Poetry Essays Samples That Help You Write Better, Faster & with Gusto

The status of women have been questioned in many cultures of the world over the years. In the same manner, the Chinese culture also have a history of amendments and development made in the status of women. The Chinese literature explores and defines the role of women in the different dynasties of China. In particular, the feudal code of Chinese dynasty has put a lot of impact on the role of women in that is evident from the limitations that were imposed them for instance, no say in the decision of getting married etc. In this regard, the poem Continue reading...

Helen Farries in her poem, ‘Magic of Love’ and Sharon Olds in her poem, ‘Last Night’ both talk about love albeit in completely different ways. As the title suggests Farries’ poem is about magical love, the kind of love that is universal and makes everything right while Olds’ poem is about physical, frenzied love or rather the lack of the kind of love that Farries talks about in her poem. Love in Farries’ poem is abstract while Olds’ poem talks about the feelings that is experienced during passionate love making as well as the love that comes out of Continue reading...

Description of Poems

In this poem, the poet tries to explain the events that unfolded and his inability to find a viable solution to these challenges. The theme of desperation can better describe the situation the persona is in. From the first line of the first stanza, the poet starts describing how the dawn was, ‘a arse-arching dawn.’ He goes on to describe the wind shift, the dark sky, strange light, all of which best suit August.
Throughout the poem, the poet uses a number of poetic devices that are crucial. He constantly uses similes to give a comparison between two things Continue reading...

History of King Richard III

Saint Thomas More is a renowned figure in the literature world. He was an English lawyer and author. Throughout his life, More was regarded as one of the premier humanist scholars. More held many posts in public leadership including the powerful Lord Chancellor post. He was a highly educated man having studied Latin and Greek as well as being a qualified lawyer who had been admitted to the bar. More also had a monastic calling, which at times conflicted with his desire for public service. He at one time served as a monk, a calling to whose principles he Continue reading...

When The Lamp is shattered is a love poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley as an expression of loss of the affections of a woman that once loved him. Percy is renowned as one of the forces behind major English romantic poems. He is also revered by many admirers and critics alike for being one of the best lyric poets. His poems such as When The Lamp is shattered continue to show his strong position on political and social views. Much of his poetry, however, gained much fame after his death at a young age of thirty years. The poem, Continue reading...

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“The Fish” is the most anthologized poem written by Elizabeth Bishop. This poem has gained its popularity because it avoids the surrealism present in almost every other work of the author. The title provides the idea of what the poem is about. The key theme of the poem is the problem of choice whether to keep the caught fish or to release it. Either decision has its own consequences for the fisher that interlaces with the subject of withstanding of man and nature.
This mediative lyric poem describes the author's thoughts and feelings. It creates a single and unified Continue reading...

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The paper will explore the significance of three poems, to expand the understanding and symbolism common in poetry. The three poems are Her Lips are Copper Wire, Mulatto, and Outcast.

Her Lips are Copper Wire

The first poem that will be dissected to discover the beauty and depth of poetry, Her Lips are Copper Wire by Jean Toomer. The first several times of reading the poem do not reveal much, it is rather vague in the typical way that poems can be. The poem is actually about the passion of a man for a woman he loves. The narrator of the poem Continue reading...

He has been considered among the most influential poets during the romanticism period; he wrote a variety of romantic poems most of which are still being studied in the current literary works (Meyers, 198). One of his romantic poems that elicit romantic emotions is ‘The Desire’, among other poems that he wrote.

The Desire

The desire is a one stanza poem; it is a love or romantic poem. In the first stanza of this poem, Coleridge states that, “where true love burns, desire is love’s pure flame” (Coleridge, 13). This line is quite short, a typical characteristic of most of Continue reading...

Introduction

The two poems-Harlem and Sympathy-show what became of the dream of the Black Americans . They are both focused on the dreams and hopes of the Black American, and the underlying impeding factors to achieving it. In the poem Harlem, the dream seems like a load that weight heavily on the dreamer’s shoulders with no hope of actualization. On the other hand, the poem, Sympathy, explains the frustration that comes with the lack of the ability to actualize the dream, and the effect of any attempts to do so-injury, torture and pain. The two poems are similar in theme, Continue reading...

Accented and Unaccented Syllables

/ u / u / u

Mo/ney, the lo/ng g/reen, Trochaic

/ u / u / u / u

Ca/sh, sta/sh, rhi/no, ja/ck Trochaic

u / u / u
or just p/la/in do/u/gh. Anapestic
/ u / u

Cho/ck it up, fo/rk it over, Trochaic

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She/ll it out. Wa/tch it Trochaic

/ u u / u

Bu/rn holes through po/ck/ets. Anapestic

/ u / u / u / u
u / / u
me/ga/bu/cks and Ginnie Maes. Anapestic
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It greases the palm, fea/thers a nest, Iambic

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holds heads above wa/ter, Trochaic
makes both ends meet.

