Essays on Poems

Realistic Love And Depressing Love In Poems

The different types of love I am looking at are realistic love and depressing love, sonnet 130 is a love poem by William Shakespeare in his poem he is being very realistic and honest. The setting of the poem looks to be negative but at the same time, he is also showing that love is...
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The Cultural And Intellectual Legacy Of Lady Lazarus

Lady Lazarus (1965) is arguably Sylvia Plath’s most renowned literary piece, drawing upon a series of historical and artistic influences to render the poet’s attempt to not only define the ‘self’ but re-construct it. As a part of Plath’s final collection of poems, Lady Lazarus assumes an autobiographical nature; however, more recent critics have acknowledged...

Fatherly Love In My Papa’s Waltz

Fathers have a huge impact on a child’s life. This impact can have either negative or positive results on the child. Both of the poems reviewed are about the fathers of Theodore Roethke and Syliva Plath. Roethke’s poem could have a double meaning with the story could be either positive or negative. The interpretation for...
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An Unknown Girl By Moniza Alvi Versus Still I Rise By Maya Angelou

‘Still I Rise’ by Maya Angelou is about people who have been oppressed, she tells us about some of her own experiences. Herself, Maya Angelou, is an African-American woman, she says herself in her life she had to deal with racism and many different forms of discrimination. Angelou’s poem expresses many themes which include racism,...
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Tartuffe: Reading Journal

Reading Journal weeks 1-6 Week one: Moliere: Tartuffe, Act I Madame Pernelle is dissatisfied with the lack of attention she receives when she is visiting her son Orgon’s house. While at Orgon’s house what she thinks of good advice, others in the house seen to think her advice is more along the lines of critical...
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Analysis Of The Poem Lady Lazarus By Sylvia Plath’s

Sylvia Plath’s poem “Lady Lazarus” is a tormented, yet powerful narrative work in which a woman recounts her grueling and depressing life in a man’s world. The speaker in this poem is interchangeable with Plath herself, reflecting the writer’s inner turmoil following a messy split from her husband and a growing sense of bitterness. While...

Analysis Of The Poem To My Brother By Siegfried Sassoon

There are usually several meanings to a poem or piece of artwork that represents the true meaning of the artist and this is a part of what makes the expression useful or purposeful to those who come across the art at some point and the same is the case with simple poems as well as...
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Paradise Lost As A Classical Epic On A Christian Theme

A.S.P Woodhouse commented that ‘Paradise Lost is the outcome of Milton’s deliberate effort to write a classical epic on a Christian theme’ (492). Something that is fiercely debated and contested is the ambivalent portrayal of Milton’s Satan in Paradise Lost and how he is framed within this Christian Epic. Critics have noted the tensions created...
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Growth Of Chivalry In Sir Gawain And The Green Knight

“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” is an example of the fourteenth-century metrical and alliterative romance, which forms vital medieval verso relevant in contemporary society. Although there are continuous studies about this work, intellectuals have failed to locate the poet, however, the brilliance of the writer is easily recognized. In this case, the Gawain poet...
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