Essays on Poet

William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams has always been known as an experimenter, an innovator, a revolutionary figure in American poetry. Yet in comparison to artists of his own time who sought a new environment for creativity as expatriates in Europe, Williams lived a remarkably conventional life. A doctor for more than forty years serving the New Jersey town of Rutherford, he relied on his patients, the America around him, and his own ebullient imagination to create a distinctively American verse. Often domestic in focus and "remarkable for its empathy, sympathy, its muscular and emotional identification with its subjects," Williams's poetry is Continue reading...

The aim of this essay is to present you with the comparison and contrast of two specific poems. The poems which will be presented in this essay are ‘Dreamers’ written by Siegfried Sassoon and ‘Before Action’ written by Lieutenant William Noel Hodgson.
Both poems are considered to belong to the group of those poems which were written within the socio-historical context, which was created during and after the World War I (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918). The aim of this essay is to present you with the analysis of the thematic core of each poem, the literary devices Continue reading...

Sailing to Byzantium is one of the most famous poems of the stalwart literary artist, William Butler Yeats. The poem is one of the quintessential pieces in the history of English literature, and it lives on in the hearts of the avid readers transcending the effect of time. The poet utilizes his aesthetic excellence to reach out to the gazillion readers across the globe through this immortal work of literature. There are vivid imagery and other literary devices in the poem that bring out the central idea with clarity and quintessence.
The poem is a vehement statement of the Continue reading...

This poem is about sadness and solitude. The tone throughout the poem is a melancholic and desolate one. Frost is wandering through the night in a very depressed state. It seems at the time that he wrote the poem he was experiencing tremendous sorrow and isolation. The entire poem shows lack of joy and enthusiasm in the poet’s life.
Owing to this depression in the life of the poet, everything around him looks negative to him and he seems to be living in absolute despair. The poet seems to be narrating his own story and is not talking Continue reading...

Xie Lingyun, the Chinese-born poet, is one of the earliest people who extensively applied the theme of nature in their poems. Although there is evidence to show that he is not the only Chinese poet to have used images of nature to express ideas, Xie Lingyun’s landscape poetry is more elaborate than the conventional philosophical poetry employed by other poets preceding him. Influenced by his early interactions with Daoism and Buddhism (later in life), Xie Lingyun’s poetry “contains elaborate descriptions of nature in which mountains and waters become objects of aesthetic gaze” (Cai 130). Many of his Continue reading...

Abstract

Lucy poems are a series of poems written by William Wordsworth about the girl named Lucy. She is a described as a laidback beauty that lived in the countryside. Her character is important to the poems because she is the main character in each of the poems, and the poems have to be read together in sequence in order to find out more about her. Nature is one of the themes present in each of the poems; therefore, nature holds a certain degree of significance to the Lucy poems. Majorly, nature assists the poet to develop the plot of Continue reading...

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. Continue reading...

“America” is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in the 1958. The poem revolves around the life of the speaker, who feels overwhelmed by life in U.S. Specifically, the speaker is dissatisfied with the level of capitalism in the country, which makes him admire his communist upbringing. He also conveys his admiration for Marxism. Although there are several literary strategies (put forward by different theorists) on the best means to interpret a text, none would be more appropriate than Michael Foucault’s in analyzing Ginsberg’s poem.
In his articles “The Archaeology of Knowledge” and “What is an Author?” Continue reading...

Introduction

Philip Freneau’s To Sir Toby chronicles on the slavery experienced on the Caribbean islands. This is because the residents undergo suffering in the hands of the slave masters at the landmass. Freneau applies vivid imagery and expressive language to portray inhuman practices by slave owners. The poet tries to discourage this habit by condemning the actions of the slave masters. For instance, he opposes slavery on every level from acquisition of people as possessions, to labelling them, to brutalizing them like animals. As a result, the poem is useful as it serves as a passionate work about the Continue reading...

Introduction

Background of poet
Thomas Stearns Elion was an American-British scholar. The man was a jack of all trades with influences as an essayist, publisher, social and literary critic, playwriting and a major poet of the twentieth century. His work has been widely acclaimed with the pinnacle being the Nobel Prize in Literature, an accolade that was bestowed upon him in 1948 in recognition of his pioneer and outstanding contribution and influence on the present-day poetry. Other pieces of work written by the poet include the Waste Land, Murder in the Cathedral, The Hollow Men and Four Quartets among others. Continue reading...

