Essays About Poem
I am very bothered when I think of the bad things that I have done, especially when I was thirteen and at Moorly High School. It was one particular science lesson after registration. It all started off on a busy and hectic morning when I was preparing myself to go to school. Oh I gotta…
In this section I will be comparing two poems on the theme politics and inequality “Nothing’s changed” by Tatamkhulu Afrika and “Vultures” by Chinua Achebe. “Nothings changed” is about the poet talking about where he lived “District Six” and how it was a mixed-race area, but when apartheid was introduced in South Africa it become…
Both “On my first Sonne” and “refugee mother and child” deal with the death of a child. Compare and contrast the 2 poems, exploring their themes and ideas, the poet’s use of language and your own reaction to them. The Poems On My First Sonne Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy; My…
The two poems, “To His Coy Mistress” and “The Flea” were both written with one thing in mind: seduction. The poems were later labelled as Metaphysical poems, which is a term used for poems that were written in a certain period, usually to seduce, and contained unusual metaphors. The 17th century was a highly religious…
“First Love” and “Shall I compare thee to a Summers day” are two poems written before the 1900’s by John Clare and William Shakespeare. The poems share similar language and imagery mainly about love but vary in structure. The poems allow the reader to see Clare’s experience as he has lost his heart and Shakespeare’s…
Perhaps the most striking similarity between both poems is the fact that both poets allude to Nazi imagery in order to exemplify the unresolved imagery they face. To define love and evil Achebe uses the atrocities done by the ‘Commandant at Belsen camp’, a human who used to return to his ‘tender offspring’ everyday even…
Compare ‘The Hyaenas’ with ‘War’. What shock tactics are used to get across a message about war and why did the poet use them? Both poems, ‘The Hyaenas’ and ‘War’ use shock tactics to get the message across about war. Kipling and Wallace have used some similar shock tactics in both of these poems, the…
The length of the two poems is noticeably different, with ‘AWIL’ being much shorter than ‘CUFTFF’. From reading the poems, you can realise that ‘CUFTFF’ is much more descriptive than ‘AWIL’. We are given details of how the characters are related to each other, by reading “mother”, “father” and “son”. Also, we are given a…
He’s basically say if the had lots of time they would sit down, think and talk about what they would do. There is also an example of alliteration in this stanza: ‘Long love’s’. Also in this stanza Marvell compares her to the river Ganges, saying he can imagine her being sat by the rive, as…
The final stanza of His Coy Mistress, is almost a mixture of one and two, he begins to flatter her again – just as he did in stanza one, but is still very threatening as her was in stanza two. The opening line is: ‘Now therefore, while the youthful hue sits on thy skin like…
Compare and contrast at least one post 1914 war poem with Charge of the Light Brigade by Lord Tennyson, focus on different views of war and how they are conveyed The poems that I will look at are: “Dulce et Decorum Est” by W. Owen and “The charge of the light brigade” by A. Tennyson. These…
This makes you automatically judge what the poem will be like. In Duffy’s poem she uses alliteration to describe nicer things, ‘sweet shop’ When you hear this you feel happier and think of nicer things. In Heaney’s poem he describes things that aren’t really a nice image, ‘jampotfuls’ and ‘jellied’ These don’t sound as nice or give you as nice…
Love poems can be written in many different ways. Elizabeth Barret Browning. Modern day love poems can be completely different to traditional and old love poems. A modern day love poet is Alasdair Maclean. He has written many modern love poems, such as, “Question and Answer,” and he’s still doing them to this day. Elizabeth…
My essay will compare the presentation of nature in Seamus Heaney’s Death of a Naturalist, Gillian Clarke’s A Difficult Birth, Easter 1998 as well as Patrolling Barnegat and Sonnet from the pre-1914 bank. Nature is a theme which can be represented in different ways. Poets choose nature as a theme in their poems for different…
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…
Whereas, throughout ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’, Owen mainly describes the condition the soldiers were facing (with the help of metaphors), “cursed through sludge” and their appearance, “He plunged at me, choking, drowning”. He uses “sludge” to portray the battleground as it was filled with gooey mud that the soldiers found very hard to move in…
