Poetry Essays

In this essay I am going to deal with the two epic texts called: “The Epic of Gilgamesh” and Homer’s “Odyssey”. For both texts, I will discuss the cultural value of “heroism” In order to make a good analysis of both texts we have to know what “Epic” means. Webster’s …

The theme Change Upon Change by Elizabeth Barett Browning is love lost. The central character of the poem reminisces about his life five months ago. The poet uses the change in season to refer to the emotions of the character “and slow, slow as the winter snow the tears have …

Although both ‘Dulce et Decorum Est´ and ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade´ are about battle and the of soldiers, they portray the experience of war in different ways. Tennyson´s poem celebrates the glory of war, despite the fact that, because of an error of judgement (‘Someone had blundered´), six …

The poem I have chosen to write a detailed description and interpretation of is Maya Angelou’s ‘Still I Rise’. In analysing the chosen poem I will be considering the ways in which my own knowledge, experience and cultural identity might have an influence in the way I have read and …

From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spring. From the same source I have not taken My sorrow; I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone; And …

This is a traditional sonnet comprised of fourteen rhymed lines of ten syllables. Each line has five feet consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one, indicating the poem was written in iambic pentameter. The seven rhyming pairs are set out in the scheme introduced by Surrey; ABAB …

‘A Righteous Day’ written by Mudrooroo Nyroongah on 26TH January (Australia Day), in 1988, is a poem set in the first person voice that has been composed in response to the depressing day of the Bicentenary of European Settlement. As the “righteous” day is reflected by the persona, this contrasts …

In Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “Spring and Fall,” the speaker of the poem describes the changing phases of an individual’s understanding about loss and death from a childhood to maturity. Throughout the poem, the child’s innocence is gradually lost over time as her weeping for the dying leaves turns into weeping …

W.B. Yeats has created rhythm in his poem “When You Are Old” by using a familiar meter, simple rhyme scheme and by enhancing these forms with effective poetic devices and substitutions. Almost everyone who has studied English has read a play written by William Shakespeare. Yeats uses the same form, …

Eavan Boland’s poem “The Necessity for Irony” begins in narrative tone, when on a unremarkable Sunday Eavan, with her daughter, go browsing for antiques in town. However, by the end of the poem, Eavan’s tone is lyrical, as she sends an apostrophe to the “spirit of irony,” asking it to …