Essays on Literary Genres

Walt Whitman had written and published a few hundred poems during his lifetime. His poems are recognizable for his use of free verse and the vivid images that his writing portrays. “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” and “The Dalliance of the Eagles” are no…

When I Heard the Learned Astronomer by the famous poet, Walt Whitman, is referencing a tiring lecture that the speaker once heard from an astronomer. The poem emanates that the mysteries of nature cannot just be condensed by facts and figures. The speaker showed his…

I learned many things about poetry over the last month. Poetry is a way to express intense feelings and ideas through style and rhythm. People use it to express feelings, themselves, ideas, to cope, or to simply write. This type of writing is a powerful…

 Robert Frost once said, ‘Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought found words’. Poetry speaks directly to the soul of a lot of readers and provides an emotion, a voice making it more concrete and powerful. It has the ability…

Hector Hugh Munro, better known by his writer name Saki. Saki Is well known for his writing and is considered a master of short stories. He was born on the 18th of December 1870 and then died a gruesome death on the 14th of November…

In “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” Robert Frost conveys many messages. The poem is, on the surface, about nature and the changing of the seasons. If you go deeper into the meaning of the poem you will find a different theme of innocence. Frost relates the…

Sylvia Plath’s multiple suicide attempts fueled her poetry in a way other subjects could not. Her relationship with death is made blatantly clear in the lines of “Lady Lazarus”, a poem she composed only three months before her successful suicide. Plath viewed death as a…

Music has been changed and evolved over the years and be influenced from poetry; music can be viewed as poetry and categorized as well. Poetry is script of rhymes and messages that can relate to people and spread messages. All of my examples are poetic…

Wonder is a special attribute that is innate in a human being, it leads him to discover something or create something beautiful. Wonder is intense or gradual in terms of feeling. It is a feeling which is extra-ordinary, or brings ordinary to extra-ordinary. The question…

The noun “invention,” – stemming from the Latin word; invenire and inventio- indicates a sense of creative license that is withheld by writers, in any form of literature. However definitively, “invention” also implies fabrication and fictionalisation, within poetry and sonnet writing, the poet my use…