Essays on Poems Page 9

As the threat of monsters is central to all major elements of the epic poem Beowulf like character, plot, and theme, the idea of monsters is an external threat because they are described as “born of Cain, murderous creatures banished by God, punished forever for the crime of Abel’s death” (Grendel, 20 – 24) and…

The critically acclaimed Paradise Lost by John Milton details the epic story of the fall of Satan and corruption of man. In his writing, John Milton crafts an in depth commentary of monarchical and democratic political systems and the behavioral tendencies that lead to their failure. In order to accurately communicate the ideas in this…

Have you ever read the poems; “The Raven,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” or “Annabel Lee?” Well if you have, then you’ve probably also heard of a man named Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe was a renowned poet all over the states. He is most famous for his gory and chilling poems which could be inspired…

How can an author portray the essence of an ideal democracy, its feel of equality, unity, and limitless potential of its people, through style? Whitman’s poetic form in “Song of Myself” reflects a poetic style that explodes “conventional patterns of rhyme and meter, freeing the poetic line to follow the organic rhythms of feeling and…

Langston Hughes was a poet and a playwright, born in Joplin, Missouri, but was most known for being one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, which was the African American movement in the 1920s that celebrated black life and their unique culture. Hughes’s creativeness was influenced by his own life…

It is easy to draw similarities between God’s rule and the methods he uses, and the rule of recent totalitarian regimes. Throughout Paradise Lost God employs the same tactics as rulers such as Stalin and Hitler, the most prominent of which are the cult of personality, propaganda, and rule of terror. Satan on the other…

The Odyssey of Homer is a Greek epic poem that takes the readers through a journey of Odysseus’ return to his homeland of Ithaca. The Trojan war lasted ten years where Odysseus was fighting for his land and family. Unfortunately, once the war was over Odysseus got held hostage on Ogiga. This, however, was where…

I write to you as a proud mother, who has watched you grow passed the world’s expectations. Although you are an educated woman, I have to give you my motherly advice I have held onto since reading the Iliad. Before you embark on the next challenge in your life, reread and learn from the women…

Beowulf is the oldest and most important poem of the English literature. As an epic poem, its principal concern is the exaltation of the heroic male virtues as courage, loyalty and strength. The main type of relationship described in the poem is the bond of loyalty that exists between a knight and his lord. The…

Jean-Jacques Rousseau once said, “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”. I believe this quote can be representative of the Duchess’s life – her life before marrying the Duke being her birth, and her life after matrimony being in chains. In Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess”, the Duke’s possessiveness has little to…