Poem

The writer brings life to the people’s feelings and reaction to the event in a very vividly descriptive way. To begin with, her adjectives are very vivid and she uses…

The poem for me, illustrates a beautiful image of timelessness being interrupted. Lucy is almost portrayed as immortal; her beauty was so breath-taking. When she died, or “ceased to be”,…

What I find especially interesting about the poem ‘Valentine’ is the subject; it challenges the ideas of a “normal” valentine card or present.”I give you an onion.”It is also important…

The poem “No Hands” is about a woman who is annoyed and frustrated with the pilots who are flying their aeroplanes very low in the countryside, and are destroying the…

“Disabled” is a poem about the effects of war on a person and what it can do mentally and physically. It is also about how friends, or anybody, can affect…

He walks along story yet untold,To his gun his hand finds and holds,He seeks the truth for all to see,What a terrible time war can be.His misconception made him this…

The stimulus for this piece was the poem Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen. It is about the 2nd world war and what happened during gas attacks. It explains…

“A Chinese Sage” is a poem written by Elizabeth Jennings and is part of a collection called Growing-Points, written in 1975. It is written in a very unusual form that…

The genre of this text is a non-fictional dramatic monologue from the point of view of one of the men, although he sometimes slips into a stream of consciousness when…

My life personally is exactly like a never ending river with the current of the stream changing each and everyday. Every river in the whole world is flowing towards a…

Literature since the time of the Ancient Greeks glorified and glossed over the horrors of war, making it seem as a worthwhile, honourable, and romantic male endeavour. This same philosophy…

The poem “Beauty” by the author Tony Hoagland is a piece about the true beauty of a woman. Not the outside physical features but what makes a girl a girl…

Peter Skrzynecki’s poem “10 Mary Street”, explores various aspects of belonging to a place as well as to family. A reoccurring theme of time is present throughout the poem, 10…

“She Walks in Beauty,” by George lord Byron is a love poem (though not strictly because it is more of celebratory about a woman’s ) about an attractive woman and…

E. E. Cummings’ she being Brand can be easily called a quintessence of the poet’s literary revelation – the revelation that leads to rethinking and reconsidering eternal values through the…

In Walt Whitman’s 1860’s lyric poem “A Noiseless Patient Spider”, this poem was written during the 1860’s and published in the 1871 – 1872 editions of “Leave of Grass”. Whitman…

In some sense, Allen Ginsberg’s poem, “A Supermarket in California,” is reminiscent of poetry by Walt Whitman. This similarity is obviously not accidental, as Ginsberg invokes Whitman several times throughout…

William Butler Yeats’ poem “Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop” is demanding, despite its simple language. Its dense, vivid imagery is not always pleasant. The story is a simple one,…

Dennis Fritzinger’s poem “Charlie Don’t Surf” characterizes a war veteran’s feelings with regards to their call of duty in Vietnam. Set during the period of the Vietnam War, specifically on…

The poem is about a farmer who ploughs up a mouse’s nest. He apologizes to the tiny creature while telling it that he means no harm. He also says he…