Essays on Poem

Is Virgil’s Aeneid an Anti-War Poem?Virgil opens the Aeneid’ with the words ARMA virumque cano ( I sing of arms and of men). The central role that war plays in this Roman epic is made apparent from the very first word of the Aeneid’ by the emphatic placing of the word arma at the very…

The HighwaymanTheirjourney to London was not a long one, but in the night, it was a treacherousone. A rolling fog covered the land, one couldnt see twenty feet ahead, butin the still, quiet night, sound carried for a mile. They began their trekin the early evening, the sun had yet to dip below the horizon….

The poem written by “Wendy Cope”, titled ‘Sisters’, is a well-structured poem, which describes the rebellious attitudes of two bad sisters. The use of several literary devices such as a detailed description of tone, and the change in tone, also, insight into the personalities of the characters and their nature of social relationship, assists in…

Robert Frost was one of the most famous and important poets of the 20th century and his poem “Mending Wall” was published in 1914. It is one of his longer poems and it is written in blank verse. The poem was in Frost’s second collection of poetry. My reading process for this poem was over…

In the Poem My Last Duchess by Robert Browning the heartless and haughty talker explains a picture of his last married woman while unwittingly uncovering a darker side to his last matrimony than one might see from they outside. The verse form depicts a heavy watercourse of witting feel to it by utilizing linguistic communication…

E. E. Cumming’s poem “The Cambridge Ladies Who Lived in Furnished Souls,” generally lampoons the behavior and way of life of the Cambridge girls. In fact, just by simply using the word “furnished” in his title, Cumming made an ironic description of a group of ladies who more or less represent the aristocracy in New…

The Homeric poems are a representation of reality- nature, animals, and men. We may reach Homer by inquiring into the picture he gives us– by seeing how true and imaginative it is. One researcher, Paolo Vivante, concludes that By Homeric imaginatition I mean that sympathetic insight whereby objects and events were first rendered by the…

Two of the most of import aggregations of verse forms in the long history of Chinese literature are the Shijing ( Book of Odes ) and the Chuci ( Songs of Chu ) . The Shijing is the oldest aggregation of Chinese poesy ; it dates from the 10th through 7th centuries B.C. , during…

A Man I Am by Stevie Smith (1902-1971) In less than a page, this poem instantly recognizable as the work of its utterly unique author sketches the process of man s evolution from a primitive, violent, wolf-like state to true, spiritually-conscious humanity. The process is at the same time a movement from hate (line 1)…

asdThe poem, “Barbie Doll,” written by Marge Piercy tells the story of a young girl growing up through the adolescence stage characterized by appearances and barbarity. The author uses imagery and fluctuating tone to describe the struggles the girl is experiencing during her teenage years, and the affects that can happen. The title of this…