Poem Analysis Essay

English analysis essay For my analysis essay I chose both a poem and a song. I chose Invictus, a poem by William E. Henley, and “This is me”, an original song from the upcoming movie The Greatest Showman, performed by Keala Settle. Both the song and the poem revolve around the idea that, no matter what life throws at you, no matter what other people say, no matter what happens, you can choose to keep going and hold your head up. You are the master of your fate and the captain of your soul. I…

The poem is her version of Pedro Mir’s poem, “There is a Country in the World,” and while Mir focused on the cruelty of Dictator Trujillo, Alvarez chose to focus on the discrimination against Haitians (Torres-Saillant). Alvarez allows the speaker of the piece to ultimately take up a rather doleful attitude for a majority of the poem, mourning the sister countries “torn asunder” by history. She explicates that greed stands…

Yeats’s poem ‘’Leda and the Swan’’ and Dorothy Hewitt’s ‘’Grave Fairytale’’ have content that is both mythological and violently sexual. In Yeats’ poem the speaker retells a story from Greek mythology. It is that of the rape of Leda by Zeus. In Hewitt’s poem, the speaker creates a new version of Rapunzel’s fairytale. This essay will discuss the relationship between mythology/ folklore, violence and sex through the analysis of both poems. In Yeats’ poem, the speaker resents the rape scene,…

This language is appropriate for his subject and theme, as it connects the poem directly to Australia and magnifies the moon as central to the journey. A language feature which Carmody has used is repetition. In the last two lines of the first stanza the words 'far beyond ' are repeated twice. This reinforces the suggested idea…

Diet is part of a collection of poems entitled the Feminine Gospels, the focus of which is showcasing the less desirable aspects of womanhood and providing social commentary on female issues, usually told from the perspective of a woman. The theme of change and transformation is also presented in this poem, connecting it to other poems in the collection such as The Woman Who Shopped which also incorporate change and transformation. In the opening stanza of the poem, the diet and character…

Upon initial reading, “The Victims” by Sharon Olds seems to be a poem that paints the picture of a life of abuse; starting from the dawning of the exploitation and arching over into the life of the abused following the maltreatment. In the work, it is made to be believed that the clear victims of the poem are the speaker and their family—which is a rightful and obvious assumption—but there is another victim that is not as prevalent as that of the speaker and their family: the speaker’s father.…

Homer’s poem, The Odyssey, is a story of, Odysseus, the hero behind the Trojan Horse. After ten years fighting and then winning the Trojan War, Odysseus sets for home. Unfortunately, he unexpectedly faces much adversity in his travels, including becoming a goddess’ sex slave and losing all of his men to the sun god. It takes Odysseus another ten years to finally get home, where he must fight to take back his wife and thrown. On August 21, 2017, I will be 34 years old and I have lived an epic…

When I first read each of these poem I notice a very interesting difference between the two. While both of the poems are about relationships the major difference between the two are the specific type of relationship they each portray. In Your Hands by Gevorg Emin the relationship Gevorg portrays is a very loving and passionate one between the two people. While in The Clothespin by Rhonda Bower the feeling we get about the relationship is that the two people don’t really love each other and force…

The lyrical poem, Children, emphasizes the importance of children in ancient Tamil culture. The title alone portrays the idea that the wealth of the world lies within children. In the summary prior to the puram poems, the text describes agriculture as being a huge part of ancient Tamil culture and that the puram poems focus on an “individual’s experiences of his or her public world” (Pg. 857). This clarification explains that the puram poems are focused on the public perception rather than…

In the poem “Alone,” Maya Angelou explains that people will feel alone constantly. No matter what they do, they will always have this feeling. In the other poem “I Am Much Too Alone in This World, Yet Not Alone,” Rainer Maria Rilke explains that people will never feel alone. Anywhere people are, they will always have someone in their heart. Some similarities can be negative when people feel alone, and have no human to be there for each other. Some differences are based upon religion, and…