Category: Poetry

From Instagram to Facebook and Snapchat, it is clear that social media plays a role in today’s society. In fact, the implications of these online platforms are evident through the obsessive refreshing tendencies and mental health concerns of current citizens. In Sherman Alexies poem The Facebook Sonnet, the author satirizes these current controversies surrounding social…

Robert Frost born on March 26, 1874 was an American poet and winner of 4 Pulitzer Prizes. Famous works include Fire and Ice, Mending Wall, Birches, Out Out, Nothing Gold Can Stay and Home Burial but arguably his most famous is ‘The Road Not Taken,’ which is often read at graduation ceremonies, as the poem…

In this poem, Frost presents a speaker who has an internal conflict on which of the two roads he or she should take. The Road Not Taken dramatizes the conflict between choosing which road to travel and which to leave behind. When making choices it is often impossible to see where a life-altering decision will…

The love for poetry and writing can begin with the simple routine of listening to the soothing voices of parents reading a bedtime story. Unfortunately for some, such as Sherman Alexie, the sweetest routines are not a part of their everyday life while growing up. Defying the odds at a young age, Alexie survived life-threatening…

The Waste Land is a poem of breakdowns, psychological breakdowns of marriages and relationships, breakdowns of poetry and language and evidently the entire world. The carnage of the first World War had laid waste to Europe and made a mockery of civilisation thus starting the evolution of modernism and new forms of expression. After the…

The first thing that needs to be emphasized here is that the Mariner is commonly not considered as a vampire. For centuries he has been considered more a figure of prophetic warning or the Wondering Jew. (USTE VAKVI LIKOVI One of the reasons could be his parallel with the Wandering Jew figure (explain the characteristics…

Up until about year ago, I really felt like I needed some sort of permission to read poetry and its bizarre because I never felt the same way when it came to reading books. Books just felt like a free-range forest that I could wonder in at any time& camp out& have some fun& go…

Introduction The Wasteland is a text attacking the division of gender. There are five couples Eliot refers to in this poem; Marie and her cousin, the hyacinth girl and hyacinth boy, the bourgeois woman and her silent counterpart, the young man carbuncular and the typist, and finally Philomel and her husband. Eliot also refers to…

Literary genres are essential for both writers and readers when writing. For writers, the use of literary genres provides them with patterns that allow them to structure their writing. On the other hand, literary genres give readers the pleasure of discerning what is being written for them. The five literary genres of poetry, flash fiction,…

In many of his poems, W.B. Yeats portrays delusion and civilization. Yeats was once significantly enthused with the aid of the attraction of delusion and civilization and used it in several poems to reveal his complex philosophical understandings. Yeats used to be keen to change regular Greek and Roman mythological figures and civilization with figures…