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About the Poet: Sylvia Plath is one of the most admired poets of the twentieth century, who had established this reputation by the age of thirty. Her violent emotions and obsession with death is something that caught the eye of multitude readers. She is believed to be one of the most controversial postwar poets. In… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of By Candlelight by Sylvia Plath: 2022
Critical Analysis of Women’s Rights: In ‘Women’s Rights’, Annie Louisa Walker talks more about women’s duties than about women’s rights, as we conceive of democratic rights in this day and age. This was, of course, perfectly acceptable at the time in which she was writing – late nineteenth or early twentieth century – which was… Continue reading Analysis, Central Idea and Theme of Women’s Rights: 2022
Critical Analysis of To My Grown Up Son: “To My Grown-Up Child” by Alice E. Chase is an intense poem, which touches and arrests the heart and emotion of everyone who reads it. It fundamentally conveys an insightful message to all parents – keeps aside some, if not most of their time for their children;… Continue reading Analysis, Central Idea and Theme of To My Grown Up Son: 2022
The Professor: Analysis This poem is written in the form of a monologue. This means that there is only a single speaker in the poem, and he speaks to someone who listens to him silently, never once responding to his comments or queries with any words. Here it is only Professor Sheth who speaks and… Continue reading The Professor: Analysis: 2022
About the poet: Nissim Ezekiel is known as the father of post-independence Indian-English verse. He is the one who started modernity in Indian-English poetry. His simple, conversational style has influenced many later Indian English poets. Poet, dramatist, editor, as well as art-critic, Nissim Ezekiel was born on 14th December 1924 in Mumbai. His father, Moses… Continue reading Summary of The Professor by Nissim Ezekiel: 2022
Mending Wall: Analysis Most of Frost’s poems are simple at the surface and have a deeper layer of meaning beneath. “Mending Wall” is no exception. While the poet seems to be relating a simple tale of rebuilding a broken wall between the lands of two farmers, he is talking about a much larger and more… Continue reading Mending Wall: Analysis: 2022
Robert Frost was born on 26th March 1874 in San Francisco. After his father’s death from tuberculosis when Frost was eleven years old, he moved with his mother and sister to Lawrence, Massachusetts. He became interested in reading and writing poetry during his high school years and eventually enrolled at Dartmouth College and later at… Continue reading Mending Wall Summary Line by Line (2023 Update)
Enterprise: Analysis Every single element that the pilgrims encountered on their journey in this poem symbolizes something else. The sun symbolizations all the obstacles put up by nature in man’s path. The desert symbolizes all the issues because man discriminates against others of his kind, especially religious differences. The shadow that falls on the pilgrims… Continue reading Enterprise: Analysis: 2022
About the poet: Nissim Ezekiel is known as the father of post-independence Indian-English verse. He is the one who started modernity in Indian-English poetry. His simple, conversational style has influenced many later Indian English poets. Poet, dramatist, editor, as well as art-critic, Nissim Ezekiel was born on 14th December 1924 in Mumbai. The Ezekiels belonged… Continue reading Summary of Enterprise by Nissim Ezekiel: 2022
The poem On the Grasshopper and Cricket is a sonnet by John Keats. The poem was composed in the December of 1816 when the poet was twenty-one years of age. It was published posthumously in ‘The Poetical Works of John Keats’ in 1884. Central Idea of On the Grasshopper and Cricket: The central idea of the poem is… Continue reading Central Idea and Theme of On the Grasshopper and Cricket by Keats: 2023
