Poetry

Poetry

Explore and download free Poetry writing samples/examples like essays, term papers, book reports, and research papers.

Poetry and analyses of poetry are one of the primary branches of literature. Writer Tools gives you access to free essays and research papers within the field of Poetry. Because you are likely doing research for your own paper, we have included the full text and works cited for every document. All you have to do is download the document and it's yours to use for research purposes.

Most of the free Poetry papers we offer are written in MLA format. MLA format is the standard citation style created by the Modern Language Association and is commonly used for liberal arts writing. This format includes citations in the Works Cited format at the end of the paper and parenthetical, in-text citations where another author's work is paraphrased or quoted.

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In this poetic description of the final moments of Granny Weatherall, Katherine Anne Porter uses the instruments of metaphor, allegory, and symbolism to paint ...

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Baca’s book of poetry From Meditations on the South Valley focuses on his experiences as a Chicano writer. He uses very specific cultural imagery ...

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Allen Ginsberg’s long poem “America” makes use of sarcasm and harsh words to give much needed criticism to the America that Ginsberg lives in. ...

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Authors, poets, and artists have been depicting death for millennia. Humans seem to have a fascination with the inescapable nature death and it has ...

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The first stanza opens with Sylvia Plath seeing the rook in a tree, shaking rainwater from its feathers. She says she is only looking ...

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Dante’s “The Divine Comedy,” is more than just a poem from the Middle Ages. There is a significant amount of symbolism within the work ...

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Beowulf, the epic poem from between the 8th and 13th century is a classic example of what critic Joseph Campbell refers to as the ...

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Edgar Allan Poe was America’s and possibly the world’s first true horror fiction writer. Then as now, fictional horror dealt with an audience’s primal ...

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Mother to Son, a short poem by Langston Hughes, is a poem in the lyrical poetry style, and is, more than likely an allegory ...

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One of the strongest recurring themes within the poetry of Langston Hughes has to do with Hughes’ own personal experiences as a black man ...