Poetry Essays

This tutorial analyses the poem “The Escape from Youth” by Tony Lintermans. Tony Lintermans is of Belgian, Irish and English heritage and was born in Dandedong, Victoria. Tony has a celebrated life as a teacher, scriptwriter and editor and has received literary recognition for his work. “The Escape from Youth” …

Family relationships are not always the loving embraces seen on the Disney Channel. Some can become more malicious, such as those seen on Fox. The poems “My Father’s Song,” by Simon J. Ortiz, and “My Papa’s Waltz,” by Theodore Roethke, are two similar poems written about a father and child …

Thomas Hardy is an intriguing and enigmatic poet whose poetic themes deviate from war, nature and heroism to love, the transience of life and the death of the soul. Though penned some eighty years ago, the poetry of Thomas Hardy remains remarkably accessible and identifiable to a modern reader. While …

The poems of Robert Frost, such as “Mending Wall” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” appear to be simple and easy to read. Frost used ordinary language in describing the doubt and uncertainty that come in everyday life. These feelings link him to the modern world, despite his …

The title of this poem is derived from the expression ‘To sow your wild oats’. It was culturally accepted by men at the time, that before marriage, men would be allowed to indulge in many sexual relationships with many women. The reasoning behind this is that if a man is …

Robert Frost writes poems that stimulate a persons mind to see an array of beautiful imagery and cheerful scenes. However, Frost is not always so pleasant. Not only does Frost provide a sense of beauty and happiness in his poems, but there is also a sense of darkness, trouble and …

In prayer before birth, Louis Macneice uses a baby to convey his thoughts and emotions on the current state of the world. Macneice wishes to emphasize how harsh and ruthless the world is, and how it can strip away a young unborn baby of its innocence. By cleverly combining uses …

The first part of the poem “Seduction” is a story about a young girl who is seduced by a boy after the party, and consequently becomes pregnant. The second section describes how the girl then regrets her decision. In general the poet does intends her reader to feel sympathy for …

In Judith Wright’s poem, “To Another Housewife”, change occurs as the fundamental motif. The composer has harnessed a variety of language techniques to promote these changes. “To Another Housewife” is a dramatic monologue that talks about the changes in the values and responsibilities of a girl as she matures into …

In the poem “Birches” by Robert Frost, Frost attempts to illustrate a cycle of growing up from childhood to adulthood. According to Frost, through the use of childhood imagination one can easily endure the struggle we call life. “Birches” is separated into different sections, beginning with a description of a …