poetry

According to the international law, war is the declaration of violent intentions on another state or country. Through the ages there have been many ways of preserving the memories of…

In the early 20th Century social change was occurring, Queen Victoria had just died, philosophers and scientists such as Nietzsche and Darwin had just published books with secular and anti-establishment…

Wilfred Owen is able to emphatically depict the devastation of World War One as the greatest human tragedy of the twentieth century. Owen, through his poems was able to effortlessly…

In the anthology Up the line to death, the section “O Jesus, Make it Stop” is marked by the fascinatingly profound Poems of Wilfred Owen and of his friend and…

Modernism, generally defined as the period of literary advancement at the beginning of the 20th century, reflects the dramatic change of ideas amongst great minds of the time, be they…

When Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote, “Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted,” he expressed a romantic ideal ever-present in nineteenth century poetry: the ideal that naive romantic love…

In the poem “White Man’s Burden” and essay “Shooting an Elephant” is talk about the two white men has a different point of views about imperialism and how the white…

Society’s focus on materialism and consumerism has lead to the shift in our value system, which in result has lead to the degradation and neglect of the environment. In his…

The first stanza of the poem “They ask me for verses”, speaks of the time when Jose Rizal was writing this poem. In the first stanza Jose Rizal used a…

In the sonnet 130, by William Shakespeare, plays an elaborate joke on the convention of love poetry. He describes his beloved in a surprising way, informing that she is not…

In his poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci, John Keats creates one of the most noticeable and classical uses of the narrative form. While many poems simply employ this form…

The end of World War II brought with it the rise of beatnik poetry. A group of poets interested in the “sex, drugs, and rock and roll” aspect of poetry;…

The most accomplished and popular American poet of the first half of the nineteenth century, Bryant also was the first American poet to receive substantial international acclaim. Bryant is considered…

Shakespeare’s sonnet 116 is the most cherished sonnets of English poetry that takes into account a conventional subject. The beauty of this sonnet lies with the simple poetic diction and…

Warfare, battle, combats. These are just some of the terms that pertain to war. Man versus man, they are fighting against each other. One side considers the other as the…

Elizabeth Bishop’s “Lullaby for the Cat,” Robert Lowell’s “For the Union Dead,” and Sylvia Plath’s “Kindness” differ from postmodernism by using autonomous narrators and clear representation, as well a lack…

To justify Auden as a great modern poet it can be said that Auden stands out among modern poets by his earnest effort to be great modern thinker. He was…

“My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. ” —Wilfred Owen. The subject matter of Futility is about a dead soldier while his…

Although it is often viewed as the model Anglo-Saxon literary work and as a foundation of modern literature, Beowulf has an odd history that complicates both its historical and its…

The poems “The Passionate Sheppard to His Love” written by Christopher Marlowe and “The Nymph’s Reply to the Sheppard” written by Sir Walter Raleigh are two contrasting poems. Everything about…