Essays on Poetry

John Keats’ poetic vision, derived from his notion of negative capability, encourages an alternative vision of the individual as capable of perceiving and operating beyond any presupposed capacity through the immortal literature, thereby preserving his emotional sensations and intellectual thoughts on beauty and knowledge. Influenced by her postmodern context, Campion’s vision broadens the scope of...

Gwen Harwood explores many ideas in her poetry that were influenced by her upbringing and societal views. Harwood is an Australian poet born in 1920, who published over 420 works including poems and librettos. She grew up in a family of strong women, her mother who was a feminist and was involved in being an...

When talking about the idea of ‘voice’ in relation to poetry, there are two different yet intertwining interpretation of the concept that must be discussed; voice as an audible experience, and voice as a figurative experience. The voice of a poem that comes from an audible individual may also be representative for a larger community,...

Throughout the ages young people have expressed their youth through music, for us Australians, rap music does this for us. Rap music, also known as hip-hop, is a music genre originating from Bronx in New York, USA where one of the first rappers ever, DJ Kool Herc, a Jamaican immigrant, started rapping at parties he...

The one who came to optimize the popular conception of the Romantic poet as a passionate dreamer that celebrates the world of imagination, who lived a short life and still managed to produce 54 poems that widely range from sonnets, odes, romance, and epics. John Keats lost his parents at age fourteen, but he still...

In a society where social media connects us to every part of the world, retailers like Instagram, Twitter and Tumblr furnish platforms for artists to share their work with the world. Rupi Kaur, a Canadian poet and illustrator of Indian descent, has reached worldwide sharing her work on Instagram. The poet is well-known for her...

Poems are a way to create music and bring harmony to this world. The very famous poet in Greek mythology, Orpheus, walked the earth and visited the underground whilst playing his lyre and singing. He thus transmitted his emotions and sang about the things he had before him which were also his source of inspiration....

The theme of a written work is known as the moral or lesson meant to be learned from that certain work. That varies from every written work to the next one, so themes often rely on the literary techniques that the author’s use. Authors can use any literary techniques such as similes and onomatopoeia to...

Both poems ‘Disabled’ by Wilfred Owen and ‘Bright Lights of Sarajevo’ by Tony Harrison show suffering in gruesome and vivid ways. Owen’s poem portrays the suffering of an individual solider who has fought in the war and is now suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); on the other hand, Harrison tells us about the...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was one of the most popular poets in the 19th century. Born on February 27, 1807 in Portland. He has achieved a state of internationally prominence by composing a number of works that can be used to define the nature of the world and human kinds which made revolutionary contributions to American...