Essays on Poems

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

“From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were-” is a quote from “Alone” by Edgar Allen Poe. This poem has a copious amount of metaphors and contradicting statements. Edgar uses those literary devices to show his struggles with isolation and depression. In the beginning, he said as a child he was different from everyone else because he didn’t have the same intensity of emotions as others “I could not bring My passions from a common spring- From the same source I have not taken My sorrow-”

Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe died in 1849 yet people still talk about his writing today. Poe’s life impacted his writing in many ways so his poems and stories are always very touching. He had so many things happen in his life that inspired him to make his writing good and meaningful. Love, death and alcoholism were all very meaningful in different ways to him. These things in his life impacted his writing and also made his writing very intriguing. Edgars love for certain people was stronger than

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

can be found due to the fact that whoever wrote this poem is dead and that the answer will always be in speculation even if it is correct. Hopefully, at the end of this quest I will be slightly more enlightened as to who the true speaker may really be. There are some things that we do know about this poem. It is most often referred to as an elegy because of the mood of mourning and regret. Upon further reading I discovered that this poem is like others of its time period. Many

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

The poem “Po’ Boy Blues” was composed by Langston Hughes during 1926, his early writing era. His poetry was inspired by his family’s history, a history full of abandonment, betrayal, and violence. His father abandoned him seeking to find a life less confrontational to a black man, leaving Langston Hughes to face being raised by his grandmother in the very same hostile environment his father sought to escape. His mother betrayed him as she never embraced him with a mother’s love not only once

experiences that he showed in his writing with the character . He wrote many poems,and stories about the experiences and feelings in his life for example tuberculosis, love, and madness. Tuberculosis is one of the horrible diseases that Poe experienced in his life multiple times. Throughout his life many of his loved ones died of TB for example his mother , his foster mother, brother, and his wife Virginia. In one of his poems; “Annabel Lee” he wrote “And so, all the night-tide,I lie by the side.” This