Essays, Book Reports & Research Reports on World Literature Poetry (255) essays
Poetry essays:
"A Righteous Day" by Mudrooroo Nyroongah
... Australia Day), in 1988, is a poem set in the first person voice that has been composed in response to the depressing day of the Bicentenary of European Settlement. As the "righteous" day is reflected by the persona, this contrasts with the 'White' Australians ...
"Homo Suburbiensis" by Bruce Dawe.
... demands to represent our universal need to contemplate and resolve our own uncertainties in life in our own special place. Dawe uses a series of imagery to depict the workings of our minds and a chain of unpleasent sensory experiences to illustrate unwanted intrusions ...
Write a speech to your school, stating how your understanding of human experience has changed, in your speech refer to two henry lawson poems and two related texts
... of Henry Lawson's short stories " The Loaded Dog" and "The Drovers Wife", the Australian short film, "One night the moon" directed by Rachel Perkins. And the thrilling short story by Allan Baillie, "Train Game". Both short stories by Henry Lawson text encounter the experience of the Australian Bush ...
Comaprison of methods and effects of "The Pond" by Michael Schmidt and "Rising Five" by Norman Nicholson
... of 'The Pond' is very simple. It is 9 stanzas consisting of 3 lines each, but with each stanza a story to tell. Schmidt is very clever in the way he controls the pace of each stanza. Every odd numbered stanza runs onto the next stanza ...
Comparative Essay for Poetry Unit: "Search for My Tongue" by Sujata Bhatt and "Half-Caste" by John Agard
... of these artists use contrasts to create a greater piece of work. According to Agard, a mixed person is a living example of beauty derived from two contrasting cultures. Although the meaning of ...
How does Okara in "Piano and Drums" respond to the two types of different music and instruments?
... of diction, rhythm, metaphors and symbolism. The choice of diction used to describe the drums and piano creates a strong emphasis on the contrast of African and western cultures. The first two stanzas talk of the mystic rhythm and excitement of ...
Rosemary Dobson's poetry
... of life for Rosmary Dobson The fourth stanza starts by asking a rhetorical question of the viewer and also is in first person ...
Issues reflected in "The Precipice" by Judith Wright and "In the Park" by Gwen Hardwood
... of the world. This muteness is caused by the continually portrayal of being yet another happy life-fulfilled mother who has succeeded in life and is ultimately happy, because she has given birth. The imagery in the first ...
An Essay on "Dulce et Decorum Est"
... imagery and effective metaphors with the subtle nuances of the poem's form, Wilfred Owen decries the belief of war's glory in " Dulce et Decorum Est ."Owen initiates the reader to drastic contrast between the real and purported soldiers' lives from the onset of the poem ...
Research task: Robert Browning and Context
... first published work was Pauline: A Fragment of a Confession , of whom the hero of the poem is symbolically of ...