Genre Essays

The four seventeenth century “love poems” I will be comparing are “To His Coy Mistress”, “Shall I Compare Thee” and “My Mistress’ Eyes”, along with “The Flea”. All the four poems are based on the subject of “love”. Each poem touches on a different aspect of love although they all have a lot in common. […]

Both William Blake’s ‘London’ from approximately 1794 and William Wordsworth’s ‘Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802’ are centered around London, but the two poets hold divergent perspectives on the city. A thorough examination and juxtaposition of these two works reveals the varying employment of techniques in the Shakespearian sonnet ‘London’ and the Italian sonnet […]

When we read the five poems we gather that the poems all have different aspects of the theme of relationships. The poems I have chosen are ‘The Laboratory by Ancien Ri?? gime, The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy, Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare, Remember by Christina Rossetti, The Little Boy Lost and The Little […]

As a part of my English lessons, I have been doing a lot of work on pre-1914 (in 1914, World War I began, causing a big change in literature) poetry. There were three poems I have been focusing on, each written by a different author: firstly, the poem My Last Duchess, written in 1842 by […]

In both types of sonnets, Shakespearean and Petrarchan, there are different ideas expressed by the poets but the actual sonnets have similarities and differences. These poets are mainly focused on the elements of death, love, religion and the passage of time and how these themes affected themselves and their lives. These sonnets were extremely popular […]

The poem ‘To His Coy Mistress’ is about a man who is pressurising his mistress or girlfriend to live for the moment. In other words it means that he wants her to have sex with him. The poem that I have chosen to write about is a ‘Carpe diem’ poem, which is a traditional motive […]

This essay will be based upon the four poems “First Love” by John Clare, “Remember” by Christina Rossetti, “When We Two Parted” by Lord Byron and “A Woman to Her Lover” by Christina Walsh. Love and loss will be widely explored and compared in this essay, and we will be shown how the authors use […]

In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting ‘Cousin Kate’, a first person narrative poem written by Christina Rossetti written during the 19th century (1830-1894) and ‘The Seduction’, a third person narrative poem written by Eileen McAuley during the late 20th century (1980).The narrator in ‘Cousin Kate’ is a cottage maiden who chronologically narrates […]

Both poems were written in the seventeenth century, though their subject matters differ. The Sonnet’s subject matter is intended to be an ode of love to a woman, saying how he will love her even when she is old. Contrastingly, To His Coy Mistress is more about lust. It is quite crude, with the poet […]

The sonnet is a type of poem that consists of 14 lines and follows a strict, yet modifiable, pattern of rhyming. Often, the themes within these poems are centered around love and/or loss. Since the 16th century, the sonnet form has held a significant role in English poetry. Particularly during the Elizabethan era, thousands of […]

n this essay I will be trying to answer the question, “How do the poets William Blake and William Wordsworth present children in their poems, “The Schoolboy” and “The Prelude (1): The boat stealing episode”. Both Blake and Wordsworth talk about poems in many of their poems and talk about them in many ways. Blake […]

‘Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains’ – this statement by Rousseau is applicable to both ‘London’ by William Blake and ‘Sonnet’ by John Clare. Blake, who held great admiration for Rousseau, has distinctly conveyed this in his poem ‘London’. John Clare’s ‘Sonnet’ and Rousseau’s statement have contradictory ideas. Both poems depict […]

The subject of life and death is a significant topic is the poem ‘Remember’, by Christina Rossetti, and ‘On the Life of Man’ by Sir Walter Raleigh. Both poets explore certain aspects of life and express their controversial views, at the time, on these aspects. Rossetti was born in 1830 and was a key figure […]

The poem “Sonnet LXXV” by Edmund Spencer links to Romeo and Juliet’s ideas about love as it is about death and love, which is the tragedy in Romeo and Juliet, although this poem uses death as a positive thing, saying that death will immortalize you and that even if you die, your love will live […]

A lot of Romantic era poets wrote about change, the change from misery to happiness. Many wrote about there sadness and problems they had but then spoke of what could help them become happier such as another person, an object, nature or even just song. “London 1802” by William Wordsworth “Ode to a Nightingale” by […]

The poems To His Coy Mistress (1650-1652) and To His Mistress Going To Bed (1635) which was written by Andrew Marvell and John Donne respectively, was written about a man trying to seduce a woman. In To his coy mistress, the speaker uses flattery, he compliments her natural beauty and body. The speaker compares her […]

In The poems “Follower” by Heaney, “Catrin” by Clarke, “On my first sonne” by Jonson and “Song of the old mother” by Yeats, each of the poets deals with relationships in different ways. For example, some of the poems relationships are positive, some are negative. Even some about child relations and adult relations. I will […]

Blackberrying by Sylvia Plath and Blackberry Picking by Seamus Heaney are about blackberries. They both have journey motifs which are different to each other and they both write this in a 1st person narrative which suggests these could be autobiographical. They both share a same theme which is talking about nature but they do this […]

The Identification and Green Beret are two very different poems, but they also have their similarities. They are both about conflict and have themes of loss and destruction but as they are from different eras and countries. I will explore the numerous differences and similarities in this essay. The Identification is focuses on a young […]

The language used in ‘On my first Sonne’ has the father talking about how he “will lament the state he should envie” which shows that he would rather be dead and escape the misery of getting older. He also uses euphemism to by saying “rest in soft peace” which makes death sound comforting which gives […]

Both “Song: Stop All the Clocks” and “Remember” both portray a familiar theme, death. On the other hand, the two poems are very similar but they show a different kind of mood and atmosphere. The poet in “remember” conveys the dead person in an optimistic and constructive way, Rossetti, the poet refuses to be sad. […]

In this essay I am going to compare and contrast the Charge of the Light Brigade with two pre 1914 poems, but I am mainly going to use Dulche et Decorum Est. I will however refer to the poem Disabled by Wilfred Owen. I am going to start off by comparing how the authors have […]