Essays on Poetry

In The Fish, Elizabeth Bishop uses metaphors to describe the human condition and obtain an appreciation for the quality of life lived. The human condition is defined as the aspects and stages through which a human is born, grows, struggles, and eventually dies. The human…

Throughout our lives, day in and day out, we seem to lose something. The idea of losing material things or loved ones is an idea that we try to avoid thinking of. How we recover from these losses is what defines who we are. In…

“All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of different countries and continents, looking for something.” – Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop’s works stir up those parts of reader’s hearts which lay hidden even from itself….

Pablo Neruda’s poem Heights of Macchu Picchu represents in many ways. Macchu Picchu was built in the 15th century Inca style,with dry stone walls. Macchu Picchu is a nice place for people who loves nature and like to climb. Fun fact, the classic Inca Trail…

Pablo Neruda is a Chilean poet who has won the Nobel-Prize Award and was once named as “the greatest poet of the twentieth century in any language.” During his early days, his poetry consisted of a sensuality that hadn’t been widely explored or accepted before…

Pablo Neruda wrote in a variety of styles such as in his collection of love poems, surrealist poems, historical epics, and political manifestos. In 1971 Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez called him ‘the greatest poet of the 20th…

What Is a Problem Play? A problem play is a play in which the playwright portrays the social, political and economic problems of the society he lives in. The problem play is a development form of the ‘drama of ideas'(Drama of ideas is a type…

To be legitimate is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, to “[conform] to the laws or rules; to be able to be defended with logic or justification; [to be] valid.” [1] Thus to be legitimate is to be legal, lawful, licensed, and valid; to be…

In Harrison’s Generals Die in Bed, violence plays a major role in demonstrating the reality of bloody battles and life in the trenches. The inclusion of such graphic imagery serves to deglamorize and unromanticise the idea of war. It is through the book’s violence and…

Carol Ann Duffy is well known Scottish poet and playwright and is considered one of the most representative, contemporary, widely read and loved poets of her time. She began writing poetry in 1970 and her first adult collection of poetry was published in 1985, and…