Essays on Poems

For my essay I chose the poet Robert Lee Frost and his poems because I really like his style of writing and his poems are not boring for me. I found it really interesting. “We love the things we love for what they are.” Robert Frost, was an American poet who was born on 26 March 1874 in...

The Theme Of Death The theme of death is a recurrent theme among poetry, capable to provide a wide spectrum of ideas used to present a message to the reader without facing fear. Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath are among the many poets who regularly feature the theme of death in their works.  Rossetti was...

Poetry is a work of art that has survived for thousands and thousands of years. Poetry is tied in with communicating those considerations and sentiments we keep the most suppressed, we connect our hearts and our minds to ourselves and our surroundings. It’s about discovering harmony. William Wordsworth splendidly acknowledged the lyric poem “I wandered...

In the context in which these two texts were written, from the medieval universe of Chaucer to the Restoration Period in which Paradise Lost[footnoteRef:1] was written, it’s fascinating to examine the image of women in the eyes of people during these differing eras. Before exploring such perceptions we must understand the implication of the statement-...

The topics of love & death are very relevant in the poems “Remember” by Christina Rossetti and “Batter my heart, three-persona’d God” by John Donne. In both poems, the authors express different kinds of emotions such as fear, selfishness, and dominance to illustrate the emotions. In Remember, the persona has fears of being forgotten by...

It is not uncommon to come across a story that has a hidden meaning to it. A common meaning between “Our Town”, “ The Interlopers “, and “ The Mending Wall ” would be the struggle between expectations and individualism. Frost shows us how people who simply follow traditions just for the sake of it...

In the Canterbury Tales, “Prologue” author Geoffrey Chaucer tells the tales of thirty pilgrims going on a pilgrimage as they engage in storytelling. During the pilgrimage we are introduced to one of the characters called the Summoner. The Summoner is someone the ecclesiastical court hires to bring before them to punish for their spiritual crimes....

In the two poems “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath and “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke the main subjects for both were their father. Both poems “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath and “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke have a comparison of trying to depict the relationship between a father and their child. Both poems have a negative...

In perusing Geoffrey Chaucer’s most sensational exhibition of pictures in The General Prologue of his most prestigious work, The Canterbury Tales, one comprehends why he is regarded as the Father of the English Literary Canon. Chaucer, in contrast to nobody of his time, set out to advise new and interesting stories essentially to engage fourteenth-century...

The purpose of my essay is to analyze the symbolism of death and rebirth, the two major themes that can be found in most of Sylvia Plath’s poems. To present my statement I decided to choose an intriguing poem of this female author, “Lady Lazarus”. All the assertions that I will make in my essay...