Analysis of "Tears, idle tears" Lord Alfred Tennyson's, "Tears, idle tears", has many references to symbols and images that reflect the mood of the poem. Gloom controls the atmosphere the author is describing to the audience. These images better the understanding of this poem and give the rea...
Poetry Analysis of Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover" While reading "Porphyria's Lover" the main idea that stood out most in the poem was love. Also, an important part of this theme was the effects love may have on people such as fear, joy, pride, vanity and obsession as demonstrated by the...
An Analysis of "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" It is difficult to depict a primary poetic technique within this poem. The reason being that, many devices are used to bring forth the message that Rich has embedded within it. However, symbolism is the most prominent. The poem is set in a traditional ...
The poem "Thatcher" by Seamus Heaney is taken from a collection of the "Door into the Dark". At first glance, this poem is about a man coming to fix a thatch roof. The text is divided into four stanzas with four lines each. The first two stanzas carry an enjambment into the third to accentuate the ...
At first glance, Yeats" poetry may seem to be merely spontaneous emotion, however, after close literary analysis, it is clear that Yeats" poetry is often fairly systematic and reveals an assortment of reoccurring ideas. When analysis of Yeats" works is undertaken, especially when discussing Yeats" ideas and thoughts expressed through his poetry, it is often useful to consider the context of the poems. ... These regularly reiterated ideas are clearly uncovered when analysis is applied to Yeats" poetry, which indeed, on first reading appears to be predominantly spontaneous emotion. ...
A very rich vocabulary used makes a connotative analysis of the words required when reading his poetry. ... Concluding the analysis of "My Papa's Waltz", from the author's second volume of poems The lost son (1948), with the clear and specified idea Theodore Roethke wanted the audience to realize, makes the readers classify it as a very connotative meaning poem, with a not too much explicit main point. ...
(Balance sharp-edged critical analysis with personal impression.) ... Poetry To analyze poetry: - Title - Paraphrase: to put something in your own words after the first read through - Connotation: the actual/true meaning, examining literary devices - Attitude: author's perspective (tone/diction/imagery) - Shift: key words, punctuation, stanza division, length, change in sound - Title Revisited: 2nd impression/proper understanding - Theme: love, betrayal, lost love (the poet's perspective/ideas) Commentary Organization - Introduction - Brief background of the poet - Inform...
Poem Analysis: The Chimney Sweeper PARAPHRASE: The first stanza is told by an out side narrator. The narrator talks of a little black figure that is walking through the snow covered in soot and crying. The narrator questions why they boy is out all alone, and where his parents have gone to. The ...
Poet of Many Personas Emily Dickinson is a poet of many faces. She often writes through many different personas who are easy to relate to. One of her greatest techniques is to write about the particulars of her emotions in an adage-like tone. Dickinson uses the connotation of the sea and s...
Analysis of "The Unknown Citizen" We are just a number according to the government, we are not referred to as a name at the IRS, but a simple nine digit code with the pattern of ###-##-####. The Poem "The Unknown Citizen" by W.H. Auden is about us. "The Unknown Citizen" is a poem that is writt...
Sonnet 130-Analysis and Summary The poem begins in describing a woman, his mistress to be exact. And he seems to have a disdainful outlook of the woman's beauty. On the other hand he may just be making fun of the infinite number of love poems being produced in the Shakespearian era. Many of w...
The first line in Robert Frost's "The Silken Tent" automatically sets the foundation for the rest of the poem: "She is as in a field a silken tent." The first words from the poet's pen compare a woman to a silken tent; something beautiful and of high quality. He then beautifully describes the tent...
My favorite genre of literature is dystopian fiction, and it is from the genre I developed sincere admiration for George Orwell's 1984. In literature written today, the criteria for inclusion in the traditional English cannon includes the most well-known pieces of laic English literature that serve ...
American poet, Emily Dickinson, wrote many great poems throughout her life. During her life, five of her poems got published in the Springfield Republican. By 1890, the first book of Dickinson's work was published. However like many famous poets, many of her poems weren't published until after her ...
Critical analysis on American literature I analyzed a selected poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson titled "Bacchus" written in 1847. In this poem I believe that he accurately depicted a metaphorical piece about everyone buying into things that weren't worth buying into, and jading their chance to boost ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias," is considered to be one of the finest sonnets of all time. It has given us an excellent lesson which teaches us that possessions don't cause immortality. Even though we may try to overcome our mortality by leaving behind our footprints of our existence, it is not that easy. To Shelley, no one in the world lives forever, but their great works continue long past the individual is gone. On the other hand, John Donne's, "Death be not Proud, though some have called thee", addresses the facts that "Death" is not the en...
"This is perhaps Emily Dickinson's best-known poem. She personifies the character of death and then dramatizes the experience: Death is portrayed as a genteel friend who "kindly" stops to take to her grave." Style : - 6 stanzas, 4-lines each - Traditional meter, often found in hymns and n...
The poet, John Tobias, explores the tension between a highly blissful and idealized childhood and the harsh realities of a far more corrupt present in the poem 'Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickles Received From a Friend Called Felicity.' Alongside the character's loss of innocence, oth...
An analysis of "Digging and "Follower" by Seamus Heaney The Irish have always been great harvesters and hard workers. For years, it has been engrained in their cultural identity; the notion of living off the land, of "digging". In the poems "Digging" and "Follower" by Seamus Heaney, we, the ...
Biographical Timeline 1893 - 18 March, Born Plas Wilmot, Oswestry 1911 - Becomes a lay assistant at Dunsden 1913 - Leaves for Bordeaux, France to teach English 1914 - Meets French poet Laurent Talihade 1915 - October, Returns to England, enlists in 3/28 regiment. 1917 - Arrives in France to notorious Infantry depot as an Officer reinforcement 1917 - 12th January, In charge In front line at Serre 1917 - 14/15th March, Suffers concussion after a fall 1917 - 8/30th April, In an attack at Dancour Trench, St Quentin 1917 - 2nd May, C.O notices he is unwell, Evacuated to No.13 CCS with she...
This is a narrative poem which means that it tells a story. Liz Lockhead combines parts from the fairy stories in order to look at the relationship between men and women from a different point of view. It is a modern poem with feminist evidence. Unlike in traditional fairy tales, there is no happy e...
Even as far back as the opening stanza of "Alter Ego" that quotes: "who stands beside me still- is a Rhetorical question that also conveys a sense of the urgency or longing on the part of the poet to unravel her identity, thus this poem is clearly a self analysis of Harwood's own past, as she enters her twilight years. ...
Poetry Analysis - Dulce et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen introduces the poem, Dulce et Decorum Est, with a shocking images of soldiers in World War 1. The first two lines sets the mood of the poem - the horror and starkness of life in the war. He refers to the soldiers as 'hags', 'old beggars', wh...
