Essays on Poetry

In one of my major subjects back in college, I had the opportunity to learn about some of the works of one of Romantic Age’s major poet, William Wordsworth, who was also known as a Poet of Nature and in these sonnets the drastic changes…

Anna Akhmatova was one of the most famous poets in twenties century, who wrote a lot of amazing poems and one of her most incredible poems is “Requiem”. Akhmatova’s poetry is the testimony of a person who has been through many trials. It is evidence…

John Ashbery, a mysterious virtuoso of present day verse whose vitality, brave and unfathomable direction of dialect raised American refrain to splendid and puzzling statures, passed on early Sunday at age 90. Ashbery, champ of the Pulitzer Prize and regularly specified as a Nobel competitor,…

“Marks” is unusual because it addresses the frustrations of a typical housewife. Few people consider being a wife and mother a full-time job in itself, and it is not uncommon for a woman who plays both of these roles to feel overworked and unappreciated. The…

I believe that most people think of their own life and life experiences in metaphor, which is why Plath’s poem, “Metaphors,” resonated with me to such a strong degree. In nine lines with nine syllables each, Plath captures both her feelings about and experiences with…

Without technically altering the definition of the word “frost”, shifts in usage can give this word a new connotation. In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a simple act can bring about temporary effects on the mariner himself and on other people. The decision of…

The poems “Young” and “The Bean Eaters” are both poems that tell very different stories but both hold a special meaning. Both poems are different examples of figurative language and both either have at least have one similar example. For instance, “The Bean Eaters” and…

After someone peruses Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem “Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink”, they may deduce that love is a critical necessity for survival while the speaker uses contradiction, through breaks in rhythm, in developing her concept of love. Looking…

Edgar Allan Poe, a writer known in almost all secondary schools. Poe is famous for his mysterious, dark short stories and poems. The poem that will be discussed throughout this essay is “A Dream” written by Edgar Allan Poe. Throughout many literary works a reader…

The Homer’s Odyssey was written in second right after the Iliad. When I think about this epic I think about a long boring poem but it is not that even that. The Odyssey is one of the two major Greek epic poems. The Odyssey mainly…