Poem Analysis Essay

As a literature lover, I spent a lot of time understanding what these poems are trying to say, and I enjoyed reading every single of them. As far as evaluating each of these poems, I need to say that the meaning of "The Secretary Chant" was pretty straight forward from my understanding. The poem reveals how the career of a secretary has taken away her life to the extent that she has forgotten herself as a woman. Moreover, because of the way the poet described her situation, we can realize that…

metaphor representing maternal responsibilities have inhibited her passion for music. Wright’s poetry differs from Harwood’s, depicting mothers bearing a purer love for their unborn babies, a love untainted by exhaustive child-rearing responsibilities. In Poem for Annie, Goodfellow takes a unique approach. Instead of focusing on bland daily minutiae like Harwood, Goodfellow creates distressing imagery to emphasise the brutality of abusive relationships. Use of onomatopoeia with the words,…

Idylls of the King, written by Alfred Lord, Tennyson, is a poem about King Arthur’s knights and his kingdom succumbing to corruption. It is also a tale that elaborates on the famous love triangle blossoming between King Arthur, Guinevere, and Sir Lancelot. Lord, Tennyson wrote his widely famous poem as a social commentary of the industrialized Victorian era and its supposed corruptness versus a time of no industrialization. Alfred Lord, Tennyson uses the power of motifs to describe the immoral…

Clarice Lispector’s “Pig Latin” is an interesting view into societal values of women and their sexuality. Often in society women are reduced to their relationship with sex and their bodies, forced into unwinnable situations where they’re either ridiculed and labeled ‘whores’ or they’re at risk of being raped. Society continues to forward this ultimatum with dire repercussions either side of the spectrum. When the decision is rape or forced into a stereotype, either way a women’s…

When comparing and contrasting the two poems “The Mother” and “The Planned Child” it is clear to see how selfish decisions are made in two totally different perspectives. In “The Mother” the reader see’s a mother who has had multiple abortions and suffers from regretting the decisions. This is one of the main differences in the two stories, how the character in “The Mother” see’s her selfish decisions and recognizes them. In “The Planned Child” we see the character in the story as the child,…

The poem, “Guan Ju” is the famous first poem of the classic The Book of Songs, which dates from the 543 's B.C.E. and the first part of which is a collection of songs from each of the areas of China. This poem is one of the songs from Southern Zhou. It appears to be a simple love song of pure and simple, but is closely associated with the marital morality and values and attitudes toward romance and marriage, emphasized and propagated in the Confucian society. The poem employs two literary…

In the poems “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes and “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou both authors convey the same message which is overcoming hardships in life. In the two poems they show their similarities through repetition which will be shown in the first paragraph and literary devices such as figurative language,metaphors and similes, while also showing their differences through parallel structure of both the poems, and through rhetorical questions. Hughes and Angelou show their…

emotionally somber and tough. For instance, the poem by Robert Hayden, “Those Winter Sundays," looks back at his childhood of an unappreciated relationship. The following poem, “Nighttime Fires” by Regina Barreca, tells the loss of a little girl’s innocence due to her father’s loss of his job. Finally, the third poem, “Dog’s Death” by John Updike, shares the life battle a dog faces, but unfortunately meets an untimely death. The relationship between the three poems and the song lyrics, conveys…

just talked about, many people are fascinated with the New York lifestyle, culture and diversity. In a poem for The New York, Terrance Hayes shows the diversity on a single roof-top bar in Chinatown. He writes about the different types of people around him and the possibilities. His emphasize on this idea is clear when he writes “On a Chinatown rooftop in New York anything can happen” ("New York Poem." ). As apartment prices in the city continue to rise, many wealthy are drawn in. With…

Turner’s “The Hurt Locker”, is a poem about the Iraqi war and the suffering the soldiers face there. It depicts the real suffering felt by soldiers, not just in this war but in any and every war. It is something that should be taken seriously, and not taken lightly. It is not like the video games make it seem, it is rough, deadly and scary. In real life though, you do not get a redo, there are no extra lives. When you break down the elements of the poem, they give the poem much more meaning to…