Essays on Poetry

How the poetry of Sylvia Plath and ONE other related text of your choice encapsulate binary metaphors of the Cold War era. Governing the post war era was a cloud of irrevocable anxiety that loomed over the world cripplining society into a state of powerlessness...

Anne Carson’s poem “Glass, Irony, and God” is a mix of poetry along with essay, literary criticism, and her narrative technique is quirky, full of inventions, and erudite in nature. The poem “The Glass Essay” contains multiple interpretations of the word “glass” (Carson). In English...

Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright and theatre practitioner and is regarded as being one of the greatest 20th century dramatists. He was a principle influencer in the creation of the epic theatre form, as Brecht desired to create a theatre form that appropriately...

The Romantic School draws on the spiritual values of affirmation and praise and strives for individual liberation and human rights as the ideological principle. In painting, it advocates individuality, characteristic depiction, and expression of emotion. The composition is rich in change, the color contrast is...

“If I should die, think only this of me: that there is a corner of a foreign field that is forever England… hearts at peace, under and English heaven”. This is a line from a sonnet by Rupert Brooke which highlights the use of imaginative...

In her poem, “Ariel” Sylvia Plath’s morbid tone is complimented by metaphorical imagery of death that compares her journey towards her own demise with that of a wild horse ride. The poem depicts a woman desperately hanging on to Ariel, a crazed horse who “hauls...

In John Reibentanz’s What Just Was, he not only paints a picture of a scene of two children going from one stage of life into the next, but makes something of that scene. In what appears to be a simple poem about walking to school...