Essays about Life Page 113

A love poem is a piece of poetry that describes a positive emotion for one from another. Love poems can come in many different forms. There are ‘free verse’ love poems, where poets use no particular rhyming scheme or rules, but they let their poetry flow. You can also find many ballads about love. In…

Ambition is not the same as happiness, and happiness is not the ultimate goal in The Tempest. For Prospero, his ultimate ambition is to become Duke of Milan again after being usurped by his brother Antonio. Ambition should be directed towards a concept of duty and selflessness, yet once becoming ruler of the island, Prospero takes…

‘Poison Tree,’ by William Blake, a poem of an enemy being poisoned by an apple from a tree and ‘Strange Meeting,’ By Wilfred Owen, a conversation between two enemies; are both a subject of friendship and enemies. However both writers, in completely diverse methods express the running theme of ‘friendship’. The theme of friendship in…

In the following poems, the different poets show a verity of different attitudes towards love. In his poem ”To His Coy Mistress” Marvell is ambiguous, as we do not know weather Marvell’s feelings are actually genuinely towards his lover or weather he is just trying to get her to sleep with him. Blake on the…

Love is possibly the most talked about subject of all time but unfortunately it has not always been as fair, free or co-equal as we like to believe it is today. Pre-twentieth century poems clearly show us that love was very male dominated. This was often the faults of the woman’s fathers who set up…

Analyse the different attitudes the poets John Keats and P. B. Shelley have towards nature in the poems “Ode To A Nightingale,” “Ode On A Grecian Urn,” “Ode To Autumn,” “Ode To The West Wind” and “To A Skylark. ” A: “Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye — it also…

Explain the significance of the opening scene and as a director explain what impact you would like the scene to have on the audience and how you would achieve this. The play ‘The House of Bernarda Alba’ is written by Frederico Garcia Lorca. In the opening scene the playwright uses many different techniques to create a…

The actors used direct address to interact with the audience a lot throughout the performance and especially the pre show. I watched them sit and talk with other people but they were completely in character whilst doing this. They all had their scarves around the head and one of the actors had some knitting in…

The play “An Inspector Calls” is one that contains many broad themes, and one of these is that of morality. Morality manifests itself in many ways throughout the play, on a small scale in the individual case of the Birlings and Eva Smith, through the Inspector, and as a constant undercurrent running through the entire…

Many poets use poetry to convey their feelings for nature. Poets like Seamus Heaney, John Clare and Alfred Tennyson use a variety of techniques to reflect their experiences, connections and emotions in regards to the natural world. Seamus Heaney’s Storm on the Island presents his feelings to nature in several different ways. The first of…