Genre Essays

Analysis of Thomas Hardy’s The Darkling Thrush In Thomas Hardy’s poem “The Darkling Thrush,” there is a profound sense of sadness and despair that is reflected in its title. Despite its unhappiness, this poem showcases Hardy’s remarkable talent. With a rhyme scheme of abab, it is a lyrical composition written in iambic pentameter and divided […]

“I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” Life, death, and reincarnation are portrayed in Emily Dickinson’s poem “I felt a Funeral, in my brain”. The use of words associated with death gives the poem an ominous and dark karma. To add to this karma, important words that are strong in meaning are capitalized. At the […]

These are many great poets. Longfellow is one of the few poets that put together novel type works. He created some of the best poetry ever written. Longfellows narrative poems, such as Evangeline, The song of Hiawatha, and The Courtship of Miles Standish, gave a romanticized view of Americas early history and democratic ideals. Evangeline […]

The Anglo-Saxon society was a combination of the Jutes, the Anglos, and the Saxons. It was through this combination that the values of this one culture evolved. Anglo-Saxons lived their lives according to values such as masculine orientation, transience of life, and love for glory. Contradictory to the belief that the Anglo-Saxons’ values are outdated, […]

Home Burial Hazelwood 1 Robert Frosts “Home Burial” is a narrative poem that speaks of lifes tragedies. Frosts writings style is very straightforward and direct. In “Home Burial the setting appears to be the background of a tragedy that centers around the death of a child. It is important for the reader to recognize that […]

Arthur Rimbaud’s poem The Drunken Boat is a standout when considering the significance of 19th-century literature as a precursor to 20th-century values. While his symbolist contemporaries also made important contributions through their use of symbolism to evoke emotions and the progression of language, Rimbaud distinguishes himself with a pervasive theme found in The Drunken Boat. […]

Claude McKay, born on September 15th, 1890 in Jamaica, was the youngest of eleven children. At the age of ten, he created an acrostic rhyme for a school gala. As time went on, McKay began incorporating West Indian folk songs and church hymns into his writing style. When he turned seventeen, Walter Jekyll introduced him […]

Poems usually begin with words or phrase which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem. Every poem has a texture of sound, which is at least as important as the meaning behind the poem. Rhythm, being the regular recurrence of sound, is at the heart […]

William Shakespeare, born in 1564 in Stratford, England, was the son of John Shakespeare, a tradesman and Alderman of Stratford. William, the eldest son and third child among eight, was baptized on April 26th, 1564. He went to Stratford Grammar School for his early education, but there is limited knowledge about his life until he […]

Although the poems “Recalling War” by Robert Graves and “Mental Cases” by Wilfred Owen are both concerned with the damage that war does to the soldiers involved, they are different in almost every other respect. Owen’s poem examines the physical and mental effects of war in a very personal and direct way – his voice […]

The Stolen Child“The Stolen Child”, a poem by W.B. Yeats, can be analyzed on several levels. The poem is about a group of faeries that lure a child away from his home “to the waters and the wild”(chorus). On a more primary level the reader can see connections made between the faery world and freedom […]

Regarding history/ when death comes Luisa A. Igloria’s, “Regarding History” is a very intriguing poem. Initially it seems to be a very straight forward poem, she beings by speaking of two trees that she can see from her window that lean into the wind, and goes on to describe a certain meat that she is […]

The poem “Speech to the Young, Speech to the Progress- Toward” by Gwendolyn Brooks is about keeping your head up and living each day to the fullest. The poem, given the time period, is most likely aimed towards African American people, but can now be related to anyone who may be having a rough day. […]

P. B. Shelley (1792-1822) as a Lyricist. It can be said without any reserve that the genius of English poetry is best manifested in the great Romantic Lyricism of the 18th Century. The Lyricism became spectacular in the Odes, Sonnets, and elegies of Wordsworth, Shelley, Coleridge, Byron and Keats. The Lyricism of these great Romantic […]

The poem “where shall we go” is written by Vernon Scannell. This poem is mainly based on a love relationship, which doesn’t go to plan. Throughout the poem it shows that love can end up in many ways, but looking closely at the content of love in this poem it doesn’t go smoothly. The see […]

“Sunt Leones” This poem shows some of the most representative stylistic features that characterise Stevie Smith’s poetry. Economy of expression and verbal eclecticism are two of the most remarkable aspects of her poetry, but maybe the originality of Smith’s work lies especially in the way she combines her poetic comic voice with the seriousness of […]

Use of Imagery and Figurative Language in “Facing It” by Yusef Komunyakaa In his poem, “Facing It”, Yusef Komunyakaa describes his ambivalent emotions towards the Vietnam War of which he was a veteran. Reflecting on his experiences, Yusef expresses his conflicting feelings about the Vietnam War and his feelings about how racism has played a […]

The paper discusses an article titled “Edwin Arlington Robinson” by William J. Scheick (Scheick 2). Specifically, the focus is on the poem “Richard Cory” within the article. The analysis suggests that the poem highlights how wealth cannot bring true happiness to people’s lives. Throughout various poems, individuals have often discussed the topics of appearances and […]

The works of Cristina Garcia and Judith Ortiz are symbolic and of greater importance to society. They both broaden perspectives by deepening the b breadth of understanding of the plights of women and other challenges they undergo as a result of undesirable occurrences within the country. While Cristina Garcia’s novel moves miles covering the life […]

The poem titled “The Moment” is a beautifully illustrated and compactly presented work, and its meaning is especially relevant for contemporary societies. The poem is organized in three stanzas of six lines each. The first stanza sets up the narrative by making the claim about human beings’ ‘ownership’ of earth. The second stanza counters the […]

John Donne’s poem Death Be Not Proud is typical of the religious/metaphysical genre employed by the poet. All human beings have a lurking fear of death. As we get older, this fear increases and ultimately dominates our thoughts. But contrary to the negative connotations attached to the event of death, Donne presents to the readers […]

Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem “We Wear the Mask” serves as a powerful depiction of the racism and suffering endured by African-Americans during that particular time period. The poet effectively utilizes specific vocabulary, informal language, and a unique structure to convey this message. By using the pronoun “we,” Dunbar captures the collective experience of all African-Americans, […]