Essays on Poems

historical imaginings have been used for centuries to tell moral lessons, stories of love and tragedy, and offer fantasy and magic in return. John Keats, Alfred Tennyson, and Christina Rossetti all managed to incorporate legend or fantasy into their poems in way in which they can be used as further insight into the authors’ ideologies and personal desires. In “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, “The Lady of Shalott”, and “Goblin Market” all use legend, myth and historical imagination to describe the authors’ ideas

In Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, the relationship in lines 1-8 between the young man’s “loveliness” and “temperateness” when compared to a “summer’s day” can be connected through the times of the Elizabethan. When Shakespeare wrote his sonnet it was very common to write with the theme of love and often weather used to create moods. In this Sonnet, Shakespeare happens to be talking about a young man of great beauty and promising expression and affection. In this sonnet, he first uses the word “loveliness”

Shakespeare’s sonnets of 14 lines, are written in iambic pentameter, five metrical feet to a line, each foot having one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, with three quatrains and rhymed couplet scheme of abab cdcd efef gg. Often the beginning of the third quatrain marks the line in which the mood turns, and the poet expresses a revelation or epiphany. Shakespeare in his unique way, wrote Sonnet 99 with fifteen lines, Sonnet 126 has six couplets and two blank lines marked with

used in Shakespeare’s assigned sonnets, Herrick’s “To the Virgins,” and Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress.” Although their images differ, what do all these poets seem to be saying about time? Be specific when referring to the poems. The imagery is very different, but all of the poems and poets seem to be saying time is important in life. In Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 he says, “And every fair from fair sometime declines,” when explaining the inevitable decline in appearance of his friend (Line 7). In Shakespeare’s

Sonnets:  The Power of Love           The majority of Elizabethan sonnets reflect two major themes: time and love. William Shakespeare, too, followed this convention, producing 154 sonnets, many of which deal with the usual theme of love. Because the concept of love is in itself so immense, Shakespeare found several ways to capture the essence of his passion. Therefore, in his poetry he explored various methods and used them to describe the emotions associated with his love for a mysterious

their reader’s head in order to bring a story to life. William Shakespeare was nowhere shy of doing these things. He compared aspects of life such as love, time, nature, death and even sickness to each other to create themes and importance to his poems. Many of them show strong feelings which showed the strong passion he had for writing. His passion carries along today because it painted a picture for new writers to create works that would change literature and views of life altogether. What made

Sonnet 29 1. In the introductory clause of the sonnet, the speaker makes it clear that he envies those with “hope.” By this, the speaker means that he resents those who have a clear, bright future ahead of them, a future made possible by the qualities he goes on to describe. These qualities are friendships, skill in art, and power (lines 6-7), and the speaker makes it clear that he envies these people by explicitly stating that he desires what they have. 2. The turn of the sonnet

fuel? Reginald Gibbons uses stimulating imagery, and metaphors in his poem, “Wood”, to illustrate the difficult task of chopping wood through a first-person perspective, but upon further inspection, the poem describes the need to have more than what is necessary and the different thoughts and feelings the unnamed character has during this repetitive labor. Right away, I noticed the large amount of imagery that was used in this poem "A cylinder of maple / set in place, feet spread apart— / and the heavy

The “Poem of Standards,” written by an anonymous teenager is a poem that conveys many messages that can be related to various readers. It is very straightforward going through the life of the narrator as he faces the challenges of life and experiences the consequences that result from them. It is written in a way that it can be reached to many audiences with different personalities. In this poem, the anonymous author uses foreshadowing, personification, and situational irony to suggest that the

Nettles This poem is an account of the day the poet’s son got stung when he fell into a bed of nettles and his reaction to that. It shows the poets paternal instincts and his sense of duty to protect his young son. This poem is a singular paragraph, flowing organically and its lack of punctuation and multiple run on sentences which show us that’s it's the poets chain of thoughts. At the first glance, the poem seems simple, however as you analyze it many of its layers are uncovered. The

