Poetry Essays, Research Papers & Book Reports (1,386) essays
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Explain the "irony" in the poem, "Ozymandias." by Percy Blythe Shelly
... of the statue as it gives us the best insight into the man it represents. 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!(lines 10-11)' This quote infers his belief ...
"Dover Beach" and "My Last Duchess" by Arnold.
... of the setting in My Last Duchess and Dover Beach At first glance the setting of a poem is the psychological and physiological environment in which the story takes place. In some instances, the setting is used to develop the characters. Robert Browning and Matthew Arnold use the setting to expose ...
"My Last Duchess" By Robert Browning
... Michael G. Miller's essay "Browning's 'My Last Duchess'" discusses how the Duke unknowingly reveals his enormous ego as he describes the painting of his last Duchess. The underlying theme is the Duke's dark secret of possessive love, obvious jealousy and resentment towards his belated wife. Miller ...
"The rebel" by D.J. Enright, and "Festival"" , by Kenneth Wee.
... of any teenagers reading this poem. "The Rebel" as the title makes the reader prepare for either a poem about rebels, or a controversial poem, that might 'rebel' against normal rules of poetry. The title is repeated throughout the whole poem, except for the last ...
WB Yeats.
... poetry. His poetry grew from the young, romantic verse filled with images of the mystical and supernatural to the more sober and realistic poems of his middle period then to the reflective and often melancholy tone of the work of the late part of his life. All of Yeats' poems ...
Commentary on Yeats' poem, "Leda and the Swan".
... of Leda's emotions, and the climax, a silence follows as seen in the exaggerated indentation of the last stanza. The alliteration of the letter 'b' in "brute blood" is cacophonic and harsh and highlights the brutality of the rape. Nevertheless, throughout the poem ...
"Dulce Et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen and "The Hero" by Siegfried Sassoon.
... of the greatest poems about war, by two of the greatest war poets, Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. First I would like to talk a bit about the backgrounds of the two poets so that when I'm finished you may decide whether this poetry ...
"Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
... of his addiction is sound. One of the first sounds in the poem is very violet an horrifying. It is of a "woman wailing for her demon lover!" The woman wailing is more like a person would feel ...
Comparison of Dickinson's Poetry.
... poetry exposes a surprising degree of insight and perception for a person who scarcely left the walls of her bedroom. A closer examination of two of Dickinson's poems, "I Never Saw the Moor" and "Exaltation Is the Going", reveals striking similarities in form, subject, and philosophy. Both poems ...
Analysis of Yvor Winter's "To My Daughter, 1954"
... of this poem; "To My Daughter, 1954" one can only derive that Yvor Winters had a very close relationship with his daughter and it pained him deeply to let her go out on her own into the real world. In the first ...