Poets Essays

A Comparison Essay on ‘A Poison Tree’ and ‘Envy’ In this essay, i will be comparing the two poems; ‘A Poison Tree’ and ‘Envy’. I will be picking apart the poem to try and find both similarities and differences of the two poems. I will try to compare the structure, tone, …

Both of the poems that I have read give the same sort of message, “don’t stereotype older aged people”. Both of these women are trying to say that just because you get a bit older doesn’t mean that the person inside changes as most people would think. In the poem …

Robert Browning was an English poet who lived from 1812-1889. He was known for his use of dramatic monologue. Three of Browning’s best known dramatic monologues are; My Last Duchess, Porphyria’s Lover and The Laboratory. The earliest of which was Porphyria’s Lover which was first published in January 1836. It …

Both ‘I Shall Return’ and ‘Once Upon a Time’, explore the need to return, in Claude McKay’s case he wants to return home; to a happier place. Although in ‘Once Upon a Time’ Gabriel Okara wants to return to a happier time, to the person he once was. In ‘I …

Both “To Autumn” and “Amen” use natural imagery to represent the poets’ sensibility: for Keats it is the remarkable description of the harvest season that signifies a woman who cannot recognize her own individual worth and for Rossetti it is the cycle of seasons used to represent a process of …

It is an inevitable fact that the consumers of literature – laymen and literary critics alike – tend to group together texts and authors into separate categories, and attach to each category a number of supposedly ‘common’ characteristics and idiosyncracies which all its members apparently share. Philip Larkin and Ted …

John Keats La Belle Dame Sans Merci, consists of two separate points of view. One comes from the narrator, the other from the knight, who is under torment. The narrative is a fairly simple one; the knight encounters a beautiful lady that leaves him unable to get along with life, …

At the centre of Keats’s imaginative achievement lie his odes, in particular ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ and ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’. Owing to the fact that they were written within months of one another, one might reasonably expect to find similarities of interest, theme or mood between them, however …

I will write a critical analysis of this poem, then come to an informed conclusion on what this poem has shown me, as regards keats’ writing craft, and his preoccupation with death. When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain, …

“Sleep and Poetry” is one of the first poems written by Keats and it can be viewed in two different ways, either as a powerful presentation and a spirited and focused piece of writing or a naive, immature poem which does nothing more than idolise Wordsworth. In this essay I …