Poetry Page 23

At times, nature remains a rather harsh overlord of humanity. While humans rely on the earth for their very existence, it is not uncommon that nature and the earth turn on humanity and unleash great destruction. Therein lies the great paradox of nature as it can be both a source of great beauty but, at…

We all have the desire to command our fate but the grade to which we are able to attest that desire concretely is. ironically. non under our control. Thomas Lux’s verse form. Wife hits moose describes the narrative of a inquiring moose clashing with a married woman driving through a forest route during twilight. The…

The Balcony scene takes place in a private, secluded garden that is surrounded by walls. These walls are symbolic as they represent the barriers between Romeo and Juliet and they are high which represents the dangers they are facing by seeing each other against their families’, the Montague’s and Capulet’s, wishes. The Balcony scene is…

John Skelton an early tudor poet and laureate is a well known poet for his poem “Phillip Sparrow” also known as “The Book of Phyllyp Sparowe”. Many have argued that this piece was a satirical poem and others argued that it was just a story of a girl who lost her pet sparrow. Given a…

The poem says it is for “Michael Lonlgey”. I assume this is one of a group that Heaney wrote with and exchanged poems with. The first stanza conveys his compulsion to play around wells. He liked the mechanism and the sound it made. There’s alliteration of “dark drop”echoing the bucket hitting the water. There’s an…

Every time we open our eyes we should be thankful that God has granted us another day to live. We shall enjoy the endless pleasures of life that is offer to us and live each day like it is our last. Death is part of our lives and it is something that we must face…

One of the most important poets of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes, examines the complexities of the human experience in his poem “Harlem” (also known as “A Dream Deferred”). This essay’s main objective is to investigate the significance of Hughes’ poem’s idea of a “dream deferred.” By examining the many interpretations and implications, we might…

Both “The Caged Bird” poem and the autobiographical book “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou are poignant explorations of freedom, captivity, and self-expression. Although one is a literary reflection through verse and the other an expansive narrative of Angelou’s early life, they both pivot around the central motif of a caged…

Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem, “Ode to the West Wind” and Sylvia Plath’s poem “Mirror” both employ the poetic tools of apostrophe, the address to something that is intangible, and personification, the application of human characteristics to something inanimate. However, they form a paradox in the usage of these tools through the imagery they create. Both…

Feeling and Intellect Since Feeling is First by e.e. cummings and When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer by Walt Whitman are two poems whose main ideas contrast very much from each other. They both reflect the basic most form of human experiences, that being feeling and intellect since they often come hand in hand. When…