Poems Essays

The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds ( also, with the church’s protestant blessings daughters, un scented shapeless spirited) they believe in Christ and Longfellow, both dead are invariably interested in so many things_ at the present writing one still finds delighted fingers …

In the poem, An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow, Les Murray describes a scene of a dignified man, crying in a street surrounded by onlookers who are going through different emotions from this unusual sight. The poem starts off in a world full of greed, gossip and a life of no time, …

Keats composed the ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, based on a sonnet written by Wordsworth in 1811. The theme of transience and permanence, which struck Keats in Wordsworth’s poetry, forms the leading theme in the Odes. The ode, ‘To Autumn’, may be seen as a temporary ‘bridge’ in the debate …

In Greek comedy, the eiron was the sly underdog who, by dissembling inferiority, outwitted his opponent. As Aristole puts it, irony is a sharp incongruity between our expectations of things and what actually occurs, as if the universe were mocking us. An amazinling talented song writer, Kurt Cobain lead singer …

The Poems “Suburban” and “Walking the Dog” both have titles that don’t quite give an accurate depiction of the poems subject. Which is an unexpected humor that involves dog shit and the dog owners involvement in it. The poems have many commonalities between them because of their similar topic, as …

Being in a country where there are only two seasons, we can only rely on images of winter, spring, or autumn on postcards, movies or television shows. Through these aids, we see the beauty these seasons bring, maybe to the point that we envy those people experiencing it first hand. …

Write approximately 250 words stating what significant idea(s) are explored through this text, and how. Use quotes to support your points. The poem, “Solstice Poem,” by Margaret Atwood is about a mother sharing her thoughts and asking herself how to raise her daughter well so that she will be able …

The poem “Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning, is a dramatic monologue of a man who is so obsessed with Porphyria that he decides to keep her for himself. The only way he feels he can keep her, though, is by killing her. “Dripping”, “struggling” – visual image and also sets …

‘The Pains of Sleep’ is written in the first person present tense from the point of view of an un-named narrator; which may (or may not) be the author. However, the nightmares and sleep disruption described in the poem are symptomatic of withdrawal from opiate addiction, an affliction from which …

“The loner” is a poem revolving around the experiences of one boy’s isolation in a school playground. Written by Julie Holder, the poetic techniques within this poem such as alliteration, rhythm, similes and metaphors exemplify its slow and doleful tone and, when collaborated, add to the overall effect of the …