In ‘How do I love Thee,’ Elizabeth Barret Browning shows how her love can get through anything, even dying. In the beginning, line one leads off and hooks the reader’s attention. She inquires the audience, ‘How do I love Thee,’ a hard-hitting question. Repetition of…
Essays on Poems
How we experience love changes as we construct connections and affection throughout time. Love changes as we figure out how to confide in someone, as we realize the need of our desire, we tend to persuade ourselves to achieve such magical feeling. “How do I…
Poetry is a literary work that also acts as an art form. People use poetry to express ideas, thoughts, and feelings. There are many branches of poetry and sonnets are one of them. Sonnets are comprised of 14 line poems with 10 syllables in each…
Beowulf is the longest epic poem written in old English, the language spoken by the Anglo-Saxon. In England before the Norman Conquest. It tells the breathtaking story of a struggle between the hero, Beowulf and the monster Grendel. A Christian Anglo- Saxon poet wrote it in…
Many people wouldn’t be able to answer you if you asked them what an epic was. They couldn’t give you any examples or explain it in the slightest. But an epic has many characteristics and it’s easy to still find these characteristics in literature today…
Background of the poem Most of Emily’s works revolve around the subject of gender roles experienced by women during the 19th Century. Back then, marriages were made out of convenience and not love. Having been subjugated by their caste system, women were not allowed to…
Throughout the poem, literary devices are used to express the sadness that Poe is trying to show us. Although the narrator goes mad, seeing as how he was conversing with a raven, at the end of the poem he still tells himself that he will…
Homer wrote the epic, The Odyssey a long time ago. At this time the men were portrayed as more dominant. Women played a more submissive and lower-ranking position and role. Women were appreciated but they were expected to have certain traits. Homer recognized the belief…
Written in the past centuries, Beowulf, an epic poem, which has a male as the main hero, also gives importance to women. In the poem, several different women such as Wealhtheow, Hygd, and Grendel’s mother are introduced. Each individual woman is portrayed as very strong…
According to Desmond Tutu, “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all the darkness.” It whispers “You’ll get over this hardship”. It also reassures us while smoothing our minds by reminding us “life will improve.” Every day many lives are infused…
