Essays on Poem

English

“Poetry is a literary genre that although may sometimes be difficult to grasp, when taken the time to analyze and understand, is able to lead the reader through endless paths of enlightenment. Poetry is derived from the Greek word poiesis means "making". Poetry is a form of literary art which uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings or emotions if the individual.
History of poetry is long and dates back to the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh .Early poems were evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese Shijing, or from a need to retell oral epics,

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A verbal piece of music that serves the purpose to expose experiences, emotions or thoughts in a bright and creative way, setup by literacy technique variables including rhyme, meter and metaphor and implicate the language for its sound and evocative influence is referred to as a poem and the writer of a poem is known as poet. The scholar after analyzing the significance of poems in the literature discusses articles on the poems briefly in order to extract results for the required awareness and benefits of society.
The scholar exerts extensive research efforts on the articles on the poems

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When many people think of satire, they understand that it is a subversive approach to a certain social or political issue through the use of irony. Works like the Earl of Rochester’s “A Satire Against Reason and Mankind,” Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal or John Dryden’s MacFlecknoe all make fun of some perceived failing of its audience, whether it be the “Satire’s poking fun at rationalism and reason, Swift’s pointing out of the problems facing Ireland as a result of English ignorance, or Dryden’s ridiculing of his contemporaries’ inadequate literary criticism. However, to

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In the literary works “The American Dreams” by Genghis Lotus and the “city of refuge” by Rudolph Fisher, both authors seem to express the hope in the American Dream that is not easily fazed. The poem is not set in a specific state in America but focuses on the opportunities that are possible for those in America whether born there or migrated in from another country. The short story “city of refuge” is based on an African American who has moved in to New York from North Carolina to escape mob justice for shooting a white man. In the

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A dream within a dream is a romantic poem by Edgar Allan. Throughout the two-stanza poem, the theme of love and romance takes center stage. The persona of the poem is a male lover, who addresses his ladylove through the poem. The poem opens with the speaker informing the readers about his dreams about a certain girl. The speaker openly tells the ladylove that she is actually correct in concluding that he (the speaker) has spent his entire life dreaming about her. However, according to the speaker’s choice of words, there is a high probability that he will

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The aim of this essay is to present you with the reflections drawn upon the reading of the poem ‘A dialogue between the Soul and the Body’ which was written by Andrew Marvell and published after his death in 1681. Andrew Marvell is considered to be one of the representative poets of Metaphysical poetry. Metaphysical poetry which arose within the 17th century is a field of poetry which is characterized by specific characteristics of a so-called metaphysical nature. Poets focus on using symbols and conceits in order to approach issues and questions related to the metaphysical nature of human

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This paper proposes to look at Amiri Baraka’s poem ‘Black Art’ and analyse the effect of the nocous language, the rhetorical severity and incendiary polemics implicit in the verse. The paper attempts to analyse the construction of the poem that is considered representative of Baraka’s Black Aesthetic, and delve into the chronical of controversial radical dissent and nationalist stance which constitutes the rubric of ‘Black Art.’ In attempting to delineate the above, the paper in the turn of its denouement, wishes to foreground the much-contested choice of form and style, and whether the chosen deployment serves to

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Summary and Annotation

Summary
Concerning Whitman and the Rhetoric of Democracy, the author examines the poem “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman. DeLancey observes that Whitman begins his poem by appealing to the readers to embrace him. He dissects Whitman’s poem into different parts and discuss the parts systematically. DeLancey notes that Whitman couples subject and object thereby demonstrating what he refers to as the Wordsworthian rhetoric of unity. The Wordsworthian rhetoric of unity refers to a rhetorical aspect where authors’ present different things as one thing, which communicates through them to recognize each with all. Accordingly, the author perceives the

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William Shakespeare was popular for his works in the entertainment industry where he was mainly recognized as a good play writer, poet, and a dramatist. Today there are total number of “38 plays, 154 sonnets, poems and 2 narrative poems as the surviving works of the author (Damrosch 25).” He lived in the late sixteenth and the early seventieth century in England. Regardless of the fact that he died in the early seventieth century, his works have been appreciated across the globe and been translated into many languages. Shakespeare’s literary pieces works have also been used in schools.

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200-Word Response #7 & #8: Shakespeare’s “Sonnet LXXIII” (1609)
1. What is the metaphor in line 4?
The metaphor in line 4 is invocative of the emptiness of old age. The speaker is comparing the lively song of spring bird-songs to youth. The poem takes place when these songs of since ceased for the speaker, and instead of “sweet” bird songs, there is now just “Bare ruined choirs.”
2. What is the extended metaphor in lines 1-4?The extended metaphor is invoking the season of Winter (or perhaps the end of Fall) with the time in the speaker’s life.

