Poet Theses Samples For Students

There can be no denial of the fact that the poem, Children’s Hospital, penned by the eminent poet, Katie Ford, is one of the finest literary works that leaves a lasting mark in the minds of the avid readers. The poet goes on to use her prowess so as to bring out the images with the apt use of literary devices. It needs to be noted that this literary work deals with a grave matter. One is more accustomed to associate children with innocence and exuberance. However, this poem in context portrays a grim side related to life ...

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Reaction to poems of Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes is a well known poet of the Harlem renaissance era, and his poems are famous for their themes of social and racial protest. His works are known for the profound insights they give into various social issues such as, black discrimination, life during the depression era, and effect of the World War II on American society. A hallmark of Hughes’ poems is, the emphasis he places on ‘Black pride’ and the way he eschews self pity. He was proud of his ancestry, and his poems reflected the concealed anger and pain, ...

Thomas Stearns Eliot is one of the most important poets of the 20th century of the English language. The American –born turn British poet and playwright was also a literary critic whose works are still influential to this day.
“Hollow Men” is one of Eliot’s major poems published in 1925. Its main thematic concerns include the post war Europe, salvation and to some extent issues of marriage relationships which some critic attribute to Eliot’s own marriage to Vivienne which did not survive their full lives.

In what easily passes as intentional fallacy, Eliot says that he derived ...

The epic poem The Odyssey by the ancient Greek writer Homer takes us into the life of a man named Odysseus. As the reader learns about Odysseus multiple facets of his character are exposed through the challenges it faces. Although he and his crew face danger and obstacles at every step of the way the character of Odysseus hardly changes. The entire book Odysseus longs to see his wife, but he is a good man and a courageous leader. (Homer. And Lattimore)
Homer is one of the most famous Greek poets, the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, ...

Introduction

Anne Bradstreet, is a big name in the world of poetry, she received a lot of attention with the kind of work that she had produced during the later half of the seventeenth century. Bradstreet’s most of the poems are lyrical, and the presence of craft in them is exquisite, she ensures that in all her poems she immerses herself into the glory of life and lives it to the fullest. In this paper we will look at few works from Bradstreet and our focus will be to analyze them from the various perspectives to deduce that the basic themes ...

Discuss the differences between Whitman's pre-war and post-war Poetry In post war poems, Walt Whitman’s poetic language changed because he chose use free verse as to reflect the freedoms America hold dear. Whitman's national sense cannot be ignored, when he tackles President Lincoln's assassination in the poem "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.” Again the preceding voices from the pioneers of American revolutions are literarily expressed skillfully in the words of art "Beat! Beat! Drums! To drive home the key element of Revolutions, which were freedom and democracy, the two poems captured Whitman’s sense of patriotism.

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