We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 125 is written in the traditional Elizabethan form. It consists of 14 lines and can be divided into two parts: the first section comprises line one to 12; it includes only […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Predominately within Keats poetry one must indeed note the antithetic relationships between reality and ideals, rationality and imagination, physical sensations and logical reasoning. The conflict between beauty and sensation and the clarity of intellect […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy 1. Introduction The England-based Georgians had been attacked by the modernists as “unoriginal and slack in technique, shallow in feeling, slight in intellect…and weekend escapism” (David 1976, p.204). The American-based Genteel Mode, on the […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy John Keats is well known for his escapism-based poetry. Critics argue that this escapism is Keats way of escaping life and death, the latter, a subject well experienced by the poet. However, this could […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy This essay will be about three poems written by Thomas Hardy, the poems were all written in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s and were written at the end of Thomas Hardy’s life. The […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy “Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two beautiful people in a Mercedes” is a poem written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a poet born in New York City in 1919 and spent most of […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Emily Dickinson’s poetry can be described as ambiguous and enigmatic. The description given in the question is much like Dickinson’s poetry, and hence, itself requires some interpretaion. The main subjective part of the question […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy The poetry of W. H. Auden is by no means extraordinarily complex or hard to understand, but often an in-depth discussion of a poem can bring to light meanings or qualities a reader may […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Dickinson uses diction to outline the idea that the act of death is unjust because God uses his superior being to manipulate the defenseless human soul. Dickinson’s first instance of diction is, “He stuns […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Patriotism is something that all citizens of a nation have or lack. Some say that patriotism is poetic in its own essence and it would only make sense for poets to write about this […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy This descriptive poem, “Ode to Man” reflects the usage of power by man in society. The writer uses natural imagery, diction, personification and the structure of 4 lines per stanza to indicate and ensure […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Survival has been a part of Australian history and culture since the beginning. When white man first settled on Australian soil, it was a survival of the fittest. From the many wars that Australian […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy These two war poems, although written about the same subject, are very different. The Charge of the Light Brigade is about honouring the brave soldiers that were brave enough to go to war, whereas […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Before the First World War, many people looked at it in different ways, many felt different attitudes towards it. Some saw it as something romantic; some saw it as something horrific. Some of these […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy The two poems I am comparing are ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ by Lord Alfred Tennyson and ‘The Hyenas’ by Rudyard Kipling. Both are anti-war poems and aim to discomfort the reader’s opinion […]