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Literature

Introduction
Since the beginning of the world, the female gender has faced suppression from the male section of the society. This has reflected in the literature, as well. Many authors, writers and poets, have used hard language to point out the wrong done against the women. The tailored language due to the dictatorial system by the mail dominance has been used in the literature works to give a message for the
Literature, on the other hand, has been the part of the world since its inception. Right from the beginning of the world, literary works have been proving elemental

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Time does not only shape the world; it shapes the ideas that are created by the human mind. There are different ideas that can be expressed in writing, poetry offers one of the best genres in literature whereby people are able to express their ideas and make them known to the world. When writing there are different issues that influence a writer to write about a certain topic or issue. Many writers are influenced by issues that take place within the society, they develop their ideas from this issues .Another key factor that influence a writer or a poet

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Literature differs among different people. There are those whose area of interest is poetry, short stories, novels and other literal genres. Once a reader reads the different literature articles of even books, one might get a different understanding from other readers. Poems holder deeper meaning and a reader has to ensure that he/she understands the message that the poets aim to deliver. Understanding the tone, themes and stylistic devices that have been used in a poem helps a reader in getting a deeper understanding of a poem. Some poems maybe discussing similar issues but different language, tone and stylistic

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“The Fish” talks about the interesting journey of the narrator who at first was just out to catch a fish, but ended up developing a deep understanding of nature and life through the fish. With the use of vivid imagery and abundant description, Elizabeth Bishop took the readers to the past struggles of the fish in order to stay alive, how its physical disfigurement reflecting those struggles translated into images of beauty and victory, and how these mental pictures elicited respect and admiration from the narrator.

True to its title, the narrator begins telling the story by talking about catching a fish.

I caught a tremendous fishand held him beside the boathalf out of water,

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Introduction

Discrimination against blacks by whites is a theme that has been explored on various levels and Langston Hughes’ poem ‘Harlem’ is no exception. Here, the poet seems to be bemoaning the fate of the young black man who can never achieve his dreams – they are always deferred, if he is not unlucky enough to end up hanged from a tree in an all too common lynching. The theme of dreams deferred is also strongly present in Lorraine Hansberry’s play, ‘A raisin in the Sun’ that also follows the Hughes poem liberally, even taking its title from a line

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After reading Anne Waldman’s Gossamurmur, I was inspired to write a literary piece that would be synonymous with hers in terms of style. I therefore had to engage in an extensive rhetorical analysis so to come with an exemplary piece that would be characteristic of well-defined rhetorical choices in regards to the language, the audience and the genre of the piece. After the comprehensive rhetorical choices analysis, I decided to construct a poem whose focus was on two aspects of human life that are often considered to be correlated. These are loneliness and love. People who do have

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Rita Dove and Katherine Mansfield were not contemporaries, nor do they write in the same genre. But two works, one from each author, are worth comparing and contrasting since both have a similar underlying theme, which leads the reader to a contrary conclusion.
“DayStar” is a poem by Rita Dove that has to do with the life of a busy mother who is only able to leave her perpetual duties for an hour a day. Katherine Mansfield’s “Miss Brill” is about a woman who is an avid people watcher who uses her avid imagination to find meaning in

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Every poem develops its value based on the message that the author wants to send out along with it. Relatively, every author approaches the presentation of the message they want to present in a manner that specifically invokes the presentation of their creativity. Being born in Trinidad in 1960, Lelawatee Manoo-Rahming has been gifted with a rich background that identifies well with her being and her capacity to develop perfect visual presentations of her messages in most of her poems. In the poem Passing Places, Manoo-Rahming does more than just narrate here experiences about a life that is rich

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A poem is recorded information in the form of text. The poem, “The Blue Bowl”, by Jane Kenyon and it talks about the difficulties one faces when burying a pet. By identifying the different phrases or words that are close to the main word in the poem and finding the relationship between these words, we are able to analyze this poem. This poem addresses how painful it is to bury a pet and according to the norms, it is not supposed to be as sad because there are more painful things than burying just a pet.
This poem is

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The poem “The Martyr” by Herman Melville has left a deep impression on me. It influences the reader from the very first line creating the morose setting and gloomy atmosphere. Furthermore, the author is trying to dip the reader in the times of Jesus Christ taking us back to that dreadful day, when He was crucified. From the very first look in is clear, that the martyr is a simple embodiment of the God’s son because the action of the poem takes place on the Good Friday, the most horrible day in the Bible.
Among the literary devices

