Free verse Essays

In this free verse poem, I wrote about my experience with an incident that occur where I thought I was going to die. I started this poem off by telling the readers that this incident occur when I was in my youth. I used the word youth instead child because when you think of a child, you think of a five year old kid with no life experiences. With this in mine, when the readers reads the word youth. Youth could have either a good or bad connotative meaning to it depending on the experiences the reader

Huck Finn’s Evolution from the Ideals of Naturalism Mark Twain’s satire The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn portrays society’s culture in the south and its power to influence people. As the narrator, Huck Finn, travels south on the Mississippi River, his perception of the world around him evolves as he makes a major moral decision, and undermines the ideas of naturalism. However a newly found conscience comes at a price, the loss of his innocence and the realization of the functions of his society

writer which can be contributed to the free time she had as a child. “How boring it was…It

Introduction Ralph Waldo Emerson and Rabindranath Tagore endeavoured for the intermingling of the alien forces of east and west. Vedanta in the east and Emerson’s idea of freedom in the west are almost parallel, they in fact talked about the freedom of humanity from darkness and the establishment of truth, light, bliss and peace. Emerson was America’s poet-prophet. He was one of the first American intellectuals who thought freely, went beyond the conventions of contemporary time, and paved the way

In Ursula Le Guin's short story "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" the city of Omelas is described as a place made up of a almost perfect society, keep in mind how I said “almost perfect”. A utopian city, Omelas during the Festival of Summer, is characterized by its happiness and perfection. "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" presents a challenge of conscience for anyone who chooses to live in Omelas. With the backstory of this joyous and peaceful city comes a sinister consequence in which leaves

Andrew Marvell uses hyperboles, rhyme schemes, and synecdoche to develop a theme of carpe diem in a coquettish manner in "To His Coy Mistress". The speaker uses unequivocal diction to persuade his mistress to lose her virginity to him. Throughout the poem he attempts to impress upon her that she should stray away from her coy mentality with him because life is too short. The narrator shares the consequences of not acting on the lust for her that he expresses. Hyperboles are used throughout this

Edgar Allan Poe is known for his dark and gruesome writing, and his poem “A Dream Within a Dream” is not spared from this trend. The meaning of the poem reflects the title as within it the narrator is told by a parting lover that life is a dream, however the narrator is left questioning whether or not this is true after he parts from his lover. Edgar Allan Poe’s life was full of tragedy and heartbreak, becoming orphaned a year after he was born and then later losing his beloved wife shortly after

The poem " Blackberries" by Yusef Komunyakaa recounts the narrative of a boy who gradually loses his purity. While gathering blackberries in the woods his hands are covered by the juices from the blackberries as he picks them. The young care free boy secures a feeling of happiness from this physical work and considers it to be noteworthy work. Be that as it may, as will see this sort of noteworthiness is lost. This poem passes on the account of the acknowledgment of a lost youth. This is done using

One of life’s many difficult challenges could be described as finding love. Love is something we all wish for though love can be hard to find at times, especially when love is right in front of our faces. The times we do know we have love is when we’re stuck without the supporting comfort of love. In Edgar Guest’s humble poem, “The Stick-Together Families.” and Natalie Lloyd’s intriguing book The Key to Extraordinary illustrates the common idea of love being able to bring people together. Both

“Tradition, honor, discipline, excellence”(Weir). This is the motto of Welton Academy in Peter Weirs, Dead Poets Society. Setting this as a motto can make it difficult to become your own self. Sometimes it takes a little bit of confidence to grow and this is exactly what Todd Anderson discovered. With the fear of living in the shadow of his brother, Anderson is a little worried. Throughout the movie The Dead Poets Society Anderson changes and insecure person into a strong and courageous character

The memoir Night written by Holocaust survivor Eliezer Wiesel is a recollection of the Holocaust. In the memoir Eliezer describes his experience during the height of the Holocaust near the end of the second World War. A time of concentration camps and prejudice on Jews from the Germans/Nazis. In Eliezer’s memoir he uses literary devices to help bring his experience to life for the audience. Using similes, metaphors, irony, symbolism, imagery, and so much more. He gives the audience an experience

There are two poems that are being described: “Dulce et Decorum Est” and “Who’s for the Game?”. Both poems both focus on war ,but “Dulce et Decorum Est” is more focused on the harsh and depressing parts of the war. The poem “Who’s for the Game” is more focused on the more friendly recruiting parts of the war. The poems have noticeable similarities and differences through the poems. The poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” mainly describes the war as harsh, depressing, and fierce. This poem expresses suffering

Rushdie’s Allusion Salman Rushdie’s life was surrounded by a great deal of controversy after he wrote The Satanic Verses. One result of The Satanic Verses was Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa which caused many conflicts in Salman Rushdie’s life. Since Salman Rushdie was a writer who believed in the ideas of freedom of speech which was taken away when the fatwa was issued. The censorship caused him to express his freedom in themes in his stories. In Haroun and the Sea of Stories there was always an situation

"We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks portrays the plight of the rebellious youth in all their glory. In this poem, the author utilizes unique meter and verse to add to the story she's conveying. The pool players in this poem are rogue youths and Brooks attempts to understand their lives. The tone conveyed in the poem adds a slightly ominous tint to the picture of the pool players. Brooks uses this poem to convey the plight of the pool player’s existence and urge the reader to see the fun the pool players

and a heartbreaking theme. Firstly, Walkers structure supports her thoughts and what she wants to tell the reader. In her verses she uses a lot of short lines, cut off by enjambments, a line without a punctuation mark at the end, to make the poem seem like a train of thought “He cooked like a person/dancing/in a yoga meditation” (Line 27-29). This part of the fourth verse

The poem of my selection is entitled War Is Kind, written by Stephen Crane. The title itself sounds ironic and full of mockery and I have decided to pick this poem for the analysis. I came across this very poem from a website, PoemHunter.Com which holds a significant amount of poems collection from famous and amateur poets as well as individuals all around the world. Amongst all the available poem, “War is kind” really intrigued myself. This poem consists of 5 stanzas. Stanzas 1 and 3 are five lines

"This has got to be, patently, the most unbelievable, the most ridiculous story I have ever heard," remarks the narrator and protagonist of Haruki Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase, almost as if aware of the fantastical interweaves within the otherwise realistic, believable novel. In many of his works, Murakami has adopted this signature style of portraying the unbelievable and far-fetched in realistic settings, and is one of numerous writers and artists to have done so throughout the years. This technique

The Correlation Between Guilt, Greed, and Personality Change Who an individual was yesterday may not be who they are today, and who they are today may not be who they are tomorrow. Everything is always evolving, and this includes people and their personalities as well. In the play, Macbeth, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are no different. Due to Macbeth’s lust for power and position, he changes from someone with high status who everyone had admired to an individual who’s only path leads to warranted

The question of if humans have free will or if our whole life is predestined by God is a question all humans have been asking forever. At some level, Christians know that God is in control of the future and he has a plan for every person, but it also seems like we have the ability to make our own choices. The bible has many passages that talk about free will and predestination that can help us try and make sense of the balance between humans' free will and God's predestination. Paul's writing on

stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.” From this verse God is telling us that our actions come from our personal motives in our heart. No demon is attached to us telling us we have to commit sin, and it is of our own choice whether or not we will follow the temptations of the world. Jesus teaches us in Matthew 15:19 that it is out of the heart that we carry out sin. God gave us free will, and it certainly is reflected in these