Dylan Marlias Thomas, the greatest of the poets of Wales was born on 27th October 1914. He found out early that he hated academics, although he regretted it later. Dylan’s early verse style tended to unobscurity and exaggerated metaphor though he was a poet of villa and family. Dylan often set his listeners alive by… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of Poem in October by Dylan Thomas
Dylan Marlias Thomas, the greatest of the poets of Wales was born on 27th October 1914. He found out early that he hated academics, although he regretted it later. Dylan’s early verse style tended to unobscurity and exaggerated metaphor though he was a poet of villa and family. Dylan often set his listeners alive by… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
About the poet – John Donne (1572 – 1631), called one of the foremost Metaphysical poets was the son of a prosperous London ironmonger and his mother was the daughter of John Heywood. He studied law and travelled the continent and though he was a voracious reader he never attained a university degree. His poetry… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of The Extasie by John Donne
The poem is authored by William Wordsworth who had been hailed by popular critical schools to be the usherer of English Romanticism. William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) made his debut as a writer in 1787 when he published a sonnet in The European Magazine. The year 1793 saw the first publication of poems by Wordsworth, in… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of She Dwells Among the Untrodden Ways
Kamala Das was born in Punnayurkulam, Kerala in 1934. Kamala spent several years in Calcutta, where she went to Catholic schools. She was married fairly early before she finished college. So she happens to be perhaps the only leading Indian English poet without a degree to her name. She began writing early and published her… Continue reading Summer in Calcutta: Analysis
Kamala Das was born in Punnayurkulam, Kerala in 1934. Kamala spent several years in Calcutta, where she went to Catholic schools. She was married fairly early before she finished college. So she happens to be the only leading Indian English poet without a degree to her name. She began writing early and published her first… Continue reading Punishment in Kindergarten: Summary and Analysis
About the author – Nissim Ezekiel comments “Daruwallah has the energy of the lion”. He is the president of The Poetry Society of India, and is presently based in Delhi. He was born in 1937 in Punjab and has an M.A. degree in English Literature. He was an IPS officer of a very high rank… Continue reading Analysis of Gulzaman’s Son.
About the author – Born in 1856 in a well known westernized family, Dutt had the advantages of education and happy family which proved to be crucial to her development as an artist. Accredited with collection of poems like A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (1875), and Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan (1882), she could… Continue reading Analysis of Our Casuraina Tree
About the poet –Poet, playwright, novelist, traveller James Falconer Kirkup (23 April 1918 – 10 May 2009) started his poetic career with short verses, haikus and tankas, went to become a prolific writer in the English literature. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1962. Though less canonised in the British… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of No Men are Foreign by James Kirkup
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (18 April 1809 – 26 December 1831), poet, radical thinker, educator, social reformist, founder of the Young Bengal group, was born in India, Kolkata, to Portuguese parents. Known to write brilliant sonnets, he was a renowned scholar in many disciplines, including languages. He regarded himself as an Indian, and this poem… Continue reading To India – My Native Land: Summary and Analysis
