Essays on Poetry

Shakespeare has been an amazing playwright and a poet over decades. His plays and poetry have been influenced in the literature world, especially in the English literature world. Every literaturist falls in love with his plays! It has been a core subject. He has remarkable…

In ‘How do I love Thee,’ Elizabeth Barret Browning shows how her love can get through anything, even dying. In the beginning, line one leads off and hooks the reader’s attention. She inquires the audience, ‘How do I love Thee,’ a hard-hitting question. Repetition of…

How we experience love changes as we construct connections and affection throughout time. Love changes as we figure out how to confide in someone, as we realize the need of our desire, we tend to persuade ourselves to achieve such magical feeling. “How do I…

Poetry is a literary work that also acts as an art form. People use poetry to express ideas, thoughts, and feelings. There are many branches of poetry and sonnets are one of them. Sonnets are comprised of 14 line poems with 10 syllables in each…

Two poems in the book that stand out the most are Marks By Linda Pastan and Divorce by Billy Collins. These poems are extremely mind picking and thought deriving. These poems find a way to show the love and the despair going on behind closed…

Love is a common theme topic in many works of literature. Love today is usually expressed by saying “I love you” and/or being intimate. There are different ways that you can still let someone know that you love them. William Shakespeare shows the types of…

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s two poems, ‘What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why’ and ‘Love is not all,’ both discuss emotions. The poet has used similar and more relatable instances in the two poems by describing the speaker’s feelings. The author has…

In the two poems, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening and The Peace of The Wild Things, many similarities and differences can be found. The main theme throughout each poem involved man and nature. These poems both include man’s relationship with nature and the…

Walt Whitman had written and published a few hundred poems during his lifetime. His poems are recognizable for his use of free verse and the vivid images that his writing portrays. “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” and “The Dalliance of the Eagles” are no…

When I Heard the Learned Astronomer by the famous poet, Walt Whitman, is referencing a tiring lecture that the speaker once heard from an astronomer. The poem emanates that the mysteries of nature cannot just be condensed by facts and figures. The speaker showed his…