Iambic pentameter

“The most painful goodbyes are the ones that are never said and never explained”-Unknown Quote. In ‘Cold In the Earth’ by Emily Brontë and ‘Because I Could Not Stop For Death’ by Emily Dickinson, both of the authors approach the theme of death differently. For instance, Brontë portrayed death in a melancholy way, whereas Dickinson portrayed death as calm and not frightening. Although both poems are juxtaposed, they both share similar literary devices such as: symbolism, imagery and mood.…

Over the 16th and 17th centuries following the Italian Renaissance, literature in England began to flourish. Some of the most prominent writers were of this era, such as William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, John Donne and Robert Herrick. Together, along with additional writers they composed one of history’s most significant poetic movements. Movements that have been fundamental to change the course of poetry in and out of their eras. All throughout history, poets have emerged to exhibit their…

A sonnet is a poem with a unique form, it has a specific structure. It is a type of poem which originated in italy. There are two types of sonnets, which are the Italian sonnet and the shakespearean sonnet. All sonnets are made up of 14 lines but each types are divided in different ways. An Italian sonnet is composed of an octet (8 lines) and a sestet (6 lines), while a Shakespearean sonnet is composed of three quatrains (4 lines each) and a couplet (2 lines). In my paper I will be analyzing…

Final Analytical and Research Essay Through the writings of poetry and storytelling, love and relationships have been a singular theme. Many poets and storytellers will use writing to tell love in different scenarios, from the depths of Hell where one’s lust of love causes eternal damnation to a love tale of two knights. Love has no boundaries and in most cases love is told from two perspectives. One from a male’s perspective and one from a female. This style of writing is used many times…

The Elf’s Instincts Hawthorne uses specific diction and imagery in his descriptions of Dimmesdale and Pearl to compare and contrast the two of them. Hawthorne first compares Dimmesdale and Pearl to their respective past descriptions, then he compares them to each other, all in order to direct the reader towards their connection. Instantly before the passage, Dimmesdale had bravely defended Hester’s right to keep Pearl. Immediately afterwards, he hides, standing with his face “concealed in the…

"The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" (Christopher Marlowe) and "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" (Sir Walter Raleigh) are both wonderful poems that state that love can have many different perspectives. They both emphasize that these two characters love each other, and that they have intense feelings for each other. Although they emphasize the same thing, they both have many differences. Not only that, but the poems also have things that are absent from each other. Marlowe's poem has many…

Pablo Neruda, a well-known romanticist and poet of the 20th century, had produced many works throughout his lifetime. Many of his poems contain metaphors, personification, and other literary devices that express his ideas. Neruda’s poems are often and unsurprisingly described as “playful”, in both form and expression. This is evident though two common themes in his pieces- those regarding women, and those dedicated to everyday objects. Many of Neruda’s poems, including those in his collection…

“The Road Not Taken” was a poem written by Robert Frost in 1916. The poem consists of four stanzas that each contains five lines, and the rhyme scheme is ABAAB. The first three stanzas of the poem talk about the past and the fourth one talks about the future. “The Road No Taken” starts off with the narrator coming up to a fork in the path he is traveling. He looked down both of the paths as far as he could and they seemed to be equal; the first path seemed to be traveled more often, but the…

Edwards Hirsch’s poem “For the Sleepwalkers” focuses on the author’s admiration of sleepwalkers and their ability to trust their bodies in a state of complete unconsciousness; this praise, however, furthermore establishes a metaphor for the lesson Hirsch intends to portray to readers. He insists that we must become vulnerable like sleepwalkers and trust in our own hearts as they trust their bodies out of the control of their consciousnesses. The author also highlights the idea of keeping our…

I never saw, but I know… “I never saw a Moor-”A moor, an unseen object to man, but one the poet Emily Dickinson chooses to title her poem. What is this unseen object called a moor? Webster’s Dictionary describes a moor as “A tract of open, peaty, wasteland, often overgrown with heath, common in high latitudes and altitudes where drainage is poor; heath.” There are many terms that Dickinson uses within this poem that maybe unknown and uncertain to some, but they hold a deeper meaning within the…