Essays on Poetry

To understand the world alone we must learn to understand personal experience. To capture a lifetime of everyday reality in only a few words, that is what poet aims to do in their short verses and what these three artists accomplish so well. They tell…

The poems of Leaves of Grass are loosely connected, with each representing Whitman’s celebration of his philosophy of life and humanity. This book is notable for its discussion of delight in sensual pleasures during a time when such candid displays were considered immoral. Where much…

The poem “Blessing” by Imtiaz Dharker, an award-winning female British poet born in Lahore, Pakistan. The poem is an incident of a municipal pipe that bursts in the deprived slums of Mumbai and how people run with mugs and pots to collect the precious liquid….

The poetic exposure of A.K.Choudhary is essentially and undoubtedly romantic. Romanticism runs wonderfully across his verses. The more we read the more we get intoxicated with the effect of the essence of romantic wine. Romantic ingredients lie scattered through all his poems especially those which…

Among women poets Kamala Das is the first poet who has carved out a special niche for herself in Indian English Poetry. Her poetry is largely autobiographical and confessional. Her poem “An Introduction” is a nostalgic commentary on Indian language. Her words, The Language I…

Opening Thoughts: Today, we will start our unit on themes in American poetry. Poetry is music without any background music, while rap music can be the opposite in that it is words set to music. We will discover throughout this unit lesson about the ways…

“ ‘Fight on!’ the Armament-kings besought: Nobody asked what the women thought. ” (Reilly and Kazantzis 38) The above couplet is taken from a poem aptly titled ‘A Fight to a Finish’, which highlights, in its meagre ten lines, the social ironies and paradoxes born…

Introduction “Of arms and the man, I sing” marks the opening of Virgil’s book, The Aeneid. The narrative paints the image of ensanguined warrior men engaged in combat for pride and preservation of their motherland. Thus, according to Raewyn Connell, “the classical literature from which…

People have been reading, listening to music, and admiring paintings and sculptures all the time, such as grotesque thoughts such as cultivating sentiment, learning knowledge, and philosophical philosophies. It’s as if we are reading a book to learn the ability to show off to people;…

Tomas Transtromer’s poetry is all based on modernism, surrealism, and expressionism that has a strong imagery to deal with issues of fragmentation and isolation. Transtromer is able to use color words to almost draw a painting in the reader’s head. There are many poems that…