin as Arthur's guest [...]

His shooting was meet with disbelief as 'pounding thunder' describes how the whole place was quite as Malcolm's journey to the dead began to the extent that the poet uses exaggeration to explain that even [...]

The poem narrates the encounter of the speaker with a phantom on the shores of Lake Ontario who demands that; "Chant me the poem...that comes from the soul of America, /chant me the carol of [...]

In addition, the setting of the poem symbolizes the social injustices and oppressive nature of the people who promote Christianity in the region.

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.

However, the poem is also special because it combines two types of art: literature and music."Song of Myself" is a musical artwork since in this poem it is difficult to see the line between music [...]

Yes, that one there, pick it up and use it to wade through the waters Remember to be cautious enough, and let not your hand pass over the waters of death Yes that is okay, [...]

Both poets suffered from depression that influenced the themes of poems in Praise to the End by Theodore and Ariel by Sylvia.

This is because it signals the reduction in the weight of syllables in all the lines found within the four verses."The second line of the first stanza, 'As in a season of autumn,' serves as [...]

It is possible to give different questions, and in my opinion, the idea to united water and the issue of death is one of the most brilliant steps in this poem. It is possible to [...]

He used different methods to break her spell the first time he tried to convince himself that there is nothing good that will come out of his love for her and he said: Leisure, Catullus.

The major theme of the poem is unhappy love and the way to love. One of the major symbols in the poem is the symbol of the play, called 'love'.

It is remarkable that in the Italian tradition, the structure of the poem would have been different, with a tercet instead of two lines at the end; the English tradition, however, presupposes that the tercet [...]

In the poem 'Leda and the Swan' Yeats presents the brutal rape of Leda a human, by a swan. The bird, a swan is actually a symbol of peace, purity and beauty.

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.