Poetry slam

Marie is truly one of kind poet who displays a unique sense of awareness and ability in helping us understand what things were like in the twelfth century. Even though the heart of her poems is about courtly love, the way she depicts the characters is special in a sense that she can achieve a lot more than one would imagine. Examples of this can be seen in her poems, The Lay of the Honeysuckle and The Lay of the Nightingale, especially when we keen on the characters of these poems. During the

The poem,“In the Waiting Room” shown within Elizabeth Bishop’s book The Complete Poems 1927-1979 is an engaging and descriptive poem about a child’s self-coming into adulthood. Elizabeth, the child, narrates the story from her point of view, reading the National Geographic while waiting for Aunt Consuelo to be finished with her appointment. The National Geographic however, is a gateway which portrays Elizabeth’s adult side, showing her as a child what is to come as she grows older. Aunt Consuelo

The Night in Isla Nerga Poem Analysis From the time we were born, humans have learned to appreciate and admire nature. However, as our lives become increasingly complicated and convoluted, it is easy to forget about it. Usually, to help us appreciate nature, poets write about nature in a peaceful, calming way. However, poet Pablo Neruda flips this style on its head and explores the more chaotic, unforgiving side of nature. This was the main point of Neruda’s poem, “The Night in Isla Negra”, where

Gay in his collection "catalog of unabashed gratitude" as his title suggests contains twenty-four poems of unashamed appreciation of life's beauty expressed through Gay's eccentric affinity for armpits, sleeping in clothes, and mulberry trees. Gay's poetry begins with a simple image or relatable concept before branching of into a series of images. Gay also displays an extraordinary talent for depicting and choreographing action. This skill set can be analyzed in Gay’s poem “smear the queer” which

Authors tend to write on subjects that they know the most about, or subjects that affect them on a personal level. Authors and poets use various aspects of life for the basis of their works, such as life experiences, romances, and family roles. Poems like “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden and “Forgiving My Father” by Lucille Clifton feature one of the most important roles in a family: a father. The two poems differ vastly in many regards, but many similarities surface among them and a common

The Good old Days While the subject of “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke has spurred passionate academic debate from professors, scholars, and students alike, the imagery, syntax, and diction of the poem clearly support the interpretation that Roethke writes “My Papa’s Waltz” to look back on his most fondest childhood memories he has created of dancing with his father. In Roethke's poem “My Papa’s Waltz”, many forms of controversies were inspired do due to the vague nature of his motive

In every person, a self which interacts with the world appears to live. However, what can one truly classify as their persona? Cognitive scientist Bruce Hood defines illusion as, “[the] experience of something that is not what it seems.” By this denotation, he classifies the ego as illusory; humans naturally experience it, but it does not actually exist. Accordingly, in Pablo Neruda’s “The Egoist,” Neruda contrasts personal identity with the natural world, deeming abandoning one’s individuality a

Memory of an Abusive Father In discussions of “My Papa’s Waltz,” one controversial issue has been about a fond memory of his father . On the one hand, some readers argue The poem was about abuse . On the other hand, many readers contend It was a somber poem that expresses a son’s love for his father, despite his father’s alcoholism and abusive ways. Others even maintain that the poem had everything to do with something positive and memorable. However, after deconstructing the poem, it becomes

Felipe Herrera uses his feelings and emotions and experience into the poetry and we can actually feel the flow of the poetry. He is more of the imagism like the poem “Let Me Tell You What a Poem Brings” where he set readers up for something more direct and discursive than the complex. His poetry is indefinite and evanescent and these qualities also render it an essential place of play life without boundaries. Octavio Paz poetry is a lot of complex and deal with abstraction descriptions. Whereas Juan

In the poem, “A Step Away from Them” by Frank O’Hara, there are five stanzas of varying length. In each stanza, there is a different amount of indention that occurs, leading up to the fourth stanza, where the indention afterwards stays relatively the same. The poem does not have a very clear rhyme scheme or meter, which showcases the natural flow of the poem, representing its narrative style and its use of stream of consciousness. Going along with the idea of stream of consciousness being present