Essays on Poets

“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…

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…

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…

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…

Urdu writer Faiz Ahmed Faiz is eminent for his dynamic and progressive works and as it should be. The considerable writer likewise composed on affection the all-inclusive subject that pulls in all. What’s more, composed broadly on it. Pakistan’s best writer and, ostensibly the world’s…

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,…

In life, there are certain sacrifices that need to be made in order to pursue prosperity and contentment. A sacrifice can be doing something fulfilling that will ultimately have dire consequences, or giving up something in order to avoid the consequences. For example, one might…

The author of her book was made by Anne bradstreet, a successful young lady that had a major talent for poetry and for speaking to people because her poetry was the one thing she did so people can recognize her talents. She was the first…

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…

“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…

This Brazilian author has sold 35 million copies of The Alchemist and which has evolved into one of the most translated books in the world. This Brazilian author was told that his passion could not be achieved, because his parents believed that it would not…

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….

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’…

  Poetry can be an outlet for self-discovery. Poets use this art form to express their individuality. “The making of a poem is a lot like the making of a self: it requires awareness, understanding, and a willingness to consider how we’re shaped by our…

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;…