Poetry Essays

Any poem respected by Edgar Allan Poe to the extent that he would include it in his personal explanation of poetry should be exceptional, but ‘Bridge of Sighs’ by Thomas Hood is with certainty the best poem I have ever read. A reflective work, it tells the story of a …

Alexander Pope was a great poet in his own way. One of his greatest works “The Dying Christian in his Soul” was one poem of great awe and inspiration. His poems cover many of the literary devices used in the English language, and can be very complex to explain at …

I recently read two poems, entitled “Island Man” and “The Fringe of the Sea”. These two poems are similar in many ways, but also have conflicting ideas. They both have connections to the sea, through the content of the poems, but also through the authors. Grace Nichols is the author …

E. E. Cummings, an author known for his various poems and other forms of artwork, wrote numerous works of poetry over a vast amount of subjects. While the subject matter of the poems differ, a few elements of Cummings’ style stays the same in virtually all his poems, some of …

“Chicago,” written Carl Sandburg is a rousing piece of writing about the lives of people in Chicago and about the city as a whole. In 1894, Carl Sandburg’s father, a laborer in the railroad yards of a small Illinois prairie town, secured a pass for his son to see Chicago. …

In Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem, “Brahma” is miraculous in its blend of Eastern and Western thought. In the poem, Emerson assumes the role of Brahma, the Hindu God of creation. Emerson is able to use clever, yet complex paradoxical logic in order to present his philosophy in poetic terms. Throughout …

On Thursday, November 7, I saw a performance of Baal, written by Bertolt Brecht and directed by Evan Parry. The play was not an emotional play, but an intellectual play. It caused the viewer to think about the existentialist nature of Brecht’s writing and the underlying meaning of the play. …

In the poem, The Eagle: A Fragment, Alfred Lord Tennyson questions the position of man in the universe and demonstrates how his existence is transient and fleeting. The word “fragment” in the title of the poem shows immediately that he believes that man is just a trivial piece of insignificance. …

In this Essay I will compare and contrast Havisham, by Carol Ann Duffy and Porphyria’s Lover, by Robert Browning. I will explore and analyse the range of poetic devices used to tell a story of love gone wrong. Havisham is spoken by a fictional character based on Charles Dickens’ Miss …

Analyzing a poem can be a really hard task to accomplish. Basically, you have to read it. Usually, these poems would be written in English, so that would have been an easier undertaking, but somehow our group was assigned with the one written in Cebuano. So, now we don’t only …