Essays, Book Reports & Research Reports on North American Poetry (782) essays
Poetry essays:
The description of the life of Robert Frost
... Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California. By the age of eleven Frost was moved to Massachusetts because of the passing of his father. He attended Lawrence High School there and from there he went on to study at Dartmouth College, however, he only remained there for one ...
The African-American Experience as Seen in Coutnee Culler's "Incident" and Alice Walker's "The Flowers".
... ruin. The generations of African Americans following the end of slavery had hatred, ignorance, and racism. Racism rudely steals innocence before its time. The poem "Incident" by Coutnee Culler and the short story "The Flowers" by Alice Walker, both take the reader to a time when all it takes is one ...
Analyzing poems by Robert Frost.
... rhyme and rhythm scheme can be truly considered poetry, others believe that the realm of poetry encompasses all free verse poems as well. However, the one criterion that can be used to truly discern poetry from prose is the ability to put forth more than a mere story ...
Analysis of The Poem "The Cambridge Ladies Who Live In Furnished Souls"
... of Cambridge, Massachusetts He experiments with a different rhyme scheme from the schemes of the two traditional sonnet forms. The poem, in an octave and a sestet, rhyme abcd dcba eeffee. Perhaps the enclosed nature of the rhyme scheme ...
An Explication of Sylvia Plath's "Mirror"
... The mirror is also the speaker of the poem, and because of that we receive not the feelings of the girl or woman, but the feelings of that person as perceived by the mirror. The search for truth is introduced in the first stanza by several of the qualities of the ...
Nature and Conversion Imagery in T. S. Eliot's "Journey of the Magi": A Review of Criticism in Books
... the poem in the context of other religious poems, Lucy suggests that "Journey of the Magi," "A Song for Simeon" and "Animula" . . . are all poems of the Christian perspective, they are all poems of acceptance and of resignation to a destiny which is the only possible answer, but which seems to the ...
Writing post-wartime poetry in America: Allen Ginsberg's "America" and Yusef Komunyakaa's "A Break from the Bush"
... the new society came up from the post-war period. Bibliography: Gilbert Millstein, New York Times, September 5, 1957. Blaine Allan, "The Beat, the Hip, and the Square," Film Reader 5 (1982): 257-258. Allen Ginsberg , " Howl and Other Poems," Pocket Poets Series, No. 4. San Francisco ...
What makes Emily Dickinson So different from other poets during her century.
... poems. This literary device is shown in the poem The Soul selectsher own society. In the following lines:Ive known her from an ample nationChoose One-Then - close the values of her attentionLike Stone -(Daniel 378)One and Stone have a slant rhyme. Dickinson also wrote a lot of her poetry ...
"Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen: Analysis
... literary works which have the surreal quality, however, this one does not depict a dreamland of sorts, but paints a picture of a nightmare, a reality no one would ever want to face. The rhythm of the poem radically increases in the second stanza, to reflect how the ...
Robert Frost's life and how it affected the writing of his poem "design"
... San Francisco but after his father's death when he was eleven the family moved to New England. It was in high school that he became interested in reading and writing, and although he attended both Dartmouth and Harvard he never earned a formal degree. Frost ...