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Two poems penned by two powerful female voices who have made immense contributions in the literary world make for an interesting and insightful study. Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” and Adrienne Rich’s http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3579 for more details. Adrienne Rich’s groundbreaking book, Diving Into the Wreck,” was published in 1973. This work remains a significant contribution to feminist literature…

‘Half Past Two’ is a poem in which Fanthorpe describes how a young child is given a detention for an unspecified misdemeanor and is forgotten by his teacher. Fanthorpe draws on her experience as a teacher to describe the scene as seen through the child’s eyes. The Title of the poem tells me a lot…

The poem ‘Colour Bar’, by Oodgeroo Noonuccal, explores her downright disgust towards racial prejudice. As a former Aboriginal rights activist, she evidently displays her hatred and dislike towards racism and prejudice through her descriptive poem. The use of poetic techniques assists in conveying her message. Visual imagery and metaphorical language conveys Oodegeroo’s judgment that racial…

            “Proem: to Brooklyn Bridge,” by Hart Crane functions as the introduction or “overture” to Crane’s epic poem “The Bridge.” Conceived by Crane as both as an “answer” to Eliot’s famous poem “The Wasteland” and as a “synthesis of  America,” “The Bridge” reveals itself as a complex series of interconnected lyric poems loosely configured around…

The Poem “Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy is about a girl who struggles with her body image. The speaker in the poem acts as an observer; watching the girl encounter different experiences as it related to her body image. Today’s generation is much similar to the life of the girl in this poem. Girls are…

In his poem “Freedom Train,” Langston Hughes openly shares his thoughts on freedom. He directly expresses his interest in the train he has been hearing about, stating, “I read in the papers about the Freedom Train. I heard on the radio about the Freedom Train.” It is evident that he desires to gather as much…

Gary Soto speaks to the romantic side of all of us with his poem “Oranges.” In the poem, Soto uses the innocence and simplicity of first love, combined with symbolism and imagery of colors and light to evoke the feelings we all had on our first date. While the poem reads simply as words about…

On My First Daughter and On My First Son Ben Jonson’s poems on the death of his children Ben Jonson lived in the English Renaissance period when childhood mortality was very high due to health problems, diseases, lack of medicines and unhygienic life conditions. He got married to Anne Lewis in the early 1590s. Their…

Emily Dickinson, as a poetic writer, composed most of her works with the theme of death, the entirety of which can be categorised into three different periods of writings; the earliest mainly contained the themes of death and immortality, personifying death and elegiac poems and lacked the intensity and urgency of her later poems or…

INTRODUCTION             Robert Frost has been one of the most well-known poets of all time. His works all showcase emphasis on deep meanings and quality representations. His use of words and elements in a single poem create a combination of different literary forms of sentences. Most of his works combine many figures of speech like…