Confessional poetry

why we feel for one another. Some people let their emotions control them while others use them as a guide to find true purpose. Then there are others who feel so much or so little they use it as a creative outlet to bring the rest of us to light. Poetry is one of those forms, when you read a poem you might not fully understand it at first but you feel it. For some godly reason as humans we don’t need to understand the meaning as long as it makes us feel;…

Poetry is utilized as way for people to express their feeling in a different way. There is more to it than rhythm schemes and different tones. African Americans have utilized poetry as voice because they never had one during slavery and segregation era. The Angles of Ascent: an anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry has showed their respect for the many poets that are recognized within this anthology. There are over five hundred poems that can help create a vision of what is like…

John Donne in Death be not proud and Edgar Allen Poe in Spirits of the dead explore the idea that Death is an unavoidable part of life, but this death is not all powerful, as the spirits of those who have died, live on. Donne’s Sonnet has an aggressive tone, it is an attack on death, a mocking and satirical challenge,’. . . poore death. . . Thou art a slave. . .’ whereas Spirits of the Dead emphasises the inevitability of death in a sombre, resentful tone. Donne’s personification and…

Stafford’s “Traveling through the Dark” and Snodgrass 's "Driving Late at Night" are the same poem written by two different people but have a whole different felt to one another. Stafford’s poem gives a dark, eerie feeling while Snodgrass’s has the same effect but it doesn’t feel as dark and eerie due to the lack of detail throughout. To summarize Stafford’s whole poem would be a man is driving alongside a mountain on night when he comes across a dead dear. Therefore he decides to push the deer…

introverted, passionate and lyrical writer who, at the age of sixteen, left school to become a journalist for a local newspaper. Although many of his works appeared in print while he was still a teenager, it was the publication of his first collection of poetry in 1934 that made him instantly famous in the literary world. “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” is one of his most popular poems, first published in the journal Botteghe Oscure in 1951. It has been suggested that this poem was…

Interpretation of poetry is fundamentally up to the reader and what each individual takes away after reading the piece of work generally varies. To me, “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is truly a delightful poem that dramatizes the conflict in dealing with life’s choices and consequently the repercussions thereafter. During the poem the speaker comes to a fork in the road, which is an extended metaphor that is comparable to a major decision that he must make in his life. There are many times…

Beautiful memories, full of joy and laughter, can be tainted by evils and dark creatures. In Edgar Allen Poe’s poem “A Haunted Palace” tells the story of a delightful palace that is seen described so beautifully by passer-bys, but sadly this does not last as the palace is now being seen as being taken over by these ugly creatures. In the poem “A Haunted Palace” by Edgar Allan Poe, emotions from delight to terror and the dimness of a once beautiful memory are expressed throughout the writing…

this poem is the paradox that Cullen tackles during the piece. It makes us wonder why there is suffering in our world. The piece was written during the Harlem Renaissance, when people of colour were trying to destroy the racial stereotypes through poetry; Cullen wrote this perfect piece to support the cultural movement happening in America at that…

Poe’s power of analysis and imagination is something all great minds have- he is not unique (Hannay). Poe wrote fine poetry because, he was writing about his self. Poe was a genius in his calculating (Hannay). In the article of “The Life and Genius the author is saying that Poe included other people in his genius writing “The Raven”. (Hannay) .Carlyle knows that Poe wrote fine Poetry also Poe included a lot of people in his writing. Carlyle was an inarithmtic long before he was a teacher which…

into the world where the black community had no values and wasn 't respected. Dunbar was a well educated black citizen with a degree from Howard University which means he was well aware and knowledgeable. Dunbar’s voice was through seen through his poetry as the context of all his poems were all about segregation and discrimination against African American attitudes as well as simple human rights. The issues raised in ‘We wear the mask’ is a written version of the attitude and socio-cultural…