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Sasha Maharaj has used a personal tone to convey emotions underlying her feelings about relationships in the poem, “Worthless’’. In this essay, I disclose how poetic devices, diction, syntax and other language functions have been utilized to reveal feelings/emotions of the writer in regard to relationships. Taking into account the title of the poem, one cannot put a figure on what or who is worthless. Nevertheless, it is known that worthless is an adjective; meaning something that has no use or…

“Hunting Snake” written by Judith Wright and “Pike” written by Ted Hughes are two poems about nature and animals. Hunting Snake has four stanzas and Pike has eleven stanzas. The animals in the Hunting Snake and Pike seem to be similar animals as they hunt in similar ways by being slow, quiet and pouncing to surprise the animal. Both of the poets write about their encounters with hunting animals, a hunting snake and a pike fish. Judith writes about a “big black snake” in nature hunting like in…

While Anne Sexton and Robert Fagles were both inspired by the Van Gogh painting The Starry Night, they execute their ideas into two similar yet very different poems. Primarily, despite the fact that both poems are named after the same painting, the subject, their experiences, and the speaker of each poem are different. Additionally, both poets stimulate the reader’s senses through different images to evoke a similar gloomy atmosphere and convey the theme of death and madness. Thus, Sexton and…

Poetry has always been a vital part of humanity’s history. It shares a piece of the past while also showing the poet’s skills. One famous female poet of the past is Anne Bradstreet. Anne Bradstreet holds a reputation of being the first female poet acknowledged as a successful New World Poet, an admirable position. Although she wrote many reputable poems in her time, she had to endure the gender bias as a woman. Some of her beliefs were rejected since they were still new to her era. Despite the…

Poetry is the key to many different emotions. A poem can cause many different feelings and memories, both good and bad, to bubble to the surface of our minds. Readers use poems to find a simple piece of artwork they can relate to, however are usually unprepared if it hits too close to home. Elizabeth Bishop, poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, had a difficult early life when growing up in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her father passed away when she was at a young age, and her mother admitted to…

Emily Dickenson and Robert Frost Emily Dickenson and Robert Frost are two of the most famous American poets. Their poems are read and studied by students across the country. Not only were their poems popular, they were influential on society. They each had signature styles of writing, poetic elements, and impact upon their readers, but they also had several similarities. Dickenson and Frost’s styles are similar because of their use of first- person narrative. Most of their poems are written in…

Imagine a death of someone significant. In “Before She Died” by Karen Chase, she reminisces on a dear person who has passed away. The importance of one is not known until he or she has deceased. The speaker is constantly reminded of the dead person. For example, when the speaker searches for the one who died, “When I look at the sky now, I look at it for you” (1). The speaker relates sky to heaven after his or her loved one died. When the speaker says “I look at it for you” that indicates he…

When examining modern music and poetry, there is a common theme between the two especially when adding in the element of protest poetry. Artists such as Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar more recently pushing for change and calling awareness to the issues surrounding their communities, very closely relates to the protest poetry written in the 20th century. They both have the same agenda and address the same issues even though the way and tone in which it’s delivered differs from one another. Poets…

I thoroughly enjoyed reading and understanding the literary work, Our Town by Thornton Wilder. The play begins in 1901 by illustrating the simple lives of ordinary people in Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire. Wilder has created the element of purity by using small town Leria 7 characters as a universal theme. Each of his three act represents a different aspect of life staring with the simplicity of daily living through the struggles of love, marriage and then death. He opens his…

Time is of the Essence Rosalia De Castro’s poems offered several interesting comparisons within her poems. De Castro’s poems, “[I well know there is nothing]” and “[The ailing woman felt her forces ebb]”, created a new perspective and interpretation of the its meaning in its entirety. In “[I well know there is nothing]”, the lines, “Well because we are so, clocks that repeat forever the same”, contain the source domain “we”, and the target domain refers to the “clocks” (De Castro 6-7). In this…