Poetry Essays

In the two poems, Dulce et Decorum est., and Anthem for Doomed Youth, both written by Wilfred Owen, the author’s main purpose was to expose the true horrors of World War II and to challenge the romanticized view of war that poets such as Rupert Brooke held. To achieve this, …

Absalom and Achitophel is a landmark poetic political satire by John Dryden. The poem exists in two parts. The first part, of 1681, is undoubtedly by Dryden. The second part, of 1682, was written by another hand, most likely Nahum Tate, except for a few passages—including attacks on Thomas Shadwell …

Katherine Philips’s “A Married State” addresses that marriage is not merry and that the ones who can should stay single for as long as possible. Just as Elaine Hobby writes, “Where romantic love appears in writings of this period…it is rarely noble or devine, and marriage does not of itself …

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering …

The ‘blissful dawn’ of revolution in France on 1790s and the bad situations, corruption and decay on the England and English values on that time led many of nineteenth century poets to write a sonnets which wishes the rebirth of famous English poet Milton and Milton soul to save this …

‘Behavior of Fish in an Egyptian Tea Garden’ is a narrative poem by Keith Douglas observing the actions of a seductress and a variety of men dining in an Egyptian Tea Garden. Douglas effectively employs a profusion of techniques including metaphors, similes, extended metaphor, and imagery to show the animalistic …

In “Apparently with no Surprise” Emily Dickinson writes about the cold, unfeeling attitude of nature. In the first stanza of the poem Dickinson writes of a “happy flower” that is beheaded by the frost “at its play in accidental power.” The choice of diction in the first stanza is especially …

“Personal Helicon”, by Seamus Heaney, is one segment from his first collection of poems titled “Death of a Naturalist”. This early work is centralised around a mixture of childhood innocence, self-discovery and the transition into adulthood. All of these are fairly ordinary factors of existence, yet Heaney applies them in …

Kay tamis ng oras sa sariling bayan, Kaibigan lahat ang abot ng araw, At sampu ng simoy sa parang ay buhay, Aliw ng panimdim pati kamatayan. Maalab na halik ang nagsaliw-saliw Sa labi ng inang mahal, pagkagising; Ang pita ng bisig as siya’y yapusin, Pati mga mata’y ngumgiti mandin. Kung …

‘No More Hiroshimas’ by James Kirkup and ‘Icarus Allsorts’ by Roger McGough can appear, on a superficial level, to be completely different poems. The former is long, gloomy and reflective, written in a narrative, free verse style, in first person. The latter is a short, satirical rhyming poem with an …