Poems Essays

The poem Lost Heritage, written by Heather Buck is concerned with the forgotten past, our lost heritage. In this free verse poem the speaker preaches that in todays generation we have lost our touch with the past. Todays children are blind to the importance and significance of our past, our …

William Blake’sThe Little Black Boy revolves around the theme of slavery and the ideal slave’s mentality. Blake wrote about a black African-American and his experience with slavery. Blake probably expressed his own feelings towards the whites’ racism and suppression acts towards African-Americans through the black boy, which is the speaker …

1.Home’s the place we head for in our sleep. 2. Boxcars stumbling north in dreams 3. don’t wait for us. We catch them on the run. 4. The rails, old lacerations that we love, 5. shoot parallel across the face and break 6. just under Turtle Mountains. Riding scars 7. …

Poems that are based on romanticism such as “Thanatopsis” by William Cullen Bryant express a certain feeling not obtained in other kinds of poems. Many people in the romantic era believed that man’s purpose was to become one with nature. They felt power and wisdom comes from nature. They also …

Odysseus, the hero of The Odyssey, has found himself in many interesting, as well as dangerous, predicaments. Although these predicaments were extremely challenging, Odysseus always found a way to survive. His survival depended on his mind and body combined. Without this important balance of thought and strength, it is obvious …

When Dr. Maya Angelou read her poem, “On the Pulse of Morning,” written especially for President Bill Clinton’s inauguration in 1993, the ‘best kept secret in literary circles’ was thoughtfully revealed to the whole world. She is arguably the most influential woman of her race, but there is more to …

Over one million children are homeschooled throughout the world today. That figure constitutes 1 percent of school-aged children worldwide (Lyman “Answers”). Children are no longer required to sit in boring classrooms day after day and learn from textbooks; however, along with those classrooms comes the socialization that most young children …

Maya Angelou’s “Africa” describes Africa being destroyed by Europeans who took the children of Africa into slavery. Personification and rhythm enhance both the imagery and tone of the poem. The continent of Africa is personified to create vivid images and the rhythmical patterns contribute to the changing tone from pleasant …

Ted Hughes is one of the most famous names in the contemporary world of poetry. He is called the animal poet, because many of his poems describe animals and represent human beings by using animal imagery. Animal kingdom is his private mythology. He has an extraordinary way of looking into …

William Shakespeare’s highly acclaimed drama Romeo and Juliet is the story of two lovers against fate who by their death end the quarrels between their families, the Montague’s and the Capulet. After meeting each other at a masquerade, they fall in one. However, the dread between the houses proves too …