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John Donne’s poetry reflects a deep image of religious elements and most of his sonnets are the combination of both Catholic and Protestant. In “The Flea” and “Show Me Dear Christ” John Donne also uses religious imagery. He expresses in implicit way this tactic. HHHHis early poem “The Flea” implies the concept of sexual love; furthermore, it exemplifies unconventional metaphor by which the flea bites two lovers, who are compared on the basis of sex. Moreover, we see a woman trying to resist sexual advances. The speaker with the help of the flea was trying to convince her

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Introduction

Robert Herrick (1591-1674) and Ben Jonson (1572-1637) are famous English poets, playwrights and authors. Herrick and Jonson grew up and wrote poems and plays in the same era and were both comparable to the great William Shakespeare. After his apprenticeship with his uncle ended abruptly, Herrick, aged 26 then, became a disciple of Ben Jonson who mentored him in literature. The two wrote five poems together. Herrick’s poetry was about religion, love and he was famed for writing on pastoral themes on the life in the English countryside. Ben Johnson on the other hand was best famed for

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The aim of this essay is to present you with an analysis of the lyric poem ‘Song’ by Edmund Waller. It is a lyric poem consisting of four stanzas , each one of four lines, which was written and first published in 1645 in one of his collections titled ‘Poems’. Due to its lyricism, the poem is characterized by the use of main lyric elements and poetic figures of speech which serve this kind of lyricism. The aim of this essay is to present you with the power that metaphor as a poetic figure of speech holds in this poem.

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English composition is a prose representation of ideas. In this case, the ideas must be in a logical way so as to bring forth the desired meaning. A composition has a structure that must always be adhered to when tackling English tasks.
A composition should have a clear introduction which shows readers that, the writer has commenced to write. In essence, it is not always the practice that, the word introduction is written down. A composition should be structured in paragraphs. Each paragraph should represent a clear idea which should always be in link with the preceding and succeeding

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Response to option 2

Most of the best considered poems are believed to have been written by poets who never got to enjoy their publicity. This is because they were written in times when the world had not appreciated the art as well not having a diversified channel to communicate their thoughts. As Steven & Walter state, they simply wrote such poems and left them somewhere where some opportunist who picked and published them. In the process of translating and transforming them into a language the current generation is associated with, they lose their original meaning. This is simply because they cannot bring themselves

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Introduction

“Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister” is an 1839 poem written by Robert Browning. The main subject of the poem is a Spanish monk living in a cloister who exhibits resentment against a fellow monk living in the same quarters.
Browning uses the Spanish monk to weave a stupendous web of hypocrisy and deceit. The monk expresses a variety of opinions that he shares together with those of the other monk. However, a close examination of the poem reveals that the monk’s assertions are not genuine. This monk tries to convince the audience or the reader of the poem

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‘Instructor’s Name’

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,

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Leopold Bloom is displayed as a thirty eight year old character married to one lady whom she loves so much. Leaving in Ireland in the early 1900, he was facing nepotism issues as he was from another nationality. His father was Hungarian hence making him to be seen as a Hungarian. In most of the times, it is noted that he is excluded from most of the time from socializing with his friends due to his nationality. He is seen to suffer and undergo insularity of the Irish throughout the poem, but he does not seem to be minded

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Ancient literalists can be easily identified with their works and their time. Christopher Marlowe's poem "the Passionate Shepherd to his love” is a classic piece that paints a picture of the English pastoral life applied to a love context. Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) was an English translator, poet and dramatist of the Elizabethan era (Edgecombe, 42). Marlowe is said to have been so good a poet and dramatist that his exploits are only comparable to those of William Shakespeare. Initially a controversial character, Marlowe later wrote several plays and poems among them the poem titled "the Passionate Shepherd to his

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In spite of love being the notion as old as the world is and as clear as glass, many profound thinkers and philosophers have contemplated on this topic and expressed their views on subjects what love is and whether it is here to be or not. Although both ‘Love song’ by Joseph Brodsky and ‘Is Love Dead’ recited by Dedalus reflect on the theme of love, the differences in respect of structure, themes and stylistic devices make them two completely opposite poems.
The first thing to pay attention to is the formal organization of the verses. ‘Love Song’ is

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Abstract

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is one of the most fascinating and well-known poems by the famed English poet, becoming one of the bastions of British Romantic literature through its immense lyricism and use of metaphor. The poem deals with themes of the violation of nature, the encroaching threat of the Orient and its strangeness on European culture, as well as the stifling nature of guilt, all contributing to a multi-faceted and pluralistic tale that deals with the breadth of human experience.

