Poems Essays

All these poems have something in common. Every poem has its own socially or historically interest to it. Blake is a man who is socially and historically ahead of his time. William Blake wrote ‘The Little Black Boy’ at the time of the slave trade. Straight away in this poem …

The three poems, Wordsworth’s ‘Upon Westminster Bridge’, Blake’s ‘London’ and T. S. Eliot’s ‘Preludes’ contain many similarities but also many fundamental differences. These differences and similarities cover style, structure and language. In this piece of writing I am going to ‘Compare and Contrast the ways in which cities and city …

U.A Fanthorpe is a contemporary poet and I have read 3 poems in an anthology called Track 2. She seems to have a low impression with the education systems in schools. She also used to be a teacher, but left early because she didn’t like the job, so she knows …

In the poems “London” by William Blake and “Iguana Memory” by Grace Nichols there are many different ideas and themes which are expressed in different ways, however the form of the poem is not the only method used to convey these to the audience. In “London” Blake uses a conventional …

William Blake lived 1757 to 1827 and was born and lived in London. As a young boy and throughout his later life Blake experienced many strange and unusual vivid visions, claiming to have seen Angels and ghosts. This I feel has a great relevance in his decision to write poetry …

William Blake was a poet of a great standard. His harsh Protestant upbringing and folktales told to him inspired many of his poems. His greatest source was the Bible. Many of his poems involve God and nature. He is a Romantic poet (not the sort of ‘valentines’ romantic though), who …

William Blake and William Wordsworth both lived in the 18th-19th century and both had very different views on the world even though they were both romantic composers and wrote about the same kind of things. The two poets contrast in very different ways about similar things. In these two poems …

The content in “Charlotte O’Neil’s song” is of a maid who is extremely angry and is not willing to be a slave for hey “mistress” any more. She then makes up her mind to immigrate to New Zealand. In stanza one of “Charlotte O’Neil’s Song” she makes a list of …

When comparing the poems, ‘Nothings changed’ and ‘Charlotte O’Neil’s song’ we see that they are set in different time periods and in different cultures. Charlotte O’Neil’s song is set in the 19th century whereas; the poem Nothings Changed is set in the 20th century. However, despite this they are both …

The film starts with low camera shot of a can or a circular piece of rubbish in the grass reflecting the bright sky and a reflecting and dark image of an elderly man walking past with a stick. The low camera shot makes us feel as if we were actually …