Poetry Essays

The two poems “Telephone Conversion” by Wole Soyinka and the poem “You Will Be Hearing From Us Shortly” by U A Fanthorpe are both about people being interviewed. In the poem, “You Will Be Hearing From Us Shortly” there is a candidate edgily sitting in the interviewing room being humiliated …

William Blake was a poet of a great standard. His harsh Protestant upbringing and folktales told to him inspired many of his poems. His greatest source was the Bible. Many of his poems involve God and nature. He is a Romantic poet (not the sort of ‘valentines’ romantic though), who …

William Blake and William Wordsworth both lived in the 18th-19th century and both had very different views on the world even though they were both romantic composers and wrote about the same kind of things. The two poets contrast in very different ways about similar things. In these two poems …

Each poem gives a different point of view of love. E. g. “First Love” is about a man who has fallen in love for the first time, he shares his emotions and feeling with us. “How Do I Love Thee” is a direct poem to her lover showing how strong …

Comment on the poet’s language and structure to ideas in one of the following: ‘Little Boy Crying’, ‘Caged Bird’ and ‘Carpet Weavers-Morocco’ In ‘Little Boy Crying’, Mervyn Morris describes the punishing of a boy by his father. The poet raises and develops key ideas throughout the poem, depicted by the …

The poets of both ‘half-Caste’ and ‘Search for my Tongue’ put a strong emphasis on the importance of personal identity. They both use similar devices to portray their personal attitudes towards the topic. The term ‘Caste’ means to be made, therefore ‘Half-Caste’ is a reacial term meaning half made. It …

“Dramatic Monologue usually presents a psychotic killer. However, despite the shock factor, we often feel sorry for the narrator” A ‘dramatic monologue’ is a type of poem, favored by many poets in the Victorian period, in which a character in fiction or in history delivers a speech explaining his or …

The Poem “Jac Codi Baw” is about a building which is going to be destroyed. The woman, who is narrating the poem, feels very strongly about the building and does not want it to be demolished. This building is very unique and precious to the woman which is why she …

In both poems ‘Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan’ and ‘An Unknown Girl’ by Moniza Alvi, contrasts in cultures are heightened by the perspectives of the respective characters in the poems. In the case of both poems, the characters appear to have an insight into both cultures that they are …

Betjeman is a crafts master. He is a master of rhythm and rhyme – sadly his poetry contains little else. How far do you agree? Betjeman is a crafts master, rhythm and rhyme are his forte, but his strengths do not cease here. He uses rhyme and rhythm to strengthen …