Poems Essays

“One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once ‘The Unnecessary War’, Winston Churchill.” War is a part of every nations history, and our great nation is no different. Winston Churchill made this statement in …

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) Lay me on an anvil, O God Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me pry loose old walls. Let me lift and loosen old foundations Lay me on an anvil, Oh God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike. Drive me into …

In ‘Telephone Conversation’, the poet conveys his disappointment and anger about being discriminated by the Caucasian unfairly just because he is an African by portraying the telephone conversation between himself and the British landlady. The poem is in the form of free verse. It is because ‘conversation’ isn’t something well-planned; …

Roger McGough’s poems are, with no doubt, light and humorous. However, this style of poetry does not hinder McGough’s attempt to deliver his message, but allows his approach to be more friendly and personal, and thus more successful and effective. These poems, ‘Why Patriots Are a Bit Nuts in the …

After analysing the poems The Pylons, The Express, Slough and The Wiper written by Stephen Spender, John Betjeman and Louis MacNeice (respectively), a clear picture of poetry in the 1930s was formed in my mind. All four poems speak of new inventions in the industrial sector, each in their own, …

Constantly risking absurdity is a poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The poem is an extended metaphor comparing writing poetry to preforming dangerous acrobatics. It has a very original layout and complicated structure. The poem is not very long, but it is precise and clear, it does so through great use of …

In the poem “London,” the author, William Blake, describes the misery of poor people in London, such as chimneysweepers, soldiers and harlots, to reveal the scene of exploitation and social injustice and to express his hatred of the city’s moral darkness with a melancholy tone. However, in “Composed Upon Westminster …

In Seamus Heaneys poetic piece, Blackberry Picking, the presence and mastery of malicious diction, vivid imagery, and metaphor is apparent as is a deeper meaning behind the authors poem. Heaneys writings not only convey a literal description of his actions, but also an emotional and metaphorical journey through his experience. …

Rhapsody on a windy night was written directly after Preludes and echoes many of its themes. Rhapsody… charts the night-time journey of a man through the streets of a city. Held in a trance by the moonlight, he is shown various sights by the street lamps he passes, and these …

Elaborate sacrifices, wonderful feasts, jubilant celebrations, all of which are acts that demonstrate the reverence of humans for the supernatural gods; a common motif in both the ancient Mesopotamia depicted in Gilgamesh, and the ancient Greece of The Odyssey. What seems to be a perfectly harmonious relationship between men seeking …