Writer Essays

What does Eliot’s verse illustrate about self-regret and isolation? T. S. Eliot’s poems often underline these themes, featuring characters grappling with feelings of self-reproach and seclusion in his acclaimed works. Historical narratives frequently present the theme of alienation, driven by our innate need to connect with others and establish our sense of self, which sometimes […]

T. S. Eliot is a well-known critic, poet and writer who has done a great amount of literary work. Eliot has his own views for judging and analyzing poets and poetry. In “Tradition and The Individual Talent”, Eliot has given some significant ideas, which are essential to understand in order to understand Eliot’s perceptions regarding […]

Brad Roberts’ song `Afternoons and Coffeespoons`, which alludes to T.S. Eliot’s poem `The Song of Love by J. Alfred Prufrock`, gives a great example of postmodern intertextuality invading our consciousness not only through the modern literature but through the texts of rock-songs as well. `Crash Test Dummies` leader, well-read and wit, refers to T.S. Eliot’s […]

The particularity about these two passages is that although written centuries apart, they reflect each other through language, subject matter and universality. The verse “The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne, glowed on the marble” from TS. Eliot’s poem A Game of Chess has long been acknowledged as a direct allusion to Enobarbus’ […]

Modernists aimed to reflect reality in ways more ‘real’ than conventional literature. The modernism movement was prompted by a widespread disillusionment in society that resulted from contextual events. This allowed an altered view of the world as fractured and chaotic, especially due to paralysis and alienation in modern society. This newly perceived reality is reflected […]

Robert Frost was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes Youth appears prominently in Frost’s poetry, particularly in connection with innocence and its loss. A Boy’s Will deals with this theme explicitly, […]

By giving time a capital T Aden shows us how precious it is in an era of uncertainty. Deadens “If I could tell you I would” shows the poet doesn’t have complete power. He may reference the fact that if he does indeed die he’d tell you about the afterlife if he could. The language […]

The poem Funeral Blues is about the death of the poet’s very close lover, we are not sure exactly who this person is but the poet was obviously close to him. The poet expresses his deepest feelings in the poem by trying to stop everything in the world while he grieves for the death of […]

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 poetry of W. H. Auden is by no means extraordinarily complex or hard to understand, but often an in-depth discussion of a poem can bring to light meanings or qualities a reader may have otherwise overlooked. One may even find a common thread running through a group of poems, such as in this one.In […]

The surveyed verse form is “As I Walked Out One Evening” by W. H. Auden’s positions expressed in this poem are suggested to have remained unchanged since the time he wrote it. In contrast to his other poems, this piece was never edited. In this poem, Auden reveals the contrasting perspectives within a romantic relationship […]

Being one of the greatest poet in the modern world and a major figure devoting to the Celtic Twilight, which is a trial and a “popular desire for a revival of Irish traditional culture” (Kelen 32), William Butler Yeats died in January, 1939. Meanwhile, it was only eight months before the outbreak of World War […]

Two poets who are influenced by different individuals yet both come together to produce poems which expose the same image, the struggle of man, are William Butler Yeats and Wystan Hugh Auden. W. B. Yeats, born in Dublin and the son of an Irish painter, hastily revealed, after returning from his childhood life in County […]

The Enfant Terrible Master of Poetry: W. H. Auden He has been described as “W. H. Auden, for long the enfant terrible of English poetry . . . emerges as its undisputed master” (Samson 227). W. H Auden is one of most influential poets of the Twentieth century, having written over 400 poems and countless numbers […]

For each of the texts, analyse how links between the beginning and end helped you understand a main theme or issue. The World War One poet, Wilfred Owen, wrote two poems named ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ and ‘Disabled’. The main themes running throughout both poems are that of the pain and worthlessness of war, and […]

Despite both being written during the great war, ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ and ‘Who’s for the Game’ took opposing positions. While both Wilfred Owen and Jessie Pope were inspired by the war, Owen fought in the western forefront, while Pope remained in the comfort of the home front. ‘Who’s for the Game’ falsely portrayed war […]

The poems “In Flanders Fields” by John McCrae and “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen are both magnificent poems that are based on the same theme, from the same time period and written in similar circumstances. However, these two poems present such different points of view. Both John McCrae and Wilfred Owen were poets […]

One is to think of war as one of the most honorable and noble services that a man can attend to for his country, it is seen as one of the most heroic ways to die for the best cause. The idea of this is stripped down and made a complete mockery of throughout both […]

In his writing, Wilfred Owen concentrates on depicting the war experience from a soldier’s perspective. By presenting a personal account, Owen effectively communicates an authentic and vivid portrayal of what war is truly like. Despite the unfamiliarity of war to some readers, Owen brings its reality to life by emphasizing the real and raw human […]

The portrayals of violence and horror in Siegfried Sassoon’s “Survivors” and Wilfred Owen’s “The Dead-Beat” showcase both similarities and differences stemming from the influence of Sassoon’s poetry on Owen’s work. The title “Survivors” itself suggests the tragedy of World War I that the soldiers fought through, and highlights their resilience as well as the potentially […]

People wrote poetry in the war because they wanted people to think that war was a good thing and that if you went you would be rewarded when you came back. They also wrote it because there was no Television and Radios so poetry was the way people got their ideas across. The attitude of […]

By comparing and contrasting a selection of war poems consider the ways in which attitudes to war have been explored and expressed. When considering poetry written post 1900 concentrate on a selection of poems by Wilfred Owen. In order to investigate the development of war poetry, I decided to begin with one of the most […]