Essays on Poems

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…

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most highly regarded authors in American history and a master of suspense and horror. One of Poe’s most well-known works is the poem “The Raven” written in 1845. A careful analysis of all its parts will reveal the…

“There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the forms of images filled with content, but at first only as forms without content, representing merely the possibility of a…

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…

According to Meyer, “an extended metaphor is a sustained comparison in which part or all of a poem consists of a series of related metaphors” (Meyer 926). In William Shakespeare’s sonnet 73 “That time of the year thou mayst in me behold”, the speaker uses…

Despite standing out through the dramatic genre, Shakespeare also turned to the lyric and produced 154 sonnets that are among the most beautiful in all world literature, with diverse themes such as love, time, beauty. The poetic self in the sonnet 73, is described as…