Poetry Essays

Maya Angelou’s “Africa” describes Africa being destroyed by Europeans who took the children of Africa into slavery. Personification and rhythm enhance both the imagery and tone of the poem. The continent of Africa is personified to create vivid images and the rhythmical patterns contribute to the changing tone from pleasant …

Ted Hughes is one of the most famous names in the contemporary world of poetry. He is called the animal poet, because many of his poems describe animals and represent human beings by using animal imagery. Animal kingdom is his private mythology. He has an extraordinary way of looking into …

John Keats, born in London in 1795, wrote the sonnet To Sleep when he was only twenty years old. In an iambic pentameter, the narrator talks directly to Sleep, asking “him” to provide escape from reality. With rimes in A-B-A-B structure, the author here makes a very melodic and harmonious …

The concept of “The Door” is based on the idea of taking risks and embracing change. The poet uses a persuasive and insistent tone to encourage the audience to take action. The lack of rhythm, rhyme and conventional structure also give the poem a conversational tone. The poem opens with …

Amongst the three love poems examined in this essay, the theme of male or female power in relationships pervades throughout. The views of the speakers are expressed and defined through literary and poetic techniques. This gives the reader an insight into the speaker’s problems and dissatisfaction of a relationship, due …

“The Pasture” by Robert Frost is a short, structured two-stanza poem. This poem gave the readers a vision of Frost’s character. Reading this poem, I get the feeling that Frost really loves the country. I think the pasture spring in the phrase “I’m going out to clean the pasture spring” …

Nowadays William Shakespeare is renown as one of the world’s greatest and most prolific dramatists of all times.Both tragedies such as “Romeo and Juliet”, “Hamlet”, “Anthony and Cleopatra”, and light-hearted comedies like “The Taming of the Shrew” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” are still box-office successes in theatres all around …

Dulce et Decorum est: it is a sweet and honorable thing. The title of the poem first suggested to me a poem of brave glory and the glamour of war; however, as I began to read, the words frightened me. Every piece of literary work I have read about WW1 …

Chose to or more other cultures poems you have studied. How do the poets present the theme of protest? ‘What else can an old woman do?’ ‘We know where we belong’ These two quotes, the first from An Old Woman by Arun Kolatkar and the second from Nothing’s Changed by …

I have chosen to explore paragraphs 8, 9 and 11 to interpret what Wordsworth might have meant by this quote. The use of ‘fostered’ creates the impression of a parent or guardian, and with such a high regard for nature I wonder whether this quote is aimed at her and …