Poetry Essays

This poem is a poem that describes the life of a retired miner, how he faced the close encounter of death and lived through that experience to have a long fulfilling life. In my opinion this poem is a poem of a young aussie man who was born poor and …

I found the poem “ This Moment” by Eavan Boland a complicated poem when I read it for the first time. I started to question myself once I finish reading it, what does this poem wants to tell us? The sentence was very short and each stanza doesn’t seem to …

”Few countries in the world have a poem printed on their currency, but Canada does … it is the first verse of John McCrae’s ”In Flanders Fields,” a poem that each November is recited in school gymnasiums and around war memorials in Canada and throughout many other English-speaking countries.” (Holmes …

This poem was written in 1915 by a female journalist Jessie Pope. This poem is aimed at young men trying to get them to enlist and volunteer for the war. Pope uses the colloquial word ‘laddie’ to suggest that it is directed at all young men. Pope clearly identifies in …

Metaphorical language is used in poetry to highlight and allow the reader to examine the many themes and ideas it contains. In the the Romantic poems “Tintern Abbey” and “I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud” by William Wordsworth, the idea that memory acts as a source of escapism to the …

Wilfred Owen, through his poems, shows the harsh reality of human conflict and contrasts the portrayal of these conflicts with the reality. Owen purpose is to challenges our thoughts and perspectives on war to show its true effects and stop the glorification that it receives in society. This can be …

One of the characteristic signs of our modern time is that people, immersed in the constantly changing social environment, in many cases prefer to turn to simplistic sources of information, like mass media, in their quest to get at the root of what is happening in our society. As a …

The central message of Percy Bysshe Shelley ‘s “Ozymandias” is often misinterpreted as a statement about the uselessness of power.  However, Shelley’s true intent was to express and demonstrate that power is fleeting and time, not powerful, is the most influential force in nature.  It is unmistakable that power, if …

The lines of Edward Taylor’s poem, Huswifery begins, “Make me, O Lord, thy Spinning Wheele compleat / Thy Holy Worde my Distaff make for mee…” (Taylor).  The mere mention of ‘Lord,’ and ‘holy’ in the initial lines automatically establishes the tone of the poem as spiritual, and perhaps even religious. …

Death is a topic that is conventionally associated with either grief or fear.  The poem “To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman, which mourns and elevates the death of a young athlete, and the poem “Dog’s Death” by John Updike, which professes grief over a dog’s death, are two …