Poetry Essays

Choose two texts by different writers which highlight a strong theme which you could identify. Name the theme and then go on to examine how the writers effectively highlight it for you. Two texts by different authors which highlight a strong theme with which I could identify are ‘Dawn Shoot’ …

Although Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen both wrote war poems they differ broadly from each other. Despite the fact that both authors’ have a totally different opinion concerning war they have certain aspects in common. In Rupert Brooke’s poem The Soldier he develops a glorifying idea of patriotism. He seeks …

Stanley Fish, in his inductive essay “How to Recognize a Poem When You See One”, argues that the process of “distinguishing” certain “features” of an object follows “the act of recognition”. Fish offers such conclusions from a short anecdote, which illustrates an analytical response of a group of students to …

Change is inevitable, yet it can be denied depending on who and when they experience this change and also on the passing of time. Time can bring forth wanted and unwanted change. In ‘Sky High’ by Hannah Robert, Les Murray’s ‘Spring Hail’ and ‘The Widower in the Country’ and ‘Here …

William Wordsworth secured the reputation of being one of the great Romantic poets. His verse celebrates the moral influence exerted by nature on human thought and feeling. Considered one of England’s greatest poets, John Keats was a key element in the Romantic Movement , know especially for his love of …

In the sonnet ‘Shall I compare Thee To A Summers Day’ The poet William Shakespeare uses countless types of imagery but the question is which types can be interpreted as beautiful and which part would be interpreted as anything but beautiful. ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou …

In the poem “Oranges”, the author uses certain literary devices to get the poems point across better. One of these literary devices is free verse. A free verse poem is a poem that does not have a fixed line length, stanza form, rhyme scheme, or meter. For example in verses …

Percy Bysshe Shelley was a rebel from the British upper class. He was married to Harriet Westbrook, and friend with Byron. Although he died very young at the age of thirty, he left behind him valuable writings. Ozymandias is without doubt a poem of such kind. The poem is an …

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow incorporates religious themes into his poetical work. His religious beliefs were in favor of his Christian faith, unlike others who found all the negative aspects of Catholicism. His poetical works such as “Christus”, “The Divine Tragedy” and “The Bells of San Blas” show his positivity toward the …

Lord Alfred Tennyson, a consummate poetic artist, consolidated and refined the tradition bequeathed to him by his predecessors in the Romantic Movement (especially Wordsworth, Byron, Keats, Shelley). Beginning in the after math of Romantic Movement, Tennyson’s development as a poet is a romantic progression from introverted and inert states of …