Essays on Poems

The poem “Postcard From A Travel Snob” Is Written By Sophie Hannah who is a British novelist and poet. The poem depicts the persona writing a postcard to the recipient of the postcard whom the persona thinks she is superior. The persona in the poem…

Explicit themes such as sex are commonly explored by many authors in English tradition. Due to the topic of sex being considered controversial and taboo, sex as a motif can easily attract and engage a reader. Not only is sex an intriguing and entertaining topic,…

Use Of Poetic Elements In “Dulce et Decorum Est” Wilfred Owen uses many of the elements of poetry to support the idea that war is brutal in his poem, “Dulce et Decorum Est.” Starting with the speaker’s imagery, and leading into simile, hyperbole, repetition and…

“Edge” was written six days before Sylvia Plath committed suicide on February 11th 1963 and it is supposedly her last piece. The form already bears an interesting aspect: It consists of ten stanzas, which each only contain two lines, which are held in an enjambment….

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Knight Geoffrey Chaucer’s famous poem the Canterbury Tales, follows a motley group of twenty-nine pilgrims on a pilgrimage to the Canterbury Cathedral to pray to St. Thomas a Beckett. Each pilgrim is to tell four tales; two on the way to the Cathedral…

Dulce et Decorum Est Dulce et Decorum Est was written by Wilfred Owen, a poet who had fought as an officer in World War I and was subsequently killed in the line of duty. This source was intended for supporters of the war, those who…

In the play ‘Warren Pryor’ by Alden Nowlan the title of the play indicates that the play will retell or talk about a person by the name ‘Warren Pryor’. This play talks about a young boy who is sent off the boarding school, and his…

The Canterbury Tales A Crazy Little Thing Called Love In a language there are innumerable words: countless variations on letter arrangements contrived to express anything imaginable. But a word cannot capture an object’s life or passion until the person seeking to understand its meaning has…

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori was a very common war phrase used during World War One. Soldiers would recite this phrase right before going into war to remind themselves that “It is sweet and right to die for one’s country.” This seemed like…

Kushal’s Speech on John Donne Poetry and W;t In what ways do Donne and Edson represent ‘the kingdom of the well and … the kingdom of the sick’ in their texts? Compose the oral presentation you would give. The kingdom of well and the kingdom…