Poems Essays and Research Papers Page 5

The poem “Gunpowder Plot” was interesting as its title holds three meanings. The author could have meant an allotment where gunpowder or fireworks are stored or a plan involving gunpowder or just a story about the usage of gunpowder. The poem itself holds a double meaning, the first meaning and most immediately noticeable is of…

The poem Mid-Term Break was written by Seamus Heaney in the year 1995. The autobiographic poem essentially focuses on the tragic death of Heaney’s younger brother. The Poem explores the themes of death, growing up, loss of innocence and grief. The title in the first glance gives the reader the idea about a holiday, but…

The poem “Minority” is about a person who feels out of place in society of her birth country. Imtiaz Dharker uses diction, sensory imagery and similes to allow the readers to better comprehend the feeling of being not relevant to others and exclusion in the person’s homeland. The poem begins with ” I was born…

‘Disabled’ by Wilfred Owen tells the story of a young soldier who has returned from war and realizes how different his old life is to the new one where he is now disabled both mentally and physically. In contrast, the story of ‘Out Out’ is of the harsh realities of life for a boy completing…

Book She Walks in Beauty is one of the most famous works of poet Lord Byron (George Gordon) in the year June 12th, 1814. Lord Bryon (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) is a renown poet and politician of the Romantic Movement. Being born in England, he had a controversial life which most of…

The poem is a ballad describing bitter end of those who commit to evil set in 14th Century Scotland. It talks of a bell being installed on the Inchcape rock for warning the people and sea-farers about the reef near the Scottish coast. It is snatched by a pirate who ends up dying on the…

Themes are central to understanding A Midsummer Night’s Dream as a play and identifying Shakespeare’s social and political commentary. Love The dominant theme in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is love, a subject to which Shakespeare returns constantly in his comedies. Shakespeare explores how people tend to fall in love with those who appear beautiful to…

To a Daughter Leaving Home In Linda Pastan’s poem,” To a Daughter Leaving Home,” it illustrates just through the title alone how a moment that is so small like teaching your child how to ride a bike can represent so much. She uses poetic devices to help translate the poem into an actual story. It…

Andrew Marvell wrote his short poem To His Coy Mistress in a persuasive tone to allow the speaker to convince his mistress, the listener, to succumb to his want. Marvell uses meter, imagery, and tone to persuade his lady to further commit in their relationship. This poem has a very strong carpe diem or seize…

The poem “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening”, by Robert Frost, is a short, yet intricate poem. What appears to be simple is not simple at all. What appears to be innocent is really not. The woods seem pristine and unimposing, however, they are described as being “dark and deep”, and it is…