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Blake seems to pass through a state of spiritual crisis in the years when he composed Songs of Experience. He, who was in many ways the healthiest man, wrote in 1793: “I say I shan’t live for five years, and if I live one, it will be a wonder.” We don’t know what exactly had… Continue reading Introduction to Songs of Experience: Analysis

A Hundred Collars by Robert Frost is about a man who has to spend the night in a room with a stranger. It deals with the feelings of fear the man has on being stranded in a sleepy town and having to share a room with a man. This man, a Doctor named Magoon, was… Continue reading A Hundred Collars Analysis by Robert Frost

Wendell Berry is considered as one of the most celebrated writers of the modern age. Critics and scholars consider him as a master in poetry, fiction write-ups, essays. His message essentially remains the same: Humans must learn to live in harmony with nature and the earth. The Peace of Wild Things is another thought provoking… Continue reading The Peace of Wild Things Analysis by Wendell Berry

The Pasture is a poem which is colloquially written. Theme of The Pasture is to comfort a child and the sole motive is to assure the child that bad times will pass and good times will bloom again in is way. Below we have The Pasture paraphrase in order to break the poem down and… Continue reading The Pasture Analysis by Robert Frost

Robert Frost’s poetry needs no introduction. Spanning across varying themes, his poetry is famous for bringing out feelings that the person never knew that he had. The four time Pulitzer winning writer is an expert at taking you to his own world, and relating incidents that are similar to the ones of your world. Today,… Continue reading The Lockless Door Summary by Robert Frost

The poem, The Echoing Green is taken from the collection “Songs of Innocence” by William Blake. After, “Introduction”, we are set into a carefree world of alluring happiness. The Echoing Green turns out to be a bit different. The Echoing Green Analysis by William Blake Let’s get lost in the shouts of the playing children… Continue reading The Echoing Green Analysis by William Blake

This article provides a complete line by line summary of the poem the frog and the nightingale by Vikram Seth. Do take the grammar quiz at the end of this article. Once upon a time, under a sumac tree in Bingle Bog, a frog sang the night long, every night, in a horrendous voice. The… Continue reading Summary of The Frog and The Nightingale by Vikram Seth

In, I taste liquor never brewed, Emily identifies the self with nature and speaks of the ecstasy thereof.  Unlike other Dickinson poems, this one describes a “state of mind” portrayed as a scene with random expressions. This is a tough poem to grasp, mainly because of the scattered use of phrases and vastly different interpretations!… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed by Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest analysis actually weighs victory against sufferings, triumph against loss, and thereby identifies the notion of success! To understand success in its true meaning, you must embrace failure, and then rise beyond it! Emily dedicates this poem to those people who never succeed! It is they who are closely attached to success,… Continue reading Success is Counted Sweetest Analysis by Emily Dickinson

Robert Frost is one of the most celebrated American poets alive, and had received the Pulitzer prize for Poetry on four different occasions. This article provides a complete analysis of Nothing Gold Can Stay, one of his best works that won him a Pulitzer prize in 1924. Since this is a 8-line poem, we shall… Continue reading Nothing Gold Can Stay Analysis by Robert Frost