Essays on Poets

Robert Frost was a famous American poet that is well known for his philosophical poems that are rich in detail. Frost’s poem “To Earthward” was published in 1923 and illustrates the naivety and sweetness of a past love, and how when one grows old such...

Throughout the entire duration of the poem, the snowman becomes a self-reflection of the narrator. “with a mind as cold as the slice of ice within my own brain” The narrator becomes obsessed with finding someone with the right status with him, someone who he...

In “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death,” William Butler Yeats’ poem, he focuses on man’s inner nature. He touches on many thoughts that must race through one’s mind at the point when they realize that their death is unavoidable. Main idea of this this poem...

Poets have remarked on the affairs of the contemporary world, advocated for the victims of tyranny and even became the pioneers of social change. Plato, a philosopher in Classical Greece, while responding to the complexity of poets, concludes that they are impersonators of the world:...

Billy Collin’s poem, Introduction to Poetry, dramatizes conflict of poets’ frustration when their work is overanalyzed instead of being enjoyed. More specifically, this poem’s narrator stresses the author’s intent of providing open-ended messages when writing poetry while audiences fail to appreciate poetry properly, instead seeing...

The doctrine, originally coined by Samuel T. Coleridge in his 1817 publication of Biographia listeria, ‘suspension of disbelief’ is built, principally, on the idea that, in order to fully immerse in the fictional world, it is paramount that we force ourselves to believe in premises...

The Spider that Could In the poem “A Noiseless Patient Spider” by Walt Whitman he speaks of a spider that faces problems and has no one to help it through them. Walt Whitman uses elements such as imagery and symbolism. He uses imagery to allow...

Robert Frost – Relating To Life Experiences Robert Frost – Relating to Life Experiences The Road Not Taken, Mending Wall, Birches, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost is remembered as one of the most popular and honored poets of the twentieth century....

Through history were created different stereotypes and attitudes towards women which vary from culture to culture. Most of the societies see women as an object which has a specific role. The role is to be an obedient housewife, to give birth to children, raise them...

Transitions allow individuals to embrace new perspectives of the world we occupy. Willy Russell’s comedic stage play “Educating Rita”, written in 1979 at a time when education was being made more accessible to the working class, seeks to illustrate how education enables individuals to transition...

The poet that has often captivated the minds of many with his writings on nature, at least for my case this is true. I find Robert Frost to be one of the most interesting poets in all time, he seemed to have had a mind...

Discovery is the process of unveiling a fresh or renewed understanding of the world which may be the result of an unexpected journey or experience. While relinquishing societal norms can result in the most profound revelations which may be unforeseen yet wonderful, this experience may...

​The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock which is commonly referred “Prufrock” was termed as the first professional poem by T.S. Eliot. The structure of the poem was positively influenced by the author’s wide-ranging reading by Dante Alighieri, which makes a number of references to...

Writing on nineteenth-century London poetry, William Sharpe comments that ‘Regardless of shared reference to sublimity, fog, of Babylonian blindness, each poet’s London is different. Each time we read ‘London’ we have to begin again.’ For poets in the late eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries, London...

There is a balance to ideals in individuality and truth, both at positive and negative extremes. The movie Dead Poets Society by Peter Weir captures the incredible role romanticism and embracement of truth on an individual’s life, separating the ability to enjoy life from the...

On Aging a poem by Maya Angelou, the poet describes feelings as an aging person, who is growing older and tired. Sharing how the elderly shouldn’t be pitied or secluded just because one is growing older and gets tired easier. “On Aging” teaches us that...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) “Books and dreams were what I lived in and domestic life only seemed to buzz gently around, like bees about the grass,” At a time, when poetry was considered a noble art worthy of a man’s intellectual supremacy, a handful of...

Voltaire Born in 1694, in Paris, France, Voltaire established himself as one of the leading writers of the Enlightenment. His famed works include the tragic play Zaïre, the historical study The Age of Louis XIV and the satirical novella Candide. Often at odds with French...

Fight for Your Life Dylan Thomas’ poem “Do not go gentle into that good night” the speaker is talking to a dying father. The speaker is comparing the fights of several man against the end, and it points out that even though death is inevitable...