Poem Analysis Essay

Blythe’s “The Contortionist” ended with an image that portrayed a girl, whose occupation was a contortionist, to be happy and proud. Maria, who went through several emotional conflicts, was never truly happy or satisfied with her life. She was always trying to find that magical moment that changed everything, but she never found it. Likewise, Maria transformed as events occurred in her life; however, these changes did not benefit her as she was emotionally unstable at the end. Maria’s failure to…

combination of short sentences, imperatives and exclamation marks create a sense of frantic urgency as Owen describes how the soldiers rush to save their own lives and their comrades’. Owen wrote “Dulce et Decorum est” in response to Jessie Pope’s poem “Who’s for the Game” that uses an upbeat rhythm, mimicking a sporting chant, to encourage soldiers to enlist. Surrounded with eloquence, Owen’s “inarticulate expression” reminds us of the individual soldiers behind the devastation: those who face…

The Iliad is a poem that begins nine years into a war where there are gods and goddess that support different sides. The god’s interference affects the outcome of the Trojan War. It begins with the character, Achilles who withdraws from the war and goes to the Zeus to pray for assistance, which begins his rage and towards the end, we see someone who is able to overcome himself for another. In the beginning of the poem, Achilles’ battle prize is taken from him, and in a childish manner, he…

This poem primarily features a steady iambic tetrameter. It also possess several rhyming elements, such as assonance in lines 6 (“leave the phone and hit the road”) and 8 (“the sea we call routine”). The poem also uses alliteration, as in lines 9 and 10 (“gladly go across the globe, To glimpse the glory”) and slant rhyme in lines 2 and 4 (air, here) and lines 9 and 10 (globe, behold). The poem uses the repetition of “let’s” to signify the sense of urgency the narrator has Shanghai This poem,…

ending and the struggle to make their own way in society to get across the underlying meaning of the women’s movement. Throughout the poem Broumas uses examples of how the women of that day were often shunned from these types of chances because they weren’t pretty, smart, or clever enough to fit a part that was deemed a “mans work”. The real significance of the poem is that on the surface, it’s building on the “Cinderella” story but really, it’s working in a figurative way…

Break? The poem lament is a famous poem written by Gillian Clarke. She was born in Wales and she was a poet but also a playwright, editor, and a translator. The poem lament is about the gulf war, which happened in August 1990 to February 1991. This is when Iraq invaded Kuwait; soon the USA and UK interfered by bombing Iraq. The word lament is an elegy this word is an expression that is used to show sorrow or grief. The title of the poem is Lament; the writer did this purpose as the poem is…

the end these methods can often be proved to be useless, causing the battle to be lost. The author, Edward Hirsch, of the poem “Execution” writes in remembrance of his coach, a strong and stubborn man, who spent to much time wanting to win at the cost of his own life. Imagery is used by the author, Hirsch, to express how devastating of a loss the coach…

courage to pick ourselves up and face what's ahead. The title of the poem is representative of the crucial nature of its central symbol, the fish while using free verse throughout one large stanza to do so; Bishop has the speaker tell a story without rhyme or rhythm, rather, focusing on the symbolic content. Evocative imagery enhances the meaning of the poem and the symbols it employs. The majority of the visual imagery utilized in the poem is focused on the central character, the fish. He is…

the road. It is the reason a single look back is all that is necessary. Ambition is a part of a person that determines the road they journey, it does not erase or change the events in the past; it simply paves the way for the future. Bob Hicok’s poem dives into the life of…

greatness defines you as both a person and an athlete. In the poem Sportsman spirit by Geetha Jayakumar, she says to take everything like a sportsman spirit, enjoy the happiness while winning and while losing forget it, because you cannot win all the time, some have to lose too. So keep your hand on your heart and say “better luck next…