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Poetry Analysis: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Thomas Gray’s elegy Source: geograph.org.uk (creative commons license) Hey, you’ve successfully read the four elegy analysis articles and this is the last one left! Well, I guess this won’t be taking you much time since you’ve already understood the essence of the poem! Have you fell in… Continue reading Poetry Analysis: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard – Part 5

Explanation of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Now you’re slowly moving towards the end of the analysis of the poem! Since you’ve already got a sense of the poem, I am not going in great details, as I did in the previous stanzas! Nonetheless you’ll find the analysis exciting and though-provoking! A quick link… Continue reading Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Summary and Explanation- Part 4

The rhyme scheme throughout ‘Woman Work’ is not constant. The first stanza consists of seven pairs of rhymed lines in the pattern AABB and so on. Since these lines are short and quick in nature, they create an impression of breathlessness in the reader’s mind, as if the woman has no time to pause between… Continue reading Woman Work Analysis by Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou (1928-2014) is an African-American woman poet. Her poetry most often deals with women of her own community. ‘Woman Work’ is such a poem. It describes the plight of a single mother, who must take care of her household all by herself, with no support from anybody. ‘Woman Work’ was first published in the… Continue reading Woman Work Summary by Maya Angelou

Complete Analysis of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard This is the continuing analysis of the wonderful poem, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” by Thomas Gray! This present page provides a detailed analysis of elegy written in a country churchyard from stanza 7 to stanza 11. I’d suggest you to get back to the… Continue reading Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Analysis – Part 2

This is the third part of the “complete analysis of the wonderful poem elegy written in a country churchyard“! You’re almost halfway towards the completion of the analysis of the poem! I hope you’re enjoying! The poem is meant of be read in a serene environment and there are a lot of personifications which we… Continue reading Theme of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard- Part 3

‘Touched by an Angel’ has no set rhyme scheme, but is written in rhythmically-flowing free verse. What are noticeable in the poem are the multiple end rhymes, such as “delight” and “sight” in the second and fifth lines, or “see”, “be”, and “free” in the seventeenth, nineteenth, and twenty-first lines. Throughout the poem, Angelou uses… Continue reading Touched by an Angel Analysis by Maya Angelou

‘Touched by An Angel’ consists of three stanzas. The first stanza contains six lines, and therefore, it is a sestet. The second stanza contains an extra line, bringing the total to seven, and is therefore a septet. The third and final stanza similarly adds another extra line, bringing the total to eight, and is therefore… Continue reading Touched by an Angel Summary by Maya Angelou

Several versions of this poem have been published by Poe. It was first published in the 1831 collection of Poe’s poetry simply entitled Poems under the name ‘The Valley Nis’. In 1836, Poe revised the 1831 version of the poem, changing the last twenty lines to a large extent, but retaining the original title. In… Continue reading The Valley of Unrest Analysis by Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is one of the foremost American authors and poets of his age, and in fact any age. Considered by many critics as an exponent of the Romantic Movement in America, Poe’s brand of Romanticism is better described as Dark Romanticism. His themes are generally gloomy, sorrowful, and mysterious, and hence, they… Continue reading The Valley of Unrest Summary by Edgar Allan Poe