poetry

The structure of the sonnet is Petrarchan, an Italian form of the sonnet that characteristically divides its theme into an octave, in which a problem or emotion is stated, and…

English poetic drama in the twentieth century arose as a reaction to the deteriorating naturalistic prose plays of Ibsen, Shaw and Galsworthy. Its photographic realism failed to convey the tension…

The story of Lolita and the poem Annabel Lee exhibit similar themes and parallel one another significantly. Although both pieces were written by separate authors, there is an identical tone…

“Self-preservation is a full-time occupation I’m determined to survive on these shores I don’t avert my eyes anymore in a man’s world I am a woman by birth. ” This…

Owen is regarded by historians as the leading poet of the First World War, known for his war poetry on the horrors of trench and gas warfare. He had been…

Some say that every text has a use by date and whereas some believe that every text is dateless. The idea that every text has its use by date is…

A sensitive and influential poem, “Anthem For Doomed Youth” captures the underlying true aspects of war. The first hand account written by Wilfred Owen is a powerful indictment of war,…

Thomas Stearns Eliot’s magnum work, The Waste Land, is oft cited as changing of the guard in poetry as his form and language were not in keeping with traditional patterns…

An Explication of James Weldon Johnson’s Poem, Since You Went Away The poem, Since You Went Away (Sence You Went Away), depicts James Weldon Johnson as one who reckoned with…

In Cousin Kate the poet presents the reader with the idea that women have many expectations in life and are governed by men, giving them no real freedom, and that…

Life leads us to excessive wishes that often result in a man’s downfall. Sir Philip Sidney in “Thou Blind Man’s Mark” portrays his hypocrisy towards desire and shows how it…

Longfellow’s “A Psalm of Life” belongs to the genre of poetry called ‘Carpe Diem’ poems. The Latin term coined by Horace in one of his odes means, “Seize the day…

The voice of the clocks comes straight after the voice of the two lovers. This is done purposely by Auden to stress the contrast between the two views. The lovers…

Walt Whitman is one of the first great American poets. He was born in 1819 on Long Island and he was one of ten children. Whitman only went to school…

Reading “My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun” and “Shall I Compare thee to a summer’s day? ” by William Shakespeare was very interesting. It can sometimes be hard…

Six Galician Poems by Federico Lorca (Madrigal for the City of Santiago, Ballad of Our Lady of the Boat, and Song of the Shop Boy) Lisability: Camellia-any of several shrubs…

Modernist Poetry: Effectiveness When it comes to opinions everyone has one. Saying that Modernist poetry has no specific structure or form and therefore means it is not as ‘effective’, is…

Milton’s style was not modified by his subject; what is shown with greater extent in Paradise Lost may be found in Comus. One source of his peculiarity was his familiarity…

John Clare was a poor agricultural labour born in England, 1793, however he was later discovered for his talent in writing poems and he spent the rest of his life…

Many authors use mock-epic conventions when writing poetry. Mock-epic convention, by definition, is a type of satire that treats petty human occurrences as if they were extraordinary or heroic. Mock-epics…