Poems are a way to express people's ideas and reflect on their feeling. They have many different depths and themes. Poetry can reveal a lot about the person writing it. It can show their sensitivity, sense of humor, what they have gone or their thoughts on life. The poem I choose from poetry 180 was...
These lines compare love and songs, which both have in common in some ways and also have their differences. 1Sometimes with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I 2effuse unreturn'd love, 3But now I think there is no unreturn'd love, the pay is 4certain one way or another, 5(I loved a certain person ardently and my love was not 6return'd, 7Yet out of that I have written these songs.) 1This line of the poem is trying to tell people that love doesn't always bring love and happiness but it can also bring fear in people that they could have between the bo...
Soliliquy of the Spanish Cloister by Robert Browning and Sonnets from the Portuguese: Number 43 by Browning's wife, Elizabeth Barrett Browning are as opposite from eachother as two poems can be. Both are written in different styles and both poems have completely opposite tones. However, they do shar...
Theme for the Unknown, Red Transportation While the four poems, "Public Transportation," "The Unknown Citizen," "The Red Wheelbarrow," and "Theme for English B" encompass a wide variety of styles, they all address a similar theme. Each poem involves the idea of appearances and, in most cases, th...
In "The Road Not Taken" Frost discusses the choosing to take the road that is less traveled upon (19-20). I can relate to this poem personally because by coming to Texas A&M, I was taking the road less traveled. The vast majority of my high school classmates and friends from my area chose to attend ...
Auden compares the loved one to cardinal directions; he does this to let the reader know whoever passed away was very important to the significant other "He was my North, my South, my East and West, my working week and my Sunday rest" (Auden 9-10). ...
Sylvia Plath's poetry is well known for its deeply personal and emotional subject matter. Much of Plath's poetry is confessional and divulges the most intimate parts of her psyche whether through metaphor or openly, without creating a persona through which to project her feelings, and through the us...
Billy's Painfully Brief Guide to Essay Form and Format The essays you will be submitting in this course are worth 60 per cent of your final grade. It is important, therefore, that you do well on them if you wish to do well in the course. One vital part of any good essay is, of course, the quality ...
A path from romanticism to modernism. The stylistic evolution of Yeats" travels through several stages across his career. Initially as a young poet, Yeats wrote much literary ornate verse. From his first publication in 1885 he"d been much influenced by the pre-Raphaelites. A group of artists a...
The Modernist era arrived in late nineteenth century Europe due to a general change in the attitude of the time. The effects of Industrialization on Europe's society, the development of scientific theories, such as Darwin's evolution theory', and the tension between the European nations that was to eventually escalate into World War One, called into question the existence of God and the rationality of Mankind. Modernism was a part of [this] disturbed, transformational period of European history [which] contained and incorporated its sensibility of transition and its rising ...
Robert Frost is famous for his ability to ask the reader about their life with the use of simplistic words. Frost does this by using the poetic technique of duality. Duality is the contraction of two opposite qualities; for example light and dark or left and right are two dualities. Along with the u...
