Poetic Form Essay Examples

Many people have different views on love. Many of these views throughout the ages are explored through poetry as love has much contemporary relevance in today’s society as it ever did before. Two love poems I read which inspired me were Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 116’ and Carol-Anne Duffy’s ‘Valentine’. Shakespeare’s poem is a traditional sonnet written […]

John Clare was born in 1793 and died at the age of seventy-one in 1864. Clare came from a poor background and left school at the age of twelve to become a farm labourer. He had many jobs in the earlier years of his life as a Potboy, a Ploughboy and a Gardener. When he […]

“Sonnet CXXX” by William Shakespeare was written to send a message to poets, telling them that sonnets do not have to be unrealistic; Shakespeare also mocks traditional Elizabethan sonnets. The occasion is that Shakespeare believes in real love and not falsely comparing women to god-like creatures. The sonnet was written in the Renaissance era. The […]

Shakespeare composed Sonnet 116 in the sixteenth century, and it follows the traditional form of a Shakespearian sonnet. The love poem is structured into three quatrains where the poet shares his perception of genuine love, followed by an assertion of his faith in a concluding rhyming couplet. The poem beautifully portrays the steadfastness and constancy […]

“Design”, by Robert Frost, contemplates fate and the role it plays on the lives of every living thing, regardless of size. By definition, design is the purposeful or inventive arrangement of parts or details ( Webster ). The poem starts with the description of an observation made of a spider that has caught a moth […]

There is a traditional Elizabethan form in William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 125. It is comprised of 14 lines and there are two parts to this sonnet. The first section, consisting of lines one through 12, only includes alternate rhymes. The rhyme pattern for this section follows ababcdcdefefgg. Introducing and explaining the main theme of Sonnet 125, […]

Which facets of relationships are presented in the three poems we studied? References to “Piano” by D. H Lawrence. “Do non travel gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas and “Hal-past two by U. A Fanthorpe In the three poems we have studied: Sonnet 116 “ Let me non to the marriage” by William […]

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 […]

Analysis of Sonnet 64 When I have seen by Time’s fell hand defac’d The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down raz’d, And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil […]

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 […]

According to Clugston (2010), poetry is a form of literature that encompasses everything the poet perceives and all of their senses, emotions, experiences, and imagination. It reflects human life but is written concisely and expressively using figurative language. Comprehending it can sometimes be challenging. Poetry aims to captivate the reader’s attention and invites them into […]

In the clever yet relatable poem by Robert Graves, “The Naked And The Nude,” the narrator compares and contrasts the words “naked” and “nude. ” In order to prove his point of how semantics can change the feeling associated by a word, which is normally subjective, Graves persuades the reader with structure, allusions, and tone […]

Whitman’s greatest legacy is his invention of a truly American free verse. His groundbreaking, open, inclusive, and optimistic poems are written in long, sprawling lines and span an astonishing variety of subject matter and points of view—embodying the democratic spirit of his new America. He uses a number of literary devices to accomplish his work. […]

Read Eavan Boland’s “Anorexic” and describe the poem’s form or structure. Consider stanzas, line length, rhyme, and meter. Eavan Boland’s “Anorexic” is written in free verse, which is defined as a poetry form composed of lines with rhyme or without, and are arranged in no specific metrical pattern. Made of 15 stanzas, “Anorexic” is completed […]

“Ozymandias” is a sonnet written by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. In the poem, the author meets a traveler from another country who explains that he once saw a statue of Ramesses the Great (also known as Ozymandias), and on the pedestal, the words “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my […]

Szymborska’s poem, “Brueghel’s Two Monkeys,” starts in an odd way. The reader is thrust straight into the scene of an exam, which at first seems all too familiar. However, Szymborska surprises the reader when the voice says what she dreams about as she takes the final exam, “two monkeys, chained to the floor. ” This […]

William Shakespeare is one of the most well-known writers of all time. His sonnets are timeless and his plays are performed again and again. Much of his history is known, but can also be considered a little cloudy. He seemed to be a sarcastic man not necessarily loved by all. I enjoy his plays, but […]

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is written in first person point of view where the speaker of the poem speaks for himself in a calm manner. To interpret the poem literally the poem illustrates a journey maybe of the poet whilst riding a horse on a winter night in a secluded area who […]

This Be the Verse is a lyric poem in three verses of four iambic tetrameter on an alternating rhyme scheme, by the English poet Philip Larkin (1922–1985). It was written around April 1971, first published in the August 1971 issue of New Humanist, and appeared in the 1974 collection High Windows. The title also ironically […]

Come I’ve with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys, groves, hills, and fields Woods or steepy mountain yieldsAnd we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks By shallow rivers to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. And I will make thee beds of […]

The First World War provides one of the seminal moments of the twentieth-century in which literate soldiers, plunged into inhuman conditions, reacted to their surroundings in poems. There were a number of famous poets who wrote war poetry, and a number of different reactions to war. Some poets approved of war, or found it honourable, […]

In this essay I will compare and contrast the treatment of relations between men and women in the poem ‘Indian Woman’s Death Song’ by Felicia Hemans and an extract from ‘Don Juan’ (Canto 1, stanzas 8-36) by Lord Byron. Hemans created a narrative poem in a serious tone of voice as befits the lament she […]