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...

Analysis of Imagery in "Loving from Vietnam to Zimbabwe" After reading Janice Mirikitani's poem "Loving from Vietnam to Zimbabwe" there is a profound amount of imagery used by Mirikitani that explains a reality of sex, love, and war. Mirikitani uses an interesting and unique format in the way she ...

Expressing love for a woman can be done in such a way that it destroys her soul. A very thought-provoking poem, "Rape," written by Adrienne Rich, provides a rich example of a world that is often hidden. Although the poet uses numerous elements, such as imagery, to disguise her true intentions, a ...

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...

Emily Dickinson's poem, and "I Heard A Fly Buzz-When I Died," revolve around one central theme, death. it has a message about what is to come after death. By discussing both of the poems and interpreting their meanings, the reader can gain a fuller understanding of the message Dickinson is tr...

In The Poison Tree, we can see multiple sides of human nature. There are juxtapositions of anger and fear with pretended happiness which point out this variety. In the first stanza the persona implies the danger of repressed feelings by asserting that his anger would grow in a surpassed way. Wh...

"Dulce Et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen, a lyric poem upon understanding, focuses on the absolute horror experienced during World War I. Throughout the transition of this poem, Owen worked his way from control to confusion in order to convey his messages to the readers. In terms of rhyme s...

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, ...

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 ...

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. &...

I chose to do my explication on the poem by Bob Dylan called "The Times They Are a-Changin'. This Poem really caught my eye because it really rings true. In the first stanza he talks about the water rising around, and if you don't know how to swim then you will sink (3-6). This gi...

Many of us go day by day living our lives without appreciating the true value of family. We occasionally take for granted the individuals who have brought us into this world, and generally forget to thank them for all they have done. I myself have fallen in this category, as I frequently bypass all ...

"War is Kind" is the first poem of Stephen Crane's second collection of poems, War is Kind and Other Lines, published in 1899. The subject of the poem is war and its effects. The poet uses imagery and irony to make a picture of the uselessness of war. The title gives us an ironic ...

ANNE SEXTON Her Kind This is a poem that is filled with imagery that the author uses to identify the reader with what I feel were personal stresses in her own life. In class we talked about Anne as an emotionally challenged women who couldn't cope with every day life. The Title of th...

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...