Essays on Poetry

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...

Blake’s outer form of the poem creates a playful sound, which is contrasted with the serious undertones of the subject matter. The difference in these two elements has the reader to believe that the narrator of the trip to the Garden of Love is a...

In Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, McCarthy communicates that although there can be misery and slaughter on the planet, love defeats all with a little hope. Even if the man knows in his heart that demise is inescapable and perilously close, he keeps on living for...

Over the ages, many poetry composers have developed different poems, which have served as a crucial art to study at any age. Through poetry, the composer and the audience can have a broad understanding of the world around them. When people embrace and scrutinize poetry,...

Wilfred Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth” and Carol Ann Duffy’s “War Photographer” are poems that, through the use of language and structural techniques, emphasize the suffering experienced in war and more specifically, both highlight the triviality of a soldier’s life in the context of war....

The topic of war and death brings with it the emotion of sadness, fear, tension and anguish. Two examples that look at the real sense of war and death are Carol Ann Duffy’s poem, “War Photographer,” and Robert Bly’s poem, “Driving Through Minnesota During the...