Many poets have used the form of a villanelle to express their feelings and ideas: Elizabeth Bishop used it to advise on the art of losing; Oscar Wilde used it to inform about Theocritus; Sylvia Plath used it to give admonitions to her readers. Though the villanelle is a fairly rigid structure havin...

The poem "The Broken Heart", by John Donne, describes the lasting effects that love has on the heart and what it can do to a person's soul. Donne fills the verses with similes and metaphors that compare love with the uncaring yet destructive items he chooses. Through imagery, he rev...

In the poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert Frost presents us with the picture of an individual pausing in a journey to observe the woods during an evening snowstorm. When the traveler's horse begins to grow impatient, they reluctantly move on. Beginning with lines stating that...