Essays, Book Reports & Research Reports on North American Poetry (782) essays
Poetry essays:
How to study and critique a poem.
... to consider. A poem is an essence of expression whereby figurative and rhetorical devices, rhythm and sound are often key elements. There is usually a theme or an idea in mind...friendship for example. Such a wide theme brings with it many aspects such as jealousy, betrayal or inspiration ...
"The Plain Sense of Things" by Wallace Stevens.
... Wallace Stevens In Stevens' poem "The Plain Sense of Things" the first thing the reader notices is that there are five equal stanzas. The poem is neatly constructed so that each stanza contains four lines. This creates an organized, orderly look to the poem ...
A Loving Struggle in Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz".
... this scene as a depiction of a playful game between father and son. While the poem may be understood by accepting either of these explanations in their simplest form, Roethke most likely intended to tell a more complicated tale. "My Papa's Waltz" signifies a working class man's struggle to ...
Death and Rebirth In the Poetry Of Sylvia Plath
... old woman who desperately longs for death, marking each decade with an attempt at suicide. The most obvious connection in this poem is that of the Bible's Lazarus of Bethany and Plath's title character. In the Bible ...
Biography report of Canadian poet and song writer Leonard Cohen.
... form of an interesting and provoking question. Though Cohen's poetry often shows the world as a faithless, betraying place, he also shows life's ability to ...
Paraphrase of two Leonard Cohen Poems: Suzanne and The Partisan
... old woman hides them, but the soldiers come and kill her. However, she does not protest or fight back; she knows that it is inevitable ("she died without a whisper"). Next, the man tells how he was with two friends one morning, but by that ...
Explicating poem - Elegy for a Forest Clear
... long gone. Pearly everlasting is defined as an everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea) that has herbage covered with white woolly hairs and corymbose heads with white scarious involucres (Webster, 2004). A mental image of this pearly everlasting ground cover in lieu of the shadows of the old ...
The Jaguar By Ted Hughes
... expression 'stinks of sleepers from the breathing straw' to show this. He then unveils the jaguar as being live and vivid. 'At a jaguar hurrying enraged.' 'The Jaguar' longs for freedom physically but is free mentally. Hughes has a few main themes in this poem ...
Dreams Of The Past: An Explication of Louise Erdrich's Poem "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways"
... to return home and their failure to do so. This particular poem is made up of three short poems that could stand on their own; however, they are joined together as one. The first stanza describes the path to freedom the children must take. The second stanza ...
The life of Anne Sexton
... to think of poetry as a priests confessional where a person could in some way receive forgiveness. In the poem "Mercy for the Greedy" Sexton writes, " I was born doing reference work ...