Poetry Essays

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world. The reason that there is so much suffering in the world is because people still love and care for each other. The love …

A matrix function such as and can be used to figure out expressions. By calculating and the values of X and Y can be solved for. . By following rules of multiplying matrices, this can be shown as =. Using we can conclude that = or. One can generalize a …

In poems “Mirror” and “The Road Not Taken” by Sylvia Plath and Robert Frost respectively, the authors extensively make use of images to convey to the audience the feelings of the characters and the flow of events. In her poem, Plath uses the voice of a mirror that sees the …

A comparative study of the two poems “Carpet-Weavers, Morocco” and “Ispahan Carpet”, brings us into an Eastern culture of young girls working skilfully, their small hands creating woven carpets of great beauty. Both poets create different environments by injecting emotionally charged descriptions of similar scenes. I believe that the success …

Throughout Lyrical Ballads, the theme of spirituality seems to play an important role when looking at the poetic messages and opinions of Coleridge and Wordsworth. The spiritual aspects within this collection range from the beauty and power of nature coupled with the divinity and importance of the Alighty, a predominant …

I have studied several stories written by Guy De Maupassant. In my essay I shall examine, in detail, two stories initially, and then later I shall expand, to other stories. The first story I have chosen is ‘At Sea’. In this story there are two loyal brothers, who work as …

All of the love poetry I have studied offers the reader a different perspective on love, from true love in the Shakespearean sonnet ‘Let me Not’ to meaningless sex in ‘The Seduction’ by Eileen McAuley. The poems ‘The Flea’ by John Donne, ‘To His Mistress Going To Bed’ by John …

During the studying of these four sonnets, the poets use images of time, death and destruction habitually to create a sense of compulsion for the reader to grasp onto. Imagery of time, death and destruction is collaborated with the love-affairs which has a dramatic effect upon the sonnets because they …

There’s this sexist assumption that something is solemn about women who never marry. Men who don’t marry seem roguish and sexually charged, in the Victorian society. Rossetti’s poetry conveyed this by showing the women as disrespected, and treated as “objects” and didn’t have equal rights compared to the men of …

Poets have written about love in many, possibly countless ways, each of them emphasising different aspects of an emotion which is at once both wide and deep. I have studied a range of love poems exploring married love, unrequited love, possessive love, destructive love and even lost love. Some seem …