Essays on Poetry

Human beings are said to be the most gifted creations of God, because of their reason, their capability to learn and communicate instead of just memorizing or reproducing sounds. But despite all of these, humans are mainly governed by their needs and biological urges. These...

Derek Walcott’s A Far Cry from Africa, published in 1962 is such an agonizing and didactic personal poem that explores the history of a specific uprising in Kenya, occupied by the British, in the 1950s. Davis, M. A. (2009), effectively puts in “In order to...

The poem I have chosen for my seminar is “Photograph of September 11” by Wislawa Szymborska. This poem was published in 2005 in her book “Monologue of a Dog”, a collection of poems written in different times of Szymborska life. I will be analyzing to...

The Bull Calf is a poem that seeks to tackle and also explore a very controversial matter. The writer also shows the innocence of animals which are under human care. The author of this poem explores the death of these animals by bringing in a...

A poem, it is a “piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both speech and song that is nearly always rhythmical, usually metaphorical, and often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme, and stanzaic structure.” To determine what constitutes as “the best poem...

William Cowper’s poem “The Poplar Field” is a poem that could be compared to a walk down memory lane. Cowper talks about his favorite field where he spent much of his childhood in. The language in his poem is inserted to show the readers how...

“The Unwritten Letter from My Immigrant Parent” is a border poem written by Somali-American writer Muna Abdulahi in which she presents the struggles and aspirations of immigrants forced to reside in America. It is a slam poetry written in first-person narrative from the perspective of...