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...

"The poetry of Wilfred Owen offers more then a graphic description of war" The poetry composed by Wilfred Owen offers more than a graphic description of war. With the use of many poetic techniques, Owen effectively conveys many issues in relation to war throughout his poems The Sen...

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...

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...

T.S. Eliot once said of Blake's writings, "The Songs ofInnocence and the Songs of Experience, and the poems fromthe Rossetti manuscripts, are the poems of a man with aprofound interest in human emotions, and a profoundknowledge of them." (Grant, Pg 507) These two famous booksof poetry written by Wil...

Robert Frost and T. S. Eliot were undoubtedly influential poets of theirtime. Both poets eventually enjoyed fame and popularity for developingtheir own voice and style. While both men wrote compelling poetry, we findthe aesthetic poet with Eliot and the meditative poet with Frost. Both menclea...

\'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...