Poets Essay Examples

Conformity caused by subconscious influences as well as direct and overt pressure is investigated thoroughly in the movie, ‘Dead Poets’ Society’. The director, Peter Weir uses fundamental aspects of the film to convey and develop of this main theme. It is through the setting of Welton Academy and its surroundings, the movie shows that the […]

I would like to examine how the views of war and patriotism have changed since the 1900s. To do this I will be studying three poems: “Vitai Lampada” written in 1892 by Henry Newbolt, “Disabled” written by Wilfred Owen during World War 1 and a modern poem called “Why Patriots are a Bit Nuts in […]

‘Who’s for the game’, ‘The Soldier’, ‘In Flanders Field’ and ‘Rendezvous’ are four poems that I feel are apt examples of typical poetry written in World War 1. Poetry throughout this period of time, share similar qualities of which I hope to explore further, one of these qualities is the recurring theme of the glorification […]

Located at the beginning of the anthology Up the Line to Death, the section titled Happy is England Now. Brian Gardner, the editor, has organized six poems in this section to demonstrate their predominantly pro-war nature. As a result, most of the poems in this section reinforce pre-war and wartime stereotypes held by the public. […]

Between 1965 to 1968 the USA sent 500 000 thousand troops into Vietnam and 50 000 of them would not return and she would lose the war; the only one she has ever lost. There was outcry from amongst the world and this would turn from a short war into a ten year battle against the […]

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 […]

I believe that poets struggle to find their true identity as they might have an ongoing battle between two, as in ‘search for my tongue’, it is about the poet who has ‘two tongues in her mouth’ which symbolizes her two cultures, which displays her two identities. In the poem, there is an ongoing battle […]

Poets find consolation in nature through various writing techniques. These include the use of similes, metaphors and imagery. Often, poets use personification in order to give nature, and natural objects human characteristics. Romanticists wrote poems expressing the beauty of nature in order to revolt against the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution took place between the […]

This poem describes to us what happens during the long summer days, concentrating, mainly on the work of a sparrow, and through the sparrow’s eyes, what humans do and how they react and adjust to the hot temperatures. With this poem it is fairly easy to tell that the poet agrees with the sparrow’s opinions […]

Before I answer the question, I need to look at what love is. Love can be defined in many ways. The Oxford English dictionary defines love as: ‘an intense feeling of deep affection’ or ‘a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone’. However love means something different to different people. To some people love can […]

In my essay, I want to discuss the different aspects of love, which are presented by several of the Romantic poets who wrote during this period of great poetic creativity. I am going to discuss how one group of poets saw love as a pleasant experience, whilst the other group of poets see love as […]

The four poems I have chosen are Kid by Simon Armitage, Havisham by Carol Ann Duffy, The Laboratory by Robert Browning and On My First Born Sonne by Ben Jonson. Each of these poems are very different, the most obvious difference being the different ages they were written in. But they all have one major […]

The poem “Villegiature” was written by Edith Nesbit in the late 19th century. The actual word villegiature means holiday or retreat in French. “Villegiature is a short poem which is about a woman who is being haunted by her former lover. The poem mainly deals with the woman’s idealised image of the man and the […]

The two poets, John Donne and W. H. Auden each explore the theme of love in their poems “The Good-Morrow” and “Stop all the Clocks” from “Funeral Blues”. On the first glance, the poems seem to be extremely dissimilar: there is a great contrast between the – rather dramatic – openings “Stop all the clocks” […]

The two poems I am comparing are ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ by Lord Alfred Tennyson and ‘The Hyenas’ by Rudyard Kipling. Both are anti-war poems and aim to discomfort the reader’s opinion on war. However the poets differ in how they convey their attitudes to war, through the language and devices they use […]

Due to their complex nature. human relationships present many challenges therefore doing them built-in in the defining of an individual’s experiences. These complexnesss are frequently caused by the power moral force. where one parties assumes laterality over the other. Peter Weir’s 1989 movie. Dead Poets Society explores the overmastering relationship between Neil and his male […]

In the film, Dead Poets Society, Welton Academy is founded on tradition and excellence and is set on providing strict structured lessons by realist, close-minded, and anti-youth administration. When Mr. John Keating, a former student returns to Welton Academy and teaches English, he inspires a class of teenage boys to pursue their desires and live […]

The poem “Yellow Palm” follows a similar theme, portraying the problems which are present in Baghdad. Looking at the different structures and forms used in both poems, they contrast the difference between one speaker being confused, and not knowing what’s happening, to a very loosely structured ballad. Within the poem “Belfast Confetti”, Ciaran Carson does […]

The poems ‘Half-Caste’ by John Agard and ‘Unrelated Incidents’ by Tom Leonard both explore different prejudices and social attitudes regarding their culture. The poets both use different methods and means to show the reader their thoughts, they use different techniques for different reasons to help convey their message. Both of the poems use mainly non-standard […]

The poets Ted Hughes and Dylan Thomas both explore the beauty of the natural world and at the same time the cruelty and violence contained in it. This is apparent in Hughes’s poem ‘Pike’. Pike, Three inches long, perfect Pike in all parts, green tigering the gold. Hughes uses the opening two lines of the […]

Throughout the centuries, time and its notion have been a recurrent theme in poetry. As its usage expanded, the various perspectives from which time can be perceived became evident. The interpretation of time in each poem is influenced by the political and scientific milieu of the period, as well as the personal experiences of the […]