Essays, Book Reports & Research Reports on North American Poetry (782) essays
Poetry essays:
Comparative Paper of Adrienne Rich's "Living in Sin" and Philip Larkin's "Home is Sad". These are two American modern poets.
... Rich's "Living in Sin" seems very similar to "Home Is So Sad" by Philip Larkin during the first reading, but after a closer look, many differences become evident. In both poems the dramatic situation is set in a home, either a house or an apartment, but the idea each poem ...
T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
... Prufrock has lost his self identity by living in his protected repetitious life. In this poem he is trying to regain his identity by looking back and looking ahead at who he was and what he wants to be. I can relate with Prufrock in this poem ...
"Filling Station" by Elizabeth Bishop and "The Jailer" by Sylvia Plath - analysis and comparison of styles
... read the poem as a "charming little appreciation of motherhood", as Robert Dale Parker states it ("Bishop and the Weed of Poetic Invention", Chapter 1 in The Unbeliever: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, University of Illinois Press ...
Explication of Adrienne Rich's "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers"
... of green" (2) are examples of the rhyme in this poem . The rhyme scheme continues AABBCCDDEEFF. "Tree" (3) and "certainty" (4) are examples approximate rhyme. Imagery is used to create the tigers, and symbolism created a character that Aunt Jennifer could never be. The third stanza ...
Reading response - "Ode to an Orange"
... to an Orange" by Larry Woiwode took place in the winter of 1940s. It was "the winters of the forties" which I felt was very important in setting the background. It was a time of war, rationing of food, limited transportation, a difficult time to import ...
A VALEDICTION FORBIDDING MOURNING by John Donne
... Poetry. Roberts, John, Ed. Hamden, Connecticut: Archon, 1975. 279-304. Gardner, Helen. "Introduction." The Metaphysical Poets. Helen Gardner, Ed. London: Penguin Group, 1985. Pinka, Patricia. This Dialogue of One: The Songs and Sonnets of John Donne. Alabama: The University of Alabama Press ...
Analysis of Poems:The Rose That Grew From Concrete and And Tomorrow by Tupac Shakur
... of these poems are personal and Tupac wrote these poems from his own personal experiences. At an early age he had to start dealing drugs, but he wanted to show the world the life he had lived and how many other people are living in poor ...
Usage of the extended metaphor in Emily Dickinson's poem #371
... of reading a book. The "acquaintance" is then with an interesting book which one reads on to inspect its contents over and over, filled with radical but inspiring ideas. It can be said in overall that the point of interest in this poem arises from the first stanza ...
Analysis and Interpretation of "I, Too Sing America" by Langston Hughes
... poem at a closer look but a song. It is very crucial to perceive "I Too Sing America" as a song, emotional, radical, political, but still focused on black aesthetics. The poem is about the hope of one day being equal; it is expressed in each stanza ...
'Night School' by Raymond Carver
... first person narrative. The protagonist, who is also the narrator, is a divorcee. This is evident in the first sentence of the story, "My marriage had just fallen apart". The narrator is currently living with his parents as indicated in ...