Essays, Book Reports & Research Reports on North American Poetry (782) essays
Poetry essays:
Analysis of Robert Hayden's poem "Those Winter Sundays"
... love and the speaker's regret. The poem is a result of the speaker's reflection on his or her past experiences with his or her father. Hayden shows all the little things the father does, and how the speaker takes it for granted that the father just kind of did those things. Looking back, the ...
Earle Birney's poem "David"
... emotional piece. The poem is narrative as told through the eyes of Bob, David 's friend. One of the themes that follow throughout this poem is the onset of maturity and all the barriers that must be over come. The tone is a cynical one, when Bob is asked by David to push him over the ...
There are many reasons as to why people prefer to live outside of the city but work in the heart of it.
... New York City Street attempting to crawl as if I were a turtle trying to cross the road, I begin to contemplate the true beauty of living in the city. It is now the month where everything should be glooming, pleasing, and living, however it is not. In "the Waste Land" by Thomas Sterns Eliot ...
John Keats - Selected Poems - Revision Notes
... in the "temple of Delight" but can only be seen if one overwhelms oneself with Joy - a very complex concept. Like Romantics, rather than contemplate, he declares action. Language - "feed deep, deep upon her peerless eyes" - calming effect. Look at the good things in ...
The Many Poetic Twists of Icarus as portrayed in Edward Field's "Icarus," William Carlos Williams' "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," and Muriel Rukeyser's "Waiting for Icarus."
... in the glory of his flight and does not heed his fathers warning. His wings fall apart and he plummets to the sea and drowns. The myth of Icarus appears to be fairly straight forward, and yet three poets write poems expressing ...
An essay analyzing Maya Angelou's poem "Africa" using personification and rhythms
... The rising meters in the last stanza also emphasize the importance of remembering the past. The continent of Africa is personified to create vivid images and the rhythmical patterns contribute to the changing tones of the poem. The tones move from cheerful to displeasing to reflective. The ...
Notes on Emily Dickinson's Poetry
... in the canon of American poetry; writers and critics have not always known what to make of her. Today, her place as one of the two finest American poets of the nineteenth century is secure: Along with Whitman, she literally defines the ...
Maya Angelou. A short essay on her life and achievements.
... in My Name (1974), and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), which was nominated for the National Book Award. In her massive volumes of poetry are A Brave and Startling Truth (1995), The Complete Collected Poems ...
On Comparison and Contrast of "Ragged Dick," and "Bad Little Boy"
... the short prose, "Bad Little Boy ." These two stories share two things in common; in that 1) The two both have a moral in the end. 2) Both use anecdotes to set up the reader into receiving a believable moral at the ...
T. S. Eliot's "The Wasteland"
... the poem is also one of the most prophetic. Eliot warns the reader to be careful and not make the same mistakes that other people have done in the past. He is warning us to take everything into consideration and disregard the bad things in life. Eliot evokes many feelings, those ...