Poetry Essays

This is a translation of the Italian poem “Rime 140” by Petrarch. The following link – shows the original form and two translations – each poem is different. They are built around the conceit of love as a warrior or knight, who, in the octave, makes bold to declare himself …

The poems that I’ve read from this chapter have left me confused and delirious. Poems can take you on an emotional, physical, and mental roller coaster. The poet can make you feel a certain way after reading their work. I believe that the best definition of poetry is Emily Dickinson’s …

London: A Poem” was published anonymously in 1738, and was immediately popular, perhaps because, unlike the later “The Vanity of Human Wishes,” it is fairly easy to read: Alexander Pope praised it, and the impoverished Johnson received ten guineas from Edward Cave, the publisher, for the copyright. It is, the …

The poem “Heritage” describes how the author James Still feels about his hometown. Initially this poem seems to be a simple tribute to one’s hometown, but the underlying descriptions prove otherwise. The poet uses a first person point of view to create a personal connection between the audience and the …

One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away: Agayne I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tyde, and made my paynes his pray. “Vayne man,” sayd she, “that doest in vaine assay. A mortall thing so to immortalize, …

‘The Early Purges’ by Seamus Heaney focuses on the traumas of childhood, and how impressionable we are when we are young. The poem is sad: it is about a child who sees kittens drowning, along with many other animals being killed in various methods on a farm. At the time …

Owen does not experiment with language and structure in this poem. The poem is about the experience of men being moved from their training camp to the trenches in France. The men would have come from a variety of places in the country to the training camp, and the town …

The use of rhetorical devices in John Keats’ “To Autumn” We all know that the autumn is probably the most ambivalent season of the year. People have more or less fixed associations with the other three seasons, but this is not true for autumn. Summer is usually seen as the …

November Night, Edinburgh is a wonderful poem by Norman MacCaig. This poem is describing the horrible winter in Edinburgh, Scotland. The winter described is a cold, terrible winter with frost and pollution. This poem follows a 4-line 4-stanza structure. This poem does not have any rhyming in it, but one …

The poem Crossing the Swamp is a well-organized poem which uses many techniques to develop the relationship between the speaker and the swamp. Some of these techniques include diction, narrative structure, repetition, imagery, personification, tone shift, as well as many interesting sound devices that. The first thing that is very …