Genre Essays

Wordsworth’s beliefs about good poetry are reflected in the main ideas and style of writing found in his poems; such as The Solitary Reaper and I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. The essence of his poems follow Romantic themes that reject industrialisation, celebrate individuality, hold nature and its beauty in high respect, and encourages readers […]

305 Reasons to Love Emily Dickinson Poem #305 The difference between Despair And Fear—is like the One Between the instant of a Wreck And when the Wreck has been— The Mind is smooth—no Motion— Contented as the Eye Upon the Forehead of a Bust— That knows—it cannot see— Dickinson’s poetic accomplishment was recognized during her […]

The Rise of the English Novel English literature has a long and colorful history. From the masterfully written old English tales of Chaucer to the countless Shakespearian dramas to the poetic verses of Tennyson, England has produced some of the richest treasures of the literary world. Not until the eighteenth century, however, did a type […]

When reading the title, we often associate a love song as something jaunty,pleasureable, and celebrating, or its other extreme, regretting, nostalgic, and full of pity for the singer’s troubles in love. With Williams the singer, the main idea revolves around the concept of an incomplete union in first person point of view, which makes the […]

Analysis of Millay’s “Not in a silver casket cool with pearls” Edna St. Vincent Millay’s unconventional childhood, growing up without a father because her mom kicked him out and having to learn independence and responsibility by the age of twelve, influenced her poetry and shaped her as an motivated and self-sufficient individual. By the time […]

Death is a popular theme in poetry and is present in both Emily Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” and Robert Frost’s “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Night”. However, although both poems deal with death, they have distinct differences. While Frost’s poem depicts a person on horseback stopping to appreciate the surrounding […]

Mary Oliver’s poetry constructs and represents the American Indians as a group disenfranchised and dispossessed of their land, culture and language by the authoritative and dominant discourses fabricated in Western society. Her representation of the American Indian cultural identity in her two poems, Learning About the Indians and Tecumseh, is one of lament, but also […]

Sonnets 50 and 51 paired together depict a theme of travel. Specifically, the speakers travels on horseback. These travels cause him great despair because he is leaving behind his beloved young man. Shakespeare begins the poem with “How heavy do I journey on the way”. Heavy is describing the emotional burden he feels as he […]

Wordsworth’s Romantic Values The Enlightenment, a period of reason, intellectual thought, and science, led some writers to question those values over emotion. Instead, as the Romantic movement gradually developed in response, writers began to look at a different approach to thought. The Romantic period, roughly between the years of 1785 to 1830, was a period […]

‘The Sun Rising’ poem analysis by John Donne The poet addresses the sun as a person and rebukes the sun because it has wakened him and his lover from their sleep. He demands to know why lovers should obey time. He also shows his dominance over the sun, calling it a ‘saucy pedantic wretch’ and […]

Virginia U. Jensen – “The actions of righteous women ripple on through time and space and even generations. ” In “The Prologue,” Anne Bradstreet writes a poem that seeks to understand her role as a female poet in a male-dominated Puritan society. She knows that her poetry is perceived as inferior because it was considered […]

Figurative Language, Imagery. And Sound in “Sonnet 29” Williams Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 29” is Shakespeare starts the first quatrain with himself talking of disgrace in his fortune and in the eyes of others. In the second quatrain, Shakespeare takes the inward thoughts and looks outward with coveting eyes and wishes he could be a different man. […]

Commentary on the poem- ‘My Grandmother’ by Elizabeth Jennings The poem ‘My Grandmother,’ is a recount of a childhood memory of the poets’ grandmother who “kept an antique shop”, and there are many underlying meaning and thoughts in the poem, which illustrate the strong attachment of the grandmother towards her shop and the relationship between […]

Starting her essay, Alice Walker recalls a delightful memory from her youth that emphasizes her attractiveness. This beginning establishes the foundation for how all aspects of her life are affected by the disfigurement she experiences later on. In her essay “Mercury,” Walker acknowledges that she was aware of her physical appeal from a young age […]

Introduction Thesis-Robert Frost’s poem “The Lockless Door” is a great example for the reader to experience what being lonely is like. It also gives the reader mood and emotional thoughts and feelings. Robert Frost’s writing style lets you feel as if you’re in his head and you feel exactly how he feels. Scope and Sequence-Robert […]

I will be reading you an inspiration poem from Douglas Malloch. Malloch was an American poet, short story writer, and associate editor of American Lumberman magazine. In this poem he is telling us that we should not worry about what happened yesterday, or what may happen tomorrow, but to live one day at a time! […]

There were Bear and Rabbit who became friends. They invited each other to their house. When Rabbit came to Bear’s house, Bear sat Rabbit down and cook with beans and a lot of good lard which Bear got it while Bear went round back of his house. Rabbit ate all he could. When Rabbit was […]

Critical Analysis of “Fire and Ice” One said, “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. ” Four time Pulitzer Prize winning American poet, teacher, and lecturer, Robert Frost quoted this. Frost was born in 1874 and died in January of 1963. He lived in New England for […]

Poetry has the unique ability to capture words’ essence, surpassing their dictionary meanings. It derives power from the poet’s writings and the reader’s intellect and imagination, allowing ordinary words to carry multiple layers of meaning. This is achieved by employing the connotations of words, which evolve over time and acquire new significance, as opposed to […]

Poetry can provide the reader with an insight into human behavior and relationships, utilizing various poetic techniques to achieve this. Two poems, An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow by Les Murray and In the Park by Gwen Harwood, are examples of poems that make use of techniques to give an observation on human behavior and relationships. The […]

In the poem “Richard Cory”, Edwin Arlington Robinson depicts a “grass is greener” presumption with a twist. The speaker in this poem, representing the working class, tells about a gentleman by the name of Richard Cory; a man everyone admired. This poem is an ironic illustration of how the “glitter[y]” (l. 8) illusion that wealth […]

The piece of literature “The American Wilderness: Why It Matters” expresses Robert F Kennedy, Jr’s concern about the American Wilderness. Within this piece of literature, Kennedy is addressing the general American public. This piece of literature was not meant for anyone but Americans. You can see this by the usage of his language. He continually […]