Poetry

“To His Coy Mistress” is primarily the author, Andrew Marvell, trying to convince and seduce “his coy mistress”, into having intimate relations with him. The poem has three stanzas; each with a different purpose: the first stanza gently and subtly flatters his mistress, using positive diction and images to show, how Marvell wishes he could love her for all of eternity; the […]

“Mezzo Cammin” is an insightful poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It was a poem that was written halfway through Longfellow’s life and titled as such. It follows the life of a middle aged man who is basically whining about all the things he missed out on in the past. This title comes from the first […]

Bronwen Wallace’s poem, “Common Magic,” and Rabindranath Tagore’s poem, “An Ordinary Person,” reveal how ordinary people and events can be special and extraordinary. Additionally, both poems concern specific people to prove that within everyone’s live there can be elements of magic and mystery. In Wallace’s poem people transform through a variety of human experiences, where […]