Poetry Essays
Poetry is a form of literature that uses descriptive words to describe somebody, a situation, or something in a particular lyrical arrangement. Poems are popular in this day and most poetry essays will dwell on the different types of poems, different writing styles, and what the forms of poetry are. Poetry essay examples discuss poems and what form of literary forms were used. Expressive and descriptive words are what most poems will use in their body and this form of literature has grown popular over the years.
College essays about poetry dwell on forms of poetry and writing styles where students can practice poetry skills and utilize the tools learned to construct their poems. Poetry is not a language everyone understands especially with particular forms of writing, therefore anyone interested in poetry has to consult plenty of essays to understand. Among the most common types are romantic poems, love poems, friendship poems, among others.
All the poems are about the relationship between parent and child. It evolves around the emotions that connect parent and child and the love or hate that evolves around them.The situation in ‘My Father Thought it Queer’ shows the relationship between Father and Son. We perceive the son’s assertion of independence and the Father’s disapproval. […]
A ballad is a popular way of telling a story. It is part of an oral tradition where the ballad is sung or told aloud. The old surviving ballads were mostly from the middle-ages and mainly Scottish. A lot of the English ones were lost as the written word was used for the spreading of […]
I will be comparing the three poems, Catrin, A Parental Ode to My Son, Aged Three Years and Five Months and Nettles. The parent-child relationships in these three poems are presented very differently, and despite being written on the same topics the poems are very different and show three alternative perspectives on the subject. All […]
The analysis centers on the poem’s theme, encompassing the child’s perspective, the teachers’ ignorance, and the author’s masterful execution. These two poems prompt the reader to compare and contrast the struggles of two children facing difficulties at school. Both characters endure negative experiences caused by their teachers’ lack of comprehension. In “Half Past Two”, the […]
Although the two poems, ‘Break, Break, Break’ and ‘Crossing the Bar’ share a similar major premise, the expression of death through the metaphor of the sea, Tennyson is able to extract two antithetical responses to the subject of death. In ‘Break, Break, Break’, the overwhelming emotions are ones of melancholy, of despair and horror at […]
Simon Armitage, author of ‘Mother any distance’ has written a poem on the pain of moving home and suffering of leaving your parents, from a child’s point of view. This is similar to the poem, ‘On my first Sonne’ written by Ben Jonson where his child has already left him as the child has sadly […]
The Beggar Woman The Beggar Woman was written around 1663 to 1712, by William King. William King worked as a lawyer and judge but wrote poems as a hobby. It can be led to believe that his job may have influenced him to write the Beggar woman, because of some acts of injustice that he […]
By reading E.E. Cummings’ poem “In Just”, one can identity several examples of figurative language that Cummings used in his poem to convey themes of childhood. For example, the language that he used is referring to a child’s language such as “mud-luscious” and “puddle-wonderful”. Cummings used these words to describe simple descriptions of what an […]
“Warning” written by Jenny Joseph and “Old Man, Old Man” by U., both contain cautionary themes. Although they both depict old age, Fanthorpe and Jenny Joseph differ in their portrayal of it. Warning is a defiant piece that cautions against the perils of growing old, while Old Man Old Man illuminates the evolving dynamics between […]
In this essay I am going to be comparing and contrasting the style of which William King and Andrew Marvel present the relationships between the gentlemen and mistresses in the poems ‘The Beggar Woman’ and ‘To His Coy Mistress’ In both poems, the gentlemen are trying to persuade the mistresses to have sex with them; […]
In To His Coy Mistress and A Woman to Her Lover, different loves are portrayed and the way the poets have shown the attitudes towards love are form, structure, different rhyme schemes, altering tones of voice and punctuation. There are two main types of love in To His Coy Mistress; there is a desire for […]
The relationships that the poems I have studied are about parents’. I understand that the two poems that I have studied have extremely different views on their parents. The two poems that I have looked at are “Boy driving his father to confession. ” by Seamus Heaney and “A praise song for my mother. ” […]
This poem sounds as if an old man wrote it, however the poet was merely 23 years old when this poem was published. The entire poem is very poignant and tragic in tone and the main reason why I get the impression of an old man as the narrator is because the poet seems to […]
In this essay I will be examining a selection of two 20th century poems, which are “Unholy Marriage written by David Holbrook and Street Accident by Richard Church”. I will be comparing and contrasting the two 20th century poems. I will closely examine and analyse in details the subject matter, the structure and the language […]
A sonnet is a 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter, which means each line has 10 syllables with 5 stressed and 5 unstressed. Sonnets typically follow a strict rhyme scheme and often have regular breaks, like the one in this case, after the eighth line. The first eight lines of both poems, known as the […]
The pain of aging, of slowly feeling the fire and passion flickering out is portrayed in “Night Sweat” by Robert Lowell. Simply put it is of a man with an illness and his disorganised thought and feelings but deeper, there is his fear and his agony as he feels his youth and its hopes and […]
The British poet Wilfred Owen has implemented down the sonnet, ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth.’ This poem got its title from another poet. This poem was set during the First World War and describes the conditions of the millions of soldiers who died fighting for their countries. Mr. Owen himself was a soldier who fought for […]
The poem Farmhand by James K. Baxter is about a self-conscious male who is only at easewhen working on the land. In contrast, She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways by William Wordsworth focuses on a girl called Lucy who has just died; she is described using natural metaphors. Baxter wrote his poem in the 20th […]
In ‘Night of the scorpion’ it is about a place where the poet’s mother was stung by mother. Nissim Ezekeil describes what happened to his mother on that night and what the reactions of people were. This all creates an image of a place in the reader’s mind. Similarly, in ‘Blessing’ the poet creates an […]
In the society I live in – in the UK – everyone has freedom of speech. In the past there used to be a lot of countries in which your feelings towards something were only to be known by you. Dictatorships do not allow freedom of speech nor even a freedom to be in certain […]
Isobel Dixon’s poem ‘Plenty’ explores childhood memories using various forms of language. This theme of childhood memories is also evident in other poems from the collection ‘Songs of Ourselves’. A connection can be made between ‘Plenty’ and “Little Boy Crying”, as both poems showcase the contrasting perceptions of children and adults. In ‘Plenty’, the children […]
Both poets are showing their identity across to the reader. However they are doing it in different ways. The layout for The Class Game- Mary Casey is a monologue. A monologue is a short, alone speech. This makes it easier for the reader to understand the point of the poem and it makes it more […]
