Essays on Poetry

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…

Matthew Arnold is an outstanding figure of Victorian Age. This period is extremely sublime in the historical backdrop of England on account of It’s an excellent advance in all branches of life. This age is exceptionally well known by its material success, political arousing, fair…

“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….

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is an ever shining name in the field of English literature and dramatic activity. His plays have brought him immortal fame. The immortal writer of thirty seven plays has tried to touch almost everything through his plays which makes his plays immortal….

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…

Amy Levy, a British poetess of Victorian era is best remembered for her feminist positions and her homosexual romances. She wrote the poem “On the Threshold” highlighting the aspects of homosexuality. “Homosexuality is a sexual desire or behavior directed toward a person of one’s own…

Poetry is the act of peace and unity in the world. The human condition explores the qualities of being a human and what we can do to our lives to make it more peaceful. Today I will be analysing one of the texts based on…

ANS: This journey with fancy and death has started from the first stanza where the poet tries to make us think that the poet is drunk and uses “hemlock”, “opiate” and a kind of unique drink that tastes like “tasting of Flora”. All these refer…

Duffy’s title ‘The Woman Who Shopped’ displays women to be predisposed to a loss of identity, whereby they are objectified or dehumanised to fit social convention. The poem initially establishes a woman’s desire for materialistic acquisitions over interpersonal relationship. Duffy warns against the dangers of…

The poem “Kubla Khan”, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is full of various auditory devices such as assonance and alliteration. Also, it defines the intimate emotionalism of romanticism and is considered a musical poem, as seen in the opening five lines: “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan…