Essays on Poetry

Gary Soto is an American poet, novelist, and memoirist. He has received numerous awards for his works, and is widely considered one of the best contemporary writers. His poetry and essays have been hailed for their raw emotion and honesty. You can read more of his works below. The following…

The Lais of Marie de France are short narrative Breton poems composed by the French queen, which are believed to have been written in the late 12th century, between 1155 and 1170. They are a good example of a French courtly epic, as they are both narrative and poetic, displaying…

Walt Whitman’s poem “Song of Me” is a celebrated poem in American history because of the insightful meaning it conveys. Whitman employs a variety of poetic devices to convey his message in such a manner that the rest of his audience can appreciate and agree with him. Imagery is one…

Poetry has evolved from the Romantic era to the present. Poems, like authors, have adapted to the revolution. Poems by Blake, Coleridge, and Wordsworth vary somewhat, if not entirely, from those of Lord Byron and Shelley. To that end, this paper would try to describe a poem by Lord Byron…

The poem’s title expresses the melancholy mood of a son who is grieving the death of his father despite the fact that it has not yet occurred. The first few lines represent a vocabulary that is similar to a conversational style. As the reader listens to Hudgins characterize his father…

The Raven is a poem laden with sadness, pain, and suffering, and is one of the most melancholy works of the popular and highly esteemed English author and poet, Edgar Alan Poe. The usage of the bird itself is very telling of the poem’s theme, as ravens are traditionally regarded…

With a little help from other literary devices, imagery is one of the most important literary devices in poetry, and it is the key device used in Daniel Elder’s poem “Ballade To The Moon” and Elizabeth Frye’s poem “Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep.” I’ll be contrasting imagery…

Dante, the poet, and author of the Inferno, was a Renaissance-era artist who was interested in the historical time between 1300 and 1600. He was fascinated and dedicated to the church, which is why he conducts the Inferno, a description of hell and its sufferings. Dante is trapped in a…

The motif of vengeance runs throughout the poem Beowulf. The poet expresses the theme through numerous characters by intertwining current and past incidents. Notably, he interrupts the main plot with contextual digressions that relate to what is happening in the main story both explicitly and implicitly. Any of the characters…

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…

The initial style of sound is alliteration, where Hopkins uses more than two or three alliterating phrases, where he follows the form of medieval English poetry, in a sonnet, where the core patterning development is based on rhyme. Hopkins has defined the use of alliterations in each line, so anyone…

It’s strange how poetry has always been connected to the tragedy. Although this is not an obvious analogy given that the meaning of poetry is the use of distinctive rhythm and form to convey thoughts and ideas. In this article, we will attempt to explain the link between a traumatic…