Poetry Essays

The poem ‘the planners’ is written by boey kim cheng. He was born in Singapore and is now teaching creative writing in an Australian university. This poem is about how Singapore was planned and built because of the insatiable desire toward perfection of the people. In this poem the poet …

Hugh Doston (“Dossie”) Carberry was born July 12, 1921, the son of sir John Carberry, a former Chief Justice of Jamaica, and Lady Georgina Carberry, in Montreal, Canada. He came to Jamaica in infancy and spent most of his life there. He had his primary education at Decarteret school in …

A battle started within man. Two instincts equally strong, Have been inside us all along. Each trying to take control. Different desires and different needs, Possessing our thoughts and our deeds; Two instincts control them all. Savagery is the vicious one. Thirst for blood and inclination to destroy. The end …

Silver Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks the night in her silver shoon; This way, and that, she peers, and sees Silver fruit upon silver trees; One by one the casements catch Her beams beneath the silvery thatch; Couched in his kennel, like a log, With paws of silver sleeps …

“Traditional poetry”- applies to the classical forms in rhyme, meter, and language. The later Modernist or Postmodernist forms have the spirit and content of poetry, but lack the traditional organization. Critics of free verse and other forms often allude to traditional forms as “proper poetry”. Characteristics of Traditional Poetry Rhyme …

Eliot challenges his audience to consider the state of his character’s subconscious living within a corrupted society. Thomas Stearns Eliot’s poems, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock published in 1915, and Preludes published in 1917, resonate the decay and alienation of Eliot’s characters and civilization. Eliot employs various poetic …

This poem fundamentally details how Sylvia Plath sees her life, through the metaphors and images she was so fond of. By using the word “planetary” in the first line, we gain a sense of how she saw her role in the world – still part of the solar system, but …

A. The Reason of Choosing the Topic There are many methods or strategies which can be done to teach poetry such as the audio lingual, grammar translation method, communicative approach, etc. But, the strategy or method chosen by the writer is CBLT which stands for Competency Based Language Teaching. In …

The following handout is an abridged version of John Dryden’s A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire (1693). You must read this document carefully. There has been a long dispute among the modem critics, whether the Romans derived their satire from the Grecians, or first invented it themselves. …

My poet is A.E Housman. He was born by the name of Alfred Edward Housman on March 26, 1859 in Fockbury, Worcestershire, England. His mother died on his 12th birthday. Soon later, his father remarried to a girl named Lucy in 1873. A.E was the eldest of 7 children. A.E …