Essays on Poets

The poem “The Hollow Men” was written by T.S Eliot in the year 1925, which is considered to be primarily focused on post World War I in Europe. Eliot is said to have despised that the poem was featuring World War I (“A Short Analysis…

“Mid-term break” is about childhood memories. This poem shows how a child perceives a death, and the thoughts he encountered during this time of tragedy. At first glance, the poem has the child-like feel. Seamus Heaney portrays his emotions without directly referring to them. He…

Time has failed to worn the rich fabric of Chaucer’s literature. His is not only redeemed the poet of medieval days but also the poet for all the times to come past, present and future. He not merely deserves the entitlement of being an extraordinary…

William Carlos Williams was born in New Jersey and grew up in a diverse family – not only culturally diverse, but diverse in the talents they were given. He had the opportunity to learn from family members who worked with different types of art, such…

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 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…

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…