John Dickinson

Born in 1830, Emily Dickinson is a poet whose “genius for metaphorical invention is scarcely inferior to that of Shakespeare.” (Hughes) But unlike other poets who experience life first-handed like Shakespeare, Emily spent her life mostly isolated from society. Since she did not have direct contact with the outside world, her experiences of life came mostly from the people surrounded her and books, and they, nevertheless, has tremendous influence on her work religiously and psychologically. On…

Hamlet’s monolog is one governed by rationality. It is a meditation on life and death, being alive and not being, over the disadvantages of existence and the act of suicide. Hamlet compares life with death. He sees life as missing the power, humans as being exposed to the blows of life and outrageous fortune. The only way to dodge the blows will be to stop existing. The death is thus a desirable state. Nevertheless, it is also seen as a journey to the unknown, to a place for which there is no…

The World’s Wife is based on intertextual webs and most of the poems take the form of a dramatic monologue. Duffy chooses to play the intertextual game in order to convey a certain message, to voice her ideas through historical, religious and mythical figures. She focuses on the marginalized, women in particular. Her trademark dramatic monologue is successfully employed in The World’s Wife (1999) in which, drawing on Greek mythology, the Bible, fairy tales, literature, history, and film,…

The theme of death is represented in similar ways throughout the six poems. In ‘A Mother in a Refugee Camp’ by Chinua Achebe, death is shown through the children’s life and the death of the relationship the mother has with the child. The poem ‘Havisham’ is filled with hatred and ‘War Photographer’ is about the death of thousands in a war and the narrator broadcasting these events in the newspaper. ‘Anne Hathaway’ is a contrasting poem and shows a positive attitude towards death, in comparison,…

these poems have expressed feelings of despair. This essay will be comparing the poems and analysing the language for techniques such as language, form, structure and craft of the writer. The first Poem La Belle Made sans Merci is a ballad written by John Keats. The poem is written from the perspective of a man who meets a knight, waiting for his lover on the side of a hill. The poem criticizes how miserable and intolerable the world has become for the knight. Within the first stanza Keats uses…

Sylvia Plath was an admired American poet during the 20th century, known for her confessional poems. Plath's poems had a common theme of morality and death. Plath excelled as a child and won many scholarships and contests, but faced difficulties in her home life after her father died. These difficulties affected Plath's mental state and her work greatly. In Plath's poem, “Daddy”, readers can see how her relationship with her father and other life experiences influenced the topics and themes of…

Loss is a very common theme for poetry which can be interpreted in many ways. Many poems/poets have different insights regarding loss creating a lot of variation in the theme. In this essay I will be exploring poems such as; “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning talking about the loss of the Dukes Duchess’, “Remember” by Christina Rossetti which talks about her and her partner when they are no longer together. Also I will be talking about a poem by Dylan Thomas which is often referred to as “Do…

favorite poems made by Emily Dickinson, a prolific private poet who was born in Massachusetts. Once Thomas H. Johnson made Dickinson’s poems accessible, several readers instantaneously discovered a great poet of great depth and stylistic complexity whose work eludes categorization . Dickinson is a unique poet with great achievements and known for her brilliance and diamond-hard language. Whilst all her work was found after her death, it was noticed that the subjects that Dickinson used are…

“This is my letter to the world,-/ That never wrote to me,” (Dickinson) begins a famous poem of Emily Dickinson, one of the most innovative, mysterious, and formidable American poets of the nineteenth century. Her letter to the world- the brilliant body of poetry she left behind- reflects her enriched, yet troubled life. Dickinson’s “This is My Letter to the World” flows from her life’s experience, reveals some of her commonly used techniques, and gives insight into how she may have viewed her…

2. Introduction Edgar Allan Poe’s much quoted assessment that “the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world” (Poe 1846, 165) opens a much-discussed dialogue that leads to two main questions. Why is it death, and in particular the death of a woman that is considered thus poetical, and, as I want to add, political? With this B.A. thesis, I want to try and answer these questions, while especially focusing on female death in the form of suicide. I want to…