Essays on Poems Page 11

Inspired by one of the greatest calamities in British military history, Tennyson wrote the poem early December of 1854 in response to an article in The Times about the British Light Cavalry Brigade making a disastrous charge against Russian soldiers with almost 40 to 1 odds against them. Condemning the charge as a horrendous ‘blunder’,…

The Canterbury Tales are a unique and long winded set of stories, in the 1300’s, that unfold on a pilgrimage to Canterbury. The varied group of pilgrims aboard this journey were seeking out to view a relic of St. Thomas Beckett and were challenged to a story-telling competition for entertainment to help the time pass…

For this reading response, I am going to analyze poems by Emily Dickinson. I quote some poems from this poet for analysis because her poems show various themes such as imaginary, tragedy, Bible symbols, etc. When I read Emily’s poems, I amazed at how she picked up the words to illustrate American society in the…

In the poem The Weary Blues, Langston Hughes personifies the “Blues” to symbolize his deep sense of pain and loss that he expresses through his music. He develops an irregular rhyme scheme to reflect on the colloquial tone of Southern slang that further affirm the notion of music’s ability to bring people together based on…

In modern Western culture, sexuality is normally viewed as a means to demean and oppress women. In the land of Uruk, this is not the case. The women in the Epic of Gilgamesh maneuver their sexuality in a manner that not only provides themselves with power and intellect, but also uplifts Gilgamesh and Enkidu and…

Everyone has a different meaning to liberty and what they think it means. Some thinks it means being free or having freedom. Others think it means fighting for your morals and beliefs. However the answer is simple, it means “The state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one’s way…

The Iliad is an excellent work of poetry written during the ancient times of the Greek Itis considered to be one of the foremost of works in the tradition of literacy in the west and a story that has excited the hearts of many over the years. During the mid-8th century, the writer focuses on…

I will be doing my poetry explication on “Still I Rise“ by Maya Angelou. Still I rise was published in the year of 1978. This is a poem that is often described as powerful, and empowering. It talks about the difficulties on overcoming prejudice and injustice. This is one of Maya angelou’s most popular poems….

The evolution of style in William Yeats Poetry is extremely evident and obvious throughout his lifetime of being a poet. He went through a profound transformation of writing. From the imaginative style of romanticism to a complete one-eighty in the cynical modernism, Yeats had proven that he can handle both of these completely different styles….

“Aging is not last youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” -Betty Friedan. Robert Frost writes a variety of poems. The themes fluctuate throughout each one he writes. Frost shows different phases of life through numerous verses, he uses distinct literary devices to emphasize the feelings and experiences a person goes through during…