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“To Her Father with Some Verses” by Anne Bradstreet is 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 a unit of poetic meter, or a foot, consisting of one unstressed… Continue reading To Her Father with Some Verses Analysis by Anne Bradstreet
“A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public(k) Employment” by Anne Bradstreet is a love poem, written in heroic couplets, except for the final couplet, which is in iambic tetrameter. Heroic couplets are two-line groupings in iambic pentameter with an “aa bb cc…” rhyme scheme. Iambic describes a way to write and read poetry according… Continue reading A Letter to Her Husband Analysis by Anne Bradstreet
“Verses upon the Burning of our House, July 10, 1666” (sometimes attributed a longer title: “Here Follows Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our house, July 10th. 1666. Copied Out of a Loose Paper.”) by Anne Bradstreet is a poem written in couplets in iambic tetrameter. The rhyme scheme is “aa bb cc…” This is… Continue reading Verses upon the Burning of our House Analysis by Anne Bradstreet 2022
“The Author to Her Book” by Anne Bradstreet is in extended metaphor in heroic couplets—two-line groupings 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 a unit of poetic meter, or a foot, consisting of one… Continue reading The Author to Her Book Analysis by Anne Bradstreet
Sylvia Plath was arguably one of the most prolific confessional poetry writers of the 20th century. Plath combines traditional classical poetry themes with confessional style poetry. Academics and critics have suggested that she has used her poetry as a narrative vehicle to express her emotional turmoil. For instance, one of her most well known poems,… Continue reading Childless Woman Analysis by Sylvia Plath
About the poet – A Jewish-Indian poet, playwright, art critic (The Names of India (1964–66)) and editor (Poetry India (1966–67)) born on 14th December 1924 in Mumbai, was regarded as the path finder of the post colonial Indian English writing. Known for his deft handling of the irony of the quintessential Indian milieu and its… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of the Night of the Scorpion by Nissim Ezekiel
The Professor by Nissim Ezekiel is a satirical poem written in the form of a conversation between a professor and his student. A satire is way of criticizing a person, an idea or something where the poet uses humour to point out their faults and weaknesses. Here, the professor makes fun of himself by the… Continue reading Summary of The Professor by Nissim Ezekiel
The poem, A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6, 1945 is penned down in the form of an entry in a journal by a doctor for keeping records. The entry gave the readers a vivid picture of how the people were taken aback when atomic bombs were dropped on their city of Hiroshima in 1945… Continue reading Analysis of A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6, 1945 by Vikram Seth
Putting in the Seed was published in the volume ‘Mountain Interval’. It actually combines the form of a sonnet and dramatic monologue. A wonderfully crafted sonnet, whose central theme moves from the particular instance of “sowing a seed” to the universal sentiments of love and birth. This poem is not easy to understand. Thus effort… Continue reading Putting in The Seed Analysis and Summary by Robert Frost
A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6, 1945 by Vikram Seth is a remarkable poem describing the horrors of the aftermath of an atomic bomb explosion. This tragic poem describes the condition of the survivors of the atomic bombing by the United States on Hiroshima during the end of the World War II on 6th… Continue reading Summary of A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6, 1945 by Vikram Seth
