Essay Database

… as a young larch tree/Sweet as the first wild violets, she/To her wild self. But what to me?" (lines 30-33). "The Farmer's Bride" by Charlotte Mew offers so many vivid images of nature that it is difficult to believe the speaker is a farmer. Mew presen…

… In the poem entitled "Digging", Seamus Heaney sensuously chronicles the cultivated art of Irish potato digging. His father mastered the art; he was the Rembrandt of digging. The reader can hear the sound of the spade as it pierces the earth with "a…

… about how to critique a poem. It explains the various devices that poets use to write a poem and that examiners use to grade a critique. It explains what a metaphor is and how rhythm is used. It is clear and concise for middle school levels between…

… novels, and keeping updated with current affairs are all actions my Great Grandmother of 96 years, does to keep her intellectual being in tact. Physically her body is old, but mentally, she is a very intelligent and prudent lady. This common trend…

… religions, traditions and ideologies, we are responsible for keeping the opportunities available that were promised by our forefathers. Individualism is a large part of freedom, which makes it challenging to appropriately discuss the concept of…

… - By Henning Thiel Sharon Olds' "Rites of Passage" is about the hidden adults in the children that come to her son's birthday party. All the children are boys and display male adult personality traits that remind the speaker of small mighty…

… Elegy by Chidiock Tichborne and Sonnet 115 by Edna St. Vincent Millay are two romantic poems that use nature-imagery as a metaphoric expression. The events inspired to write these poems were the loss of a loved one and the loss of one's own life.…

… life cycles of birth, life, death, and rebirth to the four seasons and from there to the nature of human existence. Taken literally, the poem is essentially a very eloquent description of the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, applied…

… the alliterative form, which tends to connect the two halves of each poetic line through alliteration, or repetition of consonants. The poem also uses rhyme to structure its stanzas, and each group of long alliterative lines concludes with a word or…

… Studirao je u Beogradu i Bukurestu, a bio je i urednik izdavackog preduzeca NOLIT. Umro je u Beogradu 1992. godine. Vasko Popa je predstavnik posleratne avangarde u srpskoj knjizevnosti. Zajedno sa Miodragom Pavlovicem, pocetkom pedesetih godina,…