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…There are probably three things that account for Robert Frost’s poetry. In his poems, he uses familiar subjects, like nature, people doing everyday things and simple language to express his thought. His poems may be easy to read…

…understated. Some of the more delicate methods used by poets are rhythm, language, and the consistency of the theme throughout the poem. One work that makes use of inconsistent theme is Edna St. Vincent Millay’s sonnet “Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink…

…Gillian Clarke is obviously a poet of her locality - Wales, and she also writes in her poems of what it's like to be a woman. In this essay I intend to show whether or not her awareness of this affects the subject matter of her poetry. Gillian…

…will attempt to do just that. “I Knew a Woman” revels in the wonders of a woman’s body. In addition, the poem cleverly uses figures of speech to hint at both the pleasures Roethke found in sexual relations, as well as the pleasures he found in language itself…

…Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death” is a remarkable masterpiece that exercises thought between the known and the unknown. Critics call Emily Dickinson’s poem a masterpiece with strange “haunting power.” In Dickinson’s poem…

…sonnet 73 Sonnet 73 has lyric poem of fourteen lines with a formal rhyme scheme. Each line of the poem are expressing different aspects of a single thought, mood, or feeling, and finally resolved in the last lines two lines of the poem. The poem…

…The Hobbit[5], is similarly both reverent and humorous. Although set in an `Otherwhere' rather than a realistic recreation of the medieval world, it has much in common with the Beowulf poem. It makes use of comic devices such as riddling, puns, parody, and satire…

…Spear of Time Many works of poetry have the common trait of using the primary elements of poetry to convey the significance of the poem. William Shakespeare, a well-known and master poet of the sixteenth century, uses these elements to express…

…by Reginald Cook p104 calls it " a parable of accomplishment, told with casual simplicity. The analogy is suggested discreetly; it is not imposed upon the poem but remains implicit in the context, as it always does in Frost's effective double-meaning poems…

…In Theodore Roethke’s poem “My Papa’s Waltz,” the author presents to the reader his childhood experience. In the poem, he relates his relationship with his father to a “waltz.” The author’s childhood unfolds as the “waltz” is performed…