Essays on Poetry

A true poet puts in words the thoughts, feelings and expectations of other people in the society, but he cannot express and speak for every member in of the society. Therefore, an individual’s own voice is more effective than using an intermediary like the church. Ralph Waldo Emerson expounds on...

Eileen Myles writes the poem Mad Pepper from a feminist point of view. The poem gives a symbolic meaning to the word pepper, which the poet equates to masculinity based on its hot nature. Mad pepper is about masculinity, which the poet feels desolated from. She uses the word itself...

Heaney Seamus is one of the greatest poets of his time for he focused on key cultural issues that the people of Northern Ireland experienced. During his era, society depended more on nature as a source of livelihood and strength and this reflects in the themes present in the poem....

The myth of Daedalus and his son Icarus tells the story of father and son trying to escape possible punishment. Daedalus is a genius and engineers two wings with which they can fly away. Unfortunately, Icarus flies close to the sun despite his father's warning and his wings are ripped...

Over the years, death has remained a rather unattractive theme in poetry and yet, this is not the case for Emily Dickinson and Percy Bysshe Shelley, who show an obsession with life’s end in their poetic works. Their perception on the subject of death is unique in the way they...

The Destruction of the Perfect World The poem provides an intriguing topic of how the human beings have destroyed the world that was originally perfect. People were given this world when everything was in order such that they could all things freely. Everybody was living happily in such a world where...

In the poem, Frost begins with a simple setup where he introduces the three main characters to the reader. The main characters are a fat white spider on a white flower that is ready to eat a white moth (Frost 1). The three characters are brought together for an awful experience....

The Wastelands by T.S. Eliot and Seafarer by Ezra Pound are two texts that articulate the themes and characteristics of modernism and postmodernism. The text wastelands by Eliot is more of a modernism oriented text that displays such a science-leaning society while Pounds Seafarer reveals the themes and characteristics of...

The Road Not Taken - Analysis The poem, ‘The Road Not Taken’ was written by Robert Frost. The poem is about a person who stands at a crossroad, and he has to make a choice on what road to travel and which one to abandon. The reason for the choice is...

by Isabella Gardner is written in the first person with the speaker being Isabella Gardner herself speaking to a universal audience. In the first and second line, Gardner states that: “I have no promises to keep Nor miles to go before I sleep,” (Line 1 and 2) These first two lines are inspired by...

In this monologue, Boxer has collapsed from overworking and has become severely sick. The feelings of Benjamin on Boxer s misery and the situation in the Animal Farm are envisioned through his monologue; The silence is traumatic. I can see the despair, hopelessness and anguish among this crowd. Yet I know it...

My consideration for reciting any poem is based on a rhythm that results in the musical beat of the written composition. Richard Cory is a verse that has exemplified the use of rhythm and the creation of musical beat by this developed in the composition endears me to recite the...