Poems Essays

Throughout these two poems “Eros” is revealed to the reader in two very different perspectives. The first poem by Robert Bridges portrays to the reader that Eros is a true god and that when it comes to love man is the one who suffers. In the second poem by Anne …

“Daddy”, one of Plaths most famous and detailed autobiographical poems, was written in the last years of her life and is saturated with suppressed anger and dark imagery. The sixteen stanza poem, through Plaths use of ambiguous symbolism, arguably is bitterly addressing Plaths father, who died when she was only …

James Fenton, the poet of ‘Cambodia’ spent several years in Asia, touring countries such as Cambodia, Vietnam and Indochina and became distressed and exceedingly more and more incensed by the atrocious war crimes being committed by those in authority. He wrote most of his poems upon his return to America, …

Line1 “Globe shrunk tight” could be talking about a microcosm which could mean the themes of the poem are reflective to the wider world. Line 2 “Round” could link with the title and theme cycles of death and rebirth because snowdrops are iconic of the spring time and death is …

The poem ‘The Fish’ by Elizabeth Bishop is a narrative poem told in first person about the capture of a fish by an amateur fisher and the progression of the understanding for the beauty of nature. As the poem progresses the speaker moves from a sympathetic pitiful view to a …

The Poem, “Students,” by Tom Wayman talks about four theories of learning. The first theory presented in this poem is, “The Vaccination Theory of Education,” (line 12). This theory speaks about students who feel that once they have completed a subject, they never have to look at it again. Students …

The poem, “Guilt,” by Leona Gom addresses four examples of memories that bear a burden of guilt within them which the narrator can’t get rid of. In this poem, the narrator, who is speaking in the second person, is most likely a female because a mother usually doesn’t give a …

William Blake, one of the earliest and greatest figures of Romanticism, wrote the “Songs of Innocence and Experience” in the 1790s. The poems juxtapose the innocent, pastoral world of childhood against an adult world of corruption and repression. The collection explores the value and limitations of two different perspectives on …

“We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar was first published in 1896, a time when African-Americans, like Paul Laurence Dunbar, had very little rights. This poem deals directly with the racism that African-Americans faced. The views of the whole American-American community are expressed because of Dunbar’s use of the …

The Tropics in New York was written by Claude McKay in 1920. McKay was born in Jamaica in 1890 and immigrated to the United States in 1912. The twenty-two years that he lived in Jamaica gave him inspiration for this poem. The poem includes masterful imagery and other literary devices. …