Essays on Poems Page 5

The goddess of love Aphrodite bestowed the gift of Helen to Paris and even saved him in battle. Love, and even love of one’s family, however, will not save the city of Troy and in this warrior culture, only the elite survive. A theme in The Iliad associated with the glory of war is the…

The Canterbury Tales is written by Geoffrey Chaucer and he is also one of the characters in this story which is the one of the main characters, the story happened in the 14th century in the late 1380s and early 1390s. The characters are on a journey from London to Canterbury. This story was also…

Robert Frost is an observed American artist. He had an incredible authority of American informal discourse and made reasonable delineations of the early provincial life. His incredible work in verse for the most part included settings from the rustic life in New Britain in mid twentieth century. He utilized lyrics to inspect complex philosophical and…

Readers of poetry can interpret poems in a number of different ways, while never having a wrong answer. Identity is a common theme in poetry because people identify themselves in many ways. One can also learn a lot about a poet and how they identify themselves through their works. In Chapter 7, we learned that…

Ha is 10 years old that has different minds. Ha lived in North Vietnam before the war, when the war started ha and her family moved into South Vietnam. She lived in South Vietnam and settled there, her family thought that they were safe but they are not. The poem states, “The war is coming…

In the days from Adam and Eve to the people of the Middle ages, people have drastically shown what Knighthood and chivalry are meant to be. How does Knighthood and Chivalry impact the way men and women are viewed then and now? Knighthood and chivalry has declined and really disappeared since the middle ages. It…

Beowulf is a long narrative poem written by an unknown author recounting the adventure of a legendary hero named Beowulf. Coming from noble birth, Beowulf is a larger than life figure who goes on a quest to show his heroism. Beowulf performs valorous deeds showing his courage, strength, and virtue. Beowulf follows a heroic code…

The Victorian era is a time when people emphasized the advances in science and started questioning the existence of God. In “Dover Beach,” written by Matthew Arnold, The poet senses the turn of historical time and finds this change echoed in the continually shifting figure of the beach – the blurry border between land and…

Did the Romantic period bring love to everyone’s view? Or did it simply bring other ideas to the light? From around 1770 to 1850 (during the eighteenth century) an intellectual musical, literary, and artistic movement started known as the Romantic era. The poem written by Robert Burns named “To a Louse” and the poem “The…

“When Lilacs Last in Dooryard Bloom’d” is a poem about the murder of Abraham Lincoln in Washington D.C. on April 14, 1865. Whitman uses this literature to publicly express his sorrow over the loss of this president (“Walt Whitman”). He went to great measures to indicate that the dead are not the sufferers, rather the…