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‘The Hunchback in the park,’ was a poem written by Thomas based on reality. When he was a boy, he used to go to the park, and always would see this lonely old man, whom he then wrote this poem about. The poet has looked at the theme of isolation in a intriguing way, solely…

Charles Martin’s poem, “Victoria’s Secret,” presents a witty dichotomy between bedroom values in Victorian times and in the present. Martin first paints for his readers a picture of women’s sexuality in the Victorian times: Women were to lie perfectly flat when their husbands were “getting it off on them” (line 2). They were even urged…

Edgar Allen Poe’s tales and poems delve into the realms of fear and imagination, influencing genres like symbolism, detective, and horror fiction (Stern xxxviii). While his works evoke terror and trepidation, they also weave elements of fantasy. Poe skillfully creates analogous emotions in his readers as his characters experience in his writings. His common themes…

John Donne wrote the poem “Song: Go and catch a falling star” to express his thoughts on the faithfulness of women. Through imagery, diction, allusion, sound effects, and tone, Donne creates a captivating language that adds depth to the poem. In line 5, the use of the word “mermaid” refers to a mythical creature, representing…

How far will one let their obsessions, weaknesses and feelings get the best of them? This is the key question to Sylvia Plath’s poem, Lady Lazarus. While the poem works as an extended metaphor of Plath’s psychosocial journey from the age of ten onwards, as she writes about her near death experiences every decade; Plath…

As a child, the speaker was heavily influenced by his native culture, but, over the years the he has become more integrated with U. S. Ultra, which has thus caused him to lose identity of himself, and even become a stereotype for Asian Americans. The central purpose of this poem is to show hat if…

The poem “This Land is Your Land” by Woody Guthrie is originally a seven stanza poem that is often cut short in the recorded versions known to many. The poem’s main element is imagery of America’s landmarks to exorcise an emotion out of the reader. The first four stanzas have a much more celebratory tone…

Humanity and individuals naturally crave attention and personal gratification. This leads younger individuals to seek attention through any means possible, without considering that the attention might be short-lived and unsustainable. In his poem ‘Betting on a Muse’, Charles Bukowski brilliantly delves into the troubling concept of irrelevancy and the reversal of fortune. He skillfully compares…

Edward Estlin Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1894. He received his B.A. in 1915 and his M.A. in 1916, both from Harvard. During the First World War, Cummings worked as an ambulance driver in France, but was interned in a prison camp by the French authorities (an experience recounted in his novel, The…

Andrew Marvell wrote his short verse form To His Coy Mistress in a certain manner to have the reply that he wanted out of his kept woman. Marvell uses metre, imagination, and tone to carry his lady to farther commit in their relationship. This verse form has a really strong carpe diem, or prehend the…