Essays on Poetry

The primary goal of this paper is to compose an essay on Oedipus the King in relation to Aristotle’s poetics. In Greek history, Aristotle was one of the greatest thinkers the Greeks had ever seen. He was born in Stagira in 384 BC and died in Chalcis in 322 BC…

Adam Luther is an American writer whose composition is enthused by nature particularly the sceneries of Alaska where he lived. Music that John Luther Adams writes lacks human emotions traces. It is implacable, process, but always is a lovely lot in its precise ways. Through ‘Become Ocean’ Adams won an…

Ralph Waldo Emerson advances the concept of interconnectedness and evolution in many of his works, with the strongest point being that none of the things of the world have meaning on their own. Emerson describes nature and its relationship with an individual’s emotions from the divinity view. The author divides…

Ukiyo-e is a Japanese style of literature which translates to a floating world picture. The types of art had been produced between the 17th -20th century and made from woodblock prints. The initial pictures were made in black and white. Demand for greater shades and improvements in the painting noticed…

Walt Whitman’s poem “Beat! Beat! Drums!” is divided into three stanzas, each of seven verses. The poem was composed in free verse and contains many stylistic devices such as language, repetition, alliteration, metaphors, and onomatopoeia, among other literary devices. The poem’s first stanza begins with the lines “Bang! Beat! Drums!…

The first section of Dante Alighieri’s poetry is the Inferno, a divine comedy that chronicles Dante’s path to God (Barolini 35). It is divided into three sections: the inferno (Hell), the Purgatorio (Purgatory), and the Paradiso (Paradise). The poem starts in the year 1300, on Good Friday evening. Dante is…

The Stupid Men is Sor Juana’s poem. Juana writes a poem about men who do not see women’s beauty and decency. Juana indicates clearly that men should stop accusing or disciplining women because they are also at fault. The poem asks Juana, “Who else can do wrong? Though who is…

The longest and most interesting poem is Emily Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop for Death.” Until she dies, the speaker refuses to acknowledge death. The poem’s apparent message is that death will come to everyone, whether they are prepared or not. Nonetheless, from the speaker’s point of view, death…

The first lines of this poem depict Africa as a complicated and ridiculously hot woman who is eternally beautiful. We are not at all envious in this stanza. Things take a turn for the worse in the second stanza, as brigands conquer Africa and rob men and women. Some citizens…

How are we supposed to understand the subject of death in blackberry harvesting and blackberry eating poems? Many scholars have discussed the subject of death; others have used their own particular accounts to symbolize human demise or deterioration of social norms. Human societies, practices, and characters are still inclined to…

E.E. Cummings is one of the leaders in the world of poetry and one of the most innovative people in the field, particularly in the twentieth century. His artistic talent was in his ability to play with the well-known poetic vocabulary and form and create a distinctive personal style. One…

From a broader viewpoint, “In the Waiting Room,” written by Elizabeth Bishop, brings to the fore the uncertainty of the “I” and the autonomy as connected to the old-fashioned limits of the inside and outside of a body. This poem reflects on the reaction of a young girl waiting for…