Poetry Essay Examples Page 12

Many poets, conventional and traditional have written about their personal feelings and their views on the world. The two poems I have looked at I AM by John Clare and WANTS by Philip Larkin show their deepest emotions and individual thoughts and about themselves and other relationships between friends and family. Each poet has a…

Narrative poetry is poetry that tells a story, and amongst the oldest genre of poetry. A narrative poem is quite short and generally gives a direct appeal to human interest such as love, hate etc. We have read two types of poems which are ballads and monologues. Ballads are poems that tell a story in…

It is interesting in Frost’s poetry how we can have a contrast of two completely different themes, but yet, deep down in the layers of his poetry we find that they are actually very similar. This is found in the poems ‘The Cow in Apple Time’ and ‘There Are Roughly Zones’ as we are reintroduced…

This poem or rather extract from a long poem explores a familiar ambiguity in English – “tongue” refers both to the physical organ we use for speech, and the language we speak with it. Saying “tongue” for “speech” is an example of metonymy. In the poem Sujata Bhatt writes about the “tongue” in both ways…

The First World War began in 1914 and ended in 1918. This “Great War” killed millions of people and was intended to last only a few months. The attitudes at the beggining of the war were extremely pro-war and soldiers were thought to be brave and heroic. By the end of 1918, attiudes had changed…

Carl Sandburg 1878-1967, was an American poet, biographer, and balladeer. He was a writer, famous for his free-verse style Carl Sandburg, 222. He focused on the people and places of modern American life. Sandburg wrote what is regarded as the definitive biography of Abraham Lincoln. He was even invited to address the joint session and…

The war poem Dulce et Decorum Est was written by a World War 1 soldier, Second Lieutenant Wilfred Edward Salter Owen. The poem shows the reader what the soldiers had to endure during the war both emotionally and physically and creates many emotions in the reader such as sympathy, pity and anger. These are created…

Carl Sandburg was unique compare to many other poets. All of the poems that he wrote were short and straight to the point. You would not find any poems that he had written that are over a page, yet still; his poems are very easy to understand. Sandburg lived through a lot of historic events,…

My interest in English Literature began in my years in school where I had to read many books covering almost all periods of English Literature, from Medieval times to 20th century Modernism. Having read lots of books about this field and now in my English Degree of English Studies, I would like to specialize in…

The poetry of the English Romantic period (1800-1832), often contain many descriptions, and ideas of nature, not found in most writing. The Romantic poets share several charecteristics in common, certainly one of the most significant of these is their respective views on nature. Which seems to range from a more spiritual, if not pantheistic view,…