Poems Essays

Christina Rossetti and Maya Angelou were and are both female poets who, due to unfortunate geographical and historical circumstances, both faced oppression, in similar and dissimilar ways. Rossetti was an unmarried woman living in the Victorian era, a rarity in its self, and did a great deal of work for …

n the poems Sonnet 130, Havisham, Kid and On my first Sonne, the key rheme of love is explored. Traditionally, love in poems is romantic but other interpretations of love theme are also explored, such as parent and child, idolised love, friendship and sibling love. In these poems, other emotions …

The charge of the Light Brigade took place during the Crimean War of 1853 – 1856, when Britain, France and Turkey were fighting Russia for the control of some land in Crimea. This particular charge was made by the Light Brigade, a battalion composed of fleet, light cavalry; designed to …

John Clare was an English poet who lived mostly in rural Northamptonshire from 1793 to 1864. In 1837, he had a mental breakdown and was admitted to an asylum in Epping Forest. Four years later, he discharged himself and walked the 80 miles home in three and a half days, …

Andrew Marvell’s poem ‘To his Coy Mistress’ and ‘The Beggar Women’, written by William King, are both poems written around the seventeenth century and they reflect the roles of women at the time. As it was a patriarchal society, women were considered to be less important than men and this …

In this essay, I intend to explore and compare the differences and similarities between two poems on the subject of seduction. This poems were written in different eras and one was written by a male (Andrew Marvell) and the other by a female (Eileen McAuley. ) They portray seduction in …

The two poems I have been studying are, Percy Bysshe Shelly’s ‘Ozymandias’ and Alfred Lord Tennyson’s ‘Ulysses’. Both poems are examples that show us how time can affect heroes and kings. They explore the theme of how human power is transient. I am going to explore this theme by studying …

Richard Wilbur’s creation, “Juggler”, presents the reader with number of images making this a very vivid poem. On the literal level, by using devices such as movement, shape, sound and color the reader can picture the juggler’s amazing performance. For example, Wilbur suggests positive responses from the audiences on the …

In the poems ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ and ‘Electricity Comes To Cocoa Bottom’, both authors employ various linguistic devices such as vivid imagery and descriptive detail to put across a specific message to the reader. By doing so, they successfully evoke a series of emotions from the reader throughout the …

In this initial line from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” the poet creates suspense because the person in the poem is thinking deeply. Pondering deep thoughts puts the reader in suspense because one wonders what those thoughts could possibly be. One’s suspense is intensified by the fact the reader also …