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About the author – Born in 1856 in a well known westernized family, Dutt had the advantages of education and happy family which proved to be crucial to her development as an artist. Accredited with collection of poems like A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (1875), and Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan (1882), she could… Continue reading Analysis of Our Casuraina Tree
The poem “The Fly” written by William Blake was published in 1794 in his poetry collection “Songs of Experience”. The collection contained 26 poems. “The Fly” depicts an ordinary daily life incident which we would rather ignore. A disturbing fly killed by accident provokes the thoughts of the poet’s tender heart. He didn’t think it… Continue reading The Fly Analysis by William Blake
A poem has an outcome that though for seen was pre destined from the first image of the original mood- and indeed from the very mood – Robert frost Robert Frost the great American poet has given his panoramic view on nature and man meanness. His response to nature is entirely realistic. The poem a… Continue reading A Brook in the City Analysis by Robert Frost
About the poet –Poet, playwright, novelist, traveller James Falconer Kirkup (23 April 1918 – 10 May 2009) started his poetic career with short verses, haikus and tankas, went to become a prolific writer in the English literature. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1962. Though less canonised in the British… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of No Men are Foreign by James Kirkup
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (18 April 1809 – 26 December 1831), poet, radical thinker, educator, social reformist, founder of the Young Bengal group, was born in India, Kolkata, to Portuguese parents. Known to write brilliant sonnets, he was a renowned scholar in many disciplines, including languages. He regarded himself as an Indian, and this poem… Continue reading To India – My Native Land: Summary and Analysis
Robert Frost was born in San Francisco on 26th March 1874. His family was from New England. Frost joined Dartmouth College in 1892, and his first poem, ‘The Butterfly,’ was published in New York Independent in 1894. He was honored with the Pulitzer Prize and was invited to recite his poem ‘The Gift Outright’ at… Continue reading A Boundless Moment: Analysis
Biographical Reference and Publication History: Born in 1809, Edgar Allen Poe was brought up by John and Frances Allen, after this mother’s death in 1811. In his short span of life (1809-1849), he had already witnessed many tragic deaths in his family including the death of his beloved young wife Virginia Clemm in 1847, on… Continue reading Eulalie Analysis by Edgar Allen Poe
This is a lesser-known short poem of Eliot published in Collected Poems 1909-1962. To the Indian Who Died in Africa: About the Poet The more one tries to say about T.S. Eliot, the more one fumbles for adjectives to describe the prodigious genius. Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 – 1965) was born in America (St. Louis)… Continue reading To the Indian Who Died in Africa: Analysis
The Professor is noted for its expression of the Indian attitude. Indians are proud of their proficiency in English but they are never bothered about the fact that their Indian English is far from the Native English. STYLE AND FORM: The Professor is both a conversational poem as well as a satirical poem.… Continue reading Analysis of The Professor by Nissim Ezekiel
“Before the Birth of One of Her Children” by Anne Bradstreet is an epistolary (i.e., in the form of a letter) poem written in heroic couplets—two-line grouping in iambic pentameter with an “aa bb cc…” rhyme scheme. Iambic describes a way to write and read poetry according to stressed and unstressed syllables. An iamb is… Continue reading Before the Birth of One of Her Children Analysis by Anne Bradstreet
