Poetry Essays

In Heany’s Digging we are greeted by a scene depicting him, in his bedroom performing his passion of writing. Upon looking out the window he is immediately greeted by his father in his passion of work. This poem is one of separation of family tradition and the tenacity of a …

We are studying the work of Seamus Heaney, a well known poet. Heaney’s earlier poems were largely focused on his childhood and his upbringing on his family’s farm in Northern Ireland. Both his father and grandfather were farmers, but Heaney did not share their ambitions, he followed his dreams to …

‘London’ steadily builds up increasingly comprehensive answers to its initial problem of why every face shows, ‘marks of weakness and woe’. With its ‘midnight streets’, it is true; London is a forest of the night in which one may wander, lost. The city wanderer arrives somewhere by the end: at …

The two poems “Half Past Two,” and “Dear Mr Lee,” are both written by U.A.Fanthorpe. They are both about school-life, one from a young child’s point of view and the other from an older child’s point of view. The titles of these two poems do not, at a first glance, …

1. What is CONGESTION? Why is it a bad thing? Congestion is a pile up of traffic that isn’t moving. It normally occurs in urban areas where there are a lot of major businesses, and an enormous number of people either, travelling to work by car, going shopping or passing …

All these poems have something in common. Every poem has its own socially or historically interest to it. Blake is a man who is socially and historically ahead of his time. William Blake wrote ‘The Little Black Boy’ at the time of the slave trade. Straight away in this poem …

Half-past Two and Leaving School are both poems based around school and yet they both show two completely different experiences of school. U A Fanthorpe’s Half-past Two is a light-hearted and slightly comical poem whereas Hugo William’s Leaving School, shows a more serious and negative view of school. The titles …

I believe that Fanthorpe is indeed a master of speaking in the voice of another. She is capable of seeing things from various perspectives and points of view, and expressing that view in her writing. Fanthorpe herself once mentioned that she enjoyed working for voices in the ‘Browning’ way, and …

3) Compare the ways William Blake in ‘The Tyger’ and Ted Hughes in ‘The Jaguar’ use language to make us aware of the power of the animals. Tigers and Jaguars are big cats which both have a lot of power. They are beautiful creatures. Even though William Blake and Ted …

I will be comparing and contrasting two famous poems by William Blake and Steve Turner. They are both poets who are writing about cities. Blake’s poem is a lot older as it was written in the seventeenth century and Turner’s poem is modern and so there is a big difference …