Poems Essays

Thesis: Sharon Olds in, On the Subway, organizes the poem in three parts to present the contrasting lives of a Caucasian woman and an African American boy, which displays the narrator’s realization of the bond they share because of their similar fear of each other. In the first several lines, …

Rilke uses an array of imagery techniques in his poem “The Panther” to help the reader arrive at a sense of theme. Rilke employs personification in the first line of the poem to help evoke an ironic tone upon the reader. For example, in this line Rilke personifies the fact …

“The Wanderer” portrays the current situation of various speakers that are all intertwined. The poem goes into grave detail as to the feelings, hardships, and memories of the various speakers, leaving the reader feeling as if they were actually there. Of course, grave detail is just one of the ways …

1.What metaphors does Holmes use to describe the ship in stanzas one and two of “Old Ironsides”? “The meteor of the ocean air” in stanza 1 and “The eagle of the sea!” In stanza 2. 2.In 1830, the 44-gun American warship Constitution, the inspiration for “Old Ironsides,” was scheduled to …

Personally, I find Assimilation by Eugene Gloria is more effective than Returning in depicting cultural understanding as a state of recognising and appreciating the culture. In the former, the poet focuses on the presence of the “scattered rice beneath the red-painted bench”. Although those rice grains are left-overs from his …

The poem Hide and Seek was written by Vernon Scannell, it is about a little boy and some of his friends playing a game of ‘Hide and Seek’. As we read through the poem we see it through the eyes of the little boy and he shows how to achieve …

This is my comparison and interpretation on these two exceptional poems. Dulce Et decorum Est is a renowned poem in English literature, composed by Wilfred Owen a soldier in service, who lived the nightmares in this poem in world war one. This depiction aids you in envisioning the gory bloodshed …

Odysseus is a character that embodies both strengths and weaknesses, which makes him an epic hero. The Odyssey, by Homer is the epic story of Odysseus’ adventures from The Trojan War to Ithaca. For ten years he endures human weakness, battling with the gods and a number of obstacles in …

In the poems ‘Poem at Thirty-Nine’ and ‘Once Upon a Time’, the idea of the relationship between father and child is explored, but in different ways. In ‘Poem at Thirty-Nine’, the relationship between the poet and her father is portrayed as a warm and positive one. The poet writes of …

Guilt and regret are two emotions that have transcended time and have constantly been used as literary topics for countless years and countless works. Literature captures the essence of humanity and expresses it in ways that most cannot do, therefore we look to literature as a way to relate and …