Poems Essay Examples and Topics. Page 7

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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.

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.

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".

At the beginning of the poem, Shelley depicts the outer manifestation of the remnants. The poem 'On a stupendous Leg' is beautiful in and of itself, but it is not 'Ozymandias'.

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 title of the poem is descriptive enough to send a message of sadness expressed in the entire poem. The poem is a representation of the depression that was experienced in the 1930s.

The two poems "Child of the Americas" and "To live in the Borderlands means to you" are conservative in the way they express the cultural background of the persona.

Still it seems that the power of the sound as the one that gives birth to the word is the one of the utmost importance.

Art is a not only a tool used to reflect the happenings in a society, but it also reflects the feelings of the artist towards the society and towards themselves. Through the paintings of an [...]

The power of this image lies in the dual nature of the image: a long and painful process of drying and an eventual concentration of the sweetness.

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

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.

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.

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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.

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.

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 [...]

Both poems are written about the relationships between children and parents; however, Mother to Son poem is written from mother's perspective while Cross is written in form of a monologue of a son. The first [...]

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 [...]

The same symbols of drums, which are present in the poem, show the reader that the war spirit is discussed, which wants to fight, but some doubts limit it.

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.

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 poet's main aim, which is achieved due to the horrific imagery of the work, is to show the real nature of war, terrible horrors, and absurdity of pain that the soldiers suffered during a [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

He tries to explain through the symbolic representation of the glowering sun in the month of May, that love is a feeling which is sure to get affected by the sun's rays through skin burn [...]

The attentive reader will understand the purpose of such repetition: the author wanted to create a sense of the endlessness of the line and the thought.

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

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.

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 [...]

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.

Paulette Hansel got used to read her poems in public in order to transfer her emotions and the mood of her poems to the people for them to understand the real sense of her art.

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.

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 [...]

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.

The poems "The Tiger" and 'The Lamb" discuss the meaning of human existence and freedom, liberty and relations with the world around us.

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.

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.

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

The theme of the poem is about the manifestation and display of his grief and his obsession with the loss of his partner.

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".

The thesis of this review of the poem Aunt Jennifer is that a strong theme for Rich is the belief in the socio-political and economic equality of women and men.

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 [...]

The poem under study entitled My Last Duchess has been written in the form of single stanza, where satire and irony determine the theme and mood of the poem.

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.

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.

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 [...]

Judging by the sentiments involved in the poem, the lover could be someone as remote from him as a woman he rode in a carriage once, or even a spectator who came to see one [...]

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, [...]

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.

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.

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.

"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 [...]

In the poem "Up the Wall," Bruce Dawe narrates about the depressing existence of a housewife who is talking to his husband.

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.

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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.

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

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.

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 [...]

It is imperative to mention that the analysis of ancient works is incredibly important because it enhances the understanding of the traditions and values of the people."The Epic of Gilgamesh" is regarded as one of [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

The poem is about the bond between father and son. The poem expressed a son's desire to connect with his father.

In particular, Walt Whitman focuses on the experiences of a free individual who cannot be restricted by the conventions established the society. In turn, it is important to show how this person differs from the [...]

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 [...]

The first part of the sonnet consists of the unrealistic flattering comparisons that are characteristic of a woman's beauty imagery as a part of Petrarchanism.

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.