Essays on Poets

Dead Poets Society Dead Poets Society is a movie about a group of young boys that go to Welton Academy, a boarding school in New England. Welton gets a new English teacher, John Keating. Mr. Keating is an alumni from Welton who teaches in a…

Romantic era was a literary, intellectual and artistic movement started as a reaction against neoclassicism and industrial revolution which rejected all the classical norms and traditions in literature. It started by the mid eighteenth century and remained till the mid nineteenth century. It all started…

Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were two very contrasting poets that wrote during the writing period of the American Renaissance between 1830 and 1865. This period happened around the end of the Civil War, and many of Whitman’s writings had…

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;…

John Dryden was one of the greatest English poets and play writer of the eighteenth century. His work included tragedy, comedy, epic, satire and drama. He also translated the work of different writers from other languages to English. His career in poetry started with the…

John Donne’s Holy Sonnet 14 shows a speaker pleading and demanding God to be more forceful in his ways to save him because His gentle ways aren’t effective anymore, and only dominating power and brute force will be able to save him from his sin….

John Lydgate was a 14th and 15th century English poet who inherited the legacy of Chaucer, his work spanned from religious, private, public/performative, and didactic. His poetry has been largely forgotten but at his time, and years after it, he was incredibly popular and wrote…

Humans have the desire to pursue discoveries, as their realisations have the ability to reveal life’s paradoxes which can be simple, yet difficult to see with our own perspective alone. Robert Frost’s The Tuft of Flowers (TTOF) (1915) is a poem which demonstrates the idea…

The author Jimmy Baca plays an extraordinary role in his poem of protest by showing how hypocritical Americans are of Mexicans since they categorize Mexicans with the discernable stigma of being corrupt/lying, idle laborers who only desire to come to America to abduct jobs. For…