Poems

Beth LewisEnglish 28802/28/00Geat vs. Greek:Paternal Injunction in Beowulf and The IliadPicture this. Inside the hall, mighty shields and glistening swords await the visitors arrival. Skillfully crafted armor decorations proclaim great battles and fierce hunts. The prevailing warrior ethos and his manly power are evident throughout. It is these strong patriarchal Read more…

A Portrait of Stephen Dedalus as a Young ManA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is above all a portrait of Stephen Dedalus. It is through Stephen that we see his world, and it is his development from sensitive child to rebellious young man that forms the plot Read more…

Ralph Waldo Emerson, nineteenth century poet and writer, expresses a philosophy of life, based on our inner self and the presence of the soul. Emerson regarded and learned from the great minds of the past, he says repeatedly that each person should live according to his own thinking. I will Read more…

Gwendolyn BrooksWriting with uncommon strength, Gwendolyn Brooks creates haunting imagesof black America, and their struggle in escaping the scathing hatred of manywhite Americans. Her stories, such as in the “Ballad of Rudolph Reed”, portraycourage and perseverance. In those like “The Boy Died in My Alley” Brooksportrays both the weakness of Read more…

h romance poem written byan anonymous West Midlands poet also credited with a lot of other poems written duringthat time. The protagonist, Sir Gawain, survives two tests: a challenge, which he alonewithout the assistance of King Arthur’s knights accepts, to behead the fearsome GreenKnight and to let him retaliate a Read more…

‘A thing of beauty is a joy forever’. How far and in what ways does Keats communicate this belief in his odes. Emotion was the key element of any Romantic poet, the intensity of which is present in all of Keats poems. Keats openly expressed feelings ignoring stylistic rules which Read more…

Paradise LostMilton writes Paradise Lost in the tradition of a classic epic poem. All epic poems contain some common features. Milton follows this outline with great precision and style. His poem uses the guidelines of an epic poem and elaborates upon them to make his poem one of the most Read more…

Compare and Contrast the ways in which the poet describes the breakdown if the relationship. Comment on the effectiveness of their verse-craftI chose to compare the poems: An Anniversary, by Vernon ScannelDismissal, by John TrippA Winters Tale, by D.H. LawrenceIn the poem ‘An Anniversary’; the poet describes the relationship and Read more…

Shakespeare is expressing, though not in the first person, that he knows women are not the perfect beauties they are portrayed to be and that we should love them anyway. He uses two types of descriptions, one of their physical beauty and the other of their characteristics to make fun Read more…

Death is a common theme in many poems. It is viewed so differently to everyone. In the poems, “Because I could not stop for Death,” “First Death in Nova Scotia,” and “War is kind” death is presented by each narrator as something different.To one it is a kind gentle stranger Read more…

The Poetry of E. E. CummingsE. 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 – namely, ideograms. Cummings’ most difficult form of prose is probably the ideogram; it is extremely terse Read more…

The Odyssey is an epic composed by Homer, an early Greek storyteller. This epic was the basis for Greek and Roman education. Epics are long poems marked by adventure. The main character in an epic is an epic hero. The epic hero is a figure of great stature and may Read more…

In just one paper, I am going to go from two inspirational poems, to a more depressing one. The inspirational poem I will be responding to is The Tyger, written by William Blake. This piece is by far one of my favorite poems read. I read it often just to Read more…

William Shakespeares Sonnet 18 is one of one hundred fifty four poems offourteen lines written in Iambic Pentameter. These sonnets exclusively employthe rhyme scheme, which has come to be called the Shakespearean Sonnet. Thesonnets are composed of an octet and sestet and typically progress through threequatrains to a concluding couplet. Read more…

Emily Dickinson uses nature in almost all of her poetry. She uses many literary techniques in her poems to show her interpretations of nature and the world around her. In the poem “The snake” she uses imagery in the forms sight and touch. The poem describes the snake as transient Read more…