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The birth of the daughter of pre-independent India, Sarojini Naidu(13 February 1879 – 2 March 1949), was at a crucial time when India was laden with unfathomably tormenting issues. Sarojini Naidu suffered in making India an independent nation, happily estranged from the British empire and to become the woman that she is, she had to… Continue reading “Indian Weavers” Summary and Analysis by Sarojini Naidu: 2022
The poem, “Ode to Psyche” is a Keatsian attempt to meddle with the ode structure of the poem, by inducing an altered sonnet-form in the poem. The first of the odes, “Ode to Psyche”, among other poems that include “Ode to Melancholy”, as well as “Ode to a Nightingale”, revolves around the myth of Psyche… Continue reading “Ode to Psyche” – Themes: 2022
The poem, “The Way through the Woods”, surrounds itself entirely with the road that has been closed for “seventy years”. And as the poem proceeds, we find several themes placing their emergence in the lines of the poem, or in the tone in which the lines represent themselves. Despite the possibility of a handful themes… Continue reading Central Idea of “The Way through the Woods”: 2022
Born in pre-independent India, Sarojini Naidu(13 February 1879 – 2 March 1949), was bound to be troubled by the problems of her time. She struggled to free India from the fists of the British Raj, but before that she battled the stereotypical notions of being a woman and thus, fragile and incapable, as beheld by… Continue reading “To India” – Summary and Analysis by Sarojini Naidu: 2022
Collected in the Lyrical Ballads, among the ‘Lucy’ series, the poem She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways, retraces the poet’s prevalent meditative mood. The poem begins with the third person pronoun, “she” and the poet immediately offers an objective detachment from the subjective persona. The mysterious aura is at once developed for she dwelt… Continue reading Tone and Rhyme Scheme: She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways: 2022
In this poem, the poet finds himself caught in imagination, or memory, transfixed near his childhood home. Here, he meets a local character: a beggar whose beauty lies in his being old and is someone whom the poet knew as a child. The burden of existence has caused him to bend over with age, and… Continue reading The Old Cumberland Beggar: Themes: 2022
In this poem, the poet takes up Nature as the greatest teacher possible. Lucy had grown amidst the beauty of Nature for three years when it was decided that Nature would take up the responsibility of her education. She seems to be the most beautiful entity on earth, and Nature proclaims that Lucy will be… Continue reading Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower: Summary and Analysis: 2022
Walter Pater defines Romanticism as an “addition of strangeness to beauty”; Wordsworth detects in the common aspects of life, “the light that never was on sea or land.” It is the obscure light that Wordsworth detects to be in unison with the aspects of nature. Thus in the theme of Romantic transcendentalism, the poem Three… Continue reading Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower Themes: 2022
In the poem How the Camel got his Hump, Rudyard Kipling compares man with a camel. Or precisely, he compares man’s posture with that of a camel’s. The poetic voice expresses here the notion of laziness, and what it eventually does to a man. The camel’s hump is absolutely not a pleasant sight to see… Continue reading How the Camel Got his Hump Summary: 2022
The poem was written in 1869 and was first published in 1914 in Thomas Hardy’s collection of poems, Satire of Circumstances, Lyrics and Reveries. Lyonnesse is a mythical place of the Arthurian legend and the poet’s employment of a mythical atmosphere adds a mystical flavor to the poet’s subsequent journey. When I Set Out For Lyonnesse Summary… Continue reading When I Set Out For Lyonnesse Summary: 2022
