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Poet: Tupac Shakur Poem: And 2Morrow Critical Analysis Tupac Shakur is one of the most legendary and popular poetic/rap artists to this day. He is considered to be one of the most influential people of his time, influencing every African-American citizen in North America. Thought of as the creator of rap, Tupac has sold over…

We normally associate the concept of death with sadness and despair. For instance, if asked to visualize death, the first mental image that arises would be the tearful passing of a loved one, or perhaps a family pet. However, poet John Donne depicts a different perspective in his holy sonnet “Death, be not proud.” Instead…

‘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…