Themes of poetry are vast, but two of the most common themes are love and death. These are topics that many people, not just poets, wonder about. There are many different ways to think of love and of death. Some people fear them, some embrace them. Others are indifferent; what happens, happens. The following three ...
Emily Dickinson had many tragic life experiences that influenced her poetry and caused her to commonly write upon the theme of death. “Dickinson’s life was marked by a succession of deaths,” (p. 2502) which caused her to spend the later half of her life in sorrow. She experienced many tragic deaths of people close to ...
Poetry is a wonderful form of expression. It takes words and puts them together in an emotional arrangement, a melody of words and thoughts, if you will. Writing a poem is not hard to do. I have written hundreds of poems, rhyming and non rhyming alike. Rhyming poetry will always be my favorite however and ...
Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932. She was born into a world in which the man was dominant. Her father who was a scientist and beekeeper passed away when she was eight years old. She wrote her first poem at the age of ten and continued to write for many years. Her first ...
