Rhyme Essay Examples

The title Limbo suggests to me that the poem is about the traditional dance form the West Indies which originated from the 1800’s. The dance was invented by slaves aboard the slave ships to keep fit and healthy during the long journeys across the sea. The word Limbo can also be treated as a place […]

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 […]

The speaker starts the poem with the first gold of spring. It is inferred the setting is spring because of the description of the first greens of nature. Also, the use of the words green and gold allow the reader to picture a peaceful spring morning when the sun has just risen and given the […]

In the following example, the repetition of the ‘f sound in the first two lines lends them a rhythmic and musical quality: The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free: We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. From “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” S. T. Coleridge […]

Working class English diction emphasizes his lower working class jobs. Remarriage writes in a monotone to portray that this man’s jobs are boring a , not something that is enjoyable. It follows the same story line in each stanza, he gets hired, and either gets bored or fired Of the job and gets fired. This […]

Although there are different Deist doctrines. one of the most consistent points of view is that our Earth was created by a God who is like an unsighted horologist significance that the Earth’s Godhead completed it without cognition. but in perfect order. Evidence of Dickinson’s belief can be acknowledged by Thomas Paine who wrote in […]

The verse form. “To a Sad Daughter” written by Michael Ondaatje. sends a powerful message sing a father’s love and his hockey idolising girl. Through analysis it is clear that Ondaatje does non utilize many open poetic devices. but his elusive nonliteral linguistic communication and specific word pick makes for an highly effectual verse form. […]

I have been given four depressing poems to study, looking at the way different poets display their or their persona’s feelings. The poets in the four poems I have read write about different experiences of frustration and anger and the different effects these have on their emotions. In this study I am only mentioning 3 […]

I have decided to do the two First World War poems, As The Teams Head Brass by Edward Thomas and comparing it to Disabled by Wilfred Owen. The two poems have similar attitudes to war, although they represent them in different ways. The structure of the two poems is different. Disabled has six stanzas, all […]

In war, it is hard to imagine how people write something that is so poetic and beautiful, in its imagery, which comes from the horrific war that was going on all around them. The First World War produced some of the most gifted and talented authors and artists of the last century and most of […]

Owen signed up to fight in the war in 1915. He thought that war was romantic and heroic but when he was in the front line he realised that it was the exact opposite of what he thought it would be. He uses nature and the natural world to represent this evil place but also […]

William Wordsworth wrote the poem “The Daffodils” in 1804, two years later after his experience with the Daffodils. The poem “Miracle on St. David’s Day” was written by Gillian Clarke around 1980. Miracle on St. David’s Day was written one hundred and seventy-six years after The Daffodils was. The poems are very similar in the […]

William Wordsworth’s “The Daffodils” and “Miracle On St David’s Day” by Gillian Clarke have common ground even though they were written two centuries apart-William Wordsworth’s at the end of the eighteenth century and Clarke’s in the last ten years of the 20th. “The Daffodils” inspired “Miracle On St David’s Day” in that William Wordsworth’s poem […]

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 […]

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 following piece of writing will pick out both similarities and differences between two main poems: “My Grandmother” by Elizabeth Jennings Which has the more darker mood of the two poems and “In Mrs Tilcher’s class” by Carol Anne Duffy which is the most brighter of both these particular poems. These are both poems that […]

The subject of life and death is a significant topic is the poem ‘Remember’, by Christina Rossetti, and ‘On the Life of Man’ by Sir Walter Raleigh. Both poets explore certain aspects of life and express their controversial views, at the time, on these aspects. Rossetti was born in 1830 and was a key figure […]

In my own opinion I think that ‘The Horses’ is trying to tell us that there has been a war between technology and the natural resources, but all of the technology has been wiped out. It tells us this in the second line ‘The seven day war that put the world to sleep’. ‘The tractors […]

The two poems I have looked at are both wrote by Seamus Heaney, they both deal with death but in very different ways. One poem is set in the countryside and shows that death is part of the life there; the other is set in the city and shows how hard a family member dieing […]

‘Digging’ and ‘He was’ both examine father-son relationships with a sense of pride and admiration. However, both poems can also be read as an exploration and a challenge to what is considered to be “art”. Throughout the two poems there are repeated references to the artistry of poetry and working in the field. The essay […]

The poem “Trout” is a description of a trout’s movements through a river. It uses much repeated imagery and similes to achieve this description of the trout.The poem is made up of four stanzas, each of four lines, and then a single isolated line at the end of the poem.The poem has no regular rhyme […]

Mirror, by Sylvia Plath is one of the best examples to show how valid, vanity is in a woman’s life. I think this is one of, if not the oldest poem from all of which we have read. For a start her name, being Sylvia is quite old-fashioned and not often heard of now, but […]