Poems Essays

Question 1: Like Socrates and Jesus, Confucius was a teacher with disciples who had some trouble understanding the import of his words. Why did these masters simply not say what they meant?             Confucius as well as other great teachers chose not to spoon-feed their disciples with their teachings. Instead, …

Dana Gioia‘s poem, “Planting a Sequoia” is a dramatic monologue, written in blank verse that leads readers through the thoughts and journey of a man who has experienced the death of his infant son. The speaker of the poem plants a sequoia tree in the memory of his son and …

Mid-Term Break was written by Seamus Heaney. This poem is describing a death of a younger sibling. The speaker describes the scene as being very emotional and also overbearing for the speaker. Heaney uses hints, rhymes, outward appearances, and the use of being indirect to set the tone of this …

Robert Frost’s poem entitled “The Silken Tent” is a depiction of the character’s completeness as individual. The silken tent was illustrated in a vulnerable and fragile object that lies within the identity of the character. “She is as in a field of silken tent / At midday when the sunny …

The road to the presidency in the United States consists of two formal stages. The first stage is composed of primary elections and caucuses lasting from early February to late June. Its purpose is to select a party nominee through a series of intra-party and usually competitive state contests.  Most …

When we talk about epic poems, no other piece of literature finds as spectacular a position in the Greek Culture as do The Iliad and The Odyssey. Being the author of both these classic works, Homer has influenced the ancient Greek civilization more profoundly than Shakespeare has influenced English literature. …

Both “In the new landscape” by Bruce Dawe and “Your Attention Please” by Peter Porter are fine examples of Speculative Fiction worthy of being in a Year Nine anthology for 2012. The poems are in-depth hypotheses of what society will eventuate too, allowing the reader to ponder the way of …

Abstract This analytical essay presents information about the five virtues of chivalry that are exemplified by the Pentangle in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The Works Cited page appends ten sources in MLA format. Introduction      Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a well-known Middle English romantic poem, …

The story of Gilgamesh is a Babylonian epic poem, which is collection of Sumerian legends and poems about the mythological hero-king Gilgamesh, ruler in third Millennium B.C. It is known as the earliest surviving epic poem along with Homer’s “Iliad” and Odyssey,” Virgils “Aeneid” as well as “Beowulf” and has …

* ————————————————- Richard Bone is sort of the key to the whole collection of “Spoon River Anthology” because it details the epitaphs that he (being Edgar Masters) was able to craft knowing the true nature of the townspeople he commemorates. It was Masters’ job to write the epitaphs as it …