Essays on Poems Page 13

Emily Dickinson lived in complete isolationism. Dickinson’s poetry was heavily influenced by the Metaphysical poets of seventeenth-century England, as well as her reading of the Book of Revelation and her upbringing in a Puritan New England town. The practice was seen in her poetry was by no means foreign to women’s daily tasks—sewing, and stitching…

Slavery started in 1619, when a Dutch ship brought 20 African slaves ashore in the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia. Throughout the 17th century, European settlers in North America turned to African slaves as a cheaper, more plentiful labor source than indentured servants, who were mostly poor Europeans. After the American Revolution, many colonists particularly…

The philosophy of transcendentalism originated in the 1830s in the eastern part of the United States in response to intellectualism. It is considered to be one of the major movements of religion, philosophy and literature in American history. Its followers desired intense spiritual experiences and sought to go beyond the purely material world of reason…

The character of Satan in Milton’s Paradise Lost has been a topic of discussion among many scholars for centuries. One of the most controversial debates about Satan is if he can be considered an epic hero in the poem. According to the article “The Epic Hero” by Gregory Nagy, there are three characteristics an epic…

According to Susie Zappia, “ Gilgamesh was a historical king of Uruk in Sumer in the Middle East around 2700 B.C. His legend is chronicled in the myth today known as the ‘Epic of Gilgamesh.’ The term ‘epic’ refers to a long poem about a hero’s saga. Gilgamesh’s circumstances are consistent with those of most…

W.H. Auden’s “The Unknown Citizen”, written in 1940, is a poem that illustrates a man that is seen by the government as a perfect citizen in an unrealistic society. The speaker of the poem is someone that represents the government, who talks about a monument that is erected for a citizen who has passed away….

Edgar Allen Poe wrote “The Raven” in 1845. The poem went on to be one of Poe’s most famous works in his collection. The poem centers around a man in his chamber in the middle of December. Readers find that the male has recently lost a loved one named Lenore. As he reads to himself,…

Literature plays an important role in reflecting values and norms, as revealing the cultural ethics, the certain types of social ‘facts”, processes of class struggle, and the gender distinction issues. Moreover, the political, economic, social, and psychological changes contributed in the emergence of new type of literary theory which is called Feminism. In the medieval…

John Milton’s epic poem, Paradise Lost, is considered to be one of the most iconic and revered works in the English language. The poem details the roles Adam and Eve played in the fall of mankind and is portrayed on a scale like the biblical version found in the book of Genesis. Milton’s version of…

The title of my poem is “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy evening” by Robert Frost. Before reading this poem I thought that the title simply meant that the speaker was stopping by the woods on a snowy evening. Upon reading this poem a summary of it would be that the speaker stops to take…