To begin, the poem Callum written by Milton Acorn has a variety amount of poetic devices, which helps the poetry have more meaning and depth. Throughout the poem, the author was able to use similes, alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, imagery, and hyperbole. Furthermore, the author uses similes and imagery to illustrate Callum’s handsome appearance, since he had hair like mustard-weed;.../that tangles inside his head.” (Acorn 1-6). This demonstrates that Callum’s hair stood up in tufts of yellow

Poems just seem to be stanzas with a bunch of words but in reality, it is beyond just a bunch of words, more like an intense significance. Many authors tend to send out an impacting message throughout poems. Usually authors write poems about occurrences that they’ve experienced to express how they’ve dealt with certain situations or people. Making it easy for the readers to also catch on to their vibe and main idea of the whole poem. In Langston Hughes’ poem, “Mother

is getting in.” Atwood elaborates on the uselessness of defending oneself against the wilderness in The Journals of Susanna Moodie, an account of a European immigrant’s struggles to navigate the wildernesses of Canada, her adopted home. Almost every poem deals with this tension in some form. In “This is a photograph of me,” the serene natural setting presents a startling contrast to the human tragedy it masks. The glossy “[m]ountains and lakes and more lakes” depicted on the wall in “At the Tourist

In both poems “Before I got my eyes put out” and “ We grow accustomed to the dark” Emily Dickinson metaphorically talks about sight and experiencing light. In both poems sight could be being open to explore different perspectives or being willing to make changes and adjust. Thinking of things from another point of view is like giving you a new set of eyes. Being willing to change opens up a brand new set of doors. While reading “Before I got my eye put out” by Emily Dickinson I first thought the

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” This means he doubted his dreams because he felt like he could not accomplish them but nobody else has ever thought those unique thoughts and actually strive for them. Edgar Allan Poe was an important figure in American history because he shows if you have a dream don’t doubt yourself strive for what you want. Edgar Allan Poe was born January 19 1809 in Boston

through racism, she gets really frustrated and irritated when someone is judging/questioning her race and she is innocent. In the story “So What Are You, Anyway?” the protagonist in the story is a relatable character because she faces racism. In them poem “So What Are You, Anyway?” the protagonist, Carole yells,“Leave me alone!” she screams at Mrs. Norton. Passengers stare. The stewardess spills a drink. Mrs. Norton sits back hard in her seat, her hands raised, fingers spread. Carole sees people watching

The person is Edgar Allan Poe who was an American writer, poet, critic, and editor. He was born in the nineteenth century. Some of his accomplishments are writing short poems and stories. The Cask of Amontillado, Tell Tale Heart, and The Raven were some short poems and stories. The Raven was one of the best known american poem in literature. His parents were professional actors who were members of repertory company in Boston. When Edgar Allan Poe was three years old his parents died and was then

and poems, some of his most famous being: “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “The Raven”, and “The Tell-Tale Heart”. Many believe that Poe’s work is creepy, while others seem to think it’s romantic. Edgar Allan Poe was born January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. His birth mother and father abandoned him when he was young, (David Poe, Jr. and Elizabeth Arnold Poe) later he was adopted and separated from his brother and sister. After he was adopted he began writing short stories and poems hoping

The Ghastly Writings of Poe Edgar Allen Poe makes tales of imagination and fantasies the irrefutable realms of fear. His tales and poems “have influenced the literary schools of symbolism…as well as the popular genres of detective and horror fiction (Stern xxxviii). However, as many of Poe’s tales and poems conjure terror and trepidation, they also penetrate the imagination with fantasy. Poe repeatedly attempts and succeeds at making his readers endure analogous feelings as those characters

Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “Alone” is a reflection of his childhood. The first lines tell the reader that the speaker never felt kindred with the other children. As you read on, it is apparent to the reader that he felt lonely his whole life because of depression. Looking at the diction, symbolism, and allusions used in this poem, we can see that the underlying theme is that lost love can cause desolation. The word choice used in this poem helps to portray a mood of isolation. “And all I loved, I