Essays on Poetry

The initial sound pattern is alliteration, and Hopkins employs more than two or three alliterating phrases. In a sonnet, he follows the pattern of medieval English poetry, which relies on a rhyme for the core pattern production. Hopkins has explained the use of alliterations in each line; therefore, the increased...

My Mistress s Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun My Mistress s Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun is one of Shakespeare s poems that demonstrates that love does not have to depict the picture of the important beauty that people remember. The sonnet is funny because the poet expresses his...

Difficulties in Understanding Shakespeare s Works William Shakespeare was an English playwright, actor, and poet who lived in the 15th century. He wrote some 38 plays and several poems, and while his works did not get much attention at the time, scholars are now delving into them in detail 500 years...

Christopher Marlowe wrote The Passionate Shepherd to His Love in traditional iambic tetrameter and published it in 1599. The Elizabethan political context is referenced in The Passionate Shepherd. The poem is written in the pastoral style. The pastoral tradition poems are characterized by romantic passion, a state of innocence, and...

Claudia Rankine's book Citizen: An American Lyric was released in 2014. It is one of his many works that are difficult to categorize. Many people, though, have characterized the book as both a literary work and a criticism. It is mixed with photographs, criticism, and sculpture, and hence can be...

Poetry is and has always been a broad topic in the history of the arts. Various authors have made several attempts to describe poetry. Also with the advancement of literature, there is no universally accepted concept of poetry. Thus, poetry is the general art of using human language aesthetically to express...

‘The Obligation to Be Happy' discusses success and how difficult it is to attain. The poet observes that meeting other desires, such as attractiveness and housework, is easy, but achieving the expected satisfaction is difficult. This is similar to the poem 'Why are your poems so dark?' The individual interviewing...

Tarfia Faizullah's Seam is an enthralling series of poems that blends charm with aggression, personal memories with historical events. The poems recount the harrowing 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, discusses...

Ann Bradstreet is widely regarded as one of the world's greatest poets. In fact, she is the first female American to have her work published in the Puritan society of American Poets (Ferszt 305). Anne Bradstreet's writing thoroughly explored a variety of topics, including Puritanism, modesty, motherhood, romantic love, and...

In Naomi Shihab Nye's poetry "One Boy Told Me," the poet addresses a wide range of controversies that we face in our everyday lives. The poem's phrases demonstrate that words have the ability to restore everything to the soul if they are trusted. The poem portrays the aspect of proclaiming...

In Bulgakov's book "Master and Margarita," Bezdomny is used as a term for the homeless in Russian. In this case, it is given to Ivan Nikolayevich Ponyryov, a 23-year-old poet. Ivan Bezdomny is portrayed as the most divisive character in the book. In most instances, he is remembered as a...

In just 9 lines, Roo Borson's poem says a lot. The motif of bereavement is evident from the poem's title. It has an emptiness, despair, and depression tone that allows the reader to internalize and empathize with the narrator. The title often foreshadows the reader's fear of sorrow and grief....