Poems Essays

The themes of O’ Brother Where Art Thou? and Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey, are very tantamount to one another, both have strong leaders, Odysseus, and Ulysses (Everett), that take on relentless journeys and face tough situations. These two sources have various interpretations of events that occurred, due to the …

The poems “Midnight” and “Purple Bathing Suit” by Louise Glück capture dark moments and thoughts in relationships while somehow making readers laugh, albeit remorsefully. Relationships can be difficult to navigate, and there will be hard times throughout any relationship that people have to work through. Glück’s poems showcase those moments …

The subject of both poems is the untimely death of young people in tragic accidents rather than sickness. Strangely both boys are killed by machinery, the boy in “Out, Out-‘ by a mechanical saw and the boy in “Mid-Term Break” by a car. Both poems describe the reactions of the …

A duke had killed his seventeen-year-old spouse following three long stretches of marriage, and wedded another young lady. The principle character and speaker of the lyric is Duke Alfonso II of Ferrara. The other individual tuning in to him (his recipient) is the emissary (marriage operator) sent by the Count …

This essay is about two poems on the same theme, love but they both have been written in a different period of time, one poem is post twentieth century and the other one is pre twentieth century. The poems are ‘Neutral Tones’ by Thomas Hardy and ‘One Flesh’ by Elizabeth …

Yeats’ poetry communicates potent and universal ideas, which continue to make his poetry of relevance to today’s audience. His excellence in artistic expression enables him to intertwine his own ideas and philosophies and contextual issues, and as such we as responders are presented with the unique view points, philosophies and …

An epitaph is an inscription upon a tomb, in few verses for the casual observer to read carefully. It is usually carved in stone and is very synthetic. The Elegy is much more lengthy than an epitaph. The two genres differ not only in lengths, but also in subject matter, …

At the time when Virgil was writing the Aeneid, Rome was going through a time of great political and social change, where Augustus Caesar had seized power through the destruction of the Roman Republic, and had himself installed as dictator and sole ruler of Rome. Virgil evidently through his writing …

“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” came about because of an ordeal of William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy while on a mobile voyage through the Ullswater locale in April, 1802. Dorothy composed of it finally in her diary; when the artist started to make the present lyric two years …

Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey does not expect groups of onlookers to take after a story acknowledged with sensational character curves and a conventional account structure, yet rather it constrains a subtle tangible and psychological experience to move examination of its importance. The film reverberates with pondering, unparalleled previously …