Written in 1966 and 1987 respectively, both Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" and David Wagoner's "My Father's Garden" are two poems which pay special tribute to the speakers' fathers. Even though the poetic tones and family settings are different, however, th...

How do the authors of Long Distance, The Sick Equation and My Grandmother enable us to understand the relationships described in the poems? In 'Long Distance', the rhyming pattern is abab cdcd efef, but in stanza four it changes. The rhyme pattern then changes to ghhg. The slowing d...

Wilfred Owen's poems, "Anthem for Doomed Youth" and "Dulce et Decorum Est" vividly depict the degrading struggles one faces during times of war. The horrific dealings one experiences not only during, but after war, in memories, are truly nothing short of "incurable sores" ("Dulce" 24). "Anthem for...

In the following essay, I will begin to discuss three poems written by the contemporary poet, Sylvia Plath (1932-1963). I have taken three poems from her "Ariel" collection, and they are "On the arrival of the Bee Box", "Tulips" and "Wintering". It is the host...

Upon first reading of John Donne's 'The Sunne Rising' (Leonard 1998:463), it is obvious the poem is a love poem and it appears that the concerns of the poet are to show the speaker's love for his mistress. Showing this them of love was obviously one of the poets concerns but t...

What relationship is not a "Love-Hate" relationship? As we grow older and mature, we harden like a rock and have to suffer the realization that perfection is a mirage on the horizon. Sylvia Plath makes this clear in the undercurrents of her poem, Daddy. Plath reflects on her suffering, ...

Comparison Essay " If I could only live at the pitch that is near madness, When everything is as it was in my childhood..." This statement in the "Ode" is a common theme between the two poems. The poems being If I Could Only Li...

Blake’s songs of innocence and experience are written differently to emphasise the differences in what we find appealing at different ages. The Songs of Innocence are written in a way, which could be compared with nursery rhymes for their style and rhythm. This is shown differently in the Son...

Blake’s songs of innocence and experience are written differently to emphasise the differences in what we find appealing at different ages. The Songs of Innocence are written in a way, which could be compared with nursery rhymes for their style and rhythm. This is shown differently in the Son...

Sylvia Plath uses her poem, Daddy, to express deep emotions toward her father's life and death. With passionate articulation, she verbally turns over her feelings of rage, abandonment, confusion, and grief. Though this work is fraught with ambiguity, a reader can infer Plath's basic story. Her f...

The Silent Father To me, Sundays are often a day of leisure and rest after a series of exhausting school days. IT would be more or less the same for most people since it is a public holiday. However, the ¡§Sunday¡ presented in this poem is quite a different picture, in which we see a fathe...

Jennifer's Tigers To some people, words are just a mess of confusion. Words are used solely to direct and lead. Words can only mean exactly what they say on paper. People think that sentences mean the same thing to every person, not matter the time or gender. But to others, words are much m...

This Be the Verse by Philip Larkin They *censored* you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you. But they were *censored*ed up in their turn By fools in old-style hats...

Paul Laurence Dunbar's Past Had a Lasting Effect on his Future Paul Laurence Dunbar, the son of two former slaves, absorbed his mother's wisdom and stories told by his father. As one of the last of a generation to interact with actual slaves, he was able to use his father's story ...