As I walked into the lecture hall, I saw people ranging from the literary community's elite to high school students. Taking my seat, the crowd hushed as a rather distinguished looking man walked to the podium. The man prepared his notes and I waited silently in awe of his presence, anticipati...

In this poem, the speaker begins by describing the moment and way in which poetry arrived to him. It is divided into three stanzas; each stanza explains a specific piece of this experience with poetry. In the first stanza, the speaker describes the way in which poetry came to him. It had been &...

The 20th Century harbored a considerable multitude of good poetry and exceptional artists. Individual conventions varied greatly in style and state of expression. As the general reality of the times became more caustic, poetry and expression grew more unbridled. Denoted by the universal term, "moder...

James Dickey was an American Poet whose life has been very diverse, and in his poetry that diversity is shown. He has a lifestyle that most poets do not get to experience. He has lived in many states and countries. That gives me the reason to think that his poetry resembles this life's div...

Theodore Roethke was born in Saginaw, Michigan in 1908. His childhood experiences were strongly influenced by his father who sold flowers and plants as an occupation. As a young man, Roethke went to study at the University of Michigan. He also took some courses at Harvard University and later taught...

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner In the poem we can notice that there is a story within the other. First, the mariner is talking to the wedding guests. Second, the narrator tells us the scene of the wedding. The mariner is one of the guests, he is a very old man who chose another guest to narrate h...

Joy Sonnet in a Random Universe, by Helen Chasin The sonnet has been one of the most widely used and well-known verse forms for over four centuries. Generally written in series, but quite effective as individual poems, they have celebrated love, death and many other expressions of private, personal...

Written in the sonnet form, 'Design' contains many terrifying implications under its almost pleasant surface.The opening three lines present the three objects of the poet's observation:the white flower(heal-all), the white spider and the white moth.At first,the emphsis on white in nature might seem...

Discovery On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer, is made of two distinct parts. In the first part of Keats's poem the speaker is expressing his experiences prior to reading Chapman's translation of Homer. At the beginning of the poem the speaker says, "Much have I travell&ap...

Judith Wright is commonly regarded as Australia's greatest twentieth century female poet. She was born on her father's station property at Wallamumbi in New South Wales in 1915 and even attended the University of Sydney, where she graduated with a BA in 1936. Between then and the outbreak of the S...

T.S. Eliot\'s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock depicts the thoughts of a modern, urban man who is trying to express his feelings to a woman, but feels trapped due to his fear of being a disgrace in society. Two methods that Eliot uses to convey this theme are through his use of repetition and hi...

Sometimes authors were so famous that we know almost too much about them. Nobody can ever not find enough information writers like Shakespeare and Chaucer. Then there are others that there is almost nothing about them. However, historians have managed to find a happy medium for Robert Her...

Song of MyselfAs suggested in the title, Song of Myself is indeed concerned with the poet's experience. Yet it also is concerned with much more the human condition, nature, and the universe and it is presented through the lens of the poet's unique vision. Whitman's personality is powerful in the p...

In the times of Ancient Greece, there was a great amount of confusion in the world. The nation of Greece itself was divided, neighboring villages would constantly engage in small wars and capture prisoners, which were held for ransom or sold into slavery. This is probably why there is no factual ...

E. E. Cummings, who was born in 1894 and died in 1962, wrote many poems with unconventional punctuation and capitalization, and unusual line, word, and even letter placements. Cummings' most difficult form of prose is probably the ideogram; it is extremely short and it combines both visual and au...

At seventeen he entered Cambridge University. Determined to overcome his physical handicap, Byron became a good rider, swimmer, boxer, and marksman. He enjoyed literature but cared little for other subjects. After graduation he embarked on a grand tour that supplied inspiration for many of his later...

The Road Not Taken The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost relates on both a literal and metaphoric level to the concept of a journey. The poem depicts one man's journey throughout his life, the choices he made and the road he travelled. The Road Not Taken is a poem with universal relevance abo...

Allen Ginsberg as a contemporary romantic Allen Ginsberg did not only inspire the new generation of poets who called themselves the Beats but was, also, considered the main figure in the rebellion movements of his time. Ginsberg created his own conception of poetry and art that was very different f...

Sylvia's Battle for Self Sylvia Plath applies the poem "Daddy" as a means to voice her inner conflict about her true identity. Her father becomes the vehicle for her struggle, because he represents a connection to the love and admiration she felt as a child; he is an anchor to a pa...

The life of Robert Frost Robert Lee Frost was one of America's leading 20th century pastoral poets. He was mostly associated with rural New England. The poetry of the four-time Pulitzer Prize winner is both traditional and experimental, regional and universal. Frost was born in San Francis...

Australian poetry is full of meaning and passion. Many Australian poets have been recognized for their work all over the world. Many Australians enjoy the words from poets such as Judith Wright, Michael Dransfield, Gwen Harwood, David Cambell and many more. The selected poem "Australia" by...

The great dancer, playwright, songwriter, poet, author, historian, director, performer, and civil rights activist known as Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928 her childbirth name being Marguerite Johnson. Growing up she underwent many hardships, including her parents divorcing and being sent to ...

Analysis of If and the Thousandth Man by Rudyard Kipling "If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run, yours is the earth and everything that's in it, and--- which is more you'll be a man, my son!"- If by Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling&apo...

This paper discusses the Brazilian theory and practice of translation as transcreation, set in motion in the 1950s by the Neograndes group of concrete poets (namely the late Haroldo de Campos, his brother Augusto and Décio Pignateri), in light of two of the most challenging cultural approaches to t...

Poe grew up in a tragic life, he was orphaned as a boy and destroyed emotionally by deaths in his family. In his time, Poe wrote some of the deepest emotional poems and short story's, which are renowned for their complexity and feeling. Some say that his poems and writings reflect his ...