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 ...

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, ...

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...