Essays on Poems

Wilfred Owen’s Disabled centers around a soldier who is physically and mentally disabled. The poem was written in 1917 while Owen was in Craig Lockhart recovering from shell shock. There, he would have seen many men like the one in the poem. The descriptions of…

Imagine the power of words trapping you in a virtual reality where they would magically come to life. That is what poems have the power to do as I have learned through reading several in class. Nevertheless, the three poems which have had the greatest…

Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales follows the path of 31 pilgrims, who seek spiritual renewal by traveling to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket. In the prologue the author gives a short backstory of each character, describing their appearance, personality, actions, and…

In the glass fibre composite plants, workers are required to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) by OH&S to ensure their safety and the safety of people around them. They are required to always wear safety glasses, Organic Vapor Respirator, body suit and gloves when working…

A good majority of the time you can find me walking through the halls with a face like this … It’s not that I’m upset or judging the people around me … it’s my thinking face! What assignments do I have due tomorrow? Did I…

Odysseus’s Craft in Phaiakia Just like a sculpture, Odysseus is chiseled and defined, and one could get lost within the intricacies of his mind. But how does he take a situation, and make it so refined, that he may observe, plan, and contrive? How does…

Have you ever listened to a man singing the blues?For this assignment our job was to do a critical analysis of certain required poems, of the required poems I chose “The Weary Blues.”This poem is all bout a man singing the blues and his feelings…

I chose to construct my essay on the poem “The theme for English B” by one of the best known African-American poet Langston Hughes. I picked this specific poem because it was as if I was reading one of my own work that I had…

Paul Celan’s “With a Variable Key” shows that Celan tries to overcome his memories using hopeful languages in his poem; yet, instead of forgetting about the past, the more he writes, the closer he is leaning towards death. Celan’s journey in “With a Variable Key”…

Living a life with meaning is a goal shared amongst many individual’s. No one has quite figured out a single solution in how to accomplish this, however we are all seeking a way. Many factors contribute to a meaningful life, and influence our state of…