Poems Essays

This poem by Anne Sexton is centered on the death of her parents. The poem is about the fact that she has not gotten over their deaths. The first two lines “Gone, I say and walk from church, refusing the stiff procession to the grave.” are about her leaving the …

Metaphorical language is used in poetry to highlight and allow the reader to examine the many themes and ideas it contains. In the the Romantic poems “Tintern Abbey” and “I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud” by William Wordsworth, the idea that memory acts as a source of escapism to the …

In Homer’s, “The Odyssey”, Odysseus struggles to return home not only to rejoin his wife Penelope and son Telemakhos but also to fulfill his duty as ruler and legend. As Odysseus struggles homeward, the idea of his true self and what defines him shifts. His longing for family and sovereignty …

The Puritan Plain Style (PPS) of writing was a style developed by Puritans for their use in writing. This style most frequently uses common words, references to everyday objects, and direct statements. Two notable examples are To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet and Huswifery by Edward Taylor. …

You Love Me, You Are Sure Ironical as it may seem, I think the poet says she will find comfort in her lover’s declaration of true love yet she expects that this love will hurt her again. At first, she indicates that she will feel very secure when her lover …

The poem To His Coy Mistress was written by 17th century poet Andrew Marvell.  This poem has been claimed to be the poem that endorses living for the moment. (Han 2003) The story of the poem is about a man who is trying to convince his love to be with …

The short story “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway seems absurd reading it for the first time. It is a story of an American man and a woman who are discussing about some things while waiting for a train bound to Madrid at a train station in the Ebro …

This essay describes how the juxtaposition forms of montage (which, as described by the Oxford English Dictionary as the technique of producing a new composite whole from fragments of pictures, text or music) contributes to the meaning of “The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot.  In a nutshell, Eliot’s 1922 poem …

“Now Winter Nights Enlarge” is one of the best lyrical poems showing the true spirit of Renaissance. Thomas Campion (1567-1620), the poet of this poem, has been Elizabethan court musician. (Davis, 1987; Vivian, 1909) The poem deals with the recreational capacity during harsh climatic times the poem is about delights …

Examining Theme Through Similes Wordsworth most important literary device in the work is the simile of the title and first line itself, “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud”.  The extensive metaphor and the usage of the title and first line simile allow the audience to understand themselves and their role …