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About the Poet: Robert Burns was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is generally thought to be the national poet of Scotland because he is the most widely read among all poets who have written in the Scots language. Burns has also written in English and a light Scots dialect so that his poetry would be understood by an audience beyond… Continue reading Scots Wha Hae: Summary and Analysis
Robert Burns was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is generally thought to be the national poet of Scotland because he is the most widely read among all poets who have written in the Scots language. Burns has also written in English and a light Scots dialect, so that his poetry would be understood by an audience beyond Scotland as well.… Continue reading Address to a Haggis Analysis and Summary by Robert Burns
About the Author:An English Writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, more popularly known by his pen name, Lewis Caroll, is famous worldwide for his children fiction and nonsensical genre. Popularly celebrated for his poem The Hunting of the Snark, novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass… Continue reading Jabberwocky Analysis and Summary by Lewis Caroll
About the Poet– Robert Burns is one of the greatest and most celebrated Scottish writers and poet. Most of his poems are originally scout songs for children that have been prescribed and read as poems in the contemporary scenario and the larger context of educational relevance. Burns is considered the National Poet of Scotland and… Continue reading To a Mountain Daisy Analysis and Summary by Robert Burns
About the Author: Robert Burns is one of the greatest and most celebrated Scottish writers and poets. Most of his poems are originally scout songs for children who have been prescribed and read as poems in the contemporary scenario and the larger context of educational relevance. Burns is considered the National Poet of Scotland and… Continue reading Comin’ Thro’ the Rye: Analysis and Summary 2023
About the Author- Robert Burns is one of the greatest and most celebrated Scottish writers and poet. Most of his poems are originally scout songs for children who have been prescribed and read as poems in the contemporary scenario and the larger context of educational relevance. Burns is considered the National Poet of Scotland and is… Continue reading Ae Fond Kiss Analysis and Summary by Robert Burns
Kamala Das’s poetry is most often identified as confessional poetry. “My Mother at Sixty Six” can also be identified as such. She is as open and uninhibited in this poem as she is in her other famous confessional poems, such as “An Introduction.” My Mother at Sixty Six: Analysis The poet describes her mother’s ageing… Continue reading My Mother at Sixty Six Analysis by Kamala Das
About the Poet– Kamala Das (also known as Kamala Suraiyya after her conversion to Islam in 1999) was on born 31st March 1934 in Thrissur, Kerala. She spent most of her childhood in Calcutta in a family of artists, where she felt ignored and unloved. In her teenage she married an older relative, and the emotional and… Continue reading Line by Line Meaning of My Mother at Sixty Six
Critical Analysis of A Noiseless Patient Spider The poem can be read in a number of ways resulting in a number of interpretations. However, this is not what is unique to this poem. What is unique to this poem is its overlapping levels and literary devices. The poem is at once a poem describing… Continue reading Critical Analysis of A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman
About the Poet: John Donne was a cleric for the Church of England, whose exhortations impacted Ernest Hemingway’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, who took the title for his novel from Donne’s “Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions”. It would seem that Donne is a heavily under-celebrated poet, but if one has ever heard the phrase “no… Continue reading Analysis of John Donne’s “A Lecture upon the Shadow”
