I found it difficult to understand most of Walt Whitman's poems as I do to most poems in general. So I narrowed them down to two of the poems that I liked. In the first poem I read, "Song of Myself", Whitman jumps from topic to topic in almost every other line. The poem gave me a problem unde...

An analysis of the setting and character use in Marge Piercy's short poem "Wellfleet Sabbath" In Marge Piercy's short poem, "Wellfleet Sabbath" it often conveys deep custom mind-sets. She wants the reader to be able to understand the lyrics that she expresses in ...

JUSTIFICATION PAPER Carl Sandburg was unique compare to many other poets. All of the poems that he wrote were short and straight to the point. You would not find any poems that he had written that are over a page, yet still; his poems are very easy to understand. Sandburg lived through a lo...

"Seize the day." In To His Coy Mistress, Marvell creates a timeless land of paradise and contrasts it to the harsh realities of the real world. If there were enough time, the speaker would continue on court his mistress forever, but time is disappearing fast, so they must take advantage of the momen...

In Shakespeare\'s Sonnet 18, the poet cleverly refers to the passing of time with images of nature and the seasons. He uses a summer\'s day as an image for how short-lived youth and love can be. The speaker initiates the poem with a rhetorical question: \"Shall I compare thee to a summer\'s day?\" ...

There are a lot of writers who write about the nature. Nature is an endless treasury of symbolism, allegory, and it can surely inspire poets to use those tools to describe their feelings or to bring their messages to humanity. I would like to examine two short poems and to see how each author uses ...

"To His Coy Mistress" Andrew Marvell wrote his short poem "To His Coy Mistress" in a certain way to receive the answer that he wanted out of his mistress. Marvell uses meter, imagery, and tone to persuade his lady to further commit in their relationship. This poem ...

¡°A young man is persuading his loved lady into accepting his love considering the short lifetime.¡± The theme of this poem is not new, but Andrew Marvell is unique in the selection and development of images and structuring of the poem. More important, in the words of poet T. S. Eliot, M...

Cause and Effect Essay The choices people make today, have either small consequences, or large consequences. This occurs in the following three short stories. In "Borders", written by Thomas King, Laetitia decides to move off the reserve. Her mother cannot say she is either American o...

There have been millions of writers and millions of books filed with short stories and poems and life experiences. But one the most recognized poets of his time and so on was Robert Frost. Most Americans are familiar with his name and may be a piece or two, but to the avid reader of poetry or nove...

Down By The Salley Gardens by William Butler Yeats Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree. In a field by the riv...

Down By The Salley Gardens by William Butler Yeats Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree. In a field by the riv...

Throughout high school, I went through a lot of different English teachers. They all had their specification on what type of paper they liked. One of my best papers that I ever wrote was a research paper. I love to do research on a certain topic and go in depth to try to sum it all up into a pape...

The short story "Thank You, Ma'am" and the poem "Mother to Son", both by Langston Hughes are similar yet differ in many ways. In the following paragraphs I will explain the similarities and the differences. Besides being written by the same author the two litera...

Poe grew up in a tragic life, he was orphaned as a boy and destroyed emotionally by deaths in his family. In his time, Poe wrote some of the deepest emotional poems and short story's, which are renowned for their complexity and feeling. Some say that his poems and writings reflect his ...

Down By The Salley Gardens by William Butler Yeats Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree. In a field by the riv...

Nature and life has always been one of poets¡¯ hottest themes. Poets arrange the wonder of nature and the essence of life into words to show their affection toward this magnificent theme. ¡°The Seed Shop¡± by Muriel Stuart and ¡°To Blossoms¡± by Robert Herrick are two of the ...

There are many different people who have commented and critiqued Robert Frost's work. Some of them are as long as ten pages and others are just short paragraphs, but all of the ones that I've read have pretty much the same thing to say.Tina Ferris commented on Frost's simple vocabulary. She said tha...

Gary Soto's "Mexican's Begin Jogging," explores an array of emotions twisting from desire to anxiety as the narrative unfolds into an inspiring tale of courage and freedom. It delves into the constant struggle to strive for something better in one man's race towards a new...

Potential. It's a word that's thrown around when people think you can do something great, be it in academics, the arts, or sports. Ex-Basketball Player, by John Updike, is a poem about a man named Flick Webb whose wasted potential has led him to a dismal, melancholy life. The narrator is a...

The poetry of the Imagists is short, simple, and quite literal in its meaning in order to create a vivid picture in the reader's mind. When they describe an object, it means just what they say. A tree is a tree, a flower is a flower, and a bird is a bird. Imagists have little use for abstract wor...

Shakespeare's Sonnet 116I have been touched by many poems throughout my short time dabbling in poetry, but none so much as a beautiful sonnet sketched from the magical pen of William Shakespeare. I spent one non-eventful day surfing through his near 200 published sonnets, and I distinctly remember ...

Langston Hughes was one of the greatest poets that ever lived. He had a unique way of writing his poetry, and his diction varied from poem to poem. His poems ranged from short and sweet, too more detailed and in depth. After reading some of his poetry I find you are able to understand what he want's...

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson is an American lyric poet of the nineteenth century who has also been called "the New England mystic". (Britannica #4) She is one of the greatest masters of the short poem. There is very little known about her life, but it was unusually and interesting. Emily was born in Am...

Dorothy Parker and Edna St. Vincent Millay were two very famous feminist writers from the 1920's. They wrote during the time when there were great changes happening in women's lives in the United States. As women began to change their lifestyles from the Victorian ways, these writers'...