Essays on Poets

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,…

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…

The Beat Movement was a literary and artistic movement that was founded by a core group of leaders that consisted of Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. This movement emerged in the area of Columbia University in New York in the…

John Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel, a satirical poem was written using heroic couplet form. His satiric verse is majestic, as Pope calls: “The long majestic march and energy divine”. Dryden wrote this poem by the request of Charles 2 in order to defend the King…

Carlo Cappola says that Rafat’s poetry is “full-bodied and rich, direct and readily accessible to the reader’s sensibilities, and devoid of excessive artifice”. Comment with reference to the poems you’ve studied in class. Taufiq Rafat is one of the eminent writers, who first introduced creative…

In stanzas 1-3 the character understands the situations that she is in at the moment. The sudden shift in tone in the fourth stanza enables us to examine how Emily Dickinson describes the comfortableness and closeness of the character of the poem, as she is…

Societal Woes Since the beginning of humankind, women had a universal reputation of being the inferior gender because of the difference in physical abilities and appearances. This resulted in many forms of mental, physical and emotional abuse from people ranging from religious figures to commoners…

Anne Bradstreet in her poem Upon the burning of our house, sets a perfect example of dealing with a situation which is out of our control. She expresses her distress on losing her beloved possessions but at the same time her awareness that she has…

Plath perceived that marriage in the 1950s brought along with its limitations as well as feelings of un-fulfilment. Plath’s 1956 poem ‘Spinster’ serves to juxtapose the expectations of society on women with a woman’s struggle to maintain her independence and control. The persona in ‘Spinster’…

“Sampson,” one of the short stories from “ A Monk’s Tale” by Geoffrey Chaucer is a tragedy that is told as a parable. Chaucer uses this story taken from the Bible to demonstrate a couple themes. The first is that everyone can fall, and the…