Poems Essays

We live in a society where culture and identity are very important. Culture is the distinctive practices and beliefs of a society. Culture is all about where we live, our language, the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the celebrations we celebrate and the things we value. Many people …

Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning was written in 1836. It is a well-known poem that is told as a dramatic monologue, by a man that we can only assume is “Porphyria’s Lover”. The poem is certainly suspenseful right up until we hear he has, to our surprise, killed her and …

Carol Rumens creates a memorable poem by comparing the differences between cultures, traditions, religions, etc. It makes people realise that the world us we know it is not the same in all countries and continents. The poem explores the reality of “Morocco”, but it is just an example of how …

You should consider: * How each poet attempts to show confusion about their identity. * Each poets use of language and imagery. * Significance of structure and verse form in each poem. * Cultural significance of each poem. A person’s identity tells us who they are, what they do and …

The poem “My Last Duchess” was written by a famous 19th century poet called Robert Browning. “Salome”, on the other hand, is a modern 20th century poem written by Carol Ann Duffy. Both poems focus on the topic of killing lovers, but the two poets take different attitudes towards this. …

Poems, have a lot of characteristics, they have a bunch of details that are sometimes obvious or in other cases are subtle and need a little more work and investigation in. Poems between them, when compared one to another, are at times similar or very different. For my paper, I …

The language in ‘Search for my tongue’ by Sujata Bhatt is very negative in the first section of the poem. She uses a metaphor for her first language as a “tongue” which “would rot, rot and die in your mouth until you had to spit it out.” The negative language …

This poem is a beautiful description of social injustice concerning child labor. It makes a statement about childhood in the Eastern world, and how different it can be from a western readers childhood. The first line of the poem gives an effect of surrealism by saying that the children are …

The three poems covered are; Go Lovely Rose (GLR), To His Coy Mistress (THCM), and The Flea (TF). They are written by the metaphysicals, a group of 17th century poets who all wrote about similar subjects and went about these subjects by using diverse and imaginative means although unfamiliar with …

The poem is entitled “Monolouge”, written by the poet Hone Tuwhare.Written in the first person, we learn that it is about a low classed worker, and his working conditions The charachter is a very settled man , who enjoys his job and appreciates his position. There is an emphasis on …