Essays on Pentameter

As I Walked Out One Evening

Concerning iambic pentameter, the poem only meets these requirements part of the time. For example, during lines like, “Walking down Bristol Street,” one could say it is akin to iambic pentameter, as the first syllable is quick, and the second long. However, most of the lines, like this one, “I heard a lover sing,” at the beginning of stanza two, does not meet the requirements at all. Therefore, the poem could not be a sonnet. Typically the rhyming words are not forced or obvious, but instead rather subtle despite the fact that they do indeed obviously rhyme. For example, “ ...

Compare and Contrast Robert Frost's Mending wall to john Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn

The “Ode on a Grecian Urn” was written by Romantic poet John Keats in 1819 and is known for its profound meditation and conclusions on the nature of beauty. It highlights the issues of beauty, truth and eternity. It portrays Keats’ attempt to understand the eternity of sculpture, an art form. Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” was written in 1914 and depicts how two men meet on terms of civility to repair a wall between them. This paper will try to compare and contrast “Ode on a Grecian Urn” with “Mending Wall” with regards to form, structure, and themes.

Keats’ “Ode ...

Act I

- The ghost of the king may have returned as a way of bringing bad news to the country according to Horatio - Guards are keeping watch because it is their duty to guard the castle. At the same time, the country is about to go to war and so they have to be ready for anything. - In Act I Scene IV, there is foreshadowing where Hamlet’s father appears to him as a ghost and tells him about his murder. Pathetic fallacy is seen when Francisco says that “its bitter cold and I am sick ...

Poetry is an apt form for expressing inner sentiments, which can sometimes seem impossible to relate to others. When a person sees beauty, it is an individual impression. But through poetry, removed and subjective notions can be explored. William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18” and John Keats' “Ode on a Grecian Urn” both relate a concept of, love, beauty in art, and its weathering time. As will be shown, both Shakespeare and Keats convey these concepts in unique ways. Comparing and contrasting these two widely recited and studied works allows one to get to the heart of how they use the poetic form ...

The aim of this essay is to present you with an analysis of the poem ‘A Description of a City Shower’ which was written by Jonathan Swift in 1710. The essay will analyze and try to explicate the poem, highlighting its main thematic core and the way it is put across to its readers through its literary devices such as its symbolism and icons, its form, genre, verse, metre and figures of speech. The essay will emphasize on the interpretation of the poem and its symbolism, by shedding light to the way that Jonathan Swift uses the description of an ...

Robert Frost’s, “Acquainted with the Night,” was written in 1928 and it is as haunting and lovely as any of his other works . The narrator of the poem possesses qualities typical of Frost’s narrators, as he assesses the loneliness of life, as well as the inevitability of death. Depression, as well as Frost’s unusual iambic pentameter use is also present. He is not one for rhyming, but instead uses a slow, steady cadence to draw the reader down a slow, almost familiar path that will inevitably lead us baffled at out so much could be said in such a ...

Among William Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets is Sonnet 18 because it is the greatest love poems of all times. Sonnet 18 presents a variety of poetic devices considering the distinctive structure Among William Shakespeare’s, most famous sonnets are Sonnet 18 because it is the greatest love poems of all times. Sonnet 18 presents a variety of poetic devices considering the distinctive structure that Shakespeare uses effectively. In as much as readers may want to look for a complicated structure, it is more straightforward, because its language is brief, concise and unto the point. Shakespeare starts by praising his friend and ...

In the 1923 modern Italian sonnet, “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why” Edna St. Vincent Millay narrates how numerous loves in her life ultimately came to an end and how miserable she felt because of those losses. Millay depicts the explicit meaning of sonnet by using many of different aspects of its form, such as its mood, structure, turns, and particularly the powerful metaphor. This sonnet is centered on two major themes, namely change and loss. The season imagery used by Millay makes the theme of change most apparent. Although most of the sonnet revolves ...

Analysis: Ulysses by Alfred Tennyson

Thesis Statement Tennyson’s Ulysses, when compared to Dante’s Inferno, is a more realistic version of Odysseus’ discontentment with domestic life and his yearning for his final journey.

Paragraph 1: Introduction to the poem

Paragraph 2: Overview of the form of the poem Paragraph 3: Background of the poem followed by a discussion of Ulysses’ views of his domestic life, his country and his wife Paragraph 4: Discussion of Ulysses’ view of his administrative duties, his people and his strong desire to live life to the fullest

Paragraph 5: Discussion on Ulysses’ view of his past adventures and his hopes for the future

Paragraph 6: Comparison between the characters of Ulysses and his son, Telemachus Paragraph 7: Conclusion ...

1) In Don Juan by Byron, the character of Don Juan is a womanizer for much more complex and negative reasons than are normally attributed to the characterization of the figure in popular culture. Instead of his womanizing simply coming from a place of playfulness and hedonism, it comes from a place of nihilism - Juan has little respect or faith in life and its potential, as well as himself, so he merely hides himself in the comfort of empty relationships with women in order to make up for not having an overall 'mission' in life. As Byron sees no end ...

“Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allen Poe, and “How Do I Love Thee?” by Elizabeth Barret Browning are both poems with love as their main theme. Although both follow many traditions of love poetry, such as form and rhyme, the fact that Poe’s is a narrative poem and Browning’s a lyric poem cause them to read very differently. The question of which is more effective in conveying the theme of love is a difficult one to answer as this is a matter of opinion. However, overall, Poe’s poem gives the reader more to relate to and, therefore, is the more effective. ...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Sonnet 43” alternately knows as “How May I Love Thee” is a declaration of her feelings for her husband to be, who was courting her at the time; Robert Browning. It is part of the series of sonnets she wrote for him “Songs from the Portuguese”, a title which she deliberately made to mislead by letting people think that the poem were written by a Portuguese person and she only translated them. Later however, it was established that she herself had been the author of the series and the reference to the Portuguese in the title was in ...

Analysis - "Out Out" by Robert Frost

In Robert Frost's Poem "Out Out," the experience of a young boy getting his hand sawn off and dying is described in agonizing and beautiful detail. Working out in the field, the young boy experiences fear, denial and a myriad other emotions as the harsh circumstances of life remove from him his hand and his life. The literary effects and form of "Out Out" are woven together to convey the message that tragic events in life are unexpected and often brutal, and that people have different reactions to death.

The literary effects of "Out Out" are used to lend a grandeur to ...

“The Coy Mistress” and “Corinna’s going A-Maying” Judging from the structure of the two poems, at first glance they seem to be very different; however, but in terms of context we can conclude that the stories beneath the works are almost alike. To compare the poems we must look at the technical side of the contents and how the meanings were delivered by the sentence structure. In the first poem entitled “The Coy Mistress” that was written by Andrew Marvell it goes about a woman who is quite slow in responding to the author’s sexual advances, and ...

Essay on “The Coy Mistress” and “Corinna’s going A-Maying” Poems Judging from the structure of the two poems at first glance they look very much different but in terms of context we can conclude that the stories beneath the words are almost alike. To compare the poems we must look at the technical side of the contents and how the meanings were delivered by the sentence structure. First the poem “The Coy Mistress” written by Andrew Marvell talks about a woman who is quite slow in responding to the author’s sexual advances. At the first part of ...