Poetry Essays

My Papa’s Waltz” In Theodor Roethke’s “My Papa’s waltz” the reader finds a horrid experiance, the beating of a child by his father, which is told in a way of a romantic and beutifull dance – the waltz. The feeling one get from reading this poem is that the narrator, …

Icarus is a character in Greek myth. According to the myth he and his father fly with wings that his father made out of wax and feathers. They are trying to escape from a mean king. Icarus’ father warns him not to fly to close to the sun or the …

Essay: Write a two-page essay in which you compare any two out of the four Walt Whitman and Langston Huges poems. What do they have in common? How are they different? Use specific examples from the text to prove your point. Today, we know, that a poem can best be …

Leonard Cohen has had a long and illustrious career as a poet and a songwriter. The Canadian songwriter has written many popular songs, and we all have at least one of his tunes stored up in the recesses of our minds. However, there are a certain few of Cohen’s that …

The first poem by Rumi that I read was entitled “An Empty Garlic”. The title threw me off at first, since it goes into this whole thing about an old woman, who the narrator is trying to discourage his friend from going after. “Tasteless fig, fold over fold, empty as …

Thomas Campion describes the woman’s beautiful perfections in his poem. He uses similes and metaphors throughout to describe the beauty that beholds this magnificent woman. But the woman cannot be as perfect and as beautiful as the speaker makes her out to be so it gives it a sense of …

Among many contemporary poets, Gabriel Okara makes his stand as one of the most influential Nigerian lyricists. Okara speaks of the same impressions of the controversial novelist Chinua Achebe. In the poem “Piano and Drums,” Gabriel Okara shows the contrasts between the past life and the modern world. Some aspects …

Shakespeare expresses ideas through the language and imagery in sonnet 162. It uses a variety of rhymes, images and tones to present his definition of true love. The sonnet follows the conventional abab rhyming form, using both full rhymes and half rhymes. Shakespeare employs half rhymes in the sonnet to …

Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, William Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, and Octavio Paz’s “The Street” share similar themes in that they all explore solitude and insightfulness. There is an interesting contrast within this group of poems, especially between the Frost and Wordsworth poems …

Sharon Olds’ “Rites of Passage” is about the hidden adults in the children that come to her son’s birthday party. All the children are boys and display male adult personality traits that remind the speaker of small mighty Generals of war. The tone comes across sad, ironic and disillusioned about …