Essays on Poetry

William Blake (1757 – 1827) is an English poet and artist who was born in Soho, London to James and Catherine Blake. William was raised in a house where the Bible was an essentiality and it was the source of his inspiration throughout his life,…

Societal Woes Since the beginning of humankind, women had a universal reputation of being the inferior gender because of the difference in physical abilities and appearances. This resulted in many forms of mental, physical and emotional abuse from people ranging from religious figures to commoners…

Anne Bradstreet in her poem Upon the burning of our house, sets a perfect example of dealing with a situation which is out of our control. She expresses her distress on losing her beloved possessions but at the same time her awareness that she has…

Plath perceived that marriage in the 1950s brought along with its limitations as well as feelings of un-fulfilment. Plath’s 1956 poem ‘Spinster’ serves to juxtapose the expectations of society on women with a woman’s struggle to maintain her independence and control. The persona in ‘Spinster’…

“Sampson,” one of the short stories from “ A Monk’s Tale” by Geoffrey Chaucer is a tragedy that is told as a parable. Chaucer uses this story taken from the Bible to demonstrate a couple themes. The first is that everyone can fall, and the…

“The Road Not Taken” poem is a very famous poem written by Robert Frost; an American poet and writer. This poem is characterised by its simple language and easy meaning, it describes a mood that a person passes through a stage of his life and…

William Blake, born in 1757, was a poet and a visual artist. (Strooper) He wanted his poems to contain intellectual meaning (the dictionary one) and he shared his ideas that fittest the Romanticist mentality from the 19th century. These ideas are also shown in his…

In the poem “To You”, Kenneth Koch presents a love story in which the speaker has a deep affection for a special person. Throughout the poem, Koch guides the reader through unusually structured lines with missing punctuation which hint toward the idea of an obsessive…

The title of the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot suggests that the focus of the poem will be J. Alfred Prufrock’s declaration of love to somebody. However, the most titles that have phrases,” Love Song” are deceiving and…

Robert Frost believes that’ poetry is when an emotion has found it’s thought and that thought has words’, and I believe that too. In most ways, poetry explores the relation between freedom and experience. In the 19th century alone, a lot of movements have started,…