… overheard your son David, talking to my son Peter, with regards to Yeats's poetry. I found his viewpoint rather misinformed. The approach he used seemed somewhat ignorant. I found that he tended to look within the poem to justify Yeats's central…

… an anthology of great twentieth century poetry, what would it be and why? <Tab/>If I were asked to submit a poem for an anthology of great 20th century poetry, I would choose 'Dulce et Decorum est' by Wilfred Owen. The reason that…

… has been a prominent theme in a number of Blake's poems throughout the poems collection Songs of Innocence and Experience. Many of these were written from the perspective of children, while others are about children as seen from an adult perspective.…

… Blake's poems. He sees the world through the eyes of a child and embraces the innocence of the young. He illustrates this style in poems such as "the lamb", "the little black boy", and "the chimney sweeper". <Tab/>The lamb really illustrat…

… there are masters with many servants, such as Prospero has a servants and one of them is Caliban. Caliban is Prospero's slave, frequently referred to as a monster by the other characters. Another one of Prospero's servants is Ariel. Ariel is Prospero's…

… challenges old conventions in its portrayal of the realities of war. As a writer of some good, some bad, and mostly mediocre poetry, I have often wondered what it is that makes a great poem great. I found myself disillusioned and mystified by…

… Dickinson describes the interactions between a person and death. Her poem describes how the speaker is escorted by Death in its carriage. Death carries the speaker slowly and peacefully through time. It is ironic that Dickinson writes of Death's…

… one or two symbols throughout. They were so short, that they hardly had enough time to get but a small message across to the reader, or atleast that's how I saw it. However, Alberto Rios's "Mi Abuelo" had many images which made my brain tingle with…

… structure way too easy. Would have been better to structure in a sequence of events than poems!! And as I'm not a native...there might be some blunders...!! 1.<Tab/>Introduction Langston Hughes was one of the most popular…

… purpose and tone is. Anne Sexton uses a strong satiric and humorous undertone when poking fun at marriage. The use of dark humor adds life and body to the poem. Anne Sexton's placement of witty understatements is impeccable and allows the reader…