Poetic devices are often utilized by authors to emphasize and clarify their overall theme. One such device is alliteration, where a beginning sound of a word is employed more than once in a line. Shakespeare presents alliteration as the most important tool to understanding his moral in sonnet 71. In...

Discuss two of Milton's works where his strong distinctive personality appears. As we are studying the era of the renaissance we must not forget its central literary figure who is John Milton. Milton appears in a very sensitive period when London was living a struggle between the king Charles' fo...

A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter with a carefully patterned rhyme scheme. Few poets have ever truly mastered the art of writing a sonnet. Sonnets are very clear, short, focused projections of a major theme of life. It is an incredibly difficult task to create a masterpiece wi...

William Blake wrote during the Romantic period which between 1785 - 1830. Some said that the Romantic period was the fairy tale way of writing through symbolism and allegory and also an age for individualism. Blake was little known as a poet during his lifetime. His reputation became established l...

Through my knowledge of Wordsworth's poetry I understand what he has written and the hidden messages he has encrypted into his poetry. It is remarkable on how he structured his poems, what language, what inspirations and themes he wrote about. In "The Solitary Reaper" and "Strang...

1)Why is the poem called "Anthem for Doomed Youth" The peom is telling us about soldiers dying in war and how there is a lack of after-life procedures for them. It is called the "Anthem for the Doomed Youth" because of the condition the youths were in during the war. The poem talks of death, whic...

(A) Compare how love and hate are presented in Sonnet 130 by Shakespeare and Havisham by Carol Ann Duffy. (B) Compare these poems with two more poems, one by Carol Ann Duffy and one from the pre-1914 poetry bank. Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 is a poem in which he forms an argument against con...

In his poem "Grass", Carl Sandburg emphasizes the need to remember the people who have died in war for the cause of freedom and chastises those who go about their daily lives taking their freedom for granted. The straightforward statements in the poem portray the author's disappointment of those who...

One need only turn on the evening news to get a sense of the tragic state of world affairs, especially during times of war. Yet even before the invention of television or print photography, war and killing were integral parts of the human social and political experience. Edwin Brock captures a v...

William Blake's "The Chimney Sweeper", part of his Songs of Innocence, is about a young boy who was sold as a baby into the life of a chimney sweep. The boy has a dream about the child chimneysweepers' dreadful lives coming to an end, and finally being set free into God's ar...

An ode is a relatively long, serious poem that discusses a noble subject in a thoughtful and dignified manner. John Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" shows all the characteristics composing a Horatorian ode, a consistent rhyme scheme (ABABCDE followed by a final CDE varying in order), the...

"Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone" This piece of text is a poem revolved around funeral blues, and the grief people feel when a loved one dies. "Stop all the clocks" was written by W. H. Auden and was first published as "Song IX" FROM "Twelve So...

"The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads). Discuss. Wordsworth argues in his 1802 preface to Lyrical Ballads that "poetry should be written in the natural language of common speech, rather than in the lofty and elaborate dictions th...

From POETICS Aristotle’s Poetics is considered the first work of literary criticism in our tradition. The couple of pages in the book mainly describe tragedy from Aristotle’s point of view. He defines tragedy as being an imitation of an action that is a whole and comple...

Homecoming Narrative voice plays an important role in conveying the idea of 'journey' in 'Homecoming' by poet Bruce Dawe. In this free-verse war poem, the idea of 'journey' extends itself to cover both the physical and emotional aspects of the subject matter of ...

"Those Winter Sundays," is a poem about a son remembering his father. The poem seems to be a lament of the fact that the son, at the time could not perceive his father's expressions of love. The father is a hard worker who worked everyday even on Sundays. It is clear that there was distan...

Literature Essay Question: Discuss the presentation of love and/or death in two or more poems Love is a theme prevalent in texts throughout the ages. However, never has the theme been explored as thoroughly than in William Shakespeares' sonnets. In Shakespeares' sonnet 116, the poet co...

Thomas Hardy wrote 'The Darkling Thrush' at the turn of the century, on the 31st of December, 1900. It was a date that compelled the poet to acknowledge that it was the end of one time and the start of another. 'The Darkling Thrush' is a poem that deals not only with the beginning of a new year and ...

For many centuries, the Western Canon of literary works has set a standard for education by presenting the great and outstanding literary works of the past. As multiculturalism and equality thrive in the new millennium, the validity of the seemingly racially and sexually discriminating canon is bei...