Essays on Poems Page 10

There are countless of reading methods one can use to help them better understand what they are reading and be able to identify the true meaning behind the poem, short story, etc. Some of my personal favorite reading strategies I like to use when reading are by creating my own predictions, rereading the text until…

The epic poem Beowulf is the longest epic poem from the Anglo-Saxon period. In the Anglo-Saxon time its citizens required a functioning and intact society that depended on principles that were designed to create order out of Europe’s violent and unsophisticated past. Some of the principles that they depended on were loyalty, generosity, and courage,…

Liebert, Elisabeth. “Rendering ‘More Equal’: Eve’s Changing Discourse in Paradise Lost.” Milton Quarterly, Wiley/Blackwell (10.1111), 11 Dec. 2003, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1094-348X.2003.00056.x. Liebert argues that Eve’s character does not align completely with patriarchal standards or feminist ideals, instead Eve contains elements of both worldviews. Liebert’s thesis builds on two separate arguments. Many scholars argue that Milton writes Eve…

In The Iliad, Homer introduces the Shield of Achilles which paints a picture of life. The shield is derived by the poetic invention, and is a wonder of superlative craftsmanship, unlike anything known to the modern age. The shield plays the important role of portraying the larger story of The Iliad, and providing further knowledge…

Maya Angelou wrote Still I Rise in 1978, In which a lot of racism was going on at this time towards African Americans in the late 70’s but early 80’s. Angelou lived through some of the worst oppression and inequality for African American people while growing up. Angelou saw its effects on society and the…

In Walt Whitman’s “A Noiseless Patient Spider”, he uses several literary devices to convey his ideas of transcendentalism, focusing on the power of human connections and the need for a community within the soul. He does so by comparing the struggle of a lonely spider to his own soul’s anguish, both of them are trapped…

Annabel Lee and The Raven are two of Poe’s most famous poems. Edgar Allan Poe was a poem/story writer, editor, and a literary critic. His poems and stories have left readers thinking about what each phrase or sentence means or represents. Poe is the most famous romance writer in American Literature. Poe’s stories and poems…

Within the poem, “Still I Rise” written by Maya Angelou, the poet targets powerful tyrants in a society that have neglected and mistreated her and countless African-Americans throughout history. First, Angelou states these light-skinned oppressors with wealth and status, make the final decisions on what will be included and what will be forgotten within the…

Throughout Milton’s Paradise Lost and Plato’s “Apology,” Eve and Socrates take extreme measures in their search for greater wisdom and knowledge. While Adam stares directly into Eve’s eyes, admiring her beauty, Eve looks off into the distance wanting to go back to her reflection, wanting to study that other “more beautiful” creature and search for something…

“I Can’t Help You”, is a poem written by, Ryszard Krynicki, one of the best post World War II Polish Poets as of today. Krynicki is a WWII survivor, he experienced the horrible effects of war and managed to live through tuff times since his parents were deployed to a Nazi labor camp when he…