Confessional poetry

sure that genres of the four songs were varied. As this activity evolved, my students have submitted music to me ahead of time and, if appropriate, I often use them. Every Monday, there’s always at least one student that asks, “Are we doing Music Poetry today?” I have even had a handful of parents tell me that their kids have asked not to make appointments for them outside of school on Mondays so they will not miss this…

Billy Collins, former United States poet laureate, penned many famous poems, including “Nostalgia,” “Japan,” and “Picnic, Lightning.” His poem “Picnic Lightning” is a five-stanza piece centering on the idea of “chance.” Collins chooses to begin his poem with a quote from Vladmir Nabokov’s Lolita. Collins’ style of writing lacks many traditional poetic devices such as a structured meter, but Collins uses other devices to deliver his central purpose. In “Picnic, Lightning,” Collins creates a…

Have you ever fall in love when you were kid? Now imagine that you are in the 19th century somewhere in china, and this is where the poem takes place a small village called Chokan. Love story is named “ The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” by Ezra Pound. The poet tries to show her feeling while writing the letter. At the beginning she starts with the describing her first meeting with her husband, than she starts writing how her life is changing periodically and she ends poem with a sad tone.…

Poetry is a creative way of expressing one’s self to the public. It is one of the most effective tools that people use to point out wrongs in society and reward the right virtues. Apart from developing the plot in a poem, the setting of the poem has much information that it adds to the general understanding of the poem. First, it helps in developing the theme in the poem. Poets think deeply about the themes that they would wish to present to their readers before starting to write. As they plan…

The modern period was a stage of displacement and interference, and modernist poets reacted to this instantly in a variety of ways. Robert Frost believes that Nature is never circumstantial for poetry, but is rather a vital character in his works. Throughout his poems, Robert Frost defines the existence of nature in which he talks about the struggles that is within the natural world and also use the destructive side of nature. Robert Frost is a poet who describes nature into his own unique way…

Seamus Heaney’s poem, Follower, focuses particularly on his love and admiration for his father as he sees him as this god like figure at a young age. It illustrates the key themes that can be identified throughout the anthology such as childhood, memories, identity, personal experiences, growth and change throughout time. His poems often have a reminiscent tone, and there is a clear established link that his surroundings and upbringing within a rural area have impacted majorly on his work. In…

One overlying theme that is used throughout this passage is the use of objects or ideas to indirectly describe her beauty. She begins by describing her complexion as the most flawless and pleasing face there could ever be. One situation, she describes is that no one would ever acknowledge the idea of betraying her, in which this is indirectly implying that men would never do such a foolish thing because her beauty is so remarkable and is the fairest of them all. To explain the contraction of…

Modern Poetry (1936), William Yeats made an extremely notorious choice of omitting all of the poetry about combat experience including poems by Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. He made this decision after setting the goal of including “all good poets who have lived or died from three years before the death of Tennyson to the present moment.” While explaining his reasoning for this decision in the preface to this great anthology, Yeats explained, “passive suffering is not a theme for poetry.”…

that they could say this “old lie”(Owen, “Dulce et decorum est.”) when they knew the unjustified suffering this men were going through. He didn’t see soldiers dying in war as a heroic act of patriotism. He saw it as something tragic. Owen used his poetry to mourn those who died in war not to serve as a way to justify the…

“Legacy” by Eminem “Legacy” is a very elaborate song written by popular artist Marshall Bruce Mathers III, more known by Eminem. The song is mainly about his struggles as a child to be happy and succeed. He was not a very popular kid, so he didn’t have very many friends, and at the same time he was bullied. All of these factors made his childhood a complete and utter “Hell” for him. But as the song progresses he gets older, and grows more confidence. Overall this song is a great representation…