Essays on Poetry

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...

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...

In the poem, Billy Collins addresses “them.” The term is used by the speaker to refer to the “readers” of the poem including poets and students. It pursuits at educating readers on how to interpret a poem rather than distort or manipulate its meaning. As such, Collins desire readers to...

The poem Beat! Beat! Drums! by Walt Whitman The poem Beat! Beat! Drums! by Walt Whitman consists of three stanzas, each of which has seven verses. The poet composed the poem in free verse, taking the reader through a variety of stylistic devices such as language, repetition,...

Most artists use poetry, novels, and paintings, among other mediums, to express themselves or reflect on societal issues. For example, through artworks, an individual may choose to address certain societal ills such as corruption, deaths, or war. Similarly, some people use poetry to express their difficulties in relationships or family...

Through his contribution to poetry, Robert Browning is one of the most well-known and significant poets and playwright of the Victorian era. Having lived between the years 1812 and 1889, Browning died at the ripe age of seventy-seven years old. Browning's history indicates that he used to be born into...

Yeats' poem tells the tale of Leda, who was raped by Zeus, who then impregnates her and gives birth to Helen of Troy as a result of the ordeal. The poem's speaker is a reporter who covers the entire tragic event of the case and depicts Leda's struggle to forget...