Poetry is a mysterious thing. The use of poetry can be made to bring about a feeling or emotion about something, or it can be used to earn a few extra dollars. There are some writers though, like William Wordsworth, who used the writing style to write about their real life experiences. It has bee...

"Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden, and "Secret Heart" by Robert Tristram Coffin, both tell the story of a father's love and share the common theme that actions speak the language of love louder than words. Although the speaker in Hayden's poem realizes his father&...

In the poem "One Art", Elizabeth Bishop writes about many things that she has lost and the way she coped with them. At first she tries to convince the reader that the art of losing is not too har to master and that their loss is no disaster, but in the end she admits that although it is not that di...

For many centuries, young men have been telling their sweethearts about ephemeral youth and passion which, like a candle, burns brightly but dies out slowly but surely. Edmund Waller's persona in the poem "Song" is such a young man. He sends a rose to his beloved to "Tell her that [she] waste...

The poem "True Love" is an expression of the view of a housewife's thoughts on what is the meaning of true love and how she recognized it in her marriage. It is told through her eyes as she tries to explain how she can identify this thing called true love. It's important to poi...

On "Mementos, 1" In W. D. Snodgrass's "Mementos, 1", we are taken through a wide range of emotions sparked by the speaker's memories of a lost love when he stumbles upon her photograph taken when they had first met. The speaker reminisces about his journey through l...

Emily Dickenson and Walt Whitman I chose to write about Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. These two were obviously two very important and talent poets who focused on very different themes. Emily Dickinson focused greatly on self-awareness as opposed to Walt Whitman who focused on nature. The ...

Flash's across the sky A stampede as the clouds Crash together Swirling, swarming, suffocating Each other In a race to find It's own place This poem was included because it sort of says that clouds and storms know what they are doing. I wrote this poem, from the poetry uni...

This is essentially a poem that deals with love and is an expression of the intensity of love that the protagonist has for his partner. It is also a poem that intends to show the universal value and meaning of true love. The central literary device used in the poem is a form of extended metaphor, kn...

Mira speaks of "the importance of the name of God and praises the True Guru in her poetry" (Hawley, 1977). Her poems are not complex in nature, and they are very fluid. The emotions explored in her work are those related to women; typically Mira explores the same type of issues, especially those ...

Although many writers choose the concept of love to be the subject of their poetry, they do not all approach it in the same way. Some may use a pessimistic or cynical tone while others may view love with "rosy glasses." Ben Jonson and Anne Bradstreet are two such poets who chose love as one of t...

Dover Beach is a very mood-evoking poem. We are first met with an admiration for the sea and different emotions that draw to the observer. However, as the poem progresses we are gradually introduced to a large metaphor for love and like the sea are able to evoke many moods, and different emotions, w...

True Love Defined A dictionary defines true love as mutual devotion between two people who show unselfish concern for the good of another (Merriam). However, the dictionary does not explain how true love is rare, and the affects it has on others. Wislawa Szymborska expresses a negative opinion to...

The poem "Funeral Blues", written by W. H. Auden, is based on a loved one who is deceased. The poem is written based on nontraditional and traditional elements. This poem is also based on several different themes such as death, love, order and disorder, and also meaning of love. Through...

Villanelle: One Art by Elizabeth Bishop The speaker in this poem is the voice of all of us, telling us its okay to just get lost sometimes. That losing something, is something we can get over, even death. Losing is not the end; it's a time to pull yourself back together, and know that you w...

Anne Bradstreet's poem, "To My Dear and Loving Husband," is a relatively short poem in which she expresses her undying love, affection, and gratitude for her husband. It is Puritan culture for women to remain reserved, regardless of how they may truly feel; however she makes it her obligation to mak...

Poetry is written words which express meaning and bring life to those words. Emily Dickinson is simply stating that poetry is something the reader has to feel, without any feeling for the issue at hand, one can not truly understand poetry. If you do not have similar emotions as the writer, y...

"My Pretty Rose-Tree," written by William Blake, is a poem of love, jealousy, and sorrow. This eight-line poem, following the abab acac rhyme pattern, is full of strong symbolism and a great deal of personification, all used in an attempt to express the narrator's feelings. William ...

The poem "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden is very interesting because of the emotions the poem expresses. Hayden captures love as a possible theme in this poem, a unspoken love that could not be expressed in any language, the love between a father and his son. Rhythm is created in ...

Oh, my love is like a red, red rose. thats newly sprung in june. my love is like a melody thats sweetly played in tune. So far art thou, my bonny lass, so deep in love am I. And I will love thee still, my dear until the sea gangs dry. Till a seas gang dry my dear and the rocks melt with the sun, an...

Those Winter Sundays "Those Winter Sundays" is a very touching poem. It is written by Robert Hayden who has written many other poems. This paper will talk about the poem "Those Winter Sundays". In particular we will look at the structure, main idea, and each stanza of the poem. &...

My Father, the Machine "Those Winter Sundays," a poem written by Robert Hayden speaks directly to the heart. This is a poem about a son who took his father for granted. Through all of his childhood years in life, he never appreciated the small things his father did for him an...

The poem starts of with a rhetorical Question "Who is to comprehend the Mysteries of love?" The composer portrays how love is a mysterious entity and no one is immune to it, the composer point out that no one can tell who they fall in love with because love pops up in mysteries ways. Thi...

"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...

"When We Two Parted" is a romantic poem about a secret love, a love that is lost. The persona is speaking of this lost love and how it has affected him. His heart, which has not let go of this love, is broken and he is dwelling on these feelings. This poem brings the reader back to a t...