Poetry Page 19

William Butler Yeats, one of the modern poets, influences his contemporaries as well as successors, such as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and W. B. Aden. Though three common themes in Yeats’ poetry are love, Irish Nationalism and mysticism, but modernism is the overriding theme in his writings. Yeats started his long literary career as…

This poem, “In a Dark Time” by Theodore Rothke, is often seen as a melancholic and somber work of literature. However, I interpret it differently, finding a darker meaning within it. Rothke deliberately includes numerous hidden meanings in each line of his poem, maintaining the enigmatic tone. In this analysis, I will dissect a few…

There will be an assessment of two poems by Simon Armitage: ‘I’ve made out a will’ and ‘my father thought it bloody queer’. The reason I chose these poems is because they share a similar structure and I prefer them over other poems by Armitage. In the opening line of this untitled poem, the poet…

William Blake explores the perspective of a child living a life of child labor and slavery in his poem “The Chimney Sweeper”. Through the use of onomatopoeia, Blake effectively conveys the emotions experienced by the character in the poem. Additionally, symbolism is employed by Blake to enhance the reader’s comprehension of the underlying message. Furthermore,…

J. Reeves has successfully used the Canis familiaris metaphor to arouse the behaviours of the sea at many occasions. The poet compares the different behaviours of the Canis familiaris at different tempers with the sea. The first stanza shows the begining of the force due to the hungry nature of the Canis familiaris which metaphoricaly…

The controversial works and lifestyle of George Gordon, Lord Byron have long been a topic of discussion. Byron, born with a clubfoot, was deeply affected by his physical condition, which influenced his life and writings. Despite being an attractive child, he had fragile self-esteem and was highly sensitive to criticism, both of himself and his…

The society depicted in the poem “Beowulf” depended on two basic characteristics of its people. Loyalty and generosity are the two characteristics that bound this culture together. Throughout the poem, the people must depend on the loyalty and generosity of Beowulf and his warriors to defend them from evil. Society as described in Beowulf, was…

For the final project I have decided to go with option number two and attempt to further examine a piece of poetry from our literature book. I feel that I gained a lot of understanding and knowledge, when a similar paper to this option was assigned earlier in the semester. In the earlier assignment I…

Shane Reid Reid1 “homage to my hips” Lucille Clifton was born and raised in Depew, N. Y. (June 27, 1936). She attended Howard University in Washington D. C. , Then transferring to Fredonia College near Buffalo, N. Y. It was when she attended Fredonia State Teachers College that she was experimenting and exploring poetry, drama,…

Encounters with Creatures In the poems “An Advancement of Learning” and “An August Midnight” the connection between both poems is their focuses on their encounters with creatures, Heaney’s with a rat on a river embankment and Hardy’s with several nocturnal insects that fly through his window. Both draw on the idea of their personal encounters…