Poems Essays

    Written by Amy Clampitt, the poem Beach Glass was full of a literary device called figurative speech.             Literary devices include literary elements and techniques. Both of them have a universal function of letting ideas flow in a literary piece. Under literary technique, meanwhile, is the use of figurative …

            The Iliad and the Odyssey are both famous works of Homer.  Both stories depict events that transpired during the Trojan War.  The Iliad describes the period toward the end of the war.  The Odyssey, on the other hand, describes the period when Odysseus returns home, ten years after the …

IN the first chapter we saw how the mythic view of nature enabled Marvell to discuss human feelings and values in terms of grass, fruit, and flowers. Therefore, even when the poems were pastoral in their setting, they revealed the same conflict between innocence and passion, withdrawal and action, as …

Though separated by nearly two-centuries of time and a continent of distance (and culture), the poetry of Edward Taylor and William Cullen Bryant offers similarities in theme and imagery. Both poets relied upon the apprehension of Nature as a keystone to their poetic vision and each poet sought to describe …

INTRODUCTION Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales, an anthology of stories in a framework story, between 1387 and 1400. It is the story of thirty people who travel as pilgrims to Canterbury and tell stories. The most amusing and at the same time filled with astuteness is the story told …

Abstract The book ‘Harriet Tubman: The road to freedom’ is very well written and the writer Catherine Clinton is crystal clear in her words and it seems she tries to answer every question that a reader might ask while reading the book. The language that Clinton has used to write …

The poem A Red, Red Rose is one of the most popular love poems that Robert Burns has written. Its content, form and style are harmoniously interwoven to come up with a beautiful literary piece. Thus, this essay will analyze the content, form, and style of this poem. The poem …

Introduction In its explicit narration, the poem simply describes the regular work restoration of walls between two neighbors that basically delineates their properties.  Each is consistently fixing their walls warily even if one stone is missing.  However in such a simple scenario, the poems also posts deeper issues that is …

            Both Kitagawa Utamoro’s “Girl Powdering her Neck” and interpretive poem by Cathy Song by Kitagawa Utamaro are very beautiful and more than capable of “standing on their own”.  Taken together the effect is both natural and intensely powerful.  The result is like looking at a photograph of a clear …

Thomas Hardy’s “Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?” The last two stanzas of the poem create images and a scene that absolutely delights “dog lovers”. It evokes the clear vision any dog lover has: “What feeling do we ever find to equal among human kind a dog’s fidelity!” Here …