Genre Essays

In The verse forms “The Burning Truck” and “Widower in the Country” Murray uses imagination. metaphors and personification to heighten the impact of the verse forms on the reader.“The Burning Truck” . The Poem is about war and shows how it can convey out the most crude emotions out of people. The Poem besides shows […]

This tutorial analyses the verse form “The Escape from Youth” by Tony Lintermans. Tony Lintermans is of Belgian. Irish and English heritage and was born in Dandedong. Victoria. Tony has a famed life as a instructor. scriptwriter and editor and has received literary acknowledgment for his work.“The Escape from Youth” is about a boy’s battle […]

Despite both being written during the great war, ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ and ‘Who’s for the Game’ took opposing positions. While both Wilfred Owen and Jessie Pope were inspired by the war, Owen fought in the western forefront, while Pope remained in the comfort of the home front. ‘Who’s for the Game’ falsely portrayed war […]

Siegfried Sassoon’s poem “Glory of women” represents his characteristic style as an English war poet. Through the application of poetic devices, Sassoon effectively conveys his anti-war sentiments by crafting vivid imagery with his words. Sassoon’s poem “Glory of women” belongs to a war time lyric genre. It endeavors to challenge the prevailing idealized notions about […]

“The Convergence of the Twain” by Thomas Hardy describes the sinking of the Titanic to notice on the high quality of nature over the fugitive world of amour propre. The storyteller uses the inevitable meeting of the iceberg and the ship to show nature’s power. The ocean trip seemed highly safe and confident to the […]

Terminal Resemblance is about the relationship of a male parent and girl. The girl believes that their relationship is non the best it could be and they are non every bit near as she would wish it to be. The verse form is written in narrative signifier. by the girl in the narrative. The verse […]

Firstly, we began to read Island Man as a class in lessons. This is written by Grace Nichols and is published in a book titled “Anthology”. The surface meaning of the poem is based on a man who used to live on a Caribbean island and still dreams of this place even now when he […]

1. After reading the poem loud and trying pausing for a fraction of second at the end of every line although there is no punctuation at the end, I see that it makes more senses and evokes emotions, which helps me be able to understand the feeling of the speaker about mourning himself upon his […]

Marge Piercy wrote the poem “Barbie Doll” in her 1973 collection, To Be Of Use. The story follows the life of a young girl growing up with modern expectations that she struggles to conform to. Barbie Doll uses different aspects of a woman’s life to express the different pressures on women in today’s society. The […]

From the first person perspective of a young school boy as the protagonist, Seamus Heaney reflects on his own childhood memory in the poem “Mid-term Break”. The reader discovers through reading the poem that Heaney returns home for the funeral of his younger brother’s car accident. The author illustrates the theme grief through diction, puns, […]

“Nighttime Fires” is a narrative poem written by Regina Barreca. The poet uses powerful imagery which vividly illustrates the lasting impression made upon a girl whose father seeks satisfaction through witnessing the destruction caused by nighttime fires. The poem creates a picture in the reader’s mind of the father’s character as his grown child still […]

“The Charge of the Light Brigade”. Throughout the poem, Tennyson uses strong imagery and metaphors to help describe the dangers that the Brigade faced, which explained the reason to honor the Brigade for their victory. Tennyson’s repetition of statements and words puts emphasis on certain lines. The uses of imagery and repetition of statements and […]

Read the poem “Stop all the Clocks” attached to this pack carefully and write a criticism in essay form. In general, the poem “Stop all the Clocks” written by W. H. Auden is about death of a dear person. When analyzing this poem in details, we see that the subject matter of first stanza is […]

One day soon he’ll tell her it’s time to start packing and the kids will yell ‘Truly? ‘ and get wildly excited for no reason and the brown kelpie pup will start dashing about, tripping everyone up and she’ll go out to the vegetable patch and pick all the green tomatoes from the vines and […]

Robert Browning was one of England’s most celebrated poets from the Victorian era. His literary pieces mirror his strong confidence as well as his faith in the importance of human existence. In Pippa Passes, one of his verse plays, he articulated his conviction that the Almighty is His paradise and that everything is true with […]

Although they differ greatly in structure and subject matter, the poems “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost and “Woodchucks” by Maxine Kumin both touch upon a personal aspect of the poets’ lives and ultimately explore the theme of death, albeit with distinct approaches and intentions. The two texts cannot be simplified […]

Every reader is provided a vivid glimpse of the thoughts of Robert Frost, the poet laureate, through his poems The Road Not Taken and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. The I-persona in each is shown to have stopped momentarily in his travel and is contemplating a choice laid before him. Taken literally, the […]

Robert Frost was born as Robert Lee Frost in San Francisco in 1874. He wrote his first poem as a student and since then there was no looking back for this legendary poet. His first book of poems “A Boy’s Will” was published in 1913, within two months of his arrival in England. “North of […]

A father’s special, often unappreciated love is the theme of “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden. It is a simple narrative that is as plain as its plot. The son as the narrator speaks out his feelings and thoughts about winter Sundays when everyone in the family can sleep late and snuggle under the warm […]

A lyrical poem is said to relay the poet’s true feelings and thoughts regarding anything that he chooses to write about. (Campa, AuthorStream. com) The overall tone of the lines of a lyrical poem would depend on the poet’s purpose, mood, and feeling at the time it is written. Thus, while other poems cover academic […]

A memorable idea is a concept that is thought about or remembered by a person because of the meaning that it may create. Slessor’s poems “Out of time” and “Beach Burial” convey the concept of memorable ideas. This is done through the thematic concerns of the poems, along with the use of poetic techniques. “Out […]

The Defence of Duffer’s Drift is a concise, allegorical book that would be a valuable asset to young, inexperienced military service members. The author, Sir Ernest D. Swinton, was a former British Army officer that rose to the rank of Major General. He served in the Anglo-Boer War as a Lieutenant and was awarded the […]