Essays, Book Reports & Research Reports on World Literature Poetry (255) essays
Poetry essays:
Review of Gina Ulysse's, "A Poem About Why I Can't Wait, Going Home Again and Again and Again."
... Gina's memories as a young child living in Haiti. She eventually leaves Haiti and returns after seventeen years. She is disillusioned with her surrounds and feels unable to "refill all the gaps in [her] past." She leaves, but returns to Haiti two years later. The rest of the poem is a ...
Human condition- "An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow" - analysis of poem by Les Murray
... Scott Hicks' 'Shine', Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol', Edvard Munch's 'the scream', and Les Murray's 'an absolutely ordinary rainbow' and Jude Wright's'The remittance man'. These composers have used a variety of visual and literary techniques to demonstrate contrasting experiences ...
Gwen Harwood- Arguing the value of her poetry in the use of the HSC- literary techniques, quotes etc.
... Examples of poems that illustrate my argument include The Glass Jar, Prize giving and At Mornington. Gwen Harwood illustrates through her writing a wide variety of subjects that provide a high level of intrigue and challenge for the specific adolescent audience. Harwood's poem, The Glass Jar, has a ...
A Descriptive Essay of Grendel from "Beowulf".
... of children." Many reviews of Beowulf refer to the poem as an epic simile of the story of Christ and Satan. If this is true, then it can also be assumed that Grendel has a slightly man-like appearance and mannerisms. However being a "monster" and not a "man ...
"Romantic Poetry is essentially a reading in history." Discuss in 1500 words with reference to any two poems by the Romantic poets, Wordsworth, Shelley and Blake.
... example; 'mad', 'despised', 'dregs', and 'scorn', all in the first two-and-a-half lines. Even the rhyme of the poem reflects anger through strict four rhymes only A, B, C and D. It follows the rhyme scheme: ABABAB CDCD CCDD. The start of the poem gets its effect from monosyllables; later ...
"Clancy of the Overflow", a poem by Banjo Patterson, is one of the most famous Australian poems known. However, do the subtle messages encased within have any relevance today?
... poem can be split into four segments; each segment being one of the jump off the page messages. The first segment being the character, whos point of view the poem is from, writing a ...
'Telephone Conversation' by Wole Soyinka - analysis
... of end-stop lines and run-on lines, the outlook of the poem gives readers a sense of randomly formation, which fully suits the way of 'telephone conversation' flows. Instead of talking something about the price and things concerning the house renting, the two ...
Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
... and hands (20). The reason is that their love is not about the physical aspect of a relationship; it is about the connection between the two lovers. Their love will steadily grow throughout their time apart. The husband tells his wife that this is not a ...
Comparing "The Killer" by Judith Wright and "The flowers" by Alice Walker
... of shock and vulgarity. The end of summer represents death, which is a great contract to the start of the story. The tone changes to focus on the rotted clothes of the tall man, and the rotted noose. There are uses of negative descriptive words, such as "frayed, rotted, bleached, and ...
Comparison of social injustice and protest in the poems 'Half caste' and 'Nothing's Changed'
... and " Nothing's Changed " are good examples of how cultural context impacts how the poem is perceived. All the similarities and differences make the two poems unique. Overall, both poems show the drawbacks and also the beauties of being involved in a society with various cultures and ...