Money breeds money. u / u

Gathering in/ter/est, compounding daily. Anapestic
u / / u u

Always in cir/cu/la/ti/on. Dactylic

Paraphrasing the Poem
Dana Gioia’s poem “Money” targets the subject which usually runs in the minds of the many, including those Continue reading...

Quench

The poem “Sappho to Philaenis,” by John Donne offered many words to assess, though none offered more imagery or assessment than the word, “quench.” There were many instances wherein it could be analyzed grammatically, it presented repetition, and it allowed for an assessment to be made concerning the content of the poem itself. Found in the fifth line of the poem, it is rife with metaphor. It involves a woman named Sappho, who falls madly in love with another woman named Philaenis. This, of course, characterizes a homosexual, or lesbian relationship between the two. One might also classify it Continue reading...

Poetry Walcott

The poems by Walcott, namely Laventille and The Schooner Flight tend to give the reader an insight into colonization and its effects. This essay will examine various themes in the poems, namely the middle passage as well as themes such as religion. Lastly, the essay would conclude with a comparison of another of Robert Frost’s poem ‘The Gift Outright.’
In the poem ‘ Laventille,’ Walcott begins the poem with a broad description of Laventille slums overlooking the city. The setting for the poem opens with the poet and a friend undertaking a journey on foot to the top of Continue reading...

‘Instructor’s Name’

‘Subject’
2nd Draft: My Papa’s Waltz (Unique Loving Bond)
‘My Papa’s Waltz’ is a short yet complicated poem, written by Roethke, which has layers of meaning hidden behind its seemingly simple verses. There is an intriguing ambiguity associated with the poem, which has attracted various interpretations over the years. While a faction argue that the poem is about a drunken dad who abuses his son, others argue that it is a realistic portrayal of a father’s sincere, if a bit rough, love for his son. Through a chaotic experience, the poem elucidates the unique loving bond Continue reading...

Writings are the most valuable heritage left to us by our predecessors, which have to be transferred from one generation to another as they are traces of our own history and one of the ways of learning the existence. All poems have different goals and represent various issues and the age category. It is the ability of thinking, making analogies, conducting analyses and experiencing deep feelings that determine us as human beings among all creatures on our planet. Every person needs to read and feel poetry, but children are the ones who need it for sure as they are Continue reading...

Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen and

In Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen starts by using similes to describe the protagonists of the poem; before actually referring to them with nouns or pronouns. “[L]ike old beggars” and “coughing like hags” are similes, which have been used to introduce the war soldiers for the first time. From the very beginning of the poem, Owen is trying to draw images - like a movie- to help the reader imagine the situation clearly. In the fourth line of the third stanza, there is the phrase “distant rest” which can have two meanings and refer to both the Continue reading...

The poem I chose is an excerpt from Walt Whitman’s epic poem ‘Song of Myself’. Written in 1855, Whitman edited the poem many times but retained the original meaning intended. The poem was written just before the American civil war. The poem though set way back in the past; is a timeless piece as it touches on the need for all humanity to embrace their importance in this world. Whitman’s poem is about a celebration of self and is a call of pride, boldly urging each person to self-search and embrace who they are and appreciate self-identity.
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Imagery in the Poems of Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova’s poetry is rich with images that evoke loss and melancholy, yet at the same time, acceptance, or at least resignation. Without knowing much about her life, a reader — or this one at least — can quite easily understand that she endured great loss, but did so without blame, or even much regret. The tone of her poems is what I would call ‘observational,’ in that they seem to be written in the voice of a detached observer, who is noting, rather than expressing, the feelings of a third party rather than herself.
Akhmatova accomplishes this through the Continue reading...

Phillis Wheatley and Philip Freneau were poets who lived and wrote their works during the same period of time – the 18th century, and in the same country. All the same the lives of these poets had a diametrically opposed development, as Phillis Wheatley was an Afro-American poetess and Philip Freneau was an American poet. So, of course, there exist some similarities and differences in their poetic style, structure and the main themes of their poetry.
Phillis Wheatley, at a young age, was kidnapped in Africa, sold into slavery and transported to America. Her owners were the people, who have Continue reading...

The poem London written by famous English poet William Blake belongs to his cycle Songs of Innocence. The work represents the author’s personal experience and feelings towards the night city. When poem is read aloud it is instantly heard that it was written for the reading in such a way. In the course of the poem, Blake describes his feelings through what he hears on the streets of London, and these sounds become more obvious and real when the poem is heard rather than when it is read. The voice of the reader makes the city clearer and Continue reading...

The Iliad (By Homer)

The great name of Homer is primarily connected with the birth of the author's poetry. Exactly Homer is the first European poet. For thirty centuries, Homer’s poems admired a lot of people. Readers are experiencing delight, poets and critics study the features of the great poet. However, the creative legacy of Homer is not so great. It's just two poems: the ‘Iliad’ and ‘Odyssey,’ and a little of hymns. We can not say that the poem the ‘Iliad’ superiors ‘Odyssey,’ but ‘The Ilfiad’ is considered the number one poem in the world.
The poem ‘Iliad’ was created on Continue reading...