Essays on Poems Page 12

This is an incredible close to home poem talking about how Hughes felt being a unforgotten American because of the color of his skin. In the poem, Hughes points out that he is an American, despite the fact that people are constantly pushing him aside and concealing him away on the grounds that he is…

The poem that I chose was Just In by E.E Cummings. This poem is about the start of a new season, the poet is evoking a fresh way of rendering the freshness of spring. The season is a part of the unending cycle of nature, and the poem’s title is an expression of that ongoing…

Hope is a blessing disguised as a curse. We need hope to survive cancer or to wait out to get a job while unemployed. Humans depend on a little thing called hope to get them through the hard days when nothing seems like it’s going right. Emily Dickinson wrote the poem Hope is the Thing…

A long, long time ago there once a ruler named Gilgamesh who reigned over a city named Uruk over the Mesopotamian area. Gilgamesh was no originally king, he was a demigod, a being of half god and half human. Even then he was more unique as he was two-thirds god and one-third human or just…

What is a hero? A hero could be the firefighter rushing into a fiery inferno, the woman who volunteers her time at the local soup kitchen, or even a parent who helps their child tend to a scraped knee. Although these people may not be like the heroes we read about in the comics or…

The Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh is really a long account ballad which takes a gander at comprehensive human scan for the importance and longing forever. In the past days Gilgamesh was the leader of the city of Uruk. The sonnet recounts the account of how valiant he was against death. Gilgamesh in the long run…

While Neil Degrasse Tyson gazes skyward to uncover the secrets of the universe, Emily Dickinson looked to nature to unearth humanity’s metaphysical mysteries. Despite being raised in a Calvinist home, Dickinson was more interested in the relationship between nature and God than saving herself from eternal damnation (McChesney, Sandra). Nature fascinated her from a young…

Introduction “My Last Farewell” or Mi Último Adiós in Spanish is a poem written by Dr. José Rizal, the national hero of the Philippines. Rather, it was his will of testament, as Dr. José Rizal wrote it in prison the eve before his execution on the 30th of December 1896. Dr. José Rizal was visited…

“For That He Looked Not upon Her” by George Gascoigne explores the complexity of human yearning and the anguish that may arise from it. Throughout his writing, Gascoigne illuminates his main points through the use of diction, imagery, metaphors and connotative words. The standard sonnet form of the poem supports the speakers’ convincing defense for…

Maya Angelou was an American poet born in 1928, at a time when the African American people were going through the worst forms of oppression, inequality, discrimination, slavery and racism. This poem, Still I Rise, was a wake up call, not just for her, for but for the society to stand up against oppression and…