poetry

These two poems are very different yet very similar, the two poems have a strange bond holding them together although both have a different theme. This could be easily showed,…

Digging is seen as a tradition to the poet’s family for many generations, as he expresses his feelings related to the past, present and future. Not only does he speak…

Through this anthology of poems by the great Irish poet, Seamus Heaney, we can see how a young Heaney matures through childhood and how he crosses metaphorical bridges to conquer…

I am going to analyse the poems “Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess”. These poems are very similar to each other, as I will be explaining further in this essay,…

All three poems have something very similar in common, that is that all three of them are based around relationships and that each speaker reveals more than they intend too….

The two poems, “Stealing” by Carol Ann Duffy and “Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning, will be compared and contrasted on the ways that the poets reveal their narrator’s personalities and…

Both poems have ‘anger’ in them. In ‘ogun’ as the poem nears to the end the sentences start to become shorter. This is shown as from the first sentence of…

From looking closely at the two poems ‘Nothings Changed’ by Tatumkhulu Afrika and ‘Charlotte O’Neil’s song’ by Fiona Farrell, it can be seen that both poems protest about the inequality…

Tatamkhulu Afrika and Chinua Achebe both effectively convey their feelings and attitudes towards society in [A S 1]many ways. In this essay I hope to discuss the way both poems…

The poems Havisham By Carol Ann Duffy and The Laboratory By Robert Downing both convey strong emotions. In particular it is present in both the apparent emotion of bitterness. In…

The two poems are from different time periods. Lord Tennyson’s ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ is from the Crimean war in 1854, which was between the English and the Russians….

While reading this verse form. at first it was hard to wholly understand what is go oning or what is precisely is being told. I decided to interrupt down sentence…

This shows that at the beginning of it there is a storm that is happening and it helps to show that it is a story because stories always start with…

“The Beggar Woman”, by William King, “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell and “Valentine” By Carol-Ann Duffy are all pre-1900 poems which focus on the topic of love and…

The two stories are very similar because they have both lost someone. ‘On my first sonne’ is about a father who has lost his son when he was only 7…

Throughout ‘Limbo’ and ‘Hurricane hits England’, both poets explore the themes of journeys and places in various ways. These include ambiguity of ‘Limbo’ creating a reflective and rhythmic pattern which…

A metaphor is a likening of one thing to another without using ‘like’ or ‘as’. Valentine begins in a very negative way by saying ‘not a red rose or a…

Duffy’s poetry, while being humorous, probes the darker aspects of today’s society in great depth. The majority of her poems make cutting social observations while also succeeding in making the…

Carol Ann Duffy’s love poem, You, is about her love for a man. The poem expresses the poet’s love for the man, and emphasises the fact that he doesn’t know…

In this essay I am going to be writing about the poems Belfast Confetti (Ciaran Carson), Tiananmen (James Fenton), No more Hiroshimas (James Kirkup). I am going to be looking…