Essays on Poetry

“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…

The poem “Out, out” by Robert Frost tells the story of a young boy who lost his life under and disastrous situation. “Disabled” by Wilfred Owen portrays, in comparison, a man who had a left piece of his body in war. Shared ideas by both…

Percy Bryce Shelley made a famous claim in his essay that Thereafter, several poets have sought this task solemnly till date. They have undertaken the role of legislators, agitators and revolutionaries. Poets have remarked on the affairs of the contemporary world, advocated for the victims…

In early America, to capture the feat of being female poet was extremely rare and was no easy task. Phyllis Wheatley and Emily Dickinson challenged what it meant to be a good poet, though for two completely different reasons. In Wheatley’s poetry, religious repetition and…