Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, born March 18, 1893, was the oldest of four children of Tom and Susan Owen. His father's work as a railway clerk was supplemented by his mother's father until his death put the family in financial difficulties. The family tried to keep their life along middle class standa...

Compare and contrast Joanna Baillie's poem 'A Mother to her Waking Infant' with Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem 'Frost at Midnight'. Discuss and compare the form and content of the two poems, then say which poem you prefer and why. Childhood as a subject for p...

War Poetry Comparison In this essay, I have decided to analyse two poems by the war poet Wilfred Owen, taken from his writings on the First World War and a poem by Jessie Pope. Both of Wilfred Owen's poems ('Dulce et Decorum Est' and 'Anthem for Doomed Youth') portray Owen's bitter feelings to...

Hopkins' Coursework Explore the views of Grigson and Ward and with close attention to at least three poems develop your own views on Hopkins' poetry. To appreciate the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins he must first be placed in his correct context. Hopkins' was born in 1844 into a...

\"O for a life of sensations rather than thoughts!\" What is the relation between thought and feeling in Keats\'s odes? Out of all his poetry, the odes appear to be the most sensually explored poems that Keats wrote. Through this collection of poetry, he deeply explores the world of feelings and ...

Poets are often many things. They are watchers, documenters, observers and sometimes, lovers. In their works, poets paint pictures for their readers that are sometimes clear and concise, but are often puzzling. T.S. Eliot, perhaps one of the greatest poets of the western tradition, is a puzzling ...

\'It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end.\' Ursula Le Guin A journey is an arbitrary, cyclic conduit to which no end can be foreseen. The arrival of a journey is not the end, simply a reflection on the events thus far, a pause in the eternal flig...

John Keats and Mark O\'Connor are two poets who articulated their emotions and observations of the world around them. This has been demonstrated in poems such as Keats\' Bright Star and also Ode to Autumn. O\'Connor also demonstrates this through The Beginning and The Sun-Hunter. Both poets have emp...

Born in 1795, Keats, the son of a stablekeeper, was raised in Moorfields, London, and attended the Clarke School in Enfield. The death of his mother in 1810 left Keats and his three younger siblings in the care of a guardian, Richard Abbey. Although Keats was apprenticed to an apothecary, he soon ...

Thematic analysis: The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost This is a wonderful poem with many different themes and ideas. One of the biggest themes is not being afraid to take a chance. Some of the other themes include, not following the crowd, trying new things, and standing for something. This p...

There is a definite likeness between these poems, as they are all thematically linked. An example of this is that in each, there is some sort of conflict between man and natures representations i.e. the knight and the faery, the boy and the rat, and also the man and the deer. Beyond the words of the...

Erica Spiezio"Kubla Khan" by Samuel Coleridge is a poem about the magnificent power of the creative mind. Using vivid images and mystery, Coleridge is able to show how an inspired poet has the ability to create new worlds with his imagination. The only problem that Coleridge encounters as he progr...

My Life Closed Twice Before Its CloseMy life closed twice before its close--It yet remains to seeIf Immortality unveilA third event to meSo huge, so hopeless to conceiveAs these that twice befell.Parting is all we know of heaven,And all we need of hell.A paradox is a statement which contains apparen...

ROAD NOT TAKENEnglish 113B26 September 1999Choices are never easy- men face multitudes of them in their lifetime. Some decisions to these choices are clear while others are sometimes more difficult to effectuate. The poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is a first person narrative tale of a mon...