… unhealthy preoccupation with sex, madness, morbidity and obscurity. Discuss. There seem to be a number of common themes running through all of Plath’s poems, which encapsulate her personal attitudes and feelings of life at the time she wrote them.…

… is Walt Whitman. Walt Whitman’s stylistic preference is not exactly mine, but it is definitely a good example of “modern poetry.” He has broken down many walls of traditional poetry, using the style of long, free verse prose. In which he praises…

… presents the poet’s dislike of hatred, indifference, and desire that human beings display towards one another. Compressing these feelings into an epigram tends to make his message quite clear and brief. Thus, Frost’s tone in “Fire and Ice” is somewhat…

… trying to find some sort of shelter. The storm was getting worse. I saw a big funnel coming into the small city. could feel the wind ripping at my flesh and clothing. It nocked me into a building, and I rememberd nothing until it was over. …

… the poem “When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom’d”, by Walt Whitman, three important symbols are introduced. These symbols of a star, the lilac, and a bird exhibit Whitman’s transcendentalism and serve as an allusion to Abraham Lincoln’s…

… Wims and David Anderson Brooks gave birth to one of the most gifted African-American poets of the 20th century. They named her Gwendolyn Brooks. Although she was born in Topeka, Kansas, Brooks grew up in Chicago where her mother worked as a schoolteach…

… Espedal English IV 9/20/00 The Victorian period lasted from 1830 to 1880. This era marks the climax of England’s rise to economic and military supremacy. The Victorians brought increasing efforts to achieve political, social, and economic…

… and techniques, Walt Whitman's poem, "Song of Myself," is one of his most famous contributions to American literature. He uses simile and metaphor, paradox, rhythm, and free verse style, to convey his struggle between the relation of the body and…

… longer young when he published his first book of poems, A Boy's Will, in 1913. Though born in San Francisco, he came of a New England family which returned to New England when he was ten. Like many other writers, he had a brief brush with college and…

… sonnet, “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802,” shows Wordsworth’s appreciating the beauty of London and demonstrating it as “emotion recollected in tranquility.” It’s characteristic of his love for solitude that it is set…