Seamus Heaney was born to a rural family, in 1939, in Northern Ireland. Heaney grew up on a farm, as his father was a great farmer. Heaney had great admiration for ordinary farming folk, but did not want to be a farmer himself. His poems often celebrate the skills of the ordinary rural people like…
Seamus Heaney’s poems, ‘Digging’ and ‘Follower’ portray to us the strong relationship between the father and son, as Heaney tends to look up to the elders in his family. Both poems create that pastoral type of atmosphere with the title, ‘Digging’ suggesting to us digging into the past. ‘Follower’ on the other hand gives us…
Seamus Heaney has many different emotions littered throughout many of his poems. Strong emotions can be seen in the poems “Death of a Naturalist” “Blackberry Picking” “Mid Term Break” “Follower” and “Digging”. In “Follower” and “Digging” Heaney displays emotions of admiration as he describes his father on the farm. Whilst in “Mid Term Break” he…
Digging and Follower show Heaney delving into his earliest personal memories of his childhood and giving them life through words. He uses diverse approaches to expose the underlying emotion of his memories, using tactile imagery that is often also metaphorical. On the surface, his poetry may appear simple, or perhaps trivial – but often, as…
Seamus Heaney’s poem ‘Digging’ and ‘Death of a Naturalist’ represents the poets past. ‘Digging’ covers themes of family traditions and how he feels about breaking this tradition of digging, whereas ‘Death of a Naturalist’ looks at his childhood past, exploring innocence and pleasure of childhood activities and comparing it to the seriousness of growing up….
The poems ‘Out, Out’ by Robert Frost and ‘Mid Term Break’ by Seamus Heaney both contain many similarities and differences. Both poems tackle the issue of child death, although both from very different perspectives. ‘Mid Term Break’ has a much more personal approach to the subject as the narrative character is the brother of the…
This poem has one main theme and a minor theme behind it. It is about jealousy and his obsession of his last married love. Throughout the poem, we can really feel his jealousy escalating. He has a beautiful, life like painting of her, which he keeps under a curtain. He keeps her under a curtain,…
In the majority of Seamus Heaney poems, the presentation of a place or setting is very important. In both of these poems, it is evident throughout. In Broagh, the Irish poetic technique named Dinnshenchas is employed, the literal Irish meaning being “place lore”. Through this, the poet explores the naming of the place and can…
Two of the most skilled poets of all time were William Wordsworth and John Keats, both poets wrote romantic poetry. From poems like “To Autumn” by John Keats and “The Prelude” (1) by William Wordsworth we can see that both well known poets used their poetry to describe their feelings and the atmosphere of them…
The poems written by Carol Ann Duffy and Sylvia Plath can be interpreted in many ways, but by looking into both poems in a deeper meaning you can quickly see that they are both alike in many ways. The poems have a subject, which is fairly similar, both project imagery of holy metaphors, both within…
In this essay I shall be comparing and contrasting two poems by the author Sylvia Plath. The two poems are ‘Blackberrying’ and ‘Mirror’ Sylvia Plath born in Boston, Massachusetts 1932 was the wife of another famous yet complicated poet Ted Hughes. Many of Plath’s poems were based on her inner pain yet also other celebratory…
Animals are living things that we see in our everyday lives yet we don’t seem to give them any importance. Very few people give them the respect they deserve. The poems I am going to compare are based on animals. The animals are given human qualities, which are done purposely by Ted Hughes to make…
Several motifs used by Keats and Shelley enhance the symbolism of the poems. The poets use several motifs to their command and therefore succeed in revealing their innermost thoughts to the readers. For instance, in ‘Ode On A Grecian Urn,” the urn is symbolic to the time which forever stays stagnant. Keats wants to compare…
There are over 6 billion people in this world. They are all different and therefore all choose to live their lives in different ways. There are some individuals who always thrive to achieve more. They always want to do more, hear more, see more, whereas some individuals have a few selective goals and once those…