Introduction

Form in poetry refers to the physical structure of the poem. This can mean the length of lines, the repetition, the rhyming, and the system of the rhymes. When these features have been organized into a recognizable pattern, then they can be described to belong to a certain form. The commonest forms of poems include sonnets, villanelles, blank verses, and sestinas. The form of a poem aids the poet in expressing the theme and the feelings that accompany the poet’s expression.
Form of a poem can be the manner of the complexity of the poem. The poem can Continue reading...

Plan / Outline

In order to reflect the challenges that has been faced by the African-American literature, the paper plans to compare the content of two poems. One poem is written in the 1950’s era which was a difficult and crucial period for the African Americans, while the other one has been written in the contemporary era to highlight the work of the poet of that poem and how African American literature survived in Amercia. The essay has also quoted examples from the essay to make it more simple and explainable.
- Introduction
- This paper aims to compare and contrast Continue reading...

The Daffodils, also known as ‘I wandered lonely as cloud’, is one of William Wordsworth’s best known poems. It is also possibly one of the most mysterious ones in terms of its meaning and what the great poet was truly implying through this simple, melodious work. Traditional analysts have approached it as a straight forward reflection on nature, a poet’s description of a sight that moved his heart in more ways than he had realized at the time. However, I believe that the poem has much deeper meaning than one first perceives. Wordsworth has made a remarkable Continue reading...

Poetry can be defined as a genre of art that has been in existence since the beginning of mankind. It has grown and evolved as the human beings grows, just like any other form of art has got different opinions depending on the people analyzing or even writing it. Differing opinions have been given on the perception of how poetry should be and the ideas it is conveying. Artists represent what they what happens in the society and perceive art to be a mirror of the society. Poetry has changed with time and is being influenced by the events Continue reading...

Lord Byron also known as Lord George Gordon Byron is arguably one of the greatest poets ever. He was born in 1788 and lived for thirty-six years before his death in 1824 (Byron, George Gordon Byron 57). Despite the fact that he lived for a short time, he left a legacy like no other. He wrote many poems and other literary genres before his demise. He was arguably the greatest poet from the United Kingdom by then. His legacy in the world of poetry has found no match to date. One of his most famous poems is ‘the ocean’ Continue reading...

Abstract

Inferno is a terminology in Italy, which connotes Hell. Dante Alighieri uses this allegory in the form of an epic poem of the 14th century. The poet, Dante, narrates his ordeals as he maneuvers through hell in an effort to reach a certain solace. The chief references in the story circumnavigates between the guides of Virgil. The allegories of the allures determine nine circles of pain and suffering established within the global earthly expanse. The poem and its ordeals are allegorical in the representation of the soul and its journey to God. The inferno in the poem is reminiscent Continue reading...

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot was an American-British scholar. The man was a jack of all trades with influences as an essayist, publisher, social and literary critic, playwriting and a major poet of the twentieth century. His work has been widely admired with the peak being the Nobel Prize in Literature, an honor that was granted upon him in 1948 in appreciation of his pioneer and outstanding contribution and influence on the present-day poetry. Other pieces of work written by the poet include the Waste Land, Murder in the Cathedral, The Hollow Men and Four Quartets among others. The love Song Continue reading...

Henry Charles Bukowski (1920 – 1994) was an original poet in that he could write very profound poetry without sounding pompous or condescending. Although best known for his humorous works, he mostly wrote on serious topics like love and death. One of his best poems encompassing both of these issues is “For Jane” which is widely assumed to be a lament about the death of his first love. Bukowski compresses his bewilderment, his fear, his rage and his new-found knowledge in the final stanza of the poem.
The stanza begins “what you were” and that’s basically an apt summary Continue reading...

A Critical Analysis of the Poem "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
A sonnet refers to Italian poetic form invented by Giacomo Da Lentini. Sonnet derives from the Italian word sonetto meaning a little song or sound (Miller 1). Two kinds of sonnet exist; the Italian sonnet and Shakespearean sonnets. Italian sonnet has a fundamental break between the last six lines, sestet, and the first eight lines, octave. It has a typical rhyme scheme abbabba cdecde. Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “What lips my lips have kissed” is an example Continue reading...

Introduction

Poetry is a work of art that uses different interpretations, or is intended also to evoke emotions among the people; poetry employs various devices such as rhythm, alliteration, and assonance. Poetry can have wider meanings and uses stylistic devices as well to have a wider range of interpretation.
Ginsberg is a poet who has written several poets in America, he enjoys a greater culture during the world war 11; his earlier life was marked by her mother psychological troubles such as a series of breakdown in her nervous. He had various issues in college because he had stored stolen Continue reading...

