Essays on Poems

The poem “Disabled”, written by Wilfred Owen, is about a man’s life before and after the war. This poem illustrates an underage boy applying to go to war by lying about his age because he thought that he wouldn’t have a hard time. This shows how persuasive propaganda was to people, it made people believe...

Being discriminated based on the colour of one’s skin is agonizing. Let alone, being targeted by a state government and a majority of its citizen can cause insurmountable mental and physical pain to a person and race. While this concept may seem like a period of history that is stowed away into the pages of...

The gods in the story used their powers to change people’s fates. In the epic poem The Odyssey by Homer he shows that gods can do whatever they want to help or hinder people’s lives. In The Odyssey the gods chose to help or hinder the lives of people for a variety of reasons by...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge illuminated Romantic movement through his imaginative poetry. His works provide critiques of the organization of society, religion, and literature. However, Coleridge developed an opium addiction at a young age that wasn’t publicly known and evidence of it can be witnessed throughout his works. It shall be argued that his addiction influenced his...

There is always a place for heroism in our life. No matter where you live, what time, era, how old you are, what race or origin you are, you can be considered a hero if you have done something heroic. An act for which you can be respected, which has benefited a large number of...

 The Romantic period brought creativity and thinking for oneself into English literature. Nature is the focus and a major theme of both of the works. These texts continue to influence the literary and artistic worlds to this day. Samuel Coleridge was personally known to Mary Shelley. He was a frequent guest at her house where...

Wordsworth is a writer who is related with the Romantic development of the mid nineteenth century. All through Wordsworth’s work, nature gives a definitive decent effect on the human personality. All indications of the normal world from the most noteworthy mountain to the easiest bloom inspire respectable, hoisted contemplations and energetic feelings in the general...

Wilfred Owen’s poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” explains his personal experience while fighting during the First World War. The author’s voice used inside of this poem is perceived as horrifyingly ironic and against war entirely based on how Owen describes his involvement in the war. Several examples of figurative languages are displayed in the poem...

Wilfred Owen implicitly displays the theme of suffering in his two poems ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ and ‘Exposure’ through the use of structural, stylistic and linguistic techniques. Both poems similarly show the true nature but narrate on different aspects of war- Exposure expresses war as a disorganised, chaotic injustice, not only having to fight the...

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost is more than a poem that is choosing between two roads. It is a reflective poem that revolves around the idea that life is full of choices which will define our destinies. The fork in the path symbolises a person’s life and introduces readers to the theme of...