Essays on Poetry

The Effects of War on Society and Language The battle can be exhilarating, and anyone who has been through it shudders at the mere mention of the word. The consequences of war cannot be ignored because they have an influence on a society's psychological, moral, and political condition. Modern society is...

Edgar Poe was a well-known author who could write suspenseful and horrifying stories that made the reader's spine tingle (Flores). Furthermore, he can be known as the author who helped to shape and advance the short-story genre in the world of literature (Flores). Poe was among the first writers to...

William Shakespeare was unquestionably the most influential author and playwright of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Dramatized novels, poetry, and sonnets are among his most popular and inventive works. One hundred and fifty-four sonnets are credited to William Shakespeare. Between 1929 and 1959, there was an epidemic of the...

The primary goal of this paper The primary goal of this paper is to compose an essay on Oedipus the King in relation to Aristotle's poetics. Aristotle's Background 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...

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: A Floating World Picture 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...

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...

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 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: A Rebellious and Innovative Poet 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...