Essays on Poets

The renowned William Shakespeare had written over thirty seven plays, similarly, Walt Disney has created more than fifty-six films. Both films and plays are different types of written work; one employs visuals to entertain the audience, and the other puts to use words to keep...

Narrative voice in Samuel Wagan Watson’s stunning suite of poems Smoke Encrypted Whispers is truly an exercise in multidimensionality, with Watson’s own tone moving effortlessly between autobiographical recollections across his life, more immediate “author’s notes” on his own writing process, and other more elusive forms...

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...

Ann Charters Ginsberg, Allen (3 June 1926-6 Apr. 1997), poet, was born in Newark, New Jersey, the younger son of Louis Ginsberg, a high school English teacher and poet, and Naomi Levy Ginsberg. Ginsberg grew up with his older brother Eugene in a household shadowed...

Dr. Seuss’s work required much concentration in order to reveal the hidden meaning. In most of his stories, poems, and books there was an underlying meaning other than the superficial meaning. Dr. Seuss was challenged by the editing company to produce a book having more...

Syed Nasir Raza Kazmi was a renowned Urdu poet of Pakistan. He should be ranked among those of our writers who were not destined to live long but who, during their limited span, wrote extensively and touched the heights of creativity before passing away. Soon...

Langston Hughes is a respected and esteemed African American Icon. His poetry and writing created a platform for black artists during the Harlem Renaissance, yet today he is one of the few underappreciated names in modern American poetry. Despite his pivotal role in the Harlem...

William Morris was a famous artist who mainly focused on his wallpaper and fabric designs. While he was mainly known for his art, even today, he had many other notable careers and accomplishments, one of them being that he founded the Arts and crafts Movement....

Although he is primarily known for his elaborate fabric and textile designs, William Morris was also a poet, novelist, illustrator, architect, translator, and social activist. Born in 1834, Morris was alive during the market revolution, during which new technology made mass production possible. Morris challenged...

During the Industrial Revolution, in the middle of the 19th century, different industries were developing, economic growth was impressive and a huge new world of cities was emerging. However, it took its toll on both people’s working conditions and their morale as well as on...

Artisan producer of objects of furniture, poet, novelist, affiliated to the pre-Raphaelite artistic brotherhood, utopian and prophetic socialist. Very rarely in the work of an engagé scholar of the end of the 19th century, the juxtapositions and contradictions of the twentieth century workers movement are...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

​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...

One of the main elements in both the coming-of-age novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles, and the quirky movie Dead Poets Society, written by Tom Schulman and directed Peter Weir, is friendship. Friendship can involve many stages, and at times, can be very complex,...

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...

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...

‘Annihilating all that’s made/To a green thought in green shade.’ – Marvell ‘I am re-begot/of absence, darknesse, death; things which are not.’ – Donne ‘Nothing,’ as a concept has plasticity; it can be used in a number of different ways and refer to any number...

Mrs.Wilson American Poet Research Project 1/31/18 Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. He published his first poem in 1921. He attended Columbia University, but left after one year to travel. His poetry was later promoted by Vachel Lindsay, and Hughes...

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...

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...

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...