Category: Poetry

Still, I rise Maya Angelous Still, I Rise poem is about her fight with racism and discrimination throughout her lifetime. The poet uses repetition, metaphors, similes plus other poetic techniques to communicate to the audience regarding how she has defeated racism in her life by demonstrating a strong attitude to others. It is additionally regarding…

Edgar Allan Poe is known as a major figure in literature and gothic poems and stories. He is one of the most consequential writers with a dark and miserable life. He was born on January 19, 1809, and most of his writing was reflected in his own reality of life. He was one of the…

In his sonnet, William Shakespeare discusses a man, possessing characteristics associated with nature, and how said nature and its seasons of summer/spring are perennial, as well as elaborating on the splendor of art and flora. The theme is the timelessness of love and admiration. How change is an inevitable prospect, yet, it does not hinder…

For my poetry analysis, I will be looking at the poem The Self-Unseeing by Thomas Hardy and I Am by John Clare. Both share quite a depressing theme, which I will be focusing on through different literary techniques. Hardy writes about missing his childhood, while Clare talks about looking forward to his death so he…

Through the exploration of T.S Eliots Preludes (1911), The Hollow Men (1925) and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Prufrock 1915), the audience is exposed to the isolation, depersonalisation and corruption of society that Eliot endures by his single voice of apprehension, engaging with our own uncertainties. Eliots poems endure the hardship of people…

Yeats saw the end of the Romantic Era of Literature and the dawn of Modernism in his time of living. Different fields of art were also undergoing transformation due to the worldwide phenomena that included the two world wars. The romantic period saw a change in the thought process of that era. Yeats focused more…

Modernism is a movement in literature which lasted from the end of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century. This specific era marked landmark progress in science and technology, globalization and industrialization. Even though these are all indicatives of modernism, the modernist writers, nevertheless, diverted their interest into otherwise. Their central objective…

Will the war on masculinity only fire back? The problem with the term toxic masculinity by Jacinta Petrohilos Toxic masculinity has become a very over used term in modern day society, the application of the term toxic traits target things such as aggression and sexist behaviours but we only ever associate these terms with males.…

The short poem, Porphyrias Lover by Robert Browning is one of his finest works that portrays the motions of love and hate, as well as passion and control. The thrilling love story is about a man who is greatly obsessed with his lover named Porphyria and all he really wants his to keep her all…

In the three pieces, every author employs varying forms of Logos, Ethos, Pathos, and Kairos to support their work and ensure that their arguments are strong and persuasive, and compelling. The first work in an essay written by Peggy McIntosh called White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack was written to show what types of benefits…