Writer Essays

Dear Judge, I am writing to assert my innocence and present a comprehensive account of the evening when Porphyria was killed. The purpose of this letter is to convince you of my innocence as you read through it. Even though time has passed, I still vividly remember killing Porphyria. Her beautiful blonde hair and flawless […]

Robert Browning was one of the great poets of the Victorian age. He lived in the 19th Century from 1812-1889. Robert Browning wrote a large number of dramatic monologues, which were one of the very few types of evening entertainment in the 19th Century. The aim of a dramatic monologue is to see events from […]

For the duration of existence, people undergo the physical and mental stages of growing up. During this phase, people establish through their dealings who they actually are in addition to what they are worth. For instance, Treasure Island is an adventure tale, but it is also the story of one boy’s (Jim Hawkins) coming of […]

Mr. Gabriel John Utterson is one of the major characters in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. He witnessed many exhilarating events through the story, yet he has a very dull and odd personality. As it states on the very first page of the novel, “…that was never lighted by a smile,” […]

Robert Louis Stevensons Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a Gothic novel in many of its facets. but one of the most of import grounds is that there is changeless edifice of suspense. There are many ways that this is done: through his characters. through his vocabulary. the scene and even through the beginnings of […]

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1886, a time where the “Gothic Horror” story was at its fullest expression, and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde continues to remain one of the most well written, exciting and terrifying Gothic Horror stories to date. The Gothic Horror […]

The major issue facing Victorian society was the inconsistency of their lives. They wished to appear as pure as possible, to reflect the bible whereas they whispered and chuckled over “infamy and incest. ” The duality of Stevenson’s personality was due to the fact that he was a bohemian child though his parents were conformists […]

“Figure of Speech” is a literary term that encompasses several poetic devices. It is defined as a “word or group of words utilized to underscore a specific idea or feeling” (Encarta). The application of figures of speech in “My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose” by Robert Burns, “The Victory” by Anne Stevenson, and […]

Compare and contrast ‘the day the lady died’ by Frank O’ Hara with ‘Mid-term break’ by Seamus Heaney. How do the poets deal with the experience of death and grief in two very different circumstances and culture? In this essay I am going to compare and contrast two poems. One is ‘The Day The Lady […]

Seamus Heaney is a famous Irish poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 and is considered by many to be the most interesting Irish poet since William Yeats, who likewise won a Noble Prize in his day. Heaney’s literature frequently communicates the rather tranquil setting of his home land, Ireland, and […]

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. ” […]

Death is an inevitable reality that we all know will happen, yet we often don’t expect it to affect us personally. However, when death does touch our lives, it profoundly impacts us and those close to us. It also provides a deeper understanding of the brevity of life. The poems “Mid-Term Break” by Seamus Heaney […]

In the poem ‘Digging’, Heaney is able to bring to life ‘the living past’ where in watching his father digging flowerbeds he is able to recall childhood scenes when his father dug up new potatoes, which had to be collected by the children. It also leads him further back into his past to remember his […]

Throughout this assignment I will be examining how Seamus Heaney’s attitude towards childhood is portrayed throughout his poetry. I will initially be looking at individual poems, then drawing a collective conclusion of his overall childhood impressions. The poem Follower shows that the child’s view of farming is that of imitating his father’s actions:’I wanted to […]

Heaney, born 1939 was one of the nine children of Margaret and Patrick Heaney who ran a family farm in Mossbawn, Northern Ireland. Heaney enrolled at Queen’s College in 1957 after attending his local town school and opting not to follow in his fathers success of being a farmer. He took up a position as […]

‘Mid-term break was written by Seamus Heaney , a poet born in 1939 in County Derry, in Ireland. The poem is about the death of Heaney’s younger brother who is unnamed.’Funeral blues’ was written by Wystan Hugh Auden, also a poet. Auden was born in 1907 in York, in England. The poem is about the […]

The poem out-out was written by roger frost. It’s about a young boy who loses his hand while using a buzz saw; unfortunately, he also loses his life. Seamus Heaney wrote mid-term break, this poem is also about a young boy who loses his life, but this death was caused by a car accident, he […]

In the poem ‘The Early Purges’ by Seamus Heaney, the literal meaning of it is the poet is tracing his history to his attitude towards killing the animals on the farm: from the past as a child, to now as an adult. The poet’s attitude changes as time went on, i. e. as he gets […]

Seamus Heaney authored both of the poems I examined, both of which address death, albeit in distinct ways. Two emotional poems, one set in the countryside, the other in the city, explore death’s impact. “The Early Purges” shows a clearing out of life in the country with kittens as innocent victims, while the other poem […]

‘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 […]

Many poems have been written about death due to its controversial and curious nature surrounding what occurs after one’s departure from this life. The theme of death is explored in three poems that I am currently analyzing. Seamus Heaney’s ‘Mid-Term Break’, Patrick Kavanagh’s ‘In Memory of my Mother’, and Emily Dickinson’s untitled poem each present […]

Poetic techniques allow experience to be represented in an intense and compressed way. The poem “The Grauballe Man”, from one of Seamus Heaney’s collection called New Selected Poems, contains many similes and metaphors that represents Heaney’s experience in a powerful and condensed way when he first looked upon a corpse known as ‘The Grauballe Man’. […]