Essays on Poetry

The Victorian Era texts that I have studied have shaped my understanding and point of views of what everyday life was like and what people’s roles were in the Victorian Era society. The Victorian Era is a period of time in England from June 1837...

In Robert Browning’s 1836 poem, “Porphyria’s Lover,” relationships are represented as destructive and obsessive when based on different social classes. This idea that people are restricted to their class was something that the Romantics often reflected in their poems. The Romantics valued emotional sensitivity and...

Thomas Stearns Eliot was an American-English Poet, literary critic, editor, playwright, and the leader of the Modernist movement in Poetry. His poems display the anxieties of living in the modern world. He espouses the belief that the lack of meaning in society is caused by...

The philosophical movement of modernism yearned to banish traditional ways of thinking and revitalise the way modern civilisation viewed life arising from the Industrial Revolution, followed then by World War I. T.S. Eliot permeates a perturbing, and in many instances, unpromising portrayal of the tumult...

A poet Alice Osborn once affirmed, ‘Poetry can influence our life if we let it and embrace it, it can offer us a way to empathise with one another. In its immediacy, poetry is a counsellor helping us to understand one another. Leading us away...

The poem ‘The Lady of Shalott’ was written in 1832, and was later revised, and published in 1842, before the time when Tennyson became famous. This poem is believed to be one of the few poems that he wrote about the episode in Arthurian legend...

The Anglo-Saxon poem “The Wanderer” is a 10th century Old English poem. It is a 115 lined poem that consists of two seperate speakers throughout the text. Due to the fact that most Anglo-Saxon poems are anonymous no one knows who the writer of this...

Identity is a state of mind in which someone identifies their character traits that leads to finding out who they are and what they do and not that of someone else. It is useful in helping readers understand that a person’s state of mind is...

The poem Kubla Khan is a classic which sustains its romanticism and artistic touch used to paint a fantasy land. Poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge draws you into this poem with, appealing imagery and has a way of painting a perfect picture of Kubla Khan. Coleridge...

What if we were alive in 1970? What if we were forced into child slavery? What if we had no control over our own lives? This is what it was like during the industrial revolution and what Wordsworth and Blake express so evidently through their...