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The poem ‘An Elementary School classroom in a Slum’ by Stephen Spender discusses the pathetic situation of the students in the elementary classroom in the slum. The poet discusses the problems and challenges of this situation and ends with a powerful rallying cry for equality, justice and opportunity. Stanza 1 Right at the beginning, the… Continue reading An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum Summary and Analysis: 2022
Written just over a month before her death in February 1963, the Munich Mannequins was composed by Plath when she was living in London, during one of the coldest English winters on record. The setting of the poem too, is a city in winter—-Munich. Some say that she recounts her impressions of Munich from a former trip,… Continue reading The Munich Mannequins Analysis and Summary by Sylvia Plath: 2022
The circus within the ‘extravagant heart’ and of its ‘fragments’ is rooted so deep into the raveled life of Sylvia Plath, that they make their reflections almost unfathomable to her readers, often, when her imagery and conceits lack a faithful link to their purpose in the poet’s own life. Plath did not care to affix… Continue reading Circus in Three Rings Analysis by Sylvia Plath: 2022
The very aspect that strikes the mind of any reader, is the poet’s conclusion to the basic concept of love and the eternal beauty between two human beings banded with the one and only aspect- the ‘heart’. The poem beautifully blends itself convincing its readers to admire the beauty of two hearts conjoined into one,… Continue reading I Carry your Heart with Me Analysis by E.E.Cummings: 2022
The poem “The Armadillo” by Elizabeth Bishop from her compiled work, The Complete Poems (1927-1979), talks about the rendezvous of the fire balloons with the night sky during a Brazilian carnival. Although the beginning of the poem marks the poet’s momentary mirth at the sight of the fire balloons, Bishop criticizes the same fire balloons… Continue reading The Armadillo by Elizabeth Bishop Summary and Analysis: 2022
Beamingnotes is growing as a community and sometimes we just can enough thank you for all the support and love.. Today, we decided to accept the ‘poem analysis and summaries’ written by our audience. In fact, a lot of our audience/visitors are teachers and professors at leading schools and colleges and we welcome them to… Continue reading We are Willing to Publish your Poem Analysis at Beamingnotes: 2022
Introduction: Sylvia Plath, a renowned American postwar poet, novelist and short-story writer, has her fame laid chiefly on the poems written on the edge of her life when her turbulent life reached its climax and took a form of a violent storm. Such is the context that relates the poem New Year on Dartmoor, written… Continue reading New Year on Dartmoor by Sylvia Plath — Analysis: 2022
The poem features amongst a collection of twenty three short prose meditations dedicated to Prince Charles, son of King James I, and contemplates on the meager but indispensable role of human beings in the scheme of a universe, incomprehensible, unfathomable to him barring the knowledge that it is governed by a supreme benedictory being. Borrowing… Continue reading For Whom The Bell Tolls Analysis by Ernest Hemingway: 2022
From the very first line, the poem proposes to do what its title “A Valediction of Weeping” evinces; Donne composed this piece as a valedictory note of absence from his wife owing to travel abroad. The poem is centred on the narrator’s central thematic entreaty of taking stride in this temporary leave-taking, rather than indulging… Continue reading A Valediction Of Weeping Analysis by John Donne: 2022
William Shakespeare apostrophizes Nature and evokes the “winter wind”, “the bitter sky” and “the warping waters” to comment on the tragic brutality of human life itself, in this extract from his romantic comedy, As you Like It. Following the usurpation of his kingdom by his brother, Frederick, and his banishment, The Duke starts living in… Continue reading Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind Analysis by William Shakespeare: 2022
