Poetry Essays

The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind of grief. Is it that they are born again And we grow old? No, they die too, Their yearly trick of looking of looking new. Is it written …

The use of Dialect is effective because it ties in with the persona, ‘the Socouyant’, who is part of our local ‘folklore’. It also adds humour to the otherwise serious poem, because the poem deals with the matter of there always being a ‘ Dark side’ to everyone. Tone – …

In Robert Grays poems, he uses language to capture human experiences. In two of his poems; old house and late ferry, gray has effectively captured human experiences by his varies poetic languages and through insight and feeling. Throughout both texts late ferry and old house, grays main message in the …

Half Past Two, Piano and Refugee Mother and Child share a common theme of childhood. In Half Past Two, the author talks about remembers about the feeling of simplicity and timelessness during his childhood. In Piano, the pt expresses his feelings towards the loss of childhood in comparison to his …

Margaret Atwood poem The Landlady presents a depressing and frightening experience of one living in a rented room. The landlady is very much the dangerous gaoler of this prison, and one who specializes in oppression. The poem is striking in its use of language, including imagery, sounds, and rhythms, that …

Heaney and Montague both write about fear in childhood. Compare and contrast two poems, one by each poet, taking account of the methods which each poet uses to write about fear in childhood. ‘The Barn’ by Seamus Heaney and ‘Like Dolmens Round my Childhood, the Old People’ by John Montague …

In Sir John Betjeman’s poem “5 O’clock Shadow”, imagery, figurative language and diction create a complex tone of dejection and hopelessness, revealing the fear of dying alone. From the title and first line, it is evident the speaker is a male and he is forced to stay in the “men’s …

When one reads The Waste Land for the first time, it may be difficult to extract some clear meanings out of the poem. The common reader is used to expect some uniformity and wholeness, some kind of unity or continuity in one or various aspects in any piece of writing …

The male hero could be said to be portrayed in Atwood’s poem “Backdrop addresses cowboy” by the cowboy. The cowboy is a clichéd symbol of masculinity made famous by the Western film industry of America. One can immediately conjure him up, square-jawed and handsomely rugged in Stetson and spurred boots, …

Eliza Griswold use rhyme in her poem “Occupation.” The rhymes in the poem give a continuous reading format whereby any reader is convinced to continue reading. This is a repetition of similar sound in two or more words, most likely at the end of each line. This creates rhythm in …