Verse Essays

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

Hi, welcome to my biblical news and I will be your news reporter for today. We are going to go over three verses of the bible that use the same word but in a different context. The first verse is 1st Thessalonians 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so, shall we ever be with the Lord. Paul is the author of Thessalonians, and scholars will approximately say it is written in between 49 and 51 AD. The Thessalonian

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

The main theme of the poem This be the Verse by Philip Larkin is the negative influence parents have on their children. In a short three stanzas, Larkin has only negative things to say about parents and how their children will turn out because of them. Larkin in a way that suggests that children have no choice in how they want to turn out. He also suggests that parents have no way in changing how they parent; they will parent the way their parents did to in turn mess up their children the way

After looking over a few old stories and poems that we’ve read throughout the semester one poem stuck out to me in particular. It was the poem by Phillip Larkin, This Be The Verse. It’s a rather short poem but it has a strong message behind it. One thing that drew me to this poem was the explicit in the first line, “They fuck you up, your mum and dad.” After seeing a poem start like this who wouldn’t want to go more into depth as to see why Larkin would make such a bold statement like that. When

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

“This Be The Verse,” a lyric poem with an alternating rhyme scheme, has many themes portrayed throughout. Within the three stanzas of the poem, there is a different theme portrayed but overall the poem conveys the same message. For the first stanza the theme that is portrayed is the unintentional fault by default. Larkin starts the opening of the poem with “The fuck you up.” He does this so that he can get the reader 's attention as well as those who are average readers, for example everyday readers

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

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

Adultery: The Ultimate Form of Betrayal “The Forsaken Wife” by Elizabeth Thomas and “Verses Written on her Death-bed at Bath to her Husband in London” by Mary Monck both portray wives dealing with their husbands’ suspected, or known, adultery. Elizabeth Thomas’s utterly painful poem details a wife attempting to reconcile with the fact her husband has been unfaithful, the message of the poem being that although the husband doesn’t deserve the wife; she is going to “remain true”. The first stanza

"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

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

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

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

"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