Essays, Book Reports & Research Reports on North American Poetry (782) essays
Poetry essays:
Explain the poem, Hills Like White Elephants. A Feminist Approach to "Hills Like White Elephants"
... Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" uses a plethora of symbols to convey the idea that a young girl named Jig is a typical woman dealing with a woman's choice. Although the word abortion is never used in the story ...
A summative analysis of Li-Young Lee's poem "Persimmons" and Eamon Grennan's poem "Pause". Entitled "Summative Analysis"
... perspective of a father towards the subject of his daughter. The father in "Pause" recalls memories of his daughter on a winter morning, as he waits for her at the bus stop (lines 10 and 21). The author ...
Always and Forever. A love poem.
... desire for something more, Something better, For this you will always be special. I love you more than anyone will ever know, If there was a word to describe my love, Surely it would only be spoken by God ... poem ... to me. In a world full of despair, You've given me hope, A dream, a desire for something ...
Title: Poem Explication: "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen
... poems that exist, very few have the capability of leaving a last message in one's mind. "Dulce et Decorum Est", a war-inspired poem written by Wilfred Owen, makes an impact on the reader's idea of war brutality. It bring the realization of all the horror that soldiers ...
"Beat! Beat! Drums!" by Walt Whitman.
... soldiers and commoners. These images represented power, hope, and motivation. While other authors of his time were seeking tradition through their poetry, Walt Whitman broke away from that and expressed himself in ... in court to state his case before the judge?" (13). He was stating ...
An Analysis of a few poems by Dorothy Parker on the topic of men.
... poetry I thought that it was too male centered most of the time. However I still like reading her poems because of the way they made me think, she has a different perspective ... for puts herself in the place of the woman trying to get a job in the poem. Which helped me to realize that she is saying ...
This paper is a analysis of "The Love Song of Alfred Prufrock" by Alfred Prufrock.
... run through the poem; firstly, Prufrock's insecurities and indecisiveness; and secondly, Prufrock's view of his own life as wasted. Personally, when I read this poem, I feel as though I am being granted an insight into this character's mind, and in ...
"My Last Duchess" and "Porphyria's Lover" by Robert Browning
... poems appear to be insecure and possessive. The speaker in each literary piece is telling a story of the love he has for his late wife; however, the speaker does not show emotion and does not grieve throughout the poem. It is never states ...
"Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes and "Hurt Hawks" by Robinson Jeffers
... poem, when compared show a common theme. They are both in someway related to God. On one hand, "Hurt hawks" shows us that when people are strong they may have forgotten God, but dying men (and hawks) remember God ...
The connection between Edna St. Vincent Millay's poem 'First Fig' and (teenage) life in the twenties. I wrote this in the 9th grade, so it's not my best work.
... poem 'First Fig,' written by Edna St. Vincent Millay , symbolizes the 'live for the present' attitude that was prevalent in the 1920s. At this time, society was changing a great deal. These changes were especially visible in ... line: "But ah, my foes, and my friends;" states that it doesn't matter if ...