Examines "Daddy", by Sylvia Plath, on the theme of male oppression and struggling to become free from a father's influence. Also uses examples from the poem "Lady Lazarus". Keywords: feminist, feminism

Ovid's poetry collection of Metamorphoses is the story of Acis, Galatea and Polyphemus. It answers why the Cyclops is a cowardly, resentful beast, and not a hero.

"The Tragedy of Mariam" by Elizabeth Cary is an example of early poetry by modern women in which the desire is to build a voice for women to speak as individuals in a society filled with heavy-handed patriarchy. Poems like this were important for building acceptable platforms for female self-expression.

Edwin Morgan's poem "Glasgow 5th March 1971" is about an incident in Glasgow in which a man and woman have been pushed through a window so that two youths can complete a robbery. Through the use of poetic techniques such as onomatopoeia and conjunction placement, Morgan effectively describes the moments of the incident, the extent of the man's and woman's injuries, and the lack of emotion conveyed by the two youths as to what had just happened.

John Milton's Sonnet XVI and the theme of blindness.

Discusses Edward TAylor's ooem "Meditation 42" and the relationship between men, sinful by nature, and God, ever forgiving and merciful

In Homers epic poem The Odyssey, mortals and gods interact and affect each other’s lives. The journey of Odysseus is assisted by Athena and Hermes, and hampered by Poseidon.

Grotesqueness of war in "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen.

A woman's guilt and regret she feels is evident in how she talks to her dead unborn children in the poem "The Mother" by Gwendolyn Brooks. She regrets the things she will never be able to do with them and how she "loved" them all.

The death of Gunga Din in Rudyard Kipling's poem of the same name serves as a classic example of how actions speak louder than words. The narrator, a warrior saved by Din after being wounded in battle, at first degrades and insults Din for being inferior in the narrator's mind. The narrator changes his opinion for the better after Din performs the brave, unselfish deed on the narrator's behalf, losing his own life in the process but displaying his true human value.