Poems Essays

John Donne was renowned for his use of metaphysical conceit in his poems to convey thoughts through imagery and alternate objects. This article focuses on the numerous aspects of conceits in the poem “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning”, and how they help to communicate meanings using the poignant metaphors. When it …

Gardening in the Tropics an anthology of poems by Olive Senior a woman writer of colour contains an affluent Caribbean experience in her poems. Senior skillfully expresses through her poems the different themes and concerns about the Caribbean such as European contact, challenges faced and historical experience. In doing this …

In today’s day and age, it seems that some would do anything to erase a crease in their forehead, or a crinkle on the outskirts of an eye. Because time is something that we can never get back, growing older is an idea that many try to deny, especially in …

One of the basic needs of the human is shelter, which is liveable and spacious enough to cater a family. Many in this community have been following developments involving the shelter, the downtown operation that for decades has housed the homeless and those seeking transitional housing. The truth is that …

During the early 1800s and late 1900s, the United States underwent huge economic and technological changes. The development of a society that relied on free enterprise and innovation led to new inventions and increasingly efficient businesses. These changes helped make the United States one of the world’s strongest economies and …

My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe …

There is a sense that there is some feeling between them with the words ‘or too much’. Perhaps there is something left between them, but because of the lack of communication they don’t know how to express it anymore. It would be so out-of-the blue now that they don’t dare …

This is an anthology of thoughts on First Love by John Clare, brainstormed version, not classified. The poem “First Love” is about John Clare falling in love for the first time. The poet explains what happens to him when he falls in love for the first time, and how his …

“Dystopian literature invites the reader to reflect upon the mutability of identity.” By comparing The Handmaid’s Tale and The Road, discuss how far, and in what ways the two novels support or refute this claim? Within dystopian literature, identity is something that can be seen as an individual’s most core …

The poem ‘Funeral Blues’ is about a person’s partner passing away and consequently, their whole world is destroyed and becomes meaningless. Numerous quotes show that the narrator has lost their loved one; for instance “Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come” and “Scribbling on the sky the message He …