Today's Date:
May 23, 2013
Poem Analysis of “Pit Pony” by William Greenway
In his poem, “Pit Pony,” William Greenway recounts a tale that he hears while on a guided tour of mines in Wales. The story he tells in his poem is likely to be obscure for American readers, who may not →
Poetry Analysis of “Dolce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen
Literature since the time of the Ancient Greeks glorified and glossed over the horrors of war, making it seem as a worthwhile, honorable, and romantic male endeavor. This same philosophy carried on even until past the time of America’s bloody →
Poem Analysis of “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath : The Poetic Weight of Histor
The first two stanzas of the poem “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath are deceptively simple and sound more like a strange nursery rhyme than an angry depiction of the speaker’s father. An analysis of the straight rhyme scheme in “Daddy” by →
Poem Analysis of “Traveling Through the Dark” by William Stafford
The poem by William Stafford, “Traveling Through the Dark” presents readers with an uncomfortable and rather grim instance of the intersection of the natural world and that of man. Technology, in this case cars and the man-made road, are seen →
