Poem Analysis Essay

In 1633, John Donne published a metaphysical poem titled The Flea. This poem consists of an erotic theme where a flea is used as a metaphor in order to demonstrate the affair between the speaker and their lover. In the same year, The Altar was published by George Herbert. This poem illustrates the religious notion of how one must sacrifice themselves to God through the use of an altar. In the following, The Flea and The Altar will be compared and contrasted in terms of the physical shape of the…

Good at nothing, never finished Tae Kwan do, can't play guitar well, can't sing, can't dance, can't even type right, an idiot, can't understand anything taught, can't spell, ugly, never had a girlfriend, can't make new friends, antisocial, ugly, everyone thinks I'm weird, I',m weird, no talent, never been good at anything, no passion, procrastinate, delinquent, no sense of humor, stupid, disappoint everyone. stupid idiot that can't see all the stuff that I have and only focuses on what I lack…

PART – II Poems, aphorisms & meanderings Table of contents 1) Life shaping prayer 2) healthy, wealthy, and other than wise 3) who knows the man in the box 4) truth 5) ego-sin-trick 6) I’s jus b’tween positions 7) screaming whispers 8) one god, one church, one congregations 9) it’s time 10) ode to youth 11) the last human hurdle 12) suenos 13) dreams 14) nigger please! 15) the Haitian lament 16) where do they go LIFE SHAPING PRAYER LORD…GRANT ME THE HUMILITY TO ACCEPT THE…

the narrator’s Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Through this poem, Neil uses spoken word to explain to others how his OCD and Tourettes affect his day to day life but focuses more on his relationship with the girl that changes everything for him. Neil Hilborn is a moving speaker, and I highly recommend watching his performance of “OCD” on button poetry. Hilborn uses his own case of OCD to his advantage in his writing, especially with this poem because most of the tics he uses within OCD are in…

The Journey! ¨Annie please go get mom, we are about to leave soon!¨ Dad says. Annie runs her little 8 year old body as fast as she can. She can´t believe that she is going to go to South America to visit her aunt. ¨Mom! We are ready to leave! Mom gets up from her chair, and walks down with her daughter to the dock. ¨Are we ready?¨ Mom asks. ¨Yes, hop on in.¨ Dad says. Annie doesn´t wait one second, she just hops right in as her dad told her. They both get into sailboat with Annie, and her…

many emotions such as isolation and powerlessness. His family is frightened and disgusted with him and he must learn how to adapt to his new life. “The Panther”, by Rainer Rilke, also displays feelings of isolation and powerlessness. The story and poem compare in the emotions they depict to the reader. This essay will compare the emotions illustrated in “The Panther” and The Metamorphosis, while also analyzing the way animalization is portrayed in The Metamorphosis through the use…

NETTLES The poem “Nettles” is about the relationship of a father and his son. The father is angered by the fact that his son has been stung by nettles, and shows violence and aggression. The poem basically talks about how parents try to protect their children, but later on realize that their children can’t be protected form everything. The poem starts off with, “My son aged three fell in the nettle bed”. Using the personal pronoun “My” shows that this is a personal poem. And by telling us that…

First published in the 11 January 1818. Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English literate who wrote many poems and one of the most famous one is Ozymandias. In the poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley, he describes a meeting with someone who has traveled to a place where ancient civilizations once existed. We know from the title that he’s talking about Egypt. The poem starts out with several imageries such as “stone”, “desert”, “sand” and “half-sunk”. Here, the stone represents nature that has…

All three poems have several moods and tones that allow the readers understand what and why the poet feels this way throughout the poem. ‘Piano’ is a nostalgic, retrospective and reluctant poem although the mood in this poem is toward the dampening and melancholy side, “my manhood is cast,” throughout the poem he explains how he misses her mother in the past memories, “pressing her poised feet” and at the upmost importance that he “weeps like a child for the past,” this represents remembrance…

A struggle for survival can lead human beings to degeneration towards the lowest realms of animality. A man is a man only until his basic instincts of hunger and survival are fulfilled. Once his survival instincts are challenged physically, mentally and emotionally, he will go above and beyond his human nature that is assumed to be decent, kind and humane. These limits of ruthlessness are crossed as these “living dead” can touch any depths of lowliness ranging from cannibalism to coprophagy.…