Proposal

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is one

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Analysis of “Riders to the Sea”

The poetic drama Riders to the Sea, written by John Synge, is a wonderfully lyrical and haunting drama about an Irish family and the relationship it has to the sea. Maurya, the matriarch of the family, loses the vast majority of her family to the sea, leaving her clinging to whatever hopes might be available to her that any of her family might still be alive. By making this play so poetic in tone, the presentationalism of Riders to the Sea draws the reader into the plight of the characters. Sunge’s low-key requiem shows the hardship of the

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The eland and the stuffed goose are both preyed animals that will serve as a meal. The first emphasizes the aspect of victim, with the tiger biting down on the heavy animal, satisfying its hunger. Meanwhile, the duck is forcefully fed until it is about to burst, like humans that cannot help being naturally sexual. The instinctual side of man is on display with both of these images, and so is a display of power and aggressiveness.
Female sexuality is described as being repressed, yet waiting to burst intensely. The main image relating to sexuality in the poem is

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‘A Super Market in California’ a literary work by Ginsberg provides a provide converse over which a lot of issues can be painted. The poem provides the reader with insights as to what the author has to say about different issues in the spheres of life. A critical analysis of the poem reveals a number of issues that would ordinarily form the subject of debate with respect to how people perceive some occurrences. In writing the poem, a number of literary skills have been used to give it a conventional look. The devices that form the basis of analysis

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The sky was melting, as the fire grew warmer;

I saw them dancing - with wooden shields and no armor -

In the place that I’d thought was another corner

Of the Third World peace and dictators’ safe harbor.
Their numbers were humble, as they asked for assistance
In spreading the word of a rising resistance.
The two decade world of cold-warless existence,
Reacted with merely staying at distance.
The third-party threats to the tyrants were glowing
With fanciful phrases of deepest concerns;
Whilst priests kept on chanting and widows were mourning,
The quick was saving the flesh from the thorn.
Their knees did not tremble, as they got an offer:
Their hearts were bleeding, and their

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‘Instructor’s Name’

“Subject’
Compare and Contrast- "My Papa's Waltz" and “Those Winter Sundays”
Literature often presents valuable insights into human emotions. Especially, poetry has time and again delineated the unfathomable and unresolved conflicts that one many have with, the people they love deeply. In "My Papa's Waltz" written by Theodore Roethke and “Those Winter Sundays” written by Robert Hayden, the narrators each describe their father’s love towards them, by recollecting a brief incident that took place during their childhood. This essay aims to explore the ways in which both the poets elucidate, how the narrators of the poems, by looking

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This poem is a love song composed by Robert burns, a Scottish poet whose poems mostly fall under the genre of love. In “red rose”, the reader is made to read about a romantic affair of two persons who are intimately in love. This essay will ventilate the poem with a view to analyzing its structure, theme, subject matter, characters, stylistic devices that the poet uses to convey his message and the traits of the characters that the poet uses in the poem.

Structure of the poem:

This poem contains four stanzas. Each stanza comprises four lines/verses hence each of the stanzas is

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Li-Young Lee

Thesis:
The writer uses a series of lush sensual series of contrasts to highlight his personal sense of loneliness and isolation indicating that emotions are more valuable than physical enjoyment.

Discussion:

The poem starts in the autumn garden as the writer is pulling the last young onions from the cold brown ground. The closing day flames and he glimpses a cardinal. After pulling the onions, he washes them and drinks the water flowing out from the icy metal spigot. This imagery provides a series of acute contrasts between many of the poem’s elements. Young onions have bright green tops

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The epic poem Beowulf is one of the most well-known and outstanding poems which keeps its own important place within the borders of the Old English literature. It is a heroic, epic poem, which means that both its context and form follow the rules of epic poetry. It consists of 3182 verses and like most epic poems, it begins its story in ‘media res’, which means that it begins in the middle of things. The thematic core of this epic poem is the heroic actions and performance of the main leading male figure of the poem. There is a

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The movement of African –American from the south to the north in the 1900’s marked the Harlem Renaissance period .,many people were moving to Harlem .The north offered the black people more suitable place where there was equality for all and they also the right to vote. After this movement, the blacks’ population in New York increased; they were able to live in modern houses which had been designed for the white citizens. Prominent black people and human rights activist found a suitable place to live in Harlem. Businesses were developed, and institutions for the black citizens were

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