Essays on Poetry

Martin Hoffman wrote the song “Deportee, also known as the Plane Wreck at Los Gatos,” which depicts a plane crash that happened near Los Gatos. The inspiration for writing the poem stemmed from the racial injustice visible in the coverage of the plane crash. There were 28 migrant farm workers…

In terms of theme and rhyme, this paper produces a poem that is modeled after the poem “To My Close and Caring Husband.” Its core focus will be the quest for unity. It will also take a textual, stylistic, and thematic approach, similar to Bradstreet’s poem. In this case, it…

Many parallels and distinctions emerge when comparing and contrasting Maya Angelou’s poetry “Africa” with Adrienne Su’s “Escape from the Old Country.” However, provided that both poets handled the issue of identity differently, the way in which each of them deals with it adds much more curiosity. Using a compare and…

Poetry is one of the most important mediums for a poet to express his or her thoughts to an audience. The subject of the poem, on the other hand, is determined by the intended audience and the context in which the poem is composed. A single poem may have a…

Because Feeling is First is one of Cummings’ most mysterious love poems, extolling a carefree feeling of loving and being loved. The poem is composed in free verse and has 16 verses, making it impossible for the reader to recognize any clear underlying structure. The title of the poem appears…

Various poets select different subjects to represent in their work. Many different themes are used to captivate readers and thereby show the memorability and popularity of a poem. As seen by the subject arrangement, the chosen themes are continuously established during the author’s writing (Smith 150). The poem “She Walks…

Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats is a poem inspired by a nightingale’s chirp song that the poet heard in the garden of one of his friends, Charles Brown, and composed one morning when the sound of the bird took his heart away. The ‘Ode of a Nightingale,’ written…

Literature created during the Civil Rights Movement in America has always drawn audiences, and there are poets and authors who have made important contributions to the creation of a specific literary style of this time. Langston Hughes is a well-known American poet whose poetry became especially well-known and endearing during…

Morning Song by Sylvia Plath is a poem about motherhood and the bond between newborn babies and the outside world. From the moment the infant is born before she mumbles her first vowels, the protagonist explains the different situations she faces. When the infant is born, it is obvious that…

Literature is the sole property of humanity, disclosing its presence anywhere and at all times. World literature offers global knowledge on numerous nations, states, unions, and cultures. Usually, researchers wander the universe in pursuit of knowledge via books, letters, poetry, and documentaries. The accumulation of information by these means also…

Mortals are characteristics or aspects of human beings that are vulnerable to death. As a consequence, a human being is doomed to death at some point during his or her or its existence. Human beings are mortals and they are subject to death at some point in their lives. As…

Tarfia Faizullah’s Seam is an enthralling series of poems that mixes charm with aggression, personal memories with historical events. The poems recount the horrific memories of two thousand female rape and torture victims during the Pakistani army’s Liberation War in 1971. Tarfia Faizullah, the daughter of a Bangladeshi refugee, examines…