Genre Essays

The prevailing mood of melancholy, obscurity, and hopelessness characterizes both Tennyson’s “Morte d’Arthur” and Byron’s “The Prisoner of Chillon.” Both poets use settings, character emotions, pathos, and contrasting atmospheres to achieve a melancholic mood. In “Morte d’Arthur,” King Arthur’s decline and preparations for death with the help of Sir Bedivere is the focus. Meanwhile, “The […]

This poem has three sections, although it is only split into two stanzas. There are two parts of English, with a foreign language sandwiched in between. There is no rhyme scheme in the poem and no deliberate rhythm. It is written just like somebody speaking, and indeed when it starts with, “You ask me what […]

Murder mysteries, such as the Sherlock Holmes stories, have been a favored genre for many years, captivating readers through the use of suspense and tension. These novels not only serve to entertain, but also stimulate the imagination of their audience. “The Whole Towns Sleeping” and “A Terribly Strange Bed” are both exemplary illustrations of the […]

Fiona Farrell and Tatamkhulu Afrika, the writers of the two poems convey similar feelings about oppression and injustice through many different techniques, such as layout, line length and choice of language. Charlotte O’Neil’s Song is about a general servant working for an upper class family who finally decides she has had enough and moves on. […]

The Places Fault: This is an autobiographical poem recounting a short unhappy period of the poet’s childhood. He was evacuated to North Yorkshire during the war years. While he was little there, he experienced severe bullying, both on the streets and in school and the suffering and taunts and beatings he endured at the hands […]

‘Nothing’s Changed’ and ‘Ogun’ are very good examples of hymns of protest. A hymn of protest is a poem that raises awareness about an unjust issue or suffering in the world. The main reason why these poems were written was to show suffering, inequality, racism, and slavery in the world. Therefore their aim is to […]

I am looking at a passage in the 24th Chapter, where Jane has awoken on the morning after Mr Rochester’s proposal in the orchard. Throughout this passage Jane contemplates the idea of marriage and expresses her worries and fears with the perplexed Mr Rochester. After this Jane realises that her love for him conquers all […]

Death is an inevitable reality that we all know will happen, yet we often don’t expect it to affect us personally. However, when death does touch our lives, it profoundly impacts us and those close to us. It also provides a deeper understanding of the brevity of life. The poems “Mid-Term Break” by Seamus Heaney […]

In the poem ‘Digging’, Heaney is able to bring to life ‘the living past’ where in watching his father digging flowerbeds he is able to recall childhood scenes when his father dug up new potatoes, which had to be collected by the children. It also leads him further back into his past to remember his […]

Throughout the Victorian period, Browning crafted dramatic monologues that allowed his readers to empathize with characters from distant times and places. In this passage, the author discusses how monologues can express the deepest emotions of characters while also telling a story. They compare two poems, “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover,” because they both deal […]

“The Lesson” tells the story of a 10 year old boy who has lost his father in the duration of school time. It goes on the say he’s trapped and although he feels grief for the death of his father he realises that he can use the death to “bind the bullies’ fist”.”Mid-Term Break” is […]

Robert Browning is one of the foremost poets of the Victorian era and his most noted contribution to English literature is undoubtedly the literary form of the Dramatic Monologue, which was not independently developed but none the less firmly established by him. His first poem Pauline was published anonymously in 1833 and Browning sent twelve […]

Of the poems that I have studied I have chosen “My Last Duchess”, “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” and “Porphria’s Lover”. The poems are similar in many ways but also have some differences. The poem Porphria’s Lover was published in 1836 and is based on a criminal who murders Porphyria so that he can be […]

The four poems that I am going to compare all have some things in common and some things that are very different. For example, the people in the poem all feel some kind of jealousy for somebody else, but in all four poems this jealousy is portrayed in different ways. In the poem “The Laboratory” […]

Heaney, born 1939 was one of the nine children of Margaret and Patrick Heaney who ran a family farm in Mossbawn, Northern Ireland. Heaney enrolled at Queen’s College in 1957 after attending his local town school and opting not to follow in his fathers success of being a farmer. He took up a position as […]

In my own opinion I think that ‘The Horses’ is trying to tell us that there has been a war between technology and the natural resources, but all of the technology has been wiped out. It tells us this in the second line ‘The seven day war that put the world to sleep’. ‘The tractors […]

Robert Browning’s poems ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ and ‘My Last Duchess’ are both written in the form of dramatic monologues. This is when one speaker tells the poem to either a real audience or an implied audience. This means the poem is from one perspective and shows how the men want to mould the women into their […]

Tony Harrison, the author and son, appears to have written this poem about his parents, and his relationship with them. This poem appears to be recalling moments of family unity-moments of both sadness and happiness.The son appears to be sat at a desk, perhaps at an office or study at their family home. A double […]

‘Mid-term break was written by Seamus Heaney , a poet born in 1939 in County Derry, in Ireland. The poem is about the death of Heaney’s younger brother who is unnamed.’Funeral blues’ was written by Wystan Hugh Auden, also a poet. Auden was born in 1907 in York, in England. The poem is about the […]

The poem out-out was written by roger frost. It’s about a young boy who loses his hand while using a buzz saw; unfortunately, he also loses his life. Seamus Heaney wrote mid-term break, this poem is also about a young boy who loses his life, but this death was caused by a car accident, he […]

In the poem ‘The Early Purges’ by Seamus Heaney, the literal meaning of it is the poet is tracing his history to his attitude towards killing the animals on the farm: from the past as a child, to now as an adult. The poet’s attitude changes as time went on, i. e. as he gets […]

Seamus Heaney authored both of the poems I examined, both of which address death, albeit in distinct ways. Two emotional poems, one set in the countryside, the other in the city, explore death’s impact. “The Early Purges” shows a clearing out of life in the country with kittens as innocent victims, while the other poem […]