Essays on Poems

Every human is scared of death, fate, and destiny, and every human tends not to bring up this topic. While many people believe in life after death, most people choose to keep away from the topic because of fear of the mysterious afterlife. However, when people decided to discuss what they think about the fact...

It is interesting how mythical stories always have an interesting beginning to end, particularly this story that we are talking about is an about Aeneid and it would have never existed if it wasn’t for Virgil, the poet, he was famous for 3 poems especially the one about Aeneid, Aeneid is a Latin epic poem...

Former President of India and world poet, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, once said, “Poetry comes from the highest happiness or deepest sorrow” (‘A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes’). This narrative and retrospect poem “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke, illustrates the messiness of parental love. This poem is about an adult son’s recollection of...

While studying the Roman world, two works share about two different journeys. One of these works is the story of Aeneas’ founding of Rome, as told by Vergil in the Aeneid. The other, Augustine’s conversion to Christianity as recounted in his Confessions. One journey is a physical journey, and the other is a religious journey....

Born in 1794 and dying in 1878, William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, writer, and longtime editor of the New York Evening Post, and the author of Thanatopsis, which means consideration of death. During the time Thanatopsis was written in the 1800s, there was sickness everywhere. People were terrified of who would be...

Born in 1794 and dying in 1878, William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, writer, and longtime editor of the New York Evening Post, and the author of Thanatopsis, which means consideration of death. During the time Thanatopsis was written in the 1800s, there was sickness everywhere. People were terrified of who would be...

Thanatopsis is written by one of the most prominent poets from the Romanticism era, William Cullen Bryant. He is an American journalist and a nature and romantic poet. Written when he was seventeen, Thanatopsis became the most famous poem in his life-time. When the poem was first published, ‘Thanatopsis’ marked a new beginning for American...

As a young poet John Milton promised a grand epic about the military feats of king Author, a national hero devoted to the glory of England. At the end of his career, he published an epic about the fall of Satan and humankind, set in the cosmic realms of hell and heaven in which England...

Death is an inevitable and a natural process of living even though it is feared by most humans. For some people, death is a gateway from the world into a life of immortality and afterlife whereas some see it as the last step of existence. Death is seen to be well-written about in literature with...

Throughout the course of “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” the author uses characters to build a deep allegory hidden in the poem. Many characters in the poem show us that there are connections with Christianity to be found. A fair amount of the allegories presented in the poem can be found within the characters...