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…of choices that I could’ve written about. Maybe Antigonê and Oedipus, or maybe another poet or poem that was discussed in class, but I couldn’t think of anything that I could write five pages about or anything that I would enjoy learning and writing about…

…Triple P’s Extra Credit “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes is an amazing epic poem showing the depth of a person’s soul. It actually gave me the chills while reading it. It is an intimate and personal piece. When I looked up…

…Poetry essay, Robert Gray. Question: Poetry can help us think and feel in new ways about every day experiences. Show how four of Gray's poems offer a new prospective on everyday experiences. One of the major effects of poetry is to take the reader…

…a translation of Vergil's Aeneid and some verse; his first published poems (1816) were the sonnets "Oh, Solitude if I with Thee Must Dwell" and "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." Both poems appeared in the Examiner, a literary periodical edited by the essayist…

…Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson is an important poet principally because of the distinctiveness of her writing. Though only 7 out of her 1,200 poems were published critics still classify her as one of the principle poets of her time. In Dickinson's…

…to come out of that war. Shortly after the 1918 Armistice, Cummings was drafted into the army. He depicted military life satirically in such poems as "I sing of Olaf glad and big." After the war, Edward devoted himself entirely to his writing and painting…

…but underneath it all he had the heart of a romantic. Ben Jonson wrote many lyrical poems and he was keenly adept at illustrating and portraying contemporary people. The poems, Song: To Celia and Song: Still to Be Neat are both written about a particular women…

…. Whatever the case, it was easier to judge 'The Sick Rose' by having more sources to reflect upon. Michael Riffaterre centers his analysis of 'The Sick Rose' in 'The Self-sufficient Text' by 'using internal evidence only [to analyze the poem] and to determine…

…In the poem "Thistles" by Ted Hughes there are a number of different themes and ideas that are put across. George Macbeth, the acclaimed literary critic, has made some very powerful and in-depth comments about the poem. He states that the poem is"praise…

…Family relationships are not always the loving embraces seen on the Disney Channel. Some can become more malicious, such as those seen on Fox. The poems "My Father's Song," by Simon J. Ortiz, and "My Papa's Waltz," by Theodore Roethke, are two similar…