Poetry

The very powerful poem, I Too, Sing America by Langston Hughes is a relatively short piece, but it is overflowing with emotion.  At first ...

“She never lamented once and she never/Carried a spare ounce of emotional weight,” writes Seamus Heaney of the aunt he remembers in Field of ...

For decades, Emily Dickinson has prevailed as one of the foremost literary legends in recent history. The extraordinary volume of work she produced throughout ...

Thesis Statement—Poets of the Victorian era were inspired by the Romantic poets who came before them; this is apparent when considering the ways in ...

In Billy Collins’ “Forgetfulness,” the reader is treated to an exercise in imagination; the same kind of imagination that serves to form many of ...

Poem: language shapes vulgar Latin, we have touched many times, a person full of language, define urban translators, heavy athletes’ speech, ephemeral ESL cafés, accent ...

As I Grew Older by Langston Hughes is a powerful and moving poem that is full of emotion. Being that Hughes grew up in ...

While imagery and tone are crucial characteristics for any poem, “A Far Cry From Africa” by Derek Walcott centers around these two elements of ...

"Suicide Note" by Janice Mirikitani, a Japanese feminist poet in the modern era revolves around themes of justice, gender, power and connects to the ...