Death has been a recurrent theme in Emily Dickinson’s poems. In the poem, Because I Could Not Stop for Death, too the poet weaves the words to portray the somber inevitability of human life. She uses symbolism throughout her work to create the ambience. The poet utilizes the character of Death in this poem as an extended metaphor. The poem goes on to delve deep into the nature of real death—the greatest truth of human nature. In this poem, the poet describes death as the final destination of life and explores symbolically how death caressingly guides one Continue reading...

Introduction

The poem “Magic of love” by Helen Farries is a simple and plain poem whose theme is love. The poem comprises of four stanzas each bearing four lines. The following is an explication of the poem.

Elaboration of the poem

In the first stanza, Farries begins by acknowledging the presence of a gift that can lighten up someone or “give a lift”. She goes on to state that, that gift which is love, is a blessing capable of bringing about happiness and comfort.
In the second stanza, Farries likens love to a star in the night stating that love can brighten someone’s Continue reading...

“The United fruit company” is a great poem apart from when there is pressure on when making presentation. Neruda’s poem is not only just a protest against corruption and greed among the Latin American Companies of North America, but it is at the same time critiquing consumeristic propagandas that are spread by the United States Companies encompassing the likes of companies like ‘coca cola’ and ‘United Fruit Company’ portraying their activities as a benign in the South. The poet seems to have some things in common with Ernesto Guevara since they are able to identify the common problem Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

Organization

Abstract
“Twelfth Night” is one of the most coveted comedies written by William Shakespeare. The element of the comic entwined with the tragic, calls for an intriguing plot which, the beauty of which is further enhanced by the accompaniment of music. This paper comprises of a critical response to Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” and the central theme of comedy which permeates the plot. It is a characteristic feature of most of the most of the plays of Shakespeare that what appear to be comic turns out to be wise and the seemingly wise characters, more often than not, end Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

The human perception of the world makes the most vivid changes in human minds in the moment of complete unity between the nature of self and the nature of outer. Those who managed to feel this integrity within their beings could never step aside and remain muted. From this very moment, they devote their existence to life, nature, nation, and people. Mostly, their whole life is marked by a constant fight for freedom. Not only do they want to help themselves, but also they try to convey a crucial message of fundamental needs of the society they live in. Continue reading...

“My Father’s Song” is a poem that was written by Simon Ortiz in the year 1976. Simon Ortiz was a Native American. “My Father’s Song” is a poem that talks about the life experiences of the poet with his father. The poem focuses on the experience the poet had with his father while they were planting corn at the farm. The poet narrates of how they found small mice, and took them to a safer place at the edge of the farm where there was shade (Ortiz, 1976). The poem shows that the father was teaching the Continue reading...

The aim of this essay is to present you with the analysis and the reflections drawn upon the reading of a slam poem. Slam poetry in general is considered to be a relatively new kind of poetry. It was born around the 90’s. It was in 1987 when the first National competition on Slam poetry was organized. There have been ongoing competitions ever since along with other events celebrating this poetry genre and making it known to a wider range of readers, listeners and poetry lovers. Slam poetry is poetry based on being recited. Poets recite their poems Continue reading...

This paper throws a light on the life of the famous American poet, Anne Sexton. The paper discusses her personal life, career life, her style of writing poetries, the reviews she has received with the period of time on her poems and my personal opinion about her writings.
1. Anne Sexton’s Personal Life
Anne Gray Harvey Sexton was a famous poet and playwright of her time. She was born in Newton, Massachusetts. Her father was Ralph Harvey who was a successful woolen manufacturer. Her mother was Mary Gray Staples. She was an unwanted third daughter in the family. Continue reading...

This paper throws a light on the life of the famous American poet, Anne Sexton. The paper discusses her personal life, career life, her style of writing poetries and reviews she has received with the period of time on her poems.

Anne Sexton’s Personal Life:

Anne Gray Harvey Sexton was a famous poet and playwright of her time. She was born in Newton, Massachusetts. Her father was Ralph Harvey who was a successful woolen manufacturer. Her mother was Mary Gray Staples. She was an unwanted third daughter in the family. She was raised in a middle-class environment. Her life remained uneasy due to Continue reading...

Summary and critical review of ‘To His Excellency General Washington’

Introduction
I do not think Phillis Wheatley should have written a letter to George Washington praising him for fighting for America’s freedom. I believe she should have addressed the fact the she was brought to America from Africa as a slave. She should have written about the freedom for the African’s that were enslaved for hundreds of years, instead of worrying about George Washington’s fight for America’s freedom.  In the following analysis of the letter of introduction, and the subsequent poem, Phillis Wheatley comes across as a poet who was out of touch with her Continue reading...

Hugo Suarez

Abstract
Alfred Lord Tennyson was perhaps the greatest poet of the nineteenth century Victorian era. While ‘In Memoriam,’ was written in honor of his best friend who died at a young age, some of his other famous works included ‘Ulysses,’ and ‘Morte d’ Arthur,’ which were again written in memory of his fond friend. The tones of these poems are nostalgic and reflect the mood and sentiments of a poet who had witnessed the unceremonious arrival of death from the outside. Emily Dickinson, a contemporary of Tennyson, was born in the United States. Her poem ‘Because I could not Continue reading...

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Literature Review (Snapping Beans)

In the poem, “Snapping Beans”, Lisa Parker has portrayed the story of the speaker and her conversation with her grandmother. The speaker is assumed to be a girl because the poet has used a distinctively feminine voice. The speaker and her grandmother are snapping beans while sitting together on a porch together. The poem then goes on to explore the series of emotions sparked in the mid of the speaker when the grandmother asks her a simple question, ‘How is school a-going’? (Meyer, 141). Upon being asked this question, the speaker embarks on chain Continue reading...

The poem, Theme for English, by the eminent poet, Langston Hughes, gives the impression that it has been penned in a stream of consciousness and the readers readily connect with the speaker who goes on to describe his meandering thoughts and questions. The speaker in this poem is a young black person of 22 years who studies in an institution. In an age riddled with racism, this individual comes across as open-minded and intrepid enough to face the status quo. He stirs the heart of the readers with his challenging question and his courage of conviction looms large all Continue reading...

On the surface, the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight appears to be a simple tale of a knight who accepts a difficult quest and, fulfilling it, returns to the court at Camelot, victorious. However, upon further exploration of the poem, much about its meaning becomes increasingly ambiguous. For example, the poem’s fourteenth century poet could have had a very different intent concerning ideas of chivalry and temptation than a modern reader may assume after reading the poem. Literary scholars argue over the meaning of Sir Gawain in terms of ideas about chivalry, temptation, the role of Continue reading...

Anne Bradstreet and Emily Dickinson are certainly among the first group of women poets to emerge in America. Before their emergence, poetry was a male-dominated affair attracting little attention from women. As a result, it is not a mystery that both poets (Bradstreet and Dickinson) share some striking resemblance in the themes that they tackle, and incorporate heavy symbolism in their poems. However, each poet conveys her experiences within her historical context. For example, Anne Bradstreet inclines her poems towards puritanism while Emily Dickinson inclines her poems towards romanticism. Although Anne Bradstreet and Emily Dickinson share similar views on Continue reading...

Summary

Wystan Hugh Auden: Wystan Hugh Auden was born in 1907, in York, England but his parents moved to Birmingham when he was young. Auden was overly intelligent and was transformed by the poetry of Robert Frost and Thomas Hardy
Michael Hamburger: Michael Hamburger was a translator, a poet and a critic born in Berlin in 1924. Hamburger has translated the works of very many poets from German to English.
William Carlos Williams: William Carlos William was born on the 17th of September, 1883. William was a poet renowned for his collection that include Spring and All (1923), Kora in Continue reading...

In England, the ground for Romanticism was prepared in the latter half of the eighteenth century through the economic, political, and cultural transformations. The system of absolute government crumbled even earlier in Britain than elsewhere; nationalistic sentiment sharpened, imperialistic endeavors widened, and the century saw an increasing growth of periodical literature which catered to the middle classes. The ideas of neoclassical, such as decorum, order, normality of experience, and moderation were increasingly displaced by an emphasis on individual experience. The moral function of the literature was increasingly counterbalanced by an emphasis on aesthetic pleasure and the psychology of the Continue reading...

Most of the poems of Phillis Wheatley and Anne Bradstreet address the themes of religion, slavery, gender and race. In my work, I will pay close attention to the themes of gender and race. The theme of gender and race brings out the inequality and unfairness of the society. From the poems of both writers, men consider themselves superior beings and say that women must show respect and remain submissive always. The place of women in the society is undermined, and their roles not clearly defined. On issues of race, the white Englishmen claim to be the masters of Continue reading...