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Thomas Hood (23 May 1799 – 3 May 1845) was born in London. He became a humourist and a poet. His most famous poem The Song of the Shirt was published in The Punch in 1843 which made him an overnight sensation. The series of the Comic Annual, dating from 1830, was a kind of publication… Continue reading I Remember I Remember Summary and Analysis by Thomas Hood

‘Walking Around’ is a dystopic view of life. Influenced by his walk around Santiago, Neruda composed this poem sometime around 1933. It was published in the Residencia en la tierra II, (‘Residence on Earth’, Volume II) in 1935. The poem consists of 10 stanzas. It begins with the narrator’s exhaustion with being a man and… Continue reading Walking Around Summary by Pablo Neruda

Life and Death: The narrator grapples often with the theme of his life and death, rather, his life in death. In S1, he considers himself a felt swan instead of a human being; in S2, he wants to become inanimate, although he’s alive. In S4, he shows a spark of life and wishes to do… Continue reading Walking Around Analysis by Pablo Neruda

Context: The poems of Emily Dickinson are often some scribbles in her melancholy, or letters to her father, where she does not tell about her well-being, or how she spends her time, but how she feels about that happen around her and how shed is often mesmerised by nature. Rhyme Scheme and Style: There is… Continue reading A Narrow Fellow in the Grass Analysis by Emily DIckinson

Emily Dickinson’s poems are mostly her letters to her sister-in-law and father, where she writes about things that she has come across. Looking at her collection of poems, it is clear that she is a person who is in love with nature, and is often left mesmerized by the smallest of living being or something… Continue reading A Narrow Fellow in the Grass Summary by Emily DIckinson

Emily Dickinson is an American poet born in 1830 in Massachusetts. She has lived her life in solitude, and hardly had let any visitors or friends meet her. It was only after her death her poems were discovered, and were published. “Hope is the thing with feathers” is one of famous poems. This poem analysis… Continue reading Hope is the Thing with Feathers Summary by Emily Dickinson

Context: Emily Dickinson did not intend to publish her poems; all her poems were written in melancholy and solitude. It is interesting to note that most of her poems did not have a title. Hence, while publishing, the first lines of each poem were taken as the title of the respective poems. Rhyme Scheme and… Continue reading Hope is the Thing with Feathers Analysis by Emily Dickinson

Context: The poems of Emily Dickinson were unpublished until her death. She was a person who chose to stay in complete solitude, and not meet people even from her family. She has written poems to her sister-in-law and father as letters describing her days and things that leave her mesmerised. Her letters would be the… Continue reading I Started Early Took My Dog Analysis by Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson is an American poet born in 1830 in Massachusetts. She has lived her life in solitude, and hardly had let any visitors or friends meet her. It was only after her death her poems were discovered, and were published. Her poems did not have any kind of titles to it; hence the first… Continue reading I Started Early Took My Dog Poem Summary by Emily Dickinson

Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was raised to see his destiny in terms of a life dedicated to the highest cultural ideals, manifested in an ethic of service through established social and cultural institutions. Eliot was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic and one of the twentieth century’s… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of Ash Wednesday by T